Team-BHP - The DATA Card and USB Modem discussion thread (Reliance/Airtel/Tata)

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No sir, that is the other whopper. The photon+ is Huawei, the Reliance is ZTE :p

I am frankly fed up of rebooting my laptop thrice a day for this reason!

Got Photon+ 3 days back and till now am satisfied with the speed.
Plan is - 1000 bucks for a month and get 7200 mins of usage with unlimited downloading in that. Which means 4 hours a day which is enough for me.

Has anyone hooked up a USB Data card like Tata Photon +, to a Wifi Router ?

Just checking if there are any issues to that on sharing the connection to all the desktops/laptops in the house.

-Fillmore

I have been using Reliance NetConnect on Windows XP for about a year now and am pretty satisfied. I have picked up a new system which has Win7 installed on it and in spite of installing the latest software and drivers from Reliance Netconnect my system does not recognise the USB modem.

Has anyone faced a similar problem? If so, could you please share the solution?

I would like to try all possibility before approaching Reliance.

Cheers,

Try connecting it to another USB port. I have the same problem on my Dell E4300 with Win7 - if connected on the USB on the right side of the laptop it doesn't recognize, but in the left side one it does. Wierd, may be there is a better explanation!!!

@harry10
How is your photon+ doing in last 15 days or so ? please share your usership (a.k.a ownership) review on photon+

thanx in advance
cheers

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Originally Posted by sgiitk (Post 1968274)

I got a Photon+ Prepaid last month. A great relief after almost 3 years of BSNL BB. I went for prepaid since I use it for light work and I was advised that prepaid works out more economical. Charge as you go. On a postpaid either you pay for usage you do not do, or are charged heavily if you go over the top.

Hi sgiitk,

qq on the prepaid, Are you forced to do a minimum re-charge every month to keep the connection active ?
i.e. can I buy a pre-paid use it for 1 month, and then not charge it or use it for next 3 months, and then when needed again re-charge ?

Thanks
Fillmore

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Originally Posted by DerAlte (Post 1990860)

Tried this, but did not work.

I get a message stating that the USB device has malfunctioned when connected to the port on the left. While it works perfectly well on XP. Called Reliance and they had no clue (which is what I was expecting) and finally they said, please contact your OS vendor :eek:.

Any other suggestions???

Cheers

Quote:

Originally Posted by sanagg1 (Post 1990875)

@harry10
How is your photon+ doing in last 15 days or so ? please share your usership (a.k.a ownership) review on photon+

thanx in advance
cheers

Experience so far is very good.
I got a 1mbps plan for airtel at home and my photon is performing better than it:D.
As far as billing goes will update once first bill is recieved.
Till now tracking usage on their site regularly.

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Originally Posted by harry10 (Post 1991958)

Experience so far is very good.
I got a 1mbps plan for airtel at home and my photon is performing better than it:D.
As far as billing goes will update once first bill is recieved.
Till now tracking usage on their site regularly.

Hey buddy
how do you check the usage on the internet? I bought my Photon+ yesterday and when I try to register on the website as a new user it says that the user does not exist. The connection is working wonderfully though!!!
Also the welcome email that i received from them(tata) mentioned only my account number and the phone number. Theres no mention of the password to be used on the photon + site??
Please advise!!

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Originally Posted by harjeev (Post 1992630)

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Hey buddy
how do you check the usage on the internet? I bought my Photon+ yesterday and when I try to register on the website as a new user it says that the user does not exist. The connection is working wonderfully though!!!
Also the welcome email that i received from them(tata) mentioned only my account number and the phone number. Theres no mention of the password to be used on the photon + site??
Please advise!!

When you just click connect, a yahoo page for photon opens up.there on the right hand side its given register new user. Just register by filling the details and a password can be generated which you can use to log into your account.

@sgiitk
@harry10
@harjeev

Dear mates could you share the information about the speed of photon+
the numerical values e.g. 400 kbps etc.

cheers

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Originally Posted by sanagg1 (Post 2001733)

@sgiitk
@harry10
@harjeev

Dear mates could you share the information about the speed of photon+
the numerical values e.g. 400 kbps etc.

cheers

Hi sanagg1
In Hyderabad i have Proton+ and when using the average speed i get is 50-70Kbps.

Called Tata to complain they said try downloading 2, 3 files it will give the same speed to all, i told them i want full speed only on the file i want to download now... he said cannot doo...

It was a Waist of my money... i wanted return it but they said they will not take back the device.... feel i was cheated...