On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 18:39 +0530, Ashwin Mansinghka wrote: > There is nothing called forbidden, especially in this world of > communications and networking. People ignorant of this fact will anyway do > peer to peer networking and file transfer on two ADSL ends. DLINK routers > with ADSL support lets you do a lot of these funny things.
But there is legal and illegal :) Got to go through BSNL's Rules & Regulations. Anyway, instead of a 128 kbps upstream we're probably getting a 64 kbps upstream. That's not too bad, unless you're slashdotted. <evil-grin /> > The present flavour of DIAS (Basic Rate DSL) is Symetric and people do use > it for all website hosting etc. Static IP addresses are given to users by > BSNL on payment basis, in case you ask for. BSNL as an ISP - Class A has to > provide (by law) and does provide Global IPs only to all its INTERNET users > be it on Analog Modem Dialup, ISDN Dialup, Leased line, DIAS or Broadband. > There is absolutely no NAT. But permanent IPs are not given by default, is it ? I'm accepting your word re: the NAT, since I have no idea of what goes on inside BSNL, but I remain sceptical of claims for permanent IP. > My own mail server (complete sendmail etc.) i.e. my above id is on a DIAS > link and I do not have a permanent global IP. Ahh, sendmail+fetchmail is a pretty potent combo. > > > > CellOne based "faster connectivity" ?? Please elaborate !! > > CellOne is GSM/GPRS/EDGE , which has probably the lowest data transfer > > rates among the most commonly used wireless networking protocols. Would > > be interesting to see how BSNL's pilot project for WiMax performs. > > "Lowest" is very subjective, please elaborate further. EDGE/GPRS (I don't quite remember which one) has speeds of 43.2 kbps. CDMA 1x probably does 115 kbps, although actual speeds are much less, but still higher than 43.2 kbps. :) Oh, I don't think I have to talk about WiFi (802.11 a/b/g). WiMax has the capability to achieve speeds of upto 60 Mbps per "sector". > WiMax !! Where is this site ? Is there any actual site (working site) ? Or > is it just on paper again, that we are discussing here ? Standard finalised in 2004, by the IEEE 802.16 working group. Reportedly has been implemented at Mallapuram district in Kerala, using Proxim equipment. (Proxim is the manufacturer of the famed Orinoco wiFi cards) Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wimax&redirect=no WiMaxForum: http://www.wimaxforum.org Intel's site on WiMax: http://www.intel.com/netcomms/technologies/wimax/index.htm > > > >> > >> > 4. The equipment is from UT Starcom, which has a reputation for > >> > offering > >> > very unstable products. > >> > >> yipes ! > > > > Hey ! That's FUD !! BSNL a/c free internets handle quite a large number > > of users without major problems. And yesterday Prometric rated my dialup > > at 186 Kbps. :) > > This is amusing. I choose to ignore the remark. > > Further I choose to remain silent till someone with some knowledge in > "Modulation Techniques" can step forward to enlighten us about 33.6 / 56 > kbps speeds (Modulation - Demodulation Techniques - MODEM). Rule of thumb: 33.6 kbps = 3.36 KBps. You can borrow my Tanenbaum (Networking) and Kennedy Davis (Communications) books. :) > And then technically specify, if 186 Kbps (capital K stands for Kilobytes - > i.e. for kilobits this becomes 186*8 kbps) as experienced by our friend ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Tanenbaum uses small b "b" for bits and capital b "B" for bytes. See above. Kbps/kbps = kilo bits per second, KBps/kBps = kilo bytes per second. > here, is possible in what probability (I am willing to take the data from > the person who explains and work on all Permutations and Combinations and > post the results on the list). > > My small experience in communications tells me UT Starcom products are > highly unreliable, and I will continue to live with it. Moreover the present > RAS of dialup users (172233 and 172222) is definitely not from UT Starcom. I'm currently offline as I compose this message, but IIRC the RAS is UTStarCom HiperARC. At least that's what I can gather from wvdial's chat transcripts. > With the storm of technology in a very short time and availability of cheap > bandwidth we feel everything is going fine and the next thing will be even > better. > As users / consumers we need to be aware of what is being offered to us and > whether it is worth paying for (especially for persons like me who pay for > their complete Internet hours from their own pocket) whether by an > individual or an institute and organisation. > > with Regards, > ASHWIN > > > -- Soumyadip Modak [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://soumyadip.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
