India Broadband

abyssman

Hi friends,, i am abhijith , i have applied for bsnl Broad band connection and shortly will be
getting it...
(this is 2nd time i am getting the same connection after 1 n half years..)
But one thing worries me a lot is.. Password protection and bandwidth !!
I have heard lots and lots about bsnl passwords being hacked and customers getting Sky-scraping bills..
cos this issue was on news papers too..

I have read the posts of the victims on many forums.. feel pity on them,,
and i have visited blogs where the username and passwords are posted and people seem enjoying it..
and shockingly even i found the working username & passwords(verified it on check usuage page-on my friend's.. he is on bsnl..)
its so pathatic that even though there are many cases around, Bsnl is not taking any initiatives
to stop the.....
I came to know that BSNL doesnt have port binding(i dunoo whats it) ..i.e so can any body change login info at their router and use the hacked userass ?

well..

1st lemme actually ask what i wanted to..

is there any thing that i can do to prevent being the victim of Bandwidth Suck.. ???
I complaint the JTO(junior telecom officer)telling there are many sites or blogs where u are put up and they work fine... he said its impossible..He dint say much...
i'm sure bsnl lacks engineers and admins who are technically strong , they are almost nerds,,

( reasons y i call them nerds
1.Last year when an engineer had come home for giving the connection ,was trying to connect the usb of the modem to the ethernet port :-0 ha ha..
2.He blindly made the settings of the router which he had written down on a piece of paper..
3. I had to close the connection with in 45 days due to some reason ,n i was not aware of the min hire period was 90 days...latter had got the bill including unused 45 days...
then after lots struggle and begging they agreed to give a reduction of 400 bucks and i was letin to the admin room..
i saw the admin was blindly executing the Sql queries on Oracle 9.0 he referred the book(probably it was his notes)and tried executing the UPDATE queries... after lots lots errors he managed to update..:-0 )

Back to the topic...
Please suggest me or write ur views on securing the u & pocketting of bandwidth..
I thank you in anticipation...
this forum rocks..
with regards
Abhijith
" In some ways ,all are Nerds,me too ,Coz >>Known is A drop and Unknown is an Ocean<<"

Admin

This doesn't apply any more as bsnl broadband uses port binding which only allows you to use your user name and pass using the telephone line it is assigned to.. If you are still worried about getting over billed just go for the 256kbps unlimited connection and youll be fine

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xwhyz

Yes, as said by the admin, the best way to avoid this is to go for the unlimited plan with BSNL. I was with 500 plan some time back and there were lots of unwanted issues with them and most of the time they overcharge. I had to visit their office every month to, as you said correctly, beg them to reverse the charges, sometimes with use and sometimes to no avail. Most of the time i ended up paying more than Rs. 1000. Hence I have changed the plan to Unlimited which costs me Rs. 900 plus tax. Now I am not at all worried about being over billed or hacking.