India Broadband

This tutorial will help you to configure, SmartAX MT882 for manual dial….and the advantages??…more flexibility over the connection…

1) Select TCP/IP properties and enter as follows

set ip Address As 192.168.1.29
Subnet Maswk As 255.255.255.0
Default Gategay As 192.168.1.1
Prefferd DNS 61.1.96.69
Alternet DNS 61.1.96.71

2) Save settings and restart the computer.
3) Open your browser (preferably Internet Explorer ) and goto http://192.168.1.1/
4) Input as follows
USERNAME: admin
PASSOWRD: admin
5) Now goto Home->WAN Settings and there,

PVC Number - PVC-0
Wan Type – RFC2684Bridged
VPI/VCI - 0/35
Encap. - LLC

Apply and restart the modem.

6) Now goto Control Panel–>Network Connections
7) Create New connection–>(and a wizard will pop up) Next–>Connect to Internet(Select the radio button and click next)–>Setup My connection Manually(select it and click next)–>Connect using a broadband connection that requires a user name and password (select it and click next)–>ISP name (type something, anything and click next)–>Type in the Username and password given to you in the specified coloumns also select the other options if you want to (and click next)–>If you want to add a shortcut of connection to desktop, check that square box and click finish.

Diouble Click the Icon in the desktop to connect to the BSNL Dataone broadband connection, and either double click the same icon or right click the system tray icon to disconnect from BSNL Dataone broadband connection.

I suffered the bad services provided by Sify Broadband for around a year’s time before I decided to move to Gurgaon to get myself an Airtel Broadband connection. Looks like the services of Sify Broadband back in Chandigarh are as bad as they were during my stay there almost 1.5 years back.

As per latest incoming information, the Consumer Forum in Chandigarh has directed M/s Sify Broadband Limited, Sector 34-A, Chandigarh, to pay an amount of Rs 6,600 to a local resident Col Pritpal Singh Bhatia.

This fine is on account of compensation and service that was not provided to the complainant. This is great, as this would result in more consumers taking the same route to get compensated for poor services provided by Sify Broadband in the region.

The forum held Sify Broadband guilty of deficiency in service and they have directed the company to pay Rs 5,000 as compensation and Rs 1,770 paid by Bhatia for the connectivity, which was in the end never provided to him as promised.

Here is a sad story i read on the net today have a read through friends.

I am about to post this expose in the same structure to Sify Corporation, The Broadband forums in India as well as the Press. I am writing this article as I feel it is necessary for all the people who use broadband in India (also the ones who wish to go for similar services) to be aware of the worthless and awful service that is provided by Sify broadband.
My troubles with Sify started with the day I actually made the decision to go ahead with their service in spite of repeated warnings from friends who wisely chose not to use this atrocious service and those who have suffered as much as me and have switched to other broadband services.
The connection which I was promised within five working days too wasn’t offered within the stipulated time but I didn’t loose my cool then. However, the manner in which it was installed was as sloppy and hopeless as one could ever see. The broadband is actually installed by the wiremen who have no knowledge of either computers or the technology. They seem to rely on “put these numbers in those fields” approach to get to a level of atleast somewhat acceptable incompetence. Since I was using Linux at that point, their presence beyond laying the cables was absolutely useless since they would converse only in their local language which Sify strongly believe is enough to deal with the customers as the local wiremen seem to be the only contact between Sify and their customers which happens “only” at the time of collecting the lease for their ridiculous service.
Amongst the other specifics, the local cable operators or wiremen thought it was compulsory for me to bear the additional cost over the “installation charges” since the installation charges does not include the cost of LAN cables and their labour. They seriously seem to be underpaid for their tardy and rubbish service.
Now it has been over a month and as the local operators come to collect the lease for their service, they also ask for an extra “service charge”. I couldn’t understand the “service” bit ever.
On Friday the 3rd, my connection finally gives up for good and after calling up the customer support (which they strongly object is not to be mistaken as a helpline). I was told the problem would be solved within two (yes 2) hours. Sounds prompt but I get a call only the next evening at 8pm to check if I am connected. I did as I was asked at 10pm just to find out that the dim-witted engineer (or wireman) actually “fixed” the connection by “disconnecting” the LAN cable. For the next three days I call the customer support just to waste half an hour every evening over their helpless support and hear their worthless words to cheer me up like “yes, sir we understand your problem and it would be fixed by tomorrow for sure”, but it takes not more then ten minutes after which they begin to crack-up and start behaving arrogantly with you. Finally after another few minutes of an insignificant confrontation with someone who really doesn’t care (or maybe is just useless for his job sitting at a call center) I finally man
aged to get in touch with one of the seniors at the call center who had atleast the decency to talk respectfully and even called back the next day to checkup on the connection’s status but his attempts to restore my connection too were simply useless after that.
On the fifth day of prepaid disconnection, I had realized that things had really gotten out of hand and I needed to get in touch with the manager. Apparently the manager wasn’t available at the afternoon hour so I asked them to provide me with her email address to which they responded by saying, they were unable to mail me because of “internal problems”. Just out of curiosity I asked them if these internal problems were because they were using their own pathetic internet service at work to which the answer was “no”.
As far as the Sify clients go, they seem to have a serious problem adapting a standard clean interface in MS Windows which too wont install without first installing their substandard anti virus program and as far as the Linux client is concerned, the Daemon (sifyd) has to be killed and restarted every time you need to login to their service. Mind you, the client does not specify if it has logged in successfully, so irrespective to a wrong password, wrong scheme or no connectivity, the client always says it has logged in (or maybe done nothing since there is no confirmation message whatsoever). So if things don’t work… as Sify believes, it’s not their problem either.
Finally, as I end this piece of writing, I would like to remind you people; if Sify believes a week has less than 12 hours… do not argue. Cause that’s how those morons actually function so that you dysfunction and yes, even pay for it with an extra service charge.

Why should you pay charges for services that is already accounted for in such overrated and constrained packages? Moreover we pay in advance without any guarantee of service, dont we? It only goes to show the Sify or any ISP which channel services through franchises have no hold on them and if ppl like us start paying additional charges only makes the situation worse for all the present and future subscribers. It would serve in our interest and the interest of others to make ppl living in a society or neighbourhood aware of such exploitation and best collectively disconnect or boycott the service if they make you pay for additional charges or do not give proper timely service. If members succumb to paying additional charges it is they who are promoting the overpayment for services.
The CTO in my area never resolves my issues in time without me making numerous calls to them or the technicians. Sometimes they deliberately make their cellphones unavailable for reply. I am paying more on my telephone bill in addition to losing days and therefore money of my prepaid service awaiting them to resolve the issues.
I would be unsubscribing from their services after my procastinated and yet unresolved case and the pathetic or no interaction I received from them and their arrogant customer service this time. Their Supervisor was giving me a runaround each time I would make a call and also defiantly asked me to cancel the service only to ring back and request continuation after 4 days without any compensation for losing those days.
I got a call after 8 days for the issue from a local sify tech requesting me to ping an address since there are problems with their backend server or some networking virus(duh!) and there is nothing wrong with my computer. How else would one explain an issue which resolves itself normally after 12:30 or 1:00 when I am tired enough to hit bed? His resolution however did help in partially resolving the case.
This time hopefully would be able to pursue airtel connection which I hear is better off then subscribing to complacent and cheating CTOs and their useless technicians. Sify service is not even worth mentioning.
Yes I know this quiet an exhaustive rant probably your story as well but who other than ourselves can stand up against consumer exploitation or worsen conditions for ourselves???

Some people might be claiming that Microsoft is losing it to the internet. Online services are replacing software solutions and Microsoft itself is working hard on launching their Live branded services.

However, the software giant has now said that they believe that the online services would complement the offline software products in the longer run and won’t necessarily replace them.

Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie said in a statement that they are working on converting its existing software franchises into Web-delivered services.

He said: “The overall services opportunity is largely additive, increasing revenue opportunities for both our existing software licensing model as well as our services business model. It’s not unreasonable to think we’ll catalyze some level of additional PC and device purchases.”

Software giants Microsoft have done something unthinkable yet again. The company now plans to charge a nominal fee for Office 2007 Beta 2 downloads.

This is unlike most other companies, which rely on user feedback on beta releases to get bugs squashed before the final version is released in the market.

Microsoft plans to charge $1.50 per download for their Microsoft Office 12 Beta 2 from this coming Wednesday.

A company representative said: “Since the end of May, Beta 2 has been downloaded more than 3 million times…That’s 500 percent more than what was expected. The fee helps offset the cost of downloading from the servers.”

He added: “This is the first time Microsoft has charged for an Office beta, and it’s not something that is planned for on a repeat basis.”

This makes little sense to us at TechWhack. They want users to checkout their software for bugs and they want them to pay for doing the testing? If the world’s richest company cannot afford to allow consumers to test out their applications for them, who can!

Microsoft Corp has finally submitted some crucial documents to the European Commission as they aim to prevent any new fines in their antitrust lawsuit.

This was confirmed by the European Commission, which added that it is way too early to whether these documents would save them from additional non-compliance penalty.

European Commission spokesman Michael Mann said in a statement: “We have received technical documents from Microsoft. Our people are looking at it, including the trustee, and it’s too early at this stage to give any indication of whether there will be another payment, another penalty, and if there is to be another penalty, how much it would be.”

Microsoft added in their statement: “We are working with the trustee to ensure that all of this documentation meets his requirements and to respond promptly and fully to any further requests for information.”

South African government has revealed that it would have its own Space Agency as they aim for the skies.

The country wants to work on developing cutting edge technologies including satellite development. Pontsho Maruping, the chief director responsible for frontier programs in South Africa’s Department of Science and Technology said: “We hope the space agency will be off the ground within a year. It is still being planned.”

She further added: “It will be responsible for coordinating all space science and technology activities and it will support the development of new technologies.”

They have received the preliminary green light from the South African cabinet in this regards. The country already houses the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) capable of probing deep into the space and they would be the second country in the African content after Nigeria to have a space agency.

It is an accepted fact that more people than ever are using the internet to get access to the latest news. This has in fact resulted in a situation that the offline media outlets like magazines and newspapers are seeing the threat and cutting costs to stay in business.

However, as per latest information, the rate of online news audience growth is slowing.

Pew Research Center for People and the Press has said in a release that around one in three Americans regularly used the Internet to get their news in 2006. This is compared to just one in 50 in 1996.

However, this number has not improved much in the recent years as it was almost the same two years back.

The research company added that the percentage of 18- to 24-year-olds who gets the news online at least three days a week rose only 1 percentage point to 30 percent during the past six years. The study added: “For young people in particular, getting the news often takes a back seat to other daily activities.”

Apple Computers has launched a new worldwide product exchange programme. This is for replacing batteries on some of their recently launched MacBook Pro laptops.

The company says that some of these products were shipped with substandard batteries and they need replacement.

These batteries were supplied with the 15-inch MacBook Pro laptops.

Apple mentioned in a statement on their website that it had recently discovered that some 15-inch MacBook Pro batteries supplied to Apple did not meet its performance standards.

These would now be replaced free of charge. The company added that the affected models were sold between February and May 2006. The laptops would have the model number A1175 and a 12-digit serial number that ends with U7SA, U7SB or U7SC.

Apple also clarified that these batteries are not technically a safety risk and the users are safe to use these batteries until the new ones are supplied.