Yes Eugene / Martin The wireless connectivity I meant was through Airtel, Reliance or BSNL - who each offer some semblance of wireless data connectivity across large swathes of the country.
I'm on a Reliance CDMA data plan that gives me unlimited national roaming connectivity for Rs. 1300 a month or so (US$30). It's advertised at 200+ kbps but the thruput is pretty low-average in reality - but it ALWAYS works. Good enough for email and browsing - but you'll have to forget about downloading MP3s and Youtube on it for now. Regards Mahesh -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Udhay Shankar N Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 6:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [silk] retirement home in India? Eugen Leitl wrote: [ on 06:04 PM 7/5/2006 ] >Connectivity is available in a wide area in principle via satellite, >however the latency will bad, since routed via geostationary (80000 km >ping). It is likely that reasonable connectivity is already available via a PCMCIA EDGE card (around 230 kbps on airtel) wherever airtel has a network, which is pretty much every largish town in India. Not sure about other providers, but I do know that airtel is already offering this. Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
