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.
Hello Kishore,
So far I had a hard luck because of non-availability of BS in the vicinity of my house ( Doddakallasandra, Kanakpura Road). However in last 2 days I came to know from someone in Reliance that a new Base Station has come up nearby “Shankar Arcade” ( somewhere next to Metro). If this info is true, than I am sure you would be getting connection without any problem. Check it out with the service people you are in touch. Reliable enterprise’s contact number (see the first blog) could be good start.
Best of luck.
GauRav
Hi Raghavendra, Then it could be signal issue either due to misalignment as in Glen’s case / signal drop . Hope it will be resolved.
Talk to One Mr . Suresh on 9342411953
All – Good to know for a change that this technology is working well for the consumer! 🙂
Happy Browsing..
Hello Guys,
As I had said in one of my previous entry that those who are facing problem related to IP address and specially getting DHCP time out error, there is a way to check out if at the first place you have proper connectivity. To check that out follow instructions :
1. Remove the cable from Desktop / Laptop ( the cable which is connecting from your PoE device to comp)
2. Switch off the power to PoE device ( by PoE i mean the modem supplied by reliance)
3. Though there is no particular reason but I did that in this way so I recommend you too..restart your machine.
4. go to start->settings->network connections (use right mouse button to open network connections)
5. Locate the network connection you are using (mostly it would be named as Local Area Network)
6. Connect the modem cable plugged out in step 1.
7. Enable the LAN connection if disabled.
8. Use the mouse right button on the connection icon, to go to properties->General tab -> select (internet protocol)TCP-IP.
9 Go to the properties of TCP/IP.
10. Under General tab use “use the following address” radio button.
11. enter following ip address 192.168.1.2
12. Try saying ok at the bottom, it would prompt for subnet mask, say ok again.. automatic entry of 255.255.255.0 would appear. Say Ok and close all dialog box.
13. Open a command window ( go to start->run-> type cmd)
14. type telenet 192.168.1.1 ( not that its not 1.2!!)
15. enter login and password as support
16. you would be in telnet shell.
17. enter command ‘sh bs’ ( with out ‘ )
18. you would get one more line..though you would get the output in horizontal line but to demonstrate how it would looklike i am aligning the data in vertical:
BS-Name bs2
SectorId 00:00:00:00:00:00
Frequency 3337000
Bandwidth 3000
Status -NA-
DL-Cinr 0
DL-Rssi 0
DL-F -NA-
ec NA
Ptx NA
> Please note that this is an example. you may get a different name of Base station.
> This is the example out of situation when you ARE NOT GETTING ANY SIGNALS from any BS configured at your antena.
If things are ok then you may get :
BS-Name bs2
SectorId 00:00:20:20:XX:00
Frequenc 3337000
Bandwidt 3000
Status OPER
DL-Cinr > 18
DL-Rssi approx -70
DL-F -NA-
ec NA
Ptx NA
> Please note that following condition would define whether you are able to access broadband at all or with some degradation in service
1. Status need to be OPER.
2. DL-Cinr entry should be anything greater than 17. More the merrier
3. DL-Rssi value should be negative. (Not sure about this one though, some one can correct!!) but i was told lesser its from -70, better it is.
If you have status as NA then mostly your WiMax antenna needs re-alignment.
If you are getting second set of value and still facing the problem try executing the command in following order ( on command window)
1. ipconfig /all ( see what ip address its assigned, if its starting with 169.X.Y.Z then its not correct)
2. ipconfig /release ( this will release the ipadress)
3. ipconfig /renew ( this would try to get new ip address)
I hope this helps..
GauRav
I missed to make 2 comments.
If your getting the signals properly you may get different SectorID ( and not 00:00:20:20:XX:00, as I have given in the example)
Secondly once you are done.. please go back to TCP-IP properties and uncheck the option selected earlier ( use following IP address) and rather select “Obtain an IP address automatically” and “Obtain the DNS server address automatically”
Lastly ( though I myself could nt figure out the reason for it ..why Reliance people do not get tired reminding that every time you are done with your usage.. do not close the browser without logout from Reliance web page, from where you started)
Happy Surfing.
I got Wimax connection installed on 2nd June at Dr. Rajkumar Road, Rajajinagar. But I am not able to share the connetion. Can anyone help me how to share this connection thru switch???
Hi Ishu,
Thanks a lot for you.
As u refered this person Suresh, if i contact this person will he solve my problem??? because there r different agencies for different ares rite.
Now the problem is not with the browsing somehow i am able to browse but i am not atall able to upload any files thru ftp or gmail or yahoomail.
And when i pinged in command window and saw the connectivity for every 10 seconds it was showing “requested time out”.
Dont know what is the problem……
These technicials r not able to give me proper answer.
thanks
Dear Sir,
Whether we can get the download details from Reliance Broadband Service (i.e) what are the website we opened?
Kindly reply through mail.
Thanking You,
Sathish
Dear Sir,
Looking for a connection in J P Nagar-8th Phase area. I’ve few queries:
1. Kindly share the contact info on any specific dealer who works for this area is known to you?
2. Kindly share your feedback on the speed & signals of Reliance WiMax in this area or around?
Rgds,
Guru
I request you all to carry on further discussion on the forum at
http://convergence.in/forum/index.php?board=6.0
Thanks for your co-operation.