Sun 4 Feb 2007
From January 1 2007 onwards, BSNL is giving you the speed of 2mbps for every home & business customer except those who are using UL (unlimited) packages. Now you may not know, this service upgrade will cost you more money than you expected.
When BSNL launched their services years ago, the packages were based on the speed and usage limitation. For home plans, they were starting at 256kbps and ending at 1mbps. By this service upgrade, BSNL will allow you to surf at speeds of 2mbs wherever it is possible. This means the old 256kps people can now surf at 2mbs. The other difference is that usage limit has been increased to higher levels.
The changes are as follows
Home Starter :
400MB -> 1GB
Home 500
1GB -> 2.5GB
Home 1000
2.5GB -> 5GB
Home 1800
5GB -> 10 GB
Home 3300
10GB -> 20GB
Now with massive speed, here is scenario,
For 2mbps connection, the average download rate will be
2048/8 = 256KB/s.
As usual you won’t get this much with BSNL broadband. Thus approximating it to around 240KB/s, you need only 73 minutes to use the full 1GB. Which is approximately equal to 1hr & 15 minutes. Thus if you start checking YouTube like sites or the sites with large images, you can easily use more that this bandwidth in matter of hours. At end of the day you will be paying extra for the additional usage.
The people who will be hugely affected are Internet cafes. Most of the cafes’ don’t have bandwidth control and customers can easily exploit this situation. With the help of a USB stick, they can easily download GBs of data in matter of hours. If you are smart you can download DVDs at as low as Rs.50 or so. (approximately 3-4hrs of cafe usage)
The maximum allocated usage is 75 GB for the biggest business plan. Smaller browsing centres will be using packages of 20Gb limit. And I believe this can be used up in matter of days. Then these people need to pay extra for the additional usage.
The point I’m making is that, high bandwidth does not help you. It is only helping BSNL. This is a trap by BSNL, they know Indians are addicted to Internet and if they give you more speed, you will definitely use more and pay more.
Honestly, I think the only way you can enjoy the freedom of web is by downgrading to UL plans.
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I agree with you that home users will finish the 1 GB limit pretty fast maybe one the first week itself.
Using BSNL broadband in Cyber Cafe is foolisness. Hope cafe owners know business
Yeah, Arun.
Unfortunately there are some places where BSNL is the only service provider providing broadband service. (Just like mine
)
YA i also run a cyber cafe and i am using dataone business 700 plan. since jan my free usage is getting exausted at 5 times than in the previous year.
can any one pls suggest any bandwith control
As u have stated above, the same is being observed by me too.
But I am kicking of the BSNL’s ass by downling at night times…On an average I am downling 4-5gb/day.
how can u upgrade my connection.?
my downlad speed is only 35kb/ps
Hi Suhas,
You need to contact BSNL for upgrading your connection. Just provide a written application stating you need to upgrade connection.
hth
Guys you’ll are talking about BSNL….I think its better to have BSNL than private providers like Reliance and Airtel…
There are less catches in BSNL and it is more flexible than them…Trust me am talking from experience….I worked for Reliance and I know how they cheat people. They think they own the country
if i am seeing youtube then i have to be pay for that(1gb broadband)