I have been using Reliance for the last one year. I had a 144kbps and now I have upgraded it to a 3.1 GB card.
> > For my requirement: > 1. 300kbps is more than sufficient, Inside chennai, I have had connection problems in Tnagar, other than that I have had a good time with it. > 2. good coverage inside Chennai city, and to some extent in other metros I have used it in chennai, bangalore, madurai and some interiors of Tamilnadu. Metros have a good speed, while small cities of tamil nadu have you can have slower connection(you can browse if you have patience). > 3. fall back to slower GPRS/CDMA speeds if I'm out of coverage areas As said above, Reliance have some slower fall back. > 4. offer unlimited data plans for simplified billing I would not say Reliance has the best of the plans available. I recently heard that BSNL has a unlimited plan which costed less. But not sure of their coverage. > 5. Debian compatible hardware I was able to configure Reliance with a my ubuntu desktop. However it was not straight forward. Ubuntu treats my Reliance card as a memory stick(actually it has some exe which gets auto executed in windows). So had to do some teaks to get it working. > > > Any advise is much appreciated! Hope it helps. _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
