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.
Guys today i.e, 17/7/07 i got installed Reliance WiMax after 12 days of booking, plan Rs. 999 pm for 300kbps unlimited.
The first day itself was disappointed for me to see the bandwidth. Its not going beyond 50kbps and sometimes its coming below 20kps. I thought if i have opted for 300kbps atleast i will get 200. As its the first day let me check 2moro and let you people know if this Reliance WiMax is good or not. First i have to findout if the problem is with the installation or with the bandwidth. RELIANCE CUSTOMERCARE IF YOU PEOPLE ATALL SEE THIS MSG PLS TRY TO SOLVE IT. Shall call up customercare and findout what is the problem…………..If they dont solve there is no other option for me other than cancelling it.
raghavendra, which part of the bangalore, r u staying. how far is the BTS from your location.
Gaurav,
I stay in Kanakapura Road near Koday’s Contact Center. Is Wimax BTS available near this place?
Let me know.
Hi sac,
I stay in Kanakapura Road near Family Mart i.e J.P.Nagar 6th Phase.
While installing at my place they said they r getting good signal and that to they were getting 2 towers signal. Technician told that wont be a problem either way i will getting good signals. Let me check today and see if its working or not when i checked in morning it was not working…….and yest night it was very slow and it was showing 50kbps…….i never thought from 300 kbps it will come to 50kbps as i opted for Rs. 999 pm for 300kbps unlimited
Hi Raghavendra,
Please check with this link.
http://www.auditmypc.com/broadband-speed-test.asp
Hi check and took a screenshot and have kept in on my desktop yest night so that i can show the technician if atall he comes and checks what is the speed.
http://www.abeltronica.com/velocimetro/pt/?idioma=uk
where i check the speed. and than too i when i tried to open gmail…… after some time it gave me a msg saying the taking too much time to load the page and if i want to load basic html page to check the mail.
Hi Raghavendra,
I guess there is this misinterpretation between the bandwidth and the data transfer speed that you have referred… In an ideal situation your 300Kbps connections should get you a data transfer rate of about 37.5 KB/s. If you have acheived 50 KB/s your bandwidth availed at that time was approx 400kbps which is damn good!! Kudos to Reliance!! This is becos there is no definite way to limit a customer to the bandwidth. It is usually averaged out. Read and consider below points..!
Bps (Bits Per Second) denoted Kbps
The basic unit of measurement for serial data-transmission capacity (i.e. the rate that data is transferred between two modems). A bit is the basic unit of data.
Bytes (Bytes per second) denoted KBps is the DATA Transfer Rate.
The rate, measured in bytes/s, at which data is moved from source to destination after software initialization and setup operations; the maximum rate at which the hardware can operate. In CD-ROMs the transfer rate is limited by the speed at which the disc rotates in the drive (i.e. a 1X CD-ROM transfer rate is 150 kb/s, while a 4X CD-ROM transfer rate is 600 kb/s).
Throughput Rate
The data, measured in bytes/s, for a given continuous operation, calculated to include software overhead.
Throughput Rate = Transfer Rate – Software Overhead Factor.
Hope this clarifies. regards,
Hi, Also ALL YOU GUYS, If you wanna have an interactive a lil more transparent Speed test …I suggest you check-out this URL: (its ultimate)
http://www.speedtest.net
Happy Browsing!!
Hi Ishu,
Thanks for your reply.
It was showing Kbps not KBps.
When i check the bandwidth it was showing 50kbps not 50KBps.
If I was getting good bandwidth and had no problem why will I complain?
I am working in IT company.
Today Technician is going to come home and see what is the problem. Hope I get good bandwidth and continous browsing.
And the connection is continously getting disconnected. I have to refresh the page again and again.
Shall update you tomorrow however today technician is coming and to check.
Thanks
Hi guys got my wimax problem resolved; i was having signal issue, so the receiver was Realigned
Getting super speed at the moment, I will give it few days to see if connection is stable
At the moment I am a happy customer at BSK 3er stage
glen