Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Dataone Home 500C - Free 2AM to 8AM

There has been many canard on this aspect w.r.t. BSNL broadband connection. Quite a few number of people told me that this is applicable only if you login during the 2AM to 8 AM interval (But beware of one thing, BSNL clock is arbitrary and it 2AM does ot match well with the normal clock time. So if you do not take care of this in case of download you may end up with a big bill!!). But nothing like that is seen in the bill. Now one even get a separate bill of free Vs Paid details from the BSNL website.

I have found that on an average an employed person (in private sector!!) consumes just 200-300MB per month in the paid section. This is assuming that all the download are restricted to 8PM to 8AM and to Saturdays and Sundays. Also, this is purely dependent on how one uses it. I never use youtube streaming and other heavy bandwidth thing during the "paid" 8AM to 2 AM period and restrict it to 630AM to 8AM time frame. So even if you are consuming lot more it is well below 1.5GB limit in case of Home 500C.

Hence enjoy broadband at Rs 140/- through use of Home 500C (removing the phone rental and free calls) a tag above the Home 125 plan of BSNL. Also i had heard a talk which compared the quality of connection specifically to international location and found that it is best with BSNL dataone compared to other broadband DSL connections.

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