Thread: Broadband at 75kbps ?

I couldn't believe when I first read it on Reliance website. But they are actually offering broadband at a speed of 75kbps??
Department of Telecom's broadband policy clearly specifies the speed has to be atleast 256 kbps. So Reliance should not even be allowed to offer that service. I think its high time something should be done about that. This is just plain and simple fooling the ignorant customers.

I used to use them but they stuffed up the payment, i think there is something wrong with their company, also they have terrible support.

the thing is they write the downloading speed the actual downloading speed in ur case 75kbps. Its nt the bandwidth. Ur bandwidth is 512 kbps..... Coz thts wht i understood frm d fellow who explained it to me.. I had mtnl nu first. Sad service everywhere

The 75kbps service which reliance offers is not advertised as broadband , they call it high speed connection just like sify calls its 64kbps connection hi speed internet.

Blood sucking corporates at their best ....

ya man ur rite abt d damn blood suckin corporates but the 75kbps tht they advertise is the actual download rate. 512/8= 64kbps.... 75kbps is more than wht u bargainin fr... Dint mean to insult wid d division bit.. no offence mate

Nah no offence taken.. I just meant to clarify that no company in India would advertise speeds below 256kbps as broadband and to get around this problem they advertise those connections as high speed internet and stuff like that..

Man cnt help it.. All v cn do is bitch n moan.. Customer aint king more likely a beggar.. Wht abt the dedicated line tht they explained to me..jst for the customer.. aint tht good.Good speeds coz of tht right. Mtnl n all dnt provide... M on the verge of takin a reliance...Wht net u gt

Originally Posted by kush

I couldn't believe when I first read it on Reliance website. But they are actually offering broadband at a speed of 75kbps??
Department of Telecom's broadband policy clearly specifies the speed has to be atleast 256 kbps. So Reliance should not even be allowed to offer that service. I think its high time something should be done about that. This is just plain and simple fooling the ignorant customers.

I think that you are talking about the download speed as with 75 kbps you should have some 512 kbps connection which i think makes them eligible of the conditions that telecome department has put forward.

Originally Posted by iceman

Man cnt help it.. All v cn do is bitch n moan.. Customer aint king more likely a beggar.. Wht abt the dedicated line tht they explained to me..jst for the customer.. aint tht good.Good speeds coz of tht right. Mtnl n all dnt provide... M on the verge of takin a reliance...Wht net u gt

So does this mean that these companies one way other another would get what they want and also if they are offering these kind of speed they should be permitted to advertise it also.

Airtel used to offer 128 kbps under the name of broadband, that itself was questioned by many critics and authorities and i am curious to know what they are going to do about this 75 kbps, it is neither broadband nor dial-up, its in between those two and should not be called as broadband for sure.

i tell you never go for reliance...one of my friend got a reliance connection..and the customer care tried to give all sorts of head-aches they could to him..

i think this 74kbps is not good enough to say a broadband.
bec on this speed i think downl speed is 7.5kbps
so not called broadband...
in my opinion.
thanks

digiscripter.....

There is a difference in kbps and KBps.....
mind what you use to avoid unnecessary confusion...
1KBps is approximately equal to 9kbps.
reliance offers 75kbps which is approximately equal to 75/9 = 8.xyz KBps.

digiscripter.....

There is a difference in kbps and KBps.....
mind what you use to avoid unnecessary confusion...
1KBps is approximately equal to 9kbps.
reliance offers 75kbps which is approximately equal to 75/9 = 8.xyz KBps.
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Aap thode right ho thode wrong

1 Byte = 8 Bit not 9

and

1 Kilo Byte (KB) = 8 Kilo bit (Kb)

In computers nothing is approximately equal to

so for 75Kbps it is 75/8 = 9.3 KBps

i get 10kBps +

:P on same connectino but u have to eat thier brain for 2 month to get ur port changed from server side

Originally Posted by umang

Aap thode right ho thode wrong

1 Byte = 8 Bit not 9

and

1 Kilo Byte (KB) = 8 Kilo bit (Kb)

In computers nothing is approximately equal to

so for 75Kbps it is 75/8 = 9.3 KBps

you should also consider the difference between 'k' and 'K'...
1 kb = 1000 bytes where as 1 Kb = 1024 bytes...

so 75 kbps is 75000 bps = 75000/1024 Kbps = 75000/(1024 * 8) KBps
= 9.1552734 KBps
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now i m not "Thoda Wrong

rahul2142 is correct.

Whenever we refer to the acronym kb we always think as 1 kb = 1024 bytes. Not so for many vendors. For example, if you purchase a 1GB USB pen drive and wonder why when you connect it, it shows capacity as 0.9313 GB? That is because the manufcaturer specifies 1 kb = 1000 bytes.

In any case 75 kbps does not qualify as broadband.

Originally Posted by just4kix

rahul2142 is correct.

Whenever we refer to the acronym kb we always think as 1 kb = 1024 bytes. Not so for many vendors. For example, if you purchase a 1GB USB pen drive and wonder why when you connect it, it shows capacity as 0.9313 GB? That is because the manufcaturer specifies 1 kb = 1000 bytes.

In any case 75 kbps does not qualify as broadband.

Thank you...
but you are making the same mistake as digiscripter...
there is a difference between k and K; b and B; g and G;

1 kb = 1000 bits NOT Byte...

you must have purchased 1gB pen drive not 1GB... if you encounter this problem...

manufacturers have to be correct with capitals else they get fined....

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Originally Posted by rahul2142

you must have purchased 1gB pen drive not 1GB... if you encounter this problem...

I have not purchased anything. That was just an example.

To be more precise, the word bits does not figure in any other hardware/software product except broadband. At all other places it is always bytes, e.g., capacity of hard disk, pen drive, zip drive, etc.

The words kilo, mega, giga, etc. are misleading in these cases where they use the pure metric system to represent what they are instead of the equivalent binary terms.

Soo many things being said in this thread...just wanted to clarify everything once and for all regarding Reliance Broadnet 75kbps.

IT IS NOT BROADBAND AT ALL. [That bastard Anil Ambani branded it Broadnet to confuse the consumers!!! We should start a petition to take him to the consumer court. I'll call that JAAGO GRAHAK no. 1600-11-4000 after finishing up this post]

MAX download speed = 9.5 [never mind the metrics, that is the number you'll get to see on your preferred download manager]

Havnt even thought about uploading anything considering the pathetic speed, so dont have upload speed specifics.


Conclusion: I implore you fellow broadband fanatics to complaint as well and bring down this shitty corporate attitude, treating customers as a garbage bin to dump their crap...STAND UP and be counted...dont keep waiting for someone else to do it!!.. WE ARE THE NEW INDIA...lets kill those bitches :taz:

Originally Posted by pterion

Soo many things being said in this thread...just wanted to clarify everything once and for all regarding Reliance Broadnet 75kbps.

IT IS NOT BROADBAND AT ALL. [That bastard Anil Ambani branded it Broadnet to confuse the consumers!!! We should start a petition to take him to the consumer court. I'll call that JAAGO GRAHAK no. 1600-11-4000 after finishing up this post]

MAX download speed = 9.5 [never mind the metrics, that is the number you'll get to see on your preferred download manager]

Havnt even thought about uploading anything considering the pathetic speed, so dont have upload speed specifics.


Conclusion: I implore you fellow broadband fanatics to complaint as well and bring down this shitty corporate attitude, treating customers as a garbage bin to dump their crap...STAND UP and be counted...dont keep waiting for someone else to do it!!.. WE ARE THE NEW INDIA...lets kill those bitches :taz:

NOW Thats What I Call Leadership!!

Admin Where Are You???:taz:

Calicut in God's Own Country, Kerala....seriously this place rockz but i have to warn you that if you move southwards from here to the capital expecting the same thing then you'll be in for a shock..lol..if you get there you'll probably wish you werent born.

Am in a good mood so i'll give you an illustration, when you travel by train and move from the north part of kerala to the south, you can actually watch the people change as you move towards the hellish part like the smiley shown below.

:51: ...sad bcos its true.

Why....soo...serious?!