yea Asianet is not soo good now. i am also an old customer.
are u from trivandrum? can you check the speed at speedtest.net and post here the results please.
is at the time of installation only need 500rs?
is there any charge for modem?
Yes Athul, I am from Trivandrum.
Reliance offers amazing speed. Their initial installation charge is only Rs. 500. Even though the plan is 600 Kbps + 1 Mbps at night, sometimes they provide insane speed. Look at screenshot below (the current time is 11.47 am and I took it 5 min ago.)
http://a.imageshack.us/img844/3706/reliancemorningspeedtes.jpg