Thread: Railwire - Not an ordinary ISP

Before you go all out filing an application for RTI on why this service is not
available in other places in India be advised that the said ISP is still in BETA
version. All you would get as an answer to your application (if at all you file one)
is that they are still conducting various test in handful locations before they start to expand.

All u guys have been misinformed .Go to their website (railwire.in ) and see for urselves what i am talking about . Go to the webpage under traiffs and plans just below the tariffs they have mentioned about the ports being in the ratio of 1: 4 contention ratio which literally means the plan IRW010 WITH DOWNLOAD SPEED OF 4 MBPS and costing Rs 2120 will be shared by 4 people and ur actual speed would be 4 Mbps/ 4 PEOPLE so the effective speed works out to 1 Mbps per connection. So for u to enjoy 4 Mbps in actual terms out of the 4 shared connections the rest of the 3 connections will have to be idle which is highly improbable. I am enclosing a snap for all of u to see. Hope i was of help to u guys.

hmmm but in its website (in the online application form) all the stste names are included.i think they will expand next to the area where max applications are coming from?i filled it in.lets hope

I am using RailWire in bangalore..

I wanted to tell u few things..

1. The connections are through cable.. ur local cable operator will handle. Which we know its the worst.. if rain comes. there are packet drops.
2. The connection is 1:4 . For Eaxmple: 4Mbps /4 = 1Mbps.
3. If we see the above equation, its the same i pay for 1 Mbps dedicated line from reliance WIMAX or Tata"s.
4. The worst thing of all is. There is some filtering going on in the network some where.. torrents will not work. Streaming sites will not work mostly. All are blocked.
5. The Second worst thing i faced is, They give you a NAT IP. you can not use rapidshare, meghavideo,.. any time and data limit sites. in reliance I get Public IP for the price of 2k /year.
6. Do u believe that till now i could not open thepiratebay.org and icicbank.com from RailWire network

I really dont know whether its a problem with RailWire or local cable operator.. but this is the fact..

Thank's
Ram Sumanth.Ch
Marathahalli, Bangalore.

wow thats an eye opener ... anybody else using railwire and facing similar problems?

Well just for kicks i did apply online .. but they replied back the following

Dear Mr. Mitra,

Warm Greetings from RailWire!


This is w.r.t.your recent online enquiry with RailWire (appended below).


We are glad to receive your enquiry.


Calcutta will come under our pan-India rollout plans. From the customer support team we, at present don’t have good visibility into the exact dates/timelines. However, you could expect us to reach calcutta by end of this year or early next year.


With warm regards,


Team - RailWire Operations


eMail: connect@railwire.in | Tel: 91 80 4060 88 99 | URL: Railwire - Home


SMS: RAILWIRE(space)<Your Location> to 5 67 67 75


RailWire is an initiative of RailTel Corporation of India Ltd., Ministry of Railways, Govt. of India

i did also ask them about restrictions of usage / caps for torrent/p2p appz but they did not reply about that.. so have to wait and see .. in the meantime ppl in B'lore who r getting this connection plz let us know your view

this railwire will fk d a$$e$ of all isps))

ok here's how I look at it.

BSNL gives a contention ratio between 1:20 to 1:50 so 1:4 is good.

Courtesy Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.

specifically question 31

What is contention or a contention ratio?
To provide a cost effective service - all ADSL services are contended (shared). These contention ratios are applied in the backbone and international part of the network. A commonly applied contention rate is 50 : 1. All customers are guaranteed the plan rate up to the local exchange or the ADSL equipment to which they are connected. On the shared part of the network a 50:1 contention ratio would mean that a 2 Mbps connection would be shared by 49 others. In reality this is very unlikely to happen and the customer would find the connection much faster than dial-up modems. ADSL relies on individual users not making unreasonable traffic demands on the network to provide fast access speeds for all. If you are not getting the speed you expect, it can be due to the contention ratio but also to many other factors including the congestion at the remote site you are accessing.

The downside though is filteration and managing stuff as network expands. There is a widely held belief that DSL is more manageable than cable as network expands (or words to that effect)

Hi Guys!

A word again on railwire from bangalore!! What i have pointed out previously were just my perception towards the difficulties. Now im a user of railwire since 3 months...

The drawbacks that i mentioned are almost overcome;
The P2P is working awesome now. Its all the problem with my Wi-Fi router that is blocking few sites..

That is now resolved and i just want to say RAILWIRE will be the best ISP every in INDIA. All other ******* ISP's are just to bag money. No service, no response. Railwire have a decent technical guys over there. Their response is pretty knowledgeful.

i give 4.5/5 rating. 0.5 will be lost by railwire because they operate through cable operators. Where reliability & Quality is '0'

I hope we all will be more happy if Railwire come with more widerange of technologies like Wi-Max at the same type of price tags. That will be really slapping the remaining ISP's direct on to there face.

i also hope our loving India to go forward with more such cheap, economical and ethical business models.

I had long applied for a Railwire connection, but they responded that they dont that the necessary infrastructure to start the service in Trivandrum city.

NIce to know that its rocking in Bangalore.

Originally Posted by mail2sumanth

Hi Guys!

A word again on railwire from bangalore!! What i have pointed out previously were just my perception towards the difficulties. Now im a user of railwire since 3 months...

The drawbacks that i mentioned are almost overcome;
The P2P is working awesome now. Its all the problem with my Wi-Fi router that is blocking few sites..

That is now resolved and i just want to say RAILWIRE will be the best ISP every in INDIA. All other ******* ISP's are just to bag money. No service, no response. Railwire have a decent technical guys over there. Their response is pretty knowledgeful.

i give 4.5/5 rating. 0.5 will be lost by railwire because they operate through cable operators. Where reliability & Quality is '0'

I hope we all will be more happy if Railwire come with more widerange of technologies like Wi-Max at the same type of price tags. That will be really slapping the remaining ISP's direct on to there face.

i also hope our loving India to go forward with more such cheap, economical and ethical business models.

Which plan have you opted into?
And, how's the speed and all...

i sincerely hope that railwire expands its geo area base. i stay in whitefield. but the service is not available for even entire whitefield. only around brookefield area which is part of whitefield. i called them(railwire guys) and asked for connection in my locality. reply was negative. said to apply after 30 to 45 days.

I live in Marathalli in Bangalore which supposedly is covered by Railwire but this is only partially true. Here's my story...
In October beginning a guy from Railwire came to my flat & gave details about their service. I was astonished & very glad to hear all that since i was really looking for a Broadband connection & their offer was like a dream come true :angel: but i didn't confirm connection at that moment & asked them to contact back.
On 16th October i applied for it & the guy told me that it'll take about 7 days to get connection done. Now to conclude the story in brief.... those 7 days are not over yet!!! Yes,from 16th Oct till today they haven't installed the connection. Meanwhile, i have contacted them hundred times but all in vain. Thank god i got Airtel connection after few days of wait & using that only till today...
So that's my experience with Railwire.. one question to people who are using it, the guy who came to my house with all details told me that first 3 months of connection will be absolutely free!! Is it true??

well seems like railware is also going the typical govt. way where u wait and wait and wait.................

Railwire not all expanding.....
I checked their coverage about 6months back. they serviced few areas of b'lore only.

Now too, its the same thing

i am surprised by the tariffs on the given link ... 2mbps unlimited for only 1220 pm ... and 32mbps unlimited connection!!!! OMG... is it possible in india!!!

Originally Posted by Gary4gar

Railwire not all expanding.....
I checked their coverage about 6months back. they serviced few areas of b'lore only.

Now too, its the same thing

Hi,
I am from Mumbai and the way the ISPs operate it will be forever before railwire comes to Mumbai and then to my locality (which is currently a internet blackhole... nobody i mean nobody provides connections in my locality).
Hell man It took me 1 hr to move from B'luru to Mumbai following the NH4 on the map provided on the railwire website... (sorry slow day in office )....

Cheerio

where in bangalore is Railwire available? How about in Jayanagar??

Originally Posted by StormShadow

where in bangalore is Railwire available? How about in Jayanagar??

Please try emailing them. They will revert back with the answer, whether it is technically feasible on your area or not.

check their Site for coverage area!
Railwire - Geographies - Bangalore

or call them:
Ph : +91 - 80 - 4060 - 88 99

Originally Posted by StormShadow

where in bangalore is Railwire available? How about in Jayanagar??

from the maps on the site it seems like it is available in your area ... the best option is to contact them either by mail or phone as mentioned in the previous posts ..

I recently shifted to Whitefield area and came to know about Railwire. I enquired about that. They said broadband line in my area is not available.

Story goes long. I had BSNL connection in my last residence for last 3 years and I was quite satisfied with the service. To my surprise at my new residence the BSNL line is also not available. Initially I opted for BSNL transfer had to cancel due to non availibility of broadband line of BSNL.

What is available is only Airtel. There are many housing complex and big apartment are there in my road and to my surprise still BSNL did not put their cable. It is only 2 kms from ITPL IT hub of Bangalore.

When I cancelled my telephone from BSNL one person from BSNL said their is lobby going on for broadband connection. Private ISP bribe hefty amount to BSNL top brass to delay putting their broadband line. It will come only after some year when most of the potential customer gone to private ISP.

all petty politics

Being a railwire user i am quiet happy with the speed and the tarriffs. I am getting unlimited 1 mbps @ rs. 920 and believe me guys I get a downloading speed of almost 920-960kbps and uploading 700-750kbps. And if there is any issue with the connectivity the customer service guys are pretty helpful they even call you back as they promise which is something i never got previously in airtel, sify or pacenet. My only complaints is with my local service provider who unfortunately always has some so called switch problem and the net gets disconnected due to this problem of his. But each of my call to the customer care has been satisfactory. If I faced a problem they tried to fix it at the earliest. People in Bangalore go for railwire its the best one to my knowledge provided you are not in CV ramannagar with my local service provider lol.

Is it there in BTM?

Originally Posted by itsmemad

Is it there in BTM?

No idea call railwire support @ 080-67898899.