Broadband

Check & Compare Your Video Streaming Speeds At YouTube Video Speed History

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Have you ever checked out this new YouTube Video Speed History Page? If you haven’t, go and check it now.It actually gives you some idea of the broadband speed (at what YouTube videos could load over a period of time) with comparison to your neighbours ISP speed.

By looking at the graphs, you can easily decide whether your ISP is justifying the charges you pay for them by providing the speed as promised.

Look at the following screenshots taken by me, I’m at least happy that my ISP is providing me a speed which is slightly greater than the average speed of my City (Hyderabad), and the country, even though we are far behind the global average speed Sad

Go to YouTube Video Speed History page and check your ISP’s performance now.

ScreenShots:

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YouTube speed comparision chart

Also the sudden small dip in speeds around the end of April and beginning of May 2010 is possibly due to the SEA-ME-WE 4 Undersea Cable System Outage and the repair that was going on at that time.

Tikona Wi-Bro Dialer [Downloads]

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We have already posted a review about various tariff plans in Tikona wireless broadband.Tikona broadband tariff plans range from Rs.299 to Rs.4999.Tikona is still much like a start up, without much penetration into the broadband users, so we need to wait and see how much users base it can gather.But there are quite a number of folks out there , already using Tikona.

Tikona Wi-bro dailer

If you have already subscribed to Tikona Wi Bro broadband, you might be knowing that you need a dialer to connect to the Tikona wireless network which would have been already provided to you by the Tikona technicians.However, if you have formatted your computer where the dialer is installed without saving the backup file on any other media, you may want to download the Tikona Wi-Bro dialer software to install.So I’m sharing the Tikona wibro dialer file, which you can download from the link given below:

Download Tikona Wibro Dialer 1.4.9.7 (Size: 6.16 MB)

Password: techrena

Airtel’s Free Speed Upgrade Dhamaka For Broadband Users

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Airtel, one of the India’s top broadband ISP has taken revolutionary step to provide a minimum internet browsing speeds of 512 Kbps to all the  broadband customers in India.

This could change the face of whole internet in India if other broadband service providers take this seriously and come up with similar steps to provide Hi Speed internet at affordable price.

In a press announcement released today by Airtel, the company announces that it will upgrade the speeds of all the existing customers to 512 Kbps by June 2010 notably at “no extra cost”.Also customers with 512 Kbps and 1 Mbps plans would get double speed upgrade to 1 Mbps and 2 Mbps respectively.

Bharti Airtel, one of Asia’s leading integrated telecom service providers, in an unprecedented move is upgrading speeds of all its existing customers (on 64, 128, 256 Kbps) to a minimum of 512 Kbps. Further, customers currently on 512 Kbps plans and 1mbps plans will have their speeds doubled to 1Mbps and 2Mbps respectively.

Airtel has also announced the launch of ‘Impatience Plans’ offering internet browsing speeds of 4 Mbps starting from as low as Rs. 899.

Airtel Impatience Plans Tariff  (4 Mbps):

Plan Name

Impatience 899

Impatience 1099

Impatience 1399

Impatience 1799

Speed

4 Mbps

4 Mbps

4 Mbps

4 Mbps

Rental (Rs.)

899

1099

1399

1799

High Speed Download (in GB)

6

12

25

50

Option 1: Unlimited Data Transfer Plan

Post Hi Speed download continue browsing @ 256 Kbps

Option 2: Continuous High Speed Plan

Continue at 4 Mbps @ 10 paise/MB per additional MB (Post High Speed download)

Kudos to Airtel for this wonderful speed upgrade, we hope this could help in taking broadband in India to a next level.

If you don’t know yet, Airtel is also offering Unlimited mobile internet (GPRS) at Rs.98 apart from offering free unlimited national and local SMS.

Update: Well, we have yet another free broadband speed upgrade, this time from Hyderabad based Beam Telecom, read Beam Tele free speed upgrade report.

Tikona WI-BRO Broadband Plans And Tariffs

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Tikona Wireless Broadband Service (WI-BRO) :

Tikona, is the new entrant into the fastest growing broadband networks in India.But Tikona is completely different from other current broadband services because Tikona sets up access point through towers (for wireless access) on each and every apartment / building where it’s services are required.Thus all the users in that locality (with in the wireless access point accessible range) can enjoy Wireless Broadband with the help of a modem supplied and installed by Tikona digital networks team.This means that if you have a laptop and if your building is Tikona access point enabled, you can have the freedom of surfing the internet sitting any where in your house.

Tariffs:

Limited usage plans (All offer speeds at 2 Mbps):

These are circuit breaker plans (with bill limit)

Details
CB299
CB449
CB549
CB999
CB1249
Monthly Plan Charges (Rs.)
299
449
549
999
1249
Free Usage (MB)
1000
1500
2500
5000
7000
Charge beyond Free Usage (Rs./MB)
1
0.8
0.8
0.8
0.8
Circuit Breaker Deposit – One time (Rs.)
300
500
500
1000
1500
Guaranteed Max Bill Amount (Rs.)
599
949
1049
1999
2749
MBs Consumed till Maximum Bill Amount
1300
2125
3125
6250
8875

Unlimited Plans:

Unlimited plans are the plans that most users look for in any broadband service.Tikona is offering unlimited plans starting from Rs. 499 /- (150 Kbps) the maximum speed under UL plans is 1000 Kbps which you get if you take UL 1249 plan.

Fun Unlimited Plans:

These are special plans that provide internet surfing at 2 Mbps for first 400 MB of usage in FUL 799 plan, 200 MB in FUL 599 and 100 MB in FUL499 plan respectively every month.

Details
FUL799
FUL599
  
FUL499
Monthly Plan Charges (Rs.)
799
599
499
  
Download Speed (Kbps)
600
300
150
  
Installation Charges (Rs.)
500
500
500
  

Other Unlimited Plans:

These UL plans offer varying speeds at day and night.Night surfing speed gets almost doubled in each of these plans.

Details
UL1249
UL899
  
UL649
Download Speed
600 Kbps
300 Kbps
150 kbps
  
Download Speed (22:00 – 10:00) hours
1000 Kbps
600 Kbps
300 kbps
  
Monthly Plan Charges (Rs./Month)
1249
899
649
  
Installation Charges (Rs.)
500
500
500
  

Premium UL plans:

Details
FMC2499*
UL4999
FMC1499*
UL2999
Download Speed
2Mbps
2Mbps
1Mbps
1Mbps
Monthly Plan Charges (Rs./Month)
2499
4999
1499
2999
Installation Charges (Rs.)
500
500
500
500

[*]FMC 1499 and FMC 2499 have usage limits of 15 GB and 50 GB per month respectively, while other plans have unlimited usage limit.

Note: Modem installation charges for all the above plans would be Rs. 500 /-

Toll Free Number : 1800 20 94276

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BSNL EVDO Card 3.1 Mbps Unlimited @ Rs 750 !! (Up To March 31)

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BSNL EVDO 3.1 Mbps Unlimited plan only @ 750 Rs, Hurry up (Till March 31, 2010 only):

BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.) has taken a very big step forward towards offering high speed internet at an affordable rate to the  internet users in India.BSNL today has announced 3.1 Mbps unlimited plan under its EVDO card at rupees 999 INR 750 INR.

This comes as a real good news for all those who are eagerly waiting for such an unlimited plan at affordable price (Rs. 750).BSNL EVDO is the best option if you want to get high speed wireless broadband in India, though there are private firms operating in this arena, their services level do not match up to the state owned BSNL.But the twist here is that this is a promotional offer and valid for post-paid activations till March 31, 2010.Existing prepaid would get the unlimited data usage plan at Rs 650.

BSNL has also launched another plan but this time in Pre-paid, data usage priced at 5 Paise per 100 KB i.e Rs. 1 for 1 MB of usage.

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BSNL EVDO Post-Paid TARIFF [As seen in BSNL website]

Sl.No FMC* (in Rs.) Monthly free usage (in GB)
1 199 0.5
2 299 1
3 449 2
4 649 5
5 999 Unlimited

[*] FMC – Fixed Monthly Charge

Summary (Rs 750 unlimited EVDO card plan)

Plan Type: Postpaid

Price : Rs. 750

Data usage : Unlimited

Pros:

Affordable (at Rs. 750)

Free all India roaming

Cons:

High price if the EVDO router (Rs. 21,000, no rental option)

Unlimited plan only in Postpaid connection

Being a promotional offer [It’ll be Rs. 999 again after March 31, 2010]

BSNL EVDO Ad:[Click to see larger size image]

BSNL_EVDO_Card 750 plan

Google To Experiment Fiber Network For Providing High Speed Internet In US

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Google has revealed its plans to setup and test ultra high speed broadband networks in one or more trial locations across the United States.

Google’s fiber-to-the-home connection could offer ultra high speed data transfer up to 1Gbps, 100 times faster than the average access speeds that the Americans currently have.

Initially the service would be offered on a test basis at a competitive price to 50,000 to 500,000 people across the US.

Google will keep collecting responses from various communities over this project till March 26, 2010 and will announce the implementation details of this fiber networking project.

google logo smallgoogle fiber house

Google has listed the following three things as their goals that they are aiming through this project:

  • Next generation apps: Enabling developers to develop bandwidth-intensive killer apps
  • New deployment techniques: Testing new ways to build fiber networks
  • Openness and choice : Operating an “open access” network and let the users have the choice of multiple service providers

I’m jealous of the lucky US people who manage to get Google fiber-to-the-home connection.When India is still struggling with the implementation of 3G services to offer Mbps speeds, Google is thinking of Gbps :(.

[To keep up with 3G rollout in India here’s the latest info: Well, TRAI is considering 4G as well, good news]

What are you planning to doo with a 1Gbps internet connection at home? leave comments..