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Airtel Broadband Fibrenet FTTH Plans for Delhi NCR!
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My views : Airtel has launches 100Mbps fiber to the home (FTTH) broadband in IndiaI would say this is a new start for airtel and the plans are almost comparable to the same FTTH broadband offering by MTNL in Delhi. Although airtel is yet to cover ground because its fiber availability is quite less compared to MTNL in Delhi which has already covered up many housing societies and is expanding at a rapid pace.Airtel has always been criticized for implementing fair usage policies on its customers and these fiber plans have fair usage limits...but the Indian consumer can not do much about it as this has become the norm in the Indian broadband industry adopting these policies. Even the state owned PSUs like MTNL and BSNL have also joined the fair usage bandwagon...At 100Mbps speed a limit of 175 GB will exhaust in just 6 hours....I am wondering what will happen if i accidentally left my uTorrent turned ON for 6 hours!!! hmmmmI am very happy with my mtnl fber connection...will review it here soon for u guys with photos...
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I would say this is a new start for airtel and the plans are almost comparable to the same FTTH broadband offering by MTNL in Delhi. Although airtel is yet to cover ground because its fiber availability is quite less compared to MTNL in Delhi which has already covered up many housing societies and is expanding at a rapid pace.
Wholly agree. Better late than never.
Airtel has always been criticized for implementing fair usage policies on its customers and these fiber plans have fair usage limits...but the Indian consumer can not do much about it as this has become the norm in the worldwide broadband industry adopting these policies. Even the state owned PSUs like MTNL and BSNL have also joined the fair usage bandwagon...
There, FTFY.
At 100Mbps speed a limit of 175 GB will exhaust in just 6 hours....I am wondering what will happen if i accidentally left my uTorrent turned ON for 6 hours!!! hmmmm
Whatever you have got queued will get finished, that's about it.
But if you're worried about the FUP being exhausted in so-many-hours, you're kind of missing the point of high-speed broadband, which is that because you don't have to wait for the downloads. Your downloads will finish, yes, but then you'll spend the rest of the month consuming them. Don't think that just because your speed multiplies by 10 or 20 times that you're magically going to start consuming 10 or 20 times as much data... maybe 150-200% of what you consume now, excepting for the first couple or three months where the high-speed is a novelty.
After that, keeping up with the downloads (organizing, deleting, buying new hard drives etc) becomes a chore. Believe me, I've tried. I got my first 100mbit/s connection nearly 7 years ago before I moved here and since then I've had speeds ranging from GPRS to the full 100 on Wireless, 2G, 3G, ADSL, Metro Ethernet & Fibre and while the maximum I've used in a month was about 1.5TB (on my own connection I think in March or April), but the average is well well below that.
On high-speed somewhere in the 150-250GB range, and I am not really what you'd call a light user: I'm almost perma-streaming Youtube and/or other streaming sites (background noise for sleeping and/or working), I download stuff on bittorrent (I won't say what), I send/receive about 2GB a day to various cloud services, I have high-definition video calls on Skype and so on. So far this month I've done almost symmetrical data transfer of about 220GB (so about 110GB in each direction +/- 1GB).
Of course, that's just me. If there were other people in my house I might need 3-400GB or more but the fact of the matter is, there's only so much you can really consume when you have a life. BUT on the flipside to this, that does not mean that higher tiers should not be available. There probably *are* people that need larger amounts - a terabyte or more.
I recently had one person claim to me that our FUP of 500GB was pitiful. When I asked him "how big is your hard drive", he went on to claim 50TB of storage in his house** (I'll believe it when I see it) but even if true I imagine that he would be an anomaly (or a commercial pirate) and that most people probably have something like 2-3TB. Sure, it's easy to get that in a single drive now, but do you really want to go buying a new one every month? I doubt it.
Anyway, the point of that diatribe is that Airtel would do well to offer better data transfer on it's FTTH packages - 300GB or more - in order to satisfy the lust for data and justify people upgrading.
**For the record, I did offer him a better package with a higher limit but he didn't respond.
I am very happy with my mtnl fber connection...will review it here soon for u guys with photos...
Look forward to it.
Wholly agree. Better late than never.
Airtel has always been criticized for implementing fair usage policies on its customers and these fiber plans have fair usage limits...but the Indian consumer can not do much about it as this has become the norm in the worldwide broadband industry adopting these policies. Even the state owned PSUs like MTNL and BSNL have also joined the fair usage bandwagon...
There, FTFY.
At 100Mbps speed a limit of 175 GB will exhaust in just 6 hours....I am wondering what will happen if i accidentally left my uTorrent turned ON for 6 hours!!! hmmmm
Whatever you have got queued will get finished, that's about it.
But if you're worried about the FUP being exhausted in so-many-hours, you're kind of missing the point of high-speed broadband, which is that because you don't have to wait for the downloads. Your downloads will finish, yes, but then you'll spend the rest of the month consuming them. Don't think that just because your speed multiplies by 10 or 20 times that you're magically going to start consuming 10 or 20 times as much data... maybe 150-200% of what you consume now, excepting for the first couple or three months where the high-speed is a novelty.
After that, keeping up with the downloads (organizing, deleting, buying new hard drives etc) becomes a chore. Believe me, I've tried. I got my first 100mbit/s connection nearly 7 years ago before I moved here and since then I've had speeds ranging from GPRS to the full 100 on Wireless, 2G, 3G, ADSL, Metro Ethernet & Fibre and while the maximum I've used in a month was about 1.5TB (on my own connection I think in March or April), but the average is well well below that.
On high-speed somewhere in the 150-250GB range, and I am not really what you'd call a light user: I'm almost perma-streaming Youtube and/or other streaming sites (background noise for sleeping and/or working), I download stuff on bittorrent (I won't say what), I send/receive about 2GB a day to various cloud services, I have high-definition video calls on Skype and so on. So far this month I've done almost symmetrical data transfer of about 220GB (so about 110GB in each direction +/- 1GB).
Of course, that's just me. If there were other people in my house I might need 3-400GB or more but the fact of the matter is, there's only so much you can really consume when you have a life. BUT on the flipside to this, that does not mean that higher tiers should not be available. There probably *are* people that need larger amounts - a terabyte or more.
I recently had one person claim to me that our FUP of 500GB was pitiful. When I asked him "how big is your hard drive", he went on to claim 50TB of storage in his house** (I'll believe it when I see it) but even if true I imagine that he would be an anomaly (or a commercial pirate) and that most people probably have something like 2-3TB. Sure, it's easy to get that in a single drive now, but do you really want to go buying a new one every month? I doubt it.
Anyway, the point of that diatribe is that Airtel would do well to offer better data transfer on it's FTTH packages - 300GB or more - in order to satisfy the lust for data and justify people upgrading.
**For the record, I did offer him a better package with a higher limit but he didn't respond.
I am very happy with my mtnl fber connection...will review it here soon for u guys with photos...
Look forward to it.
My views :
At 100Mbps speed a limit of 175 GB will exhaust in just 6 hours....I am wondering what will happen if i accidentally left my uTorrent turned ON for 6 hours!!! hmmmm
Nothing will happen. Your torrent client will download only what you queued. And I'm not sure what kind of upload speed will be available on FTTH but you can still limit the upload speed and ratio.
Just because the speed increases, it does not mean you will run out of high speed data quickly as long as you download only what you need.
I'm still consuming the same amount of data now @4mbs as when I was having 1mbps and 2mbps connections. In fact, I might have consumed more data when I was having 1/2 mbps connections, as those plans were really unmetered.
At 100Mbps speed a limit of 175 GB will exhaust in just 6 hours....I am wondering what will happen if i accidentally left my uTorrent turned ON for 6 hours!!! hmmmm
Nothing will happen. Your torrent client will download only what you queued. And I'm not sure what kind of upload speed will be available on FTTH but you can still limit the upload speed and ratio.
Just because the speed increases, it does not mean you will run out of high speed data quickly as long as you download only what you need.
I'm still consuming the same amount of data now @4mbs as when I was having 1mbps and 2mbps connections. In fact, I might have consumed more data when I was having 1/2 mbps connections, as those plans were really unmetered.
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airtel and their tweets. i am in for multiple calls tomorrow. 
Twitter / Airtel_Presence: @Sushubh We are getting this ...
om my twitter ac they spammed me too telling they are not able to call me when i told them there is no network coverage in the area lolz..
Twitter / Airtel_Presence: @Sushubh We are getting this ...
om my twitter ac they spammed me too telling they are not able to call me when i told them there is no network coverage in the area lolz..
haha anant.delAnother funny incident of airtel presence I'll narrate here.i took a 6 gb 90 days 2g internet pack. But was credited only 4 gb 30 days 2g pack.So i tweeted them.First one guy called and i told him to give me 2 GB data and nothing else(the plan by the way was changed but their site not updated).He agreed and said it'll take time and he'll contact me in a couple of days.A little while later another guy called and said that pack is no more and I can reimburse you with 75 rs(he calculated that by dividing 225/6 =37.5 and 37.5x 2 = 75 rs) and I said ok do that.he did that and I got 75 bucks talk time now.later the 1st guy called me and said that pack's no more but still he activated 2 gb more data and validity of that is 90 days.he said check and call/msg back with confirmation and sure enough I got that 2 gb and also 75 rs recharge too 
.wish I had showed him that 2 gb costs 135 and made him recharge that lol. Anyway for their mistake I ended up getting 75 Rs free recharge.Just goes to show how good they communicate within themselves.
.wish I had showed him that 2 gb costs 135 and made him recharge that lol. Anyway for their mistake I ended up getting 75 Rs free recharge.Just goes to show how good they communicate within themselves.Still they can do something to transfer the issue to just 1 person right? why multiple people are being made to work on same issue who don't know someone else is taking care of it? And this causes others with some other problem delay in getting their things sorted out.
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