> I got the BSNL broadband connectivity today. Overall my experience is > positive. Yappie!!!! so did i.... > I had filled up and given the form almost immediately after these were > physically available in the Maharshi Karve Road exchange. I received a > call to make the payment about 10 days back, when I collected the > demand note and made the payment on 31/1/05 - and went out of town! > However, the modem was delivered at my home on 2/2/05. It is HUAWEI, > SmartAX MT800 model. The persons had kept couple of telephone numbers > to call back on my return. My experience is similar and the service so far is very good, i get the answers quickly and they actually follow up if they can't immediately give the answer.
> I had initiated the setting > up of the mdem thorugh "Network and Internet" under "configure your > computer" in my Mandrake (10.1) installation. It is ADSL, PPPOE > cnnection. I am using knoppixx and the config is under KDEMenu->KNOPPIX->Network/Internet->ADSL/PPPOE connection The setup is really easy, make sure your ethernet card is connected and up with a 192.168.0.x ip (well it works for me i donno about if this matters) The above menu item is a wizard and will setup the connection for you. The only thing required to be entered is username and password rest is all automated. The default yes answer will do just fine for dataone. > It was about 800 > kbps, whcih was OK according to him. He went back with the report at > about 12, promising that BSNL (Probably from Chennai) would call me > with the username and password by afternoon. It did not happen till > 4:00, so I called up the telephone I had contacted me earlier and was > directed to another number. There I got the username and password > without any problem/delay. I followed same process (make new > connection) under the "network and internet" to setup my account and it > worked without any problem. The speed test with www.bandwidthplace.com > indicated the speed to be 287.7 kbps, which is good considering I have > opted for 256 kbps connection. Yes the connection speed varies between 160kbps to 240kbs for me YMMV according to distance from exchange. > I also asked for the site where I could change my password and how to > access mail accounts for this connection. The information was not > readily available, but the lady came back to me with this information > in about 20 minutes. > > As of now, Dataone does not provide POP access, it is web access only > for the mails. This i however not true, i successfully accessed my cjb.net pop account from kmail. As such none of the ports are blocked so you can do everything that a dialup connection supports. (telnet ftp ssh sip whatever....) In all 9.8 out of 10 points for the service so far i will give the remaining 0.2 points when they keep the record same after completing one year. Cheers -- BAIN -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
