Broadband connections - Mumbai, Bangalore

kaptoi · Post by **kaptoi** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 10:31 pm

Hello all,

I am looking for information on broadband connections in Mumbai and Bangalore.

Based on your experience, are these reliable enough to plan to work from home in India for extended duration ?

If you have any specific recommendations, please let me know .

thanks
kaptoi

back_in_des · Post by **back_in_des** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 10:59 pm

In Bangalore, Airtel and BSNL rock. Both are awesome. I've had Airtel at home and it has never gone down in more than a year. I always got the promised speed. I have BSNL in office and it has great speed. No regrets on either one of them.

Tata Indicom sucks. Sify Broadband sucks. I've tried both for my office and regretted each time.

Couple of years back, I had Reliance CDMA PCMCIA card, the speed sucked during the day when the network was busy. Night time it gave me the promised speed of 144 kbps.

kaptoi;48315Hello all,

I am looking for information on broadband connections in Mumbai and Bangalore.

Based on your experience, are these reliable enough to plan to work from home in India for extended duration ?

If you have any specific recommendations, please let me know .

thanks
kaptoi

nextgen · Post by **nextgen** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 12:09 am

what is speed for airtel and bsnl in bangalore ? Is it possible to easily
get 1Mbps if someone is willing to shell out more money ?

back_in_des · Post by **back_in_des** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 12:28 am

nextgen;48333what is speed for airtel and bsnl in bangalore ? Is it possible to easily
get 1Mbps if someone is willing to shell out more money ?

Yes you can. Available with both. But on higher speeds, typically there is no unlimited download/upload plan. There will be charges per KB above your free limit.

With one of these providers, I forget which one, you can buy a bill buster on top of that, i.e. like an insurance premium in which you are protected against exorbitant bills and have a maximum monthly bill you pay. Ask for that, typically it's not advertised.

Leased lines are also available if it's for your business. There are far more providers in that segment.

kaptoi · Post by **kaptoi** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 4:25 am

Thanks back_in_des !

If anyone has similar feedback on Mumbai , that would be great.