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Originally posted by Ryan@Feb 9 2005, 03:27 AM
I'm not a customer of hathway neither have I been one. But here's hathway's new packages. Check it out. There's one plan that caught my eye. The liteway 8 to 8 plan, Rs. 400, 256 kbps, and unlimited download limit. Interesting. What do you guys think about it.
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The 8 to 8 plan seems to have somehow mysteriously disappeared in the past few days. :rolleyes:
 
Haha you're right. They probably decided to remove it because people would download like crazy.
 
maybe they @n@1ysed their server logs, saw a lot of hits from the link ryan posted, noticed (with horror?) the rubbing of hands and the drooling tongues, and wacked the plan before too many signed up...

good ol' hathway... unki dum jo tedhi thi woh tedhi hei rahegi, seedhi kabhi nahin ho sakti.

Originally posted by Ryan@Feb 12 2005, 04:01 AM
Haha you're right. They probably decided to remove it because people would download like crazy.
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unki dum jo tedhi thi woh tedhi hei rahegi, seedhi kabhi nahin ho sakti[/b]

What does that translate in English, I don't know anything in Hindi. But I actually you're right man, they saw many hits from here and removed it ;). They just don't want users to clog their servers. haha.
 
hey ujjwal, thanks for that link... surfing that board showed me the way to increase the size of my dad's long-suffering and long-clogged hotmail account from 2 to 25 megs.

since i'm new to this board, self-censored, while posting that hindi phrase... actually, it goes something like this... "kutte ki dum agar tedhi ho, tau usay sau saal rakhne pe bhi seedhi nahin hogi" (sic)... or, in translation... "if a dog's tail is crooked, even a hundred years will not straighten it"

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"Their tail, which was previously crooked, will stay crooked. It will never become straight"

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I've been a user of Hathway - Hyderabad for more than a year with 64kbps, few hundred MBs and round-the-clock connectivity. I recently migrated to their Liteway I (256kbps, 1GB & 24/7) and am so far satisfied with the speeds.

But what gets me is that they give you a static IP which is hidden from the outside world (i.e. 'ping a.b.c.d' gives a time out error) and TCP connections are blocked. With this, running any kind of P2P application is out of my reach. I realized this while trying to set up an audio stream that I could share with my pals over the Net, now that I had a 'broadband' connection.

I took up with Hathway and their reply was that lesser mortals like home users aren't privileged enough to avail such facilities. I have to either go for their business user packages (Rs.0.6 to 5.0 lakhs per annum) or cough up Rs.15K as security deposit to have specific TCP ports opened. This was communicated with a 'take-it-or-leave-it' finality.

I'm wondering (as I did, in my mail to Hathway): Of what use is the static ip and broadband speed? All I can do now is browse, chat and exchange emails - for which I don't need a broadband connectivity.

How are the other ISPs faring? I was at least able to ping a user of Beam Cable, a local provider in Hyderabad. But some reviews I found here and here aren't very enouraging to make the switch. Also, the contact #'s were constantly busy.............well!!!
 
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