Dataone Usage Finder Software

Check your BSNL dataone bandwidth usage with this software. It is downloadable from Dataone Usage Finder. The latest version will provide you the bill details too.

BSNL collaborating with IOL Broadband for IPTV

IOL Broadband has confirmed that they are now going to work with government owned telecom company BSNL to launch its IPTV services in India.

They have already started the trials of this service on the BSNL Broadband network in Bangalore.

This collaboration was confirmed in a notification sent to the Bombay Stock Exchange.

BSNL is one of the largest broadband service providers in the country with around seven lakh broadband ADSL subscribers all over India. They recently upgraded their network to provide speeds of up to 2 mbps to their customers.

IOL Broadband added that they have also signed a revenue sharing agreement for its IPTV Service with Anytime. Anytime is a consortium of major Hollywood Studios including Disney, FOX, Warner, and Universal. This would allow them to broadcast unreleased movies on IPTV services.

Rumored BSNL Broadband Packages

I recently read somewhere talking about these new packages mentioned in a local newspaper. We cannot confirm the accuracy of these packages though:

The plans according to a local paper from 1st January 2007 are -
Home 250 - 1GB limit, 90 paisa per MB over the limit.
Home 500 - 2.5GB limit, 80 paisa per MB over the limit.
Home 1000 - 5GB limit, 80 paisa per MB over the limit.
Home 1800 - 10GB limit, 70 paisa per MB over the limit.
Home 3300 - 20GB limit, 70 paisa per MB over the limit.
Night Unlimited on all Home plans except Home 250 is from 8 PM to 8 AM now.
There is no mention of the Home 900 UL plan.

Business 700 - 4GB limit, 80 paisa per MB over the limit.
Business 1200 - 8GB limit, 80 paisa per MB over the limit.
Business 3000 - 20GB limit, 50 paisa per MB over the limit.
Business 5000 - 35GB limit, 50 paisa per MB over the limit.
Business 9000 - 75GB limit, 50 paisa per MB over the limit.

Users are now more interested in knowing the status of Home 900 UL package. However, getting over 1mbps speeds on these cheap packages at night time is still a very good deal.

BSNL testing Triple Play service offering voice, internet and television

After MTNL, it is the turn of the other government owned telecom giant BSNL to test launch their triple play service, which would offer voice, internet and television broadcasting facilities through a single connection.

BSNL’s director of planning and new services Ram Lakhan Dubey said that the tests of this service would last around a fortnight and after that, they would make it ready for a launch on a wider scale. They plan to offer this service to the subscribers of their internet services around the country.

The company plans to lay fresh copper cables to offer this multi-play network. And it would enable the customers to use television, internet and voice service at once. BSNL added that interested customers would have to pay the initial cost of the set-top box, installation. After that, he would be required to pay for the services he chose to receive.

This service is being tested in the Pune city in Maharashtra. BSNL said that it would remain free for the testing customers until it is commercially launched or up to 31 December, whichever is earlier.

BSNL barred from awarding GSM deal

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has suffered a minor setback as the Delhi High Court has restrained them from awarding any contract for its GSM network expansion till the next hearing on November 16.

This decision was taken by a bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Vijender Jain and Justice Kailash Gambhir. They were hearing the petition filed by Motorola. Motorola was disqualified by BSNL on technical parameters from participating in the bidding.

The original tender was opened last month for the mega expansion of its GSM network to add over 45 million lines over a period of three years. The project is worth around Rs 20,000 crore and Ericsson had emerged as the bidder with the lowest offer.

S D Saxena, director (finance) of BSNL spoke on this decision of the court: “We respect the direction of the High Court. Since the matter is subjudice, we cannot comment further in this regard.”

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has suffered a minor setback as the Delhi High Court has restrained them from awarding any contract for its GSM network expansion till the next hearing on November 16.

This decision was taken by a bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Vijender Jain and Justice Kailash Gambhir. They were hearing the petition filed by Motorola. Motorola was disqualified by BSNL on technical parameters from participating in the bidding.

The original tender was opened last month for the mega expansion of its GSM network to add over 45 million lines over a period of three years. The project is worth around Rs 20,000 crore and Ericsson had emerged as the bidder with the lowest offer.

S D Saxena, director (finance) of BSNL spoke on this decision of the court: “We respect the direction of the High Court. Since the matter is subjudice, we cannot comment further in this regard.”

Mail: Illegal account Usage

*Got a mail in one of my broadband forums......

Hi All,

Few days back I installed dataone broadband connection at my house. After initial installation of the Huawei DSL modem I was told that someone will contact me and provide me assistance in configuring PPPoE setup. But to my surprise none turned up, inspite of several reminders to the BSNL office in-person and on phone.
After great difficulty the helpdesk engineer provided username and password details for access. I configured my Win2K pc for RASPPPoE and started using the connection yesterday night.

To my surprise I found that account has been charged for 140MB of usage. I had actually taken a Rs.250 Home plan for 400MB and was shocked to see the above usage at my first login.

I came to know that BSNL has appointed third party guys to help users in connecting to the Dataone who has done this mischeif.

Complaint to dataone helpdesk is of no help till now and they are washing away their hands.

I regret now to have taken this connection and very skeptical in recommending to my friends

Improve The Broadband Performance In Windows XP/2003

Well, before doing this....do this test

1) Goto http://www.testmy.net/ and click on Download Speed Test, and then on Smart Test....(and while conducting this test, don't forget to close all Instant Messagers, and there should be no other web activity, other than the test)

2) Note down the speeds.


Now, lets see, what all changes to be made.....

This tip is designed for increased BROADBAND speed in Windows XP while using standard Network Interface cards (NIC) that are connected to ADSL modems, or when using any directly-connected USB ADSL modem.

To speed up the Internet connection speed we need to configure a special buffer in the computer's memory in order to enable it to better deal with interrupts made from the NIC or the USB modem.

This tip is only recommended if you have 256MB RAM or higher.

Step #1 - Identify the IRQ used by the NIC/USB modem

1. Open the System Information tool by running MSINFO32.EXE from the Run command.
2. Expand System Summary > Hardware Resources > IRQs.
3. Look for the listing made for your NIC (in my case - a Intel® PRO/100+ Management Adapter). Note the IRQ next to the specified line (in my case - IRQ21).

In case of USB modems you will first need to find the right USB device used by your modem. Follow these steps:

1. Open the Device Manager tool by running DEVMGMT.MSC from the Run command (or by right-clicking My Computer > Hardware tab > Device Manager button).
2. Scroll down to Universal Serial Bus controllers and expand it.
3. Right-click the USB Root Hub and select Properties. Note that you might need to do so for all listed USB Root hubs (if there are more than one) in order to find the right one.
4. In the Power tab, look for your USB ADSL modem.
5. In the Resources tab look for the assigned IRQ (in this case - IRQ21).
6. This is the IRQ we're looking for.

Note: IRQs and modem names might vary...

Step #2 - Modify the system.ini file

1. Run SYSEDIT.EXE from the Run command.
2. Expand the system.ini file window.
3. Scroll down almost to the end of the file till you find a line called [386enh].
4. Press Enter to make one blank line, and in that line type IrqX=4096 where X is the designated IRQ number we found in step #1, in my case it's IRQ21.

Note: This line IS CASE SENSITIVE!!!

5. Click on the File menu, then choose Save.
6. Close SYSEDIT and reboot your computer.

Done. Speed improvement will be noticed after the computer reboots.