I asked something related to Airtel broadband on a different mailing list and I'm appending snippets of conversation that ensued. Some of this information might help you:
----- BEGIN SNIPPET #1 ----- > How do you make Airtel work? The DSL router sits between the POTS splitter and the NIC on your machine. You get a small CAT5 and plug one end into the router and the other end into your NIC. The router becomes your gateway now. It has an internal IP and the external IP is dynamic (probably Radius'ed). The internal IP is configurable of course but it's set to some default initially so that you can log in to it and do whatever. ----- END SNIPPET #1 ----- ----- BEGIN SNIPPET #2 ----- > Rs 500 has non-refundable installation charges and an additional Rs > 100 per month as rental for the modem.... is it worth it? The sales > executive said that the connection is shared and that I wont, ever, > get the claimed 128 Kbps. I paid around 2000 as deposit + installation charges last September. The standard modem rental rate is Rs. 99/- pm. Go for a router instead at Rs. 199/- pm. Actually I'm planning to buy the router from them now because I've been paying 199 every month for 12 months now and the routers they're giving out now are pretty stupid (but still better than the modem option definitely). When I got my connection I got a ZyXEL router - a very good model with easy configurability. The site says it's a 1:2 DSL meaning it's shared. Now theoretically, DSL can never be shared because it works over your landline which means it's private to you. What this basically means is that (and probably the salesperson doesn't know it) there's a main line which is split such that every customer receives 128 kbps. I don't understand how else I've been getting 100% b/w on both u/l and d/l consistently day-in and day-out. After the upgrade to 256 kbps, any wget download off even a reasonably good server (any Gentoo mirror for instance) gives me a consistent 30 kBps which equates to 240 kbps of the promised 256 kbps. Considering that Airtel uses PPP over ATM (lot of overhead) this is very very good indeed. The uploads don't come upto 30 kBps, but that's probably because no one pulls from me at 30 kBps consistenly. The best way for you to check things out would be to visit a neighbour who has a DSL connection and try some wgetting. With my DSL there's no such thing as peak and off-peak time so you can try anytime you want. ----- END SNIPPET #2 ----- Nandz. -- http://nandz.blogspot.com http://foodieforlife.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
