Good News for residents of Bangalore. Just a while ago a reader of this blog tipped me with a mobile number. Bingo!!! Reliance Communications, a Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group company is the first company to launch Wimax for residential consumers in Bangalore / Bengalooru. [Sify has it for Corporates. Bangalore Unwired for Selected Users]. I spoke to Reliable Enterprises, Bangalore which is providing pre-launch offer WiMax broadband connections.
Reliance WiMax Broadband Delivery Platform:
No more Trences for Cable saves a lot of headache in congested Bangalore. They will install a WiMax antenna on top of your house, just like the DTH Dish and a cable is drawn to a Modem. If you have mroe than one computer to share than you need a SOHO router to hook your PC and Laptops. The Wimax antenna talks directly to Reliance Towers.
The Cost Structure:
Pre-launch offer – Rs 500 Installation Cost. The Pre-launch offer is valid through June-15th. For residential use, the cost for Wimax broadband is same as that of Reliance Wired Broadband. A 150 Kbps Unlimited Data Transfer connection costs Rs 750 / Month and a 300 Kbps Unlimited Data Transfer connection costs Rs 999 / Month. All other taxes are additional.
Availability of WiMax Broadband:
It is currently available within the Ring Road areas. The whole of Bangalore will be covered shortly – few weeks. The connection will be established within 2 weeks of application. To apply, Contact Reliable Enterprises at 99800-62800. Let us know of your experience.
Related Reading: Bangalore’s Diamond District is a Wi-Fi Zone.
it ooks simple procedure to get installed.ut is there any plans below Rs 750?I wanted conncetion at Madivaala,Bangalore.whoom can i contact?
kumar
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Dear Kumar , Call 9980062800 / 9886798895 for quicker processing.
Hi All, this url writeup is interesting to read…. http://www.qualcomm.com/press/releases/2007/070709_reliance_communications_collaborate.html
Guys,
Here is me again.
Though it could be too early to write my experience but i think i need to share my current status.
Before I go further, I would like to show my sincere gratitude to Mr. A.Tharunkaanth. Because he took initiative and offered to help. Though I could solve my problem without going to him.
So today after 5 days of continuous chat with Reliance Tech, I got not 1, not 2 but 3 people in my house and were looking into the problem.
Problem came out to be… that while installing the base station to which they had locked my antena to .. was no more sending the signal. Thats little strange but mind you I have already said that my house is atleast 5km from the nearest tower.
Anyway..this time they came with GPS intstrument to figure out which is the nearest base station. Though technically this should be the Base station to which my antena should hooked to.. but this is not a good indicator always because you may have a tower near to you but there could be many obstruction in between and finally you may get connectivity from a distant tower.
For fellows, who have witnessed this problem or going through it… I have a suggestion ( especially when you are going through DHCP problem!!)
1. open a new command window.
2. execute command : telnet 192.168.1.1
3. For login and password type : support
4. In telnet shell, execute command : sh bs
5. you would get some output , # of lines may vary…
6. you would see that output is formatted in tabs and one of the tab name would be status.
7. If your antena is oriented correctly, you would have status as OPER, meaning its operational. If it says NA.. thats problem.
You need to contact the customer service.. alas.. unless you have a luck and very smart fellow is sitting there… what you would be asked and be doing is # of attempts of exeucting commands like ipconfig /all , ipconfig /release and ipconfig /renew.
One must take note that unless your statistics shows that your getting certain connectivity (through status as OPER) there is nothing which can be achieved by executing these command.
Get the Tech person help, ask them to come to your home and have look at the installation.
All the best.
-GauRav
Hey ..
By the way I have a question, if some one can answer.
If I go to the windows tool bar and keep my mouse over 2 little computer icon blobs, I get a text stating that its 100 Mbps connection. However when I measure the speed through http://www.2wire.com I have got 160 Kbps. ( note the difference between Mbps and Kbps!!)
Can any one explain?
Oh..ya.. bit disappointed about my first writeup.. that its was 155 Mbps 🙁
but i think.. for me getting a connection and able to write this piece of information, submit it and see it back in real time, is itself great.
-GauRav
Gaurav,
If I am recollecting correctly from my networking class taken 4 years ago, 100 Mbps is the maximum speed on LAN, that’s what Windows default Baloon icon will show on that connection icon in your task bar.
Speed Check is a complex issue, Airtel Broadband asks to check speeds on their server which is within India and it will definately be higher. Here
http://203.145.184.14/
However, I like http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/ since most of the servers I access are located in the US.
Hi friends !
i hav a reliance wimax connection and i want to share it over LAN but whnever i try to open net on other computer browser redirect me to the loging screen of reliance wimax.
please tell me if u know how to share wimax connection on lan.
got wimax here guys ,,,facing the same problem ,not able to release the ip address here in BSK 3RD stage Bangalore ,,,
but the wimax speed is excellent no doubt in that ,i have installed windows xp updated version &pretty stable with that system coz have tested in all operating system
sure this guys were having the signal problem not tower problem
Is there anyone who can inform on regular basis the progress being made on the installation of 2nd phase of base stations with WiMax capability ? Or is there any customer care contact / web site which has got the details at this level ?
Thanks.
-GauRav
Oops..I forgot to mention that I was looking for information in Bangalore South. However if there is general database of this information for all cities where Wimax is roled out.. it would be benefitial to for all interested consumers if they can awail services or not.. (typically if one is located with in the range of 3-4 km radius of BS tower, one can work without any problem.)