[Ilugc] (OT) BSNL Broadband
- From: siva@xxxxxxxxxxx (Sivasankar Chander)
- Date: Thu Feb 3 13:56:42 2005
I am using BSNL Broadband adsl 2 + connection. It is supposed to be
256 Kbps, but i am actually getting 260 to 350 kbps, works comfortably
in linux (No Driver required)
(ppp over ethenet). So far no problem detected, using for 4 days. Uses
dynamic ip.
I'll second this recommendation and I'll add the following information:
The ADSL modem that they're providing is a UT Starcom UT-300R, and it's
a combo modem/router. Yes, you heard that right - it's a *router*. It's
most probably an embedded Linux + uClibc + busybox unit, but I haven't
investigated it much, yet.
For Rs.2000, the UT-300R provides NAT, firewalling (stateful packet
filtering) and DHCP. However, it has only two interfaces, a LAN-facing
Ethernet port (using PPPoE) and a WAN-facing ADSL interface. You'll
need an additional switch/hub on the LAN side to connect additional
machines - BSNL says that they'll introduce additional tariff plans
in June for this kind of usage.
I haven't enabled the firewall capability (which is configured using
a web-based utility) yet, since I have an additional firewall on the
LAN side already. But IMHO, Rs.2000 for this box alone is worth the
price of entry - it's only 4"x4"x1" and supports upto 8 Mbps ADSL.
However, the phone lines in India probably won't support the higher
bandwidths. The tech guys at BSNL say that 2 Mbps (higher tariff, of
course) is technically possible without any difficulty.
My opinion is that BSNL can bury the other guys (Dishnet, Iqara and
so on) with this technology if they want to get aggressive on pricing.
DataOne simply rocks! It's the most Linux-friendly broadband offering
out there - it most probably actually uses Linux in many of the
infrastructure pieces, including the residential/edge gateway.
-Siva
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