On 2/8/07, osric fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
Has anyone used Tata's Cable Broadband (not Tata DSL). I have been
using Exatt Cablenet all this while and I am really bugged with their
downtime. Tata has just recently launched cable broadband in my
locality and the introductory schemes are really cheap. However I am
concerned about the authentication mechanism. It seems that they are
using some browser based authentication scheme so I doubt if there is
any problem in connecting through linux.
If anyone has any bad or good experiences then please do inform.
Just switched to tata last month from pacenet, as services were going
downhill with no changes int the rates for almost 2 years. The browser
based auth is nothing but a page that u go to and type in your
username/password, so not too much of a hassle with any recent version
of firefox, esp if u set it up as a bookmark/homepage. Am also working
on a little script that signs me in whenever i happen to get
disconnected, so i can say bye-bye to that login page too. Bandwidth
wise, it's pretty ok. Note, i'm using the postpaid plan, which gives
me a static ip(Infinity 256), and baring uptime probs from my local
cablewala(rare, not as often as pacenet), the bandwidth experience has
been pretty good. i even managed to download the fedora 7-test1 livecd
overnight which was a surprise for me, and torrents give me a steady
30kBps transfer rate. as always, with cable isp's YMMV, as the factors
of the local cablewala are varied from area to area.
p.s. - if anyone wants to try out the live cd of f-7, do let me know,
can pass it on. They've actually included support and fonts of almost
every indian language, all on the live itself. give it a spin. also,
it's a great way to test and see if your graphics card is capable of
running the cool 3D desktops via aiglx ad compiz/beryl.
Regards
Rajeev
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