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When I finally took my computer home and had to get an Internet connection, I was skeptical about the connection provided by BSNL which is the state owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. I was glad that I did not get any other connection after five months of being with BSNL. I hear people bickering and crying about how bad their BSNL connection is. But in my area, when I say that it has an uptime of nearly 99%, I’m not pulling your leg. By my area I mean Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India.

I have used the above mentioned plans for about five months now and the unlimited plan is the best for someone like me. The first month I had my connection my PC was on 24/7 and did a total data transfer of about 65GB. I’m currently using the Home 500 plan since I’m not home most of the time these days. shuttling between Delhi and Guntur, ferrying financial documents for my Visa interview that I have December 5th in Delhi.

The whole of last week I was home and was amazed by the speed the "Upto 2Mbps" connection gives you. Just see the screenshot that I took while I downlaoded one of the TV episodes:

And most of the time I get a near flat line constant speed provided that its a good torrent.

I give all this just to prove one single point – Contrary to the popular belief, BSNL Broadband is one of the best ISP’s out there bringing cheap Internet to the masses. There is one single very big problem with BSNL, I CAN"T ACCESS MY BLOG OR POST FROM HOME WITH BSNL. I mean that sucks big time. May be because my blog does a lot of outside PHP connections or because the DNS times out I could not figure it our yet. That’s the reason I was unable to post for a whole week though I tried like a zillion times and over.

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