Airtel throttling TORRENTS

[Oracle]

Please stop downloading torrents et all. You people are causing revenue losses in tune of billions of dollars to the music and movie industry.

 

[Singh]

Half of the 7.0+ rated movies in IMDB are crap

My Inception 1080p is 8GB!!! I also have Avatar 1080p but its only 5.4GB

I have the other half that is good

 

[Oracle]

I have the other half that is good

Manc probably was referring to Twilight series kinda movies

 

[tarunraju]

I have a similar problem. My 20 Mbps connection is throttled to 8 Mbps (1024 KB/s) with torrents. I guess ISPs do that to limit the single biggest zero-profit use of bandwidth (peer-to-peer data transfer).

 

[Oracle]

/\/\/\ 20 mbps? How much you pay per month dude? Unlimited?

 

[tarunraju]

Yes, 20 Mb/s:



Rs. 2500/month, and yes, it's totally unlimited. I end up transferring around 150~170 GB per month.

 

[Oracle]

/\/\/\ How come that is so cheap? I pay 1200+ for a 1mbps unlimited plan per month and download like 30-40 gbs.

 

[tarunraju]

Because I live in Awesomeabad.

My plan is highlighted in red:

 

[Oracle]

/\/\/\ Yeah I visited their website and saw that.

Beam Telecom is not in Bangalore I guess. Is the service ok? Downtime etc?

 

[tarunraju]

/\/\/\ Yeah I visited their website and saw that.

Beam Telecom is not in Bangalore I guess. Is the service ok? Downtime etc?

Beam is a Hyderabad-based company, with their own datacenter here. They even offer 1 Gbps to enterprises. They're expanding to all over Andhra Pradesh.

 

[Oracle]

Beam is a Hyderabad-based company, with their own datacenter here. They even offer 1 Gbps to enterprises. They're expanding to all over Andhra Pradesh.

The speed you have, with the monthly rental is too good. Bangalore sucks!

I have no download limit on my Reliance connection, but the connection goes down once every 2 weeks. They fix it the next day though.

 

[tarunraju]

As for downtime, it is very less. They have service branches all over the city, even if there's downtime, it's rectified in 15 minutes. I have the cell number of the "internet wallah" (the actual technician who looks after my colony) in my phonebook, so I don't have to go through a lame call-center and red-tape to get something fixed. There is a call-center, but Beam allows (encourages) us to deal directly with the technicians.

 

[johnee]

Tarun, is that network available in OU-Nallakunta area?

 

[tarunraju]

Tarun, is that network available in OU-Nallakunta area?

Yes, I think it's available. Call 66272727.

 

[johnee]

Thanks, Tarun. The plans are too good to be true...

 

[tarunraju]

They're too true to be good. They're awesome.

 

[johnee]

They're too true to be good. They're awesome.

No maintanence probs? I had lot of hassles with most networks...

 

[tarunraju]

No maintanence probs? I had lot of hassles with most networks...

Like I said, they're low, and they give you the cell number of the technician incharge of your colony to deal with problems. No call-center bullcrap.

 

[johnee]

Like I said, they're low, and they give you the cell number of the technician incharge of your colony to deal with problems. No call-center bullcrap.

Yep, thats good. So, you recommend it?
BTW, how many times would the net be down, if at all? Reliance, gave me probs atleast once a week...

 

[tarunraju]

It's not that regular. It's once or twice a month.