Reliance Wimax Broadband: What is better Reliance Wimax or normal wireline?

[Glass]

Actually the uploads are faster on Reliance, at least in my 300kbps plan.But as others suggested, think before you go for Reliance - unless you do not have alternatives. Issues with getting an IP on my adsl wifi router are turning worse each passing day.

 

[Sushubh]

since when do we have a Titanium member category

 

[Glass]

since when do we have a Titanium member category

Whaaat? Forum Admin doesn't know?!! :readtherules::grin:

 

[Sushubh]

i am new around here. so please forgive my ignorance.

 

[ranjitonly]

I am thinking of taking Reliance 1mbps unlimted and want to know which is better.Does the wimax give as good speed as wire-line or does it depend upon the signal?

Hey buddy, enjoy life,avoid reliance!!!

 

[brickhouse]

please tell me what upload speed are there on 1mbps unlimited plan.@ranjitonlywhy?

 

[sufi]

Reliance wimax is good. Been using it for about a year now. I think reliance is the only isp to offer a symmetrical connection (UL/DL is the same). 1mbps gives an average speed of about 115kbps. Downside is the price......as airtel and mtnl are both cheaper by 800rs.Downtimes are negligible but customer support is brain dead.If your signal is weak then the installation guys wont bother to fix it permanently, instead theyll ask you to take a refund.Ive used a wireline connection and i prefer the wimax one i have now due to the fact that weather dosnt affect it. Hope this helps

 

[brickhouse]

Reliance wimax is good. Been using it for about a year now. I think reliance is the only isp to offer a symmetrical connection (Unlimited/DL is the same). 1mbps gives an average speed of about 115kbps. Downside is the price......as airtel and mtnl are both cheaper by 800rs.
Downtimes are negligible but customer support is brain dead.
If your signal is weak then the installation guys wont bother to fix it permanently, instead theyll ask you to take a refund.
Ive used a wireline connection and i prefer the wimax one i have now due to the fact that weather dosnt affect it. Hope this helps

all my queries about reliance are over except one.

What are the contention ratios,the reliance guy said that they were 1:8?

Also don't you ever get 128KiloByte,is it always below that?

 

[Improvise]

well its like this. In the 1-MBps plan you should get theoretically 1024/8 that is 128 . Subtract another 8% for line loss = 128-10.28= 117.76 . so i think you should be getting aboutt 116-118 kBps on average. P.S - PLz correct me if im wrong

 

[Sushubh]

well i am not going to make any corrections. just would like to state the legality... TRAI requirements are that the ISP is bound to provide at least 80% of the labeled speeds at all the time. so technically ISPs can provide 20% less speeds!