[silk] WiMax in Bangalore?
http://reliance.wimax.googlepages.com/ Anyone used this?
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On Jan 16, 2008 2:05 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That doesn't even look like the reliance website. Where'd you run across this? Via an ad in Gmail. The ad was where those Webclips are displayed...
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Gautam John wrote [at 02:07 PM 1/16/2008] : That doesn't even look like the reliance website. Where'd you run across this? Via an ad in Gmail. The ad was where those Webclips are displayed... The page claims that they are a channel partner for Reliance, but is setting off my bullshit alarms, especially since WiMAX is still having some regulatory...issues in India. Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
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On Jan 16, 2008 1:53 PM, Gautam John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://reliance.wimax.googlepages.com/ Anyone used this? I use this connection here in Pune. Its pretty reliable and speed is decent enough. Need to take care of the antenna, sight change in the position can give you nightmares. Esp. when the children next door , use the antenna as an extra 8 runs :D -- Ramakrishna Reddy GPG Key ID:31FF0090 Fingerprint = 18D7 3FC1 784B B57F C08F 32B9 4496 B2A1 31FF 0090
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Next thing you know, people will start buying stuff from amazon.geocities.com Googlepages.com is google's free page-hosting service. Anyone can create almost anything there. And any real channel partner should at the very least be able to have their own website. No? - Vinit -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] et] On Behalf Of Udhay Shankar N Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 3:45 AM To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] WiMax in Bangalore? Gautam John wrote [at 02:07 PM 1/16/2008] : That doesn't even look like the reliance website. Where'd you run across this? Via an ad in Gmail. The ad was where those Webclips are displayed... The page claims that they are a channel partner for Reliance, but is setting off my bullshit alarms, especially since WiMAX is still having some regulatory...issues in India. Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
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Next thing you know, people will start buying stuff from amazon.geocities.com Googlepages.com is google's free page-hosting service. Anyone can create almost anything there. And any real channel partner should at the very least be able to have their own website. No? First of the Google AdWords along the mail: Reliance Wimax broadband [ adurl=http://reliance.wimax.googlepages.com/ ] Wireless internet for Bangaloreans Speed ranges from 150Kbps to 2mbps www.RelianceCommunications.co.in Displays www.RelianceCommunications.co.in and links to http://reliance.wimax.googlepages.com/ but then again might just be ignorance... *shrug*
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I called them, they seem legit to me but I didn't give them any money or have them install anything yet. -- Charles On Jan 16, 2008 3:06 PM, Raul Siddhartha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Next thing you know, people will start buying stuff from amazon.geocities.com Googlepages.com is google's free page-hosting service. Anyone can create almost anything there. And any real channel partner should at the very least be able to have their own website. No? First of the Google AdWords along the mail: Reliance Wimax broadband [ adurl=http://reliance.wimax.googlepages.com/ ] Wireless internet for Bangaloreans Speed ranges from 150Kbps to 2mbps www.RelianceCommunications.co.in Displays www.RelianceCommunications.co.in and links to http://reliance.wimax.googlepages.com/ but then again might just be ignorance... *shrug*
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Udhay Shankar N said the following on 16/01/2008 12:45: The page claims that they are a channel partner for Reliance, but is setting off my bullshit alarms, especially since WiMAX is still having some regulatory...issues in India. Udhay, Are you saying _Reliance_ may have regulatory issues in India? The same Reliance who successfully parleyed a fixed-line operator licence which specifically prohibited roaming into a full-fledged CDMA network? Since when has regulation stopped them? They go ahead and build it out, and then buy the appropriate ministries. I'm sure more bureaucrats work for them in Delhi than do for their real employer. So if Reliance is selling WiMAX, they probably have a service to sell. Or plan to have a service to sell, once sufficient people fork out money. Ram
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Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote: [ on 04:00 PM 1/16/2008 ] Are you saying _Reliance_ may have regulatory issues in India? No, I'm saying WiMAX is having regulatory issues in India. See, for example, http://www.wimax.com/commentary/blog/blog-2007/wimax-problems-in-india q It seems that India (home to over 1 billion people) is having problems with deploying WiMAX. This is in part due to the government taking its time in allocating spectrum to system integrators and ISP's. According to a news source, the globally used band for WiMAX is 2.5 GHz - 2.7 GHZ, but in India this band is locked for satellite based mobile and broadcast applications such as national emergencies and natural disasters. What is available is the 2.3 GHz- 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz that has been allocated to several IPS's. According to the ISP's, these bands are good for trials only, but not for city wide and commercial deployment. The key players of WiMAX and even 3G have asked the Indian government to release higher band frequencies so that deployment can be made, but government officials are confused as to how much and at what price they should let go of the spectrum. On the other hand, the department of Defense has certain frequency bands under its belt, which it is unwilling to give up for any price. /q -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
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On 16-Jan-08, at 2:15 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: The page claims that they are a channel partner for Reliance, but is setting off my bullshit alarms, especially since WiMAX is still having some regulatory...issues in India. For what it's worth, a colleague at work has a Reliance WiMax connection at work. It has teething problems -- connectivity drops off occasionally and requires several calls to the service centre to have them look at it, often taking several days -- but otherwise works as advertised.
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Udhay Shankar N said the following on 16/01/2008 15:12: Are you saying _Reliance_ may have regulatory issues in India? No, I'm saying WiMAX is having regulatory issues in India. And I'm saying that's never stopped Reliance from deploying anything in the past. However, would anyone know what band they use in Bangalore and Pune? Ram
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Re: [silk] Silk list chennai meetup?
Saturday Sunday I have a dozen weddings to grace with my presence. Lunch on 25th is cool. Lunch on 25th sounds good.
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On Jan 16, 2008 9:07 AM, Sriram Karra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Saturday Sunday I have a dozen weddings to grace with my presence. Lunch on 25th is cool. Lunch on 25th sounds good. Lunch on 25th sounds good to me too. Next question: where? I prefer some place on Nungambakkam High Road (I guess it is called MG Road these days). Thaths -- Bart: We were just planning the father-son river rafting trip. Homer: Hehe. You don't have a son. Sudhakar ChandraSlacker Without Borders
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On Jan 16, 2008 11:00 PM, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 16, 2008 9:07 AM, Sriram Karra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Saturday Sunday I have a dozen weddings to grace with my presence. Lunch on 25th is cool. Lunch on 25th sounds good. Lunch on 25th sounds good to me too. Next question: where? I prefer some place on Nungambakkam High Road (I guess it is called MG Road these days). Thaths Nungambakkam High Road is called M G Road??? New one to me...for whom it will always be known by the old nameat least Cathedral Road is now Radhakrishnan Salai and is called that...but this one will take time. Deepa. -- Bart: We were just planning the father-son river rafting trip. Homer: Hehe. You don't have a son. Sudhakar ChandraSlacker Without Borders
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Thaths [16/01/08 09:30 -0800]: Lunch on 25th sounds good to me too. Next question: where? I prefer some place on Nungambakkam High Road (I guess it is called MG Road these days). Rangis? Small chinese joint near the Indian Oil building (just down the road between the American Consulate and Ispahani Center, opposite that petrol pump)
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On Jan 16, 2008 11:41 PM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nungambakkam High Road is called M G Road??? New one to me...for whom it will always be known by the old nameat least Cathedral Road is now Radhakrishnan Salai and is called that...but this one will take time. It's called Uttamar Gandhi Road, but that's just official. It still is NH road. On Jan 17, 2008 3:42 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rangis? Small chinese joint near the Indian Oil building (just down the road between the American Consulate and Ispahani Center, opposite that petrol pump) Rangis is, according to people who went there not too long ago, going down the dumps. Palimar, in Parsn's Manor (on Mount Road, near the fly-over. Entrance is from NH Road, near Park) is a great place for lunch. They went through a renovation 2 years ago, and looking very chic. But it's a veg place. C -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravages http://www.linkedin.com/in/ravages http://www.selectiveamnesia.org/ +91-9884467463
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Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan [17/01/08 09:12 +0530]: Palimar, in Parsn's Manor (on Mount Road, near the fly-over. Entrance is from NH Road, near Park) is a great place for lunch. They went through a renovation 2 years ago, and looking very chic. But it's a veg place. Well, let's try vegetarian for a change then. A fairly short distance away - well, T Nagar - there's GRT Grand Days, and the restaurant there is quite decent.
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On Jan 17, 2008 9:12 AM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Rangis is, according to people who went there not too long ago, going down the dumps. Palimar, in Parsn's Manor (on Mount Road, near the fly-over. Entrance is from NH Road, near Park) is a great place for lunch. They went through a renovation 2 years ago, and looking very chic. But it's a veg place. As a Madrasi in exile I exercise my right to contribute to this thread. Palimar is a dump, even if you put lipstick on it. There was a time, circa the advent of color television when Palimar was the-place-to-be because they were one of the first restaurants to have color TVs in full view of every table. And mind you, if they were showing the monopoly State-run TV there would be no one around for miles, instead they ran tapes of imported cartoons and other mindless stuff. There were people so lost in the programming that they were actually calling for the volume to be turned up, and not complaining one bit about the food. TV became old, satellite channels offered a denied public their heart's fill of mindless entertainment, and people started noticing the food for the first time in Palimar's history. It was all down hill from there. I had lunch at Palimar II (the renovated avtar) and I was distinctly unimpressed. Thankfully I still find my favorite places are intact - the drive-in Woodlands, the Narada Ghana Sabha Woodlands, Benjarong, Liu's Waldorf - to name a few. Are there any worth adding to that list? I'll poke an ice pick into the eye of the first one that mentions Saravana Bhavan. Cheeni
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On Jan 17, 2008 10:41 AM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the drive-in Woodlands, the Narada Ghana Sabha Woodlands, Benjarong, Liu's Waldorf - to name a few. Are there any worth adding to that list? I prefer the non-drive in version of Woodlands a little further down the road. Where and what is Liu's Waldorf? My picks: Cascade (Khader Nawar Khan road) for Chinese (the food is excellent as are the portions...) Blue Diamond (Poonamallee High Road) for Kothu/Madras/Ceylon Stuffed Parota, Mutton Korma et. al. Dynasty at Harrisons for Indian Chinese.
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On Jan 17, 2008 10:41 AM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Liu's Waldorf - to name a few. Are there any worth adding to that list? Whatever became of Buharis? Still worth a visit?
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Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote: It's called Uttamar Gandhi Road, but that's just official. It still is NH road. Asking for info: Uttamar == Thamizh version of Mahatma? I'll never get to understand the chauvinists I guess Cheerio, M -- Madhu M Kurup /* Nemo Me Impune Lacessit */ mmk222 at cornell dt edu
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Where and what is Liu's Waldorf? Adyar, near the IIT campus. Obviously, a Chinese restaurant (and rather a good one) At least 3 silk meets so far there, not that there's more than two or three a year anyway in Madras Blue Diamond (Poonamallee High Road) for Kothu/Madras/Ceylon Stuffed Parota, Mutton Korma et. al. Hotel Topsee near the Adyar telephone exchange is not bad at all for that kind of stuff srs
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On Jan 17, 2008 11:04 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blue Diamond (Poonamallee High Road) for Kothu/Madras/Ceylon Stuffed Parota, Mutton Korma et. al. Hotel Topsee near the Adyar telephone exchange is not bad at all for that kind of stuff What about Runs (I always thought that's a strange name for a restaurant, but still) and Traffic Jam? Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
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On Jan 17, 2008 11:09 AM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] What about Runs (I always thought that's a strange name for a restaurant, but still) and Traffic Jam? Are we discussing the D-list of Madras restaurants that you reminisce hanging out as a college kid? Or are you bringing them up because they sound funny? Cheeni
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On Jan 17, 2008 11:12 AM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about Runs (I always thought that's a strange name for a restaurant, but still) and Traffic Jam? Are we discussing the D-list of Madras restaurants that you reminisce hanging out as a college kid? Or are you bringing them up because they sound funny? No, I'm bringing them up because that's where I used to go for KP/CP/biryani (essentially, the impys kind of food) Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
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No, I'm bringing them up because that's where I used to go for KP/CP/biryani (essentially, the impys kind of food) I bloody hate Traffic Jam and Coronet. Runs has excellent biryani - closer to the true Hyderabadi biryani than I would dare to ever expect in this benighted city Topsee is the overall winner as far as their kerala parota and mutton curry goes though srs
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On Jan 17, 2008 11:23 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I'm bringing them up because that's where I used to go for KP/CP/biryani (essentially, the impys kind of food) I bloody hate Traffic Jam and Coronet. Runs has excellent biryani - closer to the true Hyderabadi biryani than I would dare to ever expect in this benighted city Topsee is the overall winner as far as their kerala parota and mutton curry goes though Quality, off TTK Road, near the Park Sheraton. C -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravages http://www.linkedin.com/in/ravages http://www.selectiveamnesia.org/ +91-9884467463
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On Jan 17, 2008 11:23 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I'm bringing them up because that's where I used to go for KP/CP/biryani (essentially, the impys kind of food) There's this small place in Anna Nagar run by a chap called Hashim Khan. Super biryani. Forget the name of the restaurant though...
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Isnt that the one near / opposite to Blue Star? There's this small place in Anna Nagar run by a chap called Hashim Khan. Super biryani. Forget the name of the restaurant though...
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On Jan 17, 2008 12:06 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isnt that the one near / opposite to Blue Star? Dunno. It's near the telephone exchange, if that's of any help...
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On Jan 17, 2008 10:50 AM, Gautam John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 17, 2008 10:41 AM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the drive-in Woodlands, the Narada Ghana Sabha Woodlands, Benjarong, Liu's Waldorf - to name a few. Are there any worth adding to that list? I prefer the non-drive in version of Woodlands a little further down the road. I don't think too highly of their sense of hygiene, I found a finger nail once in the food. However, perhaps it's an aberration and irrespective of my personal preferences I keep getting pulled there by family, a large section of whom seem to think of it as a second home when they come visiting from foreign lands. Which it is I guess in a way, I've been told that Woodlands now stands on what used to be the home of my mother's family a few generations back. Some even found it cute to get married there in the footsteps of my (great?) grand mother who was the last to be married in the ancestral house. For a really good no-frills Tamil lunch I'd recommend the restaurant in Hotel Maris (next to the Chola Sheraton). Cheeni
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On Jan 17, 2008 12:09 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a really good no-frills Tamil lunch I'd recommend the restaurant in Hotel Maris (next to the Chola Sheraton). Cheeni Seconded. And third-ed too. To bring the thread back to topic, where are we lunching? C -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravages http://www.linkedin.com/in/ravages http://www.selectiveamnesia.org/ +91-9884467463
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For a really good no-frills Tamil lunch I'd recommend the restaurant in Hotel Maris (next to the Chola Sheraton). Cheeni Seconded. And third-ed too. To bring the thread back to topic, where are we lunching? Umm.. there seems to be broad consensus for Maris. And it is close enough to MG Road to sort of suit Thaths. Let's let Thaths decide. Thaths, call me at 98840 64791 or Chandrachoodan at [whatever his mobile # is]. Or, there's Ecstasy in the Satyam Cinemas complex. Dessert / chocolates, really good. I heartily endorse this review - http://chennai.burrp.com/establishment/view/161748119 srs
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On Jan 17, 2008 12:24 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a really good no-frills Tamil lunch I'd recommend the restaurant in Hotel Maris (next to the Chola Sheraton). Cheeni Seconded. And third-ed too. Chandrachoodan at [whatever his mobile # is]. Mobile number: +91-98844-67463 C -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravages http://www.linkedin.com/in/ravages http://www.selectiveamnesia.org/ +91-9884467463
