BSNL Broadband now has Airtel Smartbytes like Upgrade Packages with Redirections

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In my locality i only have airtel, bsnl and hathway. Out of 3 only airtel option is left.
 
I did too. But since Airtel's connectivity quality appears to be better than BSNL's at my place and both have messed up FUP redirections... I see no point in staying with BSNL. BSNL is pretty much useless for me during the 12-4pm period. Airtel is pricier but at least they love to spam call me :|
 
For me bsnl connectivity was superb let it be day or night. In 3 years with bsnl never faced downtime that i know. But this redirection thing is a pain.
Might think of moving to airtel again
 
No one has actually stated how regularly it comes. That would be a good point to consider before considering the shift if it is working great for me. I am tired of crappy connectivity. It does not go down but pings are horrible and connecting to Google services becomes hard during the afternoon time. And of course, something is reset every day multiple times (2pm is one good example). It's like they put us on the good gateway in evenings and move back to the fucked up servers in the morning.
 
I am trying to get past the redirection page since evening. No success.
Lets wait for sometime.

I request all to please share your experience
 

I guess even BSNL wants everyone to switch to HTTPS to avoid government scrutiny!
 
It's not based on DNS. HTTPS works fine so I guess only HTTP is affected and other TCP and UDP protocols are working fine.

The most fucked up thing is that they are using HTTP 200 OK to send their 'Please wait while you're being redirected...' page and then that page uses a meta refresh to open the URL http://172.30.35.134:8080/ssssportal.war/fup_1mb-6g-512k.jsp (or http://ssss-multiplay.bsnl.co.in:8080/ssssportal.war/fup_1mb-6g-512k.jsp or http://172.30.3.134:8080/ssssportal.war/fup_1mb-6g-512k.jsp )

Why couldn't they just use a temporary redirect? This will break a lot of stuff.
 

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