I have the Home 1800 plan in Bangalore since end-Feb and Home 500 in Pune, since mid-March, been good so far... My Home 1800 plan with modem rental comes to about Rs 2200/- or so I think (I'm just removing my phone call charges approximately here).
I got the Huawei MT 800 Smart-AX DSL modem which also has PPPoE dialler, firewall,NAT,router,DHCP functionality so I've set it up so that the modem dials into BSNL when I switch it on... and my PC is set to get IP automatically (DHCP) so Linux works great Hopefully these days for new signups they still give some decent modem like the mt800... See http://appaji.net/stuff/dataone/bdah.html for a HOWTO and also check out http://broadbandforum.in/ for lots of chit-chat about Broadband in India. There's also the http://broadbandblog.in/ site for occasional stuff coming there... It's good that they're dropping prices but it's too slow and we need to really have more generous download quotas, I finished 3.5 GB out of my 5GB monthly quota in the first week then I have to restrain myself from downloading more (just weekend stuff). They should triple the download quotas on all plans then life will be good 8-) and even after tripling (say 15GB for the Home 1800 512kbps plan) it will still remain at about 10% of the possible maximum a leecher/abuser can do with full-time 24x7 downloading... -- "Thou shalt not follow the null pointer for at it's end madness and chaos lie." -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
