You got to wait for 2mbps downloads

[24online]

According to BSNL executives, the company will only be able to upgrade its existing subscribers from a minimum download speed of 256 kbps to 2 mbps and will not be able to offer fresh connections until March 2007.

BSNL, India’s largest Internet service provider, has a market share of 44% with about 9 lakh broadband subscribers.

Effective January 1, BSNL's current broadband plans will also undergo changes. The download limit in Home 250 and Business 700 plans are being enhanced to 1 GB and 4 GB from 400 MB and 2 GB, respectively. It is also bringing down the per-MB download rates from Rs 1.40 an MB to Rs 0.90 an MB in the Home 250 plan.

India has 3 million broadband subscribers.

http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_f...tent_id=150021

[windrider]

Outdated news.

All the new plans are hopeless. The ONLY unlimited plan has not been upgraded. BSNL sucks. Simple.

[Akhil Jain]

today i am getting more than 756 kbps and in my portal they say
home plan 500
status normal
speed up to 2 mbps

i am getting constant 70 kbps in utorrent

[shyamno]

Originally Posted by Akhil Jain

i am getting constant 70 kbps in utorrent

Its KB/s or kb/s..

[Akhil Jain]

sorry , i am getting constant 70 Kilobytes / sec in utorrent . however speed is going to 128 often.

[mayneu]

Originally Posted by Akhil Jain

sorry , i am getting constant 70 Kilobytes / sec in utorrent . however speed is going to 128 often.

u must be kidding.... tell me whats ur plan, its impossible to get such a speed. u must have misunderstood.
bsnl people havent upraded their speed now, now only u r getting double the speed what u r getting now??? must be a joke.....

[Vyasram]

they've test trialed it yesterday

[Choto Cheeta]

well last night me too from Kolkata downloaded at 220kbps (file transfer Speed) using FF2.0 from Rapidshare with Free account...

coool...

[Ravirdv]

WOW guyz they upgraded already me getting 578 down and 259 up speeed me on h250

[24online]

Its officially on bsnl main site.

http://bsnl.co.in/newsdetailed.php?news_id=352

but what is difference bet "256 Kbps/ Up to 2 Mbps" and " 2 mbps"

pls check with ur ISPs. send copy to all ur friends...

Make pressure on ISP to increase speed on what u pay.... b/s till today no private isp has announced 1 or 2 mbps speed...

use net meter to measure speed.

http://readerror.gmxhome.de/

[techno geek]

I M ALSO ABLE 2 DOWNLOAD AT 172KBPS 4:00 PM

GUYS I JUST WANNA KNOW T DIFF BETWEEN
1)KB & Kb
2)kB

[s18000rpm]

^^ KB=Kilo Byte , Kb=Kilo Bit

Bits – Bits are represented as either a 0 or a 1. If it helps, you can
think of bits as bits of a cookie, since we have are very sure of
what we like and don't like, the bit is either good (1) or it is bad
(0) .
Byte – A byte consists of 8 bits. A byte is generally used to represent 1
character, like an A, or a #.
Source: cs.wcu.edu Pdf file

this Bit Calculator might be helpful.

[thecyclone2k]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte

When will these BSNL people will get engineers/ managers of 21st century!
I hate these 80s people who think 2mb is enough!

[blackpearl]

Atlast!! an official announcement

[kuni5_hem]

oh no..i wil have to wait..
i was planning to go for BSNL broadband..
but nw i wil have to wait till march..

[led_shankar]

oh no.......................... :'(

me stuck with sify X(

[koolbluez]

2. The data rates for Unlimited Home 900 and 900 Plus shall continue @256 Kbps and no up gradation of bandwidth is proposed for the same.

THIS IS BULL$HIT!!! Now we pay 900/- for trickles of bandwidth!!!
I really feel to spit out all the 4 letter words i know onto the BSNL guyz.

[infra_red_dude]

koolbuez, i second you! they should at least upgrade the Home UL 900/+ to 1mbps... this is unfair!

[~Phenom~]

. The data rates for Unlimited Home 900 and 900 Plus shall continue @256 Kbps and no up gradation of bandwidth is proposed for the same.

they should upgrade UL plan to atleast 512 kbps if not 2 Mbps

[Arsenal_Gunners]

bsnl is not fool.see the intelligent people there have left you thinking and will trick many users by charging them thousands per day.i am happy with my ul900.

[CINTEL ENTRINO]

i dont think thousands of rupees will b spent if u d/l wisely ...

i m talkin of HOME500 plan... thats a gr8 bargain for such an affordable price..

[Choto Cheeta]

in Home Plan 500 its 4.5GB

i guess for emailing surfing and otherday to day stuff it would do..

as think about downloading 800MB+ per hour in 2AM to 8AM... .. ok.. not the best.. but certainnly in compair with any other ISP in India... come on.. ?? ask ur self is it too Bad ??

[Arsenal_Gunners]

do you think they will truly give 2mbps speed.i expect it to be less than 1 mbps

[CINTEL ENTRINO]

yea.... definitely.. one of the best plans... i am very eager to know wat airtel does to counter this plan

but at the end... consumer shud b king ..

[webgenius]

speed will be 1 to 1.5mbps

[Choto Cheeta]

Originally Posted by vimal_mehrotra

do you think they will truly give 2mbps speed.i expect it to be less than 1 mbps

so far so good...

not me / u or any one execpt few high end BSNL officer will be able to answer ur question...

but how about refering to past ??

we have a Business connection of 2mbps for couple of years now... and its really 2mbps all the time...

i have only seen this with BSNL.. only ISP from the begaining of Broadband now to provide 2mbps in main stream.. no other ISP had 2mbps plan (yes they would have given a 2mbps only in a customize plan)...

so if it would have been AirTel or TATA or Reliance... they a really doubt would have came... but as its BSNL and as i have seen the performace on hand... so i am really hopefull that yes they may have the bak bone to provide... also keep in mind no 2mbps for UL plans... so that means trafic is expected to stay under control...

[alok4best]

They have only fooled people..upgraded only for limited user..and if you are a limited user then
"The faster you download,the more u download and the more u pay"..
leechers like us can download 2GB of data per day using 2Mbps easily without any added effort.
BSNL sucks bigtime.
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and to add,BSNL has a pathetic QOS,atleast for UL users..here in bangalore u get disconnected at least once every half an hour..so u cant think of ever downloading anything from sites like rapidshare and like which dont support accelerators and resumes for free users.. ..the only life line is torrents.
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I dnt think they will upgrade UL users to higher speeds,coz even with so called 256Kbps I manage to leech around 50GB per month..what will happen if i get 8 times this spee..what I sugest BSNL is to improve QOS,if u r saying 256Kbps the give at least 225 plus..however if i check the speed most of the times I get it varying it in 100-300Kbps with an average around 170 odd Kbps..

[koolbluez]

And the speeds are upto 2MBps, which means it can be 256kbps all the time and sometimes shoot upto 2MBps once in a while. Not a constant 2MBps, depending upon user access.

A similar trick is played by YOU broadband (IQARA repacked) in my place. I went complaining to them about low browsing speeds for my 256kbps pack and I didn't believe my ears when those @$$***** reminded me that their brochure clearly states that the pack will be upto 256kbps. Which means u might get 0kbps most of the time or some numbers close to it and rarely comes upto 200kbps!!!
And to think i pay 500/-(excluding taxes) for a 1200mb limit on a 0-256kbps connection with very baad service!!! If it was not for the 2k+ registration fees, I'ld have thrown this @ his face.

[QwertyManiac]

Bleh, let us know post Jan 1 if they do deliver upto 2 mbit properly to a majority atleast.

And people, do use www.speedtest.net for easy truth and posting of your speeds

[Hustlerr]

But i can w8 for it