India Broadband

hey , our exchange guys (in kerala) recently called us an told to bring our modems so as to hav a firmwire 'rewrite' on feb-08..they said they r testing some new equipment---

i am not to start ny rumers floating.....but i will give you some facts- rather snapshots of what happened after --- but of course the speed lasts only for a few seconds and after that they 'LIMIT MY SPEED ' to 256KBPS....which may pretty much means that there is something going on under the hood-------atleast now we can believe that BSNL really is upto something....

and i too dont know but to believe my eyes!!!!!!!!this too in a home connecion 500 combo plan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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well there are already rumours of bsnl increasing speeds upto 8mbps in limited plans & 2mbps in unlimited plans from april.since you mentioned about testing & firmware rewrite they may be testing this speed upgrade but this also means that it will take time as you are the first person here who posted such screenshot.

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wow.. thanks for posting the screenshots!!!Good proof!!even i personally feell we're in for an upgrade!!

Arrey yaar,when you start downloading a file its common to see a boost in speed spike,use a download manager and the speed average in the manager is the actual speed,I'll be glad if you get more speed ,but be sure first,then post.

It will be called real broadband ...

WELL the picture shows 8mbps downloads ic.....
WELL IF U GOT THIS even if u just got it for a few seconds, and if u r getting this speed for most downloads for the first seconds----then undoubtedly this means your line can support 8MBPS!!!!!!! if u know how adsl works...you will get the point........no questions what so ever---he hav given good proof that his line supports upto 8mbps----we here havn't even seen beyond 220KBPS here...and 930KBPS means 8mbps!!!!! and see the reading bsnl gave him from bsnl's own speed tester i dont think it gave me a reading above 1.6mbps how so ever the number of times i tried----so no doubts the line of his can 'SUPPORT' 8mbps.thats great news!!!!!!

note that all my neighbours are noticing the same effect sfter their modem had been reconfigured by the exchange

Ok then its a good news.

Well then check this image.Guess which one is the actual speed,and no one of th speeds in the picture is fake.I got these speeds within 1 hr.
But I don't get more than 2.5-3.0 mbps.

What do you think ?




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the main point here is that even if for a minute you get 8mbps speed then it means the line in your area can support 8mbps.in many areas including myself we have never seen speeds above 2mbps for even 10 sec consistently & 8mbps not even for 1 second so that means lines in our area can not support such speeds.for bsnl to provide 8mbps it must upgrade the line speed first & that is being done at some places the proof of which is some users getting 8mbps speed results in speedtest,getting 8mbps download speed consistently for few sec or more(like the first post here).