My MTNL broadband is finally here! After suffering forever with a pathetic excuse of a broadband connection, I finally have something which makes me feel happy :) The first thing I did after coming home from work was get online and check the speed ( skipped gym :P ) at one of the speed-test sites. And what did I discover? I have a 2 Mbps connection :D The joy is short lived because they will soon realize that I should be actually getting 320 kbps for the Unlimited plan that I opted for and they will cap my bandwidth.Another problem that I have noticed is that the connection is extremely unstable. The link keeps going down :( Hopefully it'll stabilize in a few days.
So in my excitement, I opened up a torrent site and decided to download something. After looking at the screen for a couple of minutes, it struck me that there was really nothing that I wanted to download :P Super anti-climax! Went and downloaded a couple of salsa videos. And then again stared at the screen for another 5 minutes and then a dialogue came to my mind, "You know what I am? I'm a dog chasing cars. I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it." I wanted broadband and now that I had it, didn't know what to do with it :D The Dark Knight really had some awesome dialogues. God knows what prompted Ledger to kill himself though, after such an amazing performance.
QT4 is a pain in the ass! Seriously! I felt like tearing my hair off with it's Model/View programming concepts. Sounds very cool and intelligent but implementing it is suicidal. All I did the whole day was get more and more confused and ended up sub-classing god knows how many QT classes x-(
The rains are finally here! It has been coming and going for the past few days but today it appears as if its here to stay :) I am sort of happy because it'll bring some respite from the heat but then again I am not the biggest fan of the rains. Though many of my friends would give their right arm to get wet in the rain and also take this opportunity to call me a loser :) Today in spite of the fact that we both contemplated rain, Suman and myself reached office without umbrellas. And as expected it started raining while we were waiting for the bus in the evening. Thankfully there was a cobbler shop where we could stand for a while and the rain subdued. Was lucky the first day but I think its better we don't take a chance tomorrow.
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Man's quest for more bandwidth never ceases.
ReplyDeleteThis was my experience:
First with Roltanet -- cost a bomb with telephone charges. 56kbps with that awful modem tones. After Rolta was MTLL dialup. Disconnection was a PITA. Speeds were slow, but we had never tasted anything faster. I wonder if I can ever return to those slow days! It took ages to open a page.
Then came MTNL Triband, and broadband of some sort made internet surfing respectable.
In 2006, came true broadband speeds on an HP site. 3 MBPS line, can u believe it. One Linux CD in 90 seconds!
Then for a short while used GPRS-Bluetooth dialup. Back to the slow days?
Next, 3G HSDPA dialup which is about the same speeds as MTNL Triband.
But then nirvana, university BW @ 5MBPS woweeeeeee. JDSK (80 MB almost instantly! Never saw the bar move!
I wonder where we will be 5 years down the line
That was awesome :)
ReplyDeleteBeing a part of TATA Communications and Cisco.... BW has never been a problem since after getting in office!
ReplyDeleteAnywhere from 2-8Mbps... or whatever highest speed you can offer me, I am ready to take it :O..
Movies/high speed download, name it.. I get it :)
Cheers :)
Japan with national ISP NTT, gives the highest BW to each end user home, right now.. they are getting 1Gbps connection, and all communication via it!!!!
ReplyDeleteNow thats serious speed... so much that you can't use it all :O
What the hell!!!??? 1 Gbps! What do they plan to do with it? Travel by it?
ReplyDelete1 GPBS!
ReplyDeleteWow Dara 8 MBPS in India. Aren't you lucky man!. Tell me, why cant Indian ISPs offer BW in GBPS to users?
Nic,,
ReplyDeleteYou know the amount of users in India and the marketing all is on the basis of the mass volume to get the services. This affects the service provider decisions and business :).
Maximus,
That single connection is the doorway to the home. All IP phone and Video can be delivered to your home, VOD, IPTV... You name the service they get it there.
NTT is the Japan's National Pride.
Thanks,
Dara
@Dara: I'm sure if they offer 1 GBPS for 1000 pm, which educated bum would not take it?
ReplyDeleteAssume there are 10 million people with internet awareness, and who can afford it... immense money. And with some countries going the 4G way while we are still auctioning the 3G spectrum, makes u wonder when we can expect instant internet.