Review of Airtel 4G LTE USB Dongle from Bangalore

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I completely agree with RaviSCM.
I faced similar situation with 3G dongle.
Airtel is not bothering about complaints.. they are only considered to spread its network buy selling its dongles.
Don't purchase with the Agent visiting you at your home. Go to nearest retailer. Make sure you take all the contacts of that cell division before leaving the office.
There internet connection is good ( as far as i am concerened, it depends on the area and signal strength ) but customer care and after sale services are worst.
 
This looks like a promotion post to me. HAHA..

As my experience widely differs. Maybe Airtel is good at strategically coning people.

I have been fooled by them again. I thought they would provide some value for more money. But their 4g dongle is just waste of money. I have been using internet dongles for many years now. Have used almost all brands. What airtel is good at is providing better coverage than anybody else. But when you talk about speed it is the most coslty service. Even the overall exp of using their dongle is no good. I have mts dongle also. It connects like zoom when you plug in the device. But their coverage is no good in this area. Thats why I bought airtel 4g. It took 5 days to get it activated and then when I plug in the device, it does its usual drama from “not-registerd” to “ready” to “connect failed” to “ready” to “connecting” to “connect failed” “to ready”. Then you click on connect button and it connects. And forget about the min 5mb speed as promised by vendor, I am not touching 2 mb speed. And to add to the irony there is an Airtel tower on the top of the building I am staying in. Just waste of another 1800/- for me. I am gonna continue with my broadband wired connection.

<a href="Speedtest.net by Ookla - My Results"><img src="https://www.speedtest.net/result/4434939366.png" /></a>

Here another test : https://www.speedtest.net/result/4434974276.png

Another test: https://www.speedtest.net/result/4434978904.png

From above test I can say that its totally fooling customers on the name of 4G.

raddy said:
Hello Everybody

Airtel did a exhibition in our apartment yesterday on Airtel 4G LTE.
We ordered an Airtel 4G LTE USB Dongle yesterday in it.

The price which was offered to us was Rs 2499 with 6 month 999 plan which offers 9GB per month.
Here is the speed i got in a demo shown to us in my Laptop.



I was really astonished to see such high speed in "our country" for such a price and that too via a wireless solution.
I can understand that the offered bandwidth cap is very much small for such a speed, but even then the speed which Airtel offered was really amazing.
The Airtel gut assured me that they would maintain 10 MBps as minimum speed in the course of time.

I need one clarification from experts in this forum on a moment which made me awestruck.
We can easily get rated speed inside our country when we point speedtest.net to Chennai, Bangalore, Mumbai servers.
But the speedtest meter hit back to 40 MBps instantly even if i point to a server which is located in USA.
How can that be possible, please explain me guys.
As i haven't seen more than 4MBps against a USA server in our country.

But the poor Huawei USB Dongle used software compression and modulation.
Because of that my Lenovo Thinkpad Edge 13" Laptop brought to it's knees when i try to watch a Full HD Video in Youtube.
It is certainly not because of playing a Full HD Video in my Laptop created such an impact.
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Airtel 4G data card works on Asus RT-N16 router running latest version of TomatoUSB(shibby)

BTW the speed test results at home( no broadband here for the time being :( )

Source


I am on 950Rs 10GB plan
 
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