[shamanth]

Originally Posted by Gansan

My BSNL broadband connection is extremely slow for the past few days. Worse than a dial-up. Their customer care is not reachable. Does anyone else face this issue? Any problem with their gateways?

Same here, from last 1 week, bsnl connection is pretty slow, and erratic.

[maximus.]

I bought BSNL data card a month ago and its the worst data card i have ever used. It takes 20 seconds to open google webpage, ofcourse it has helped in improving my patience and tolerance levels.

If anyone planning to buy one, pls think twice.

[mithun]

Originally Posted by JMaruru

Try re-booting the modem once. At times, it works.

No, it's not working that way.

HTTP & FTP downloads are getting the right speeds, but not with torrents.

[JMaruru]

Originally Posted by mithun

No, it's not working that way.

HTTP & FTP downloads are getting the right speeds, but not with torrents.

Yeah. I agree. Even am facing the same issue in past one week or so. What has changed with BSNL Dataone? Can we do any tweaks to set this right?

[Hatari]

My BSNL broadband modem (SmartAX MT 882 ADSL) gives trouble once in a while.
Apart from a PC, we have 2 laptops at home now

Was thinking about buying a wifi modem

Do I have an option to replace the existing modem with a just a wifi one?
Or do I have to buy a new ADSL modem and a wifi router?

[rajushank84]

^ I suggest replacing the modem with a wifi one from BSNL. Two reasons: If you buy from BSNL, it becomes their problem to look into whatever issues come up. They cannot say, "Line is fine, some problem with your aftermarket device" (as they often do).
Second, I often used to have wrong IP address assigned when I had a separate modem and router.

(i.e, modem IP address 192.168.1.1, router IP address 192.168.1.2, since the PCs connect to the router, sometimes they used to take 192.168.1.2 as the default gateway. every time this happened, I would need to reboot the router and all the IP addresses would get assigned again, and it would work correctly. This is not much trouble, but can be slightly irritating to have to reboot the router just for this reason whenever it happens.)

[rohan_iitr]

Originally Posted by Hatari

My BSNL broadband modem (SmartAX MT 882 ADSL) gives trouble once in a while.
Apart from a PC, we have 2 laptops at home now

Was thinking about buying a wifi modem

Do I have an option to replace the existing modem with a just a wifi one?
Or do I have to buy a new ADSL modem and a wifi router?

Don't take wifi router from your service provider. They provide substandard quality routers. Signal coverage will be very poor.

Take the basic ADSL model from them and buy your own wifi router from a reputed brand. Wifi routers are pretty cheap these days. Also, if you have your own router, you can use it with other service providers also (if you decide to change your service provider in the future).

Don't worry about installation and settings if you buy your own router. Ask any query on the wifi router thread, fellow members will help you out.

Rohan

[Hatari]

^^ Thanks.
Is the BSNL wifi modem a good one?
Does it have enough of a range to service the entire area (about 2400 sq ft).

[rock18]

I have bought a WIFI modem from them as my old BSNL model stopped working.
I think WIFI coverage is pretty good.Good enough for 2400sq.feet house.
I will try it from outside and see how the signal is.

One advantage if you buy from BSNL itself is..if something happens to your modem,they will be happy to replace it.
I faced a problem with the modem within a month of buying it.They promptly replaced it with a new one.

[Me-hul]

Even I was skeptical before going for BSNL. But its been a pretty smooth ride with them since the past 2 yrs. Not much of a prob. Pretty surprised at that.
No problems with the speed either.

[bhp_maniac]

Originally Posted by rohan_iitr

Don't take wifi router from your service provider. They provide substandard quality routers. Signal coverage will be very poor.

Take the basic ADSL model from them and buy your own wifi router from a reputed brand. Wifi routers are pretty cheap these days. Also, if you have your own router, you can use it with other service providers also (if you decide to change your service provider in the future).

Don't worry about installation and settings if you buy your own router. Ask any query on the wifi router thread, fellow members will help you out.

Rohan

I've a netgear router at my apartment in my current place and a BSNL provided WiFi at my home town. Both are giving me very healthy coverage. My home town house is a 2400 sq. ft one and every corner is very well covered including sit outs.

Why you say if you purchase from service provider, we can't use it with other ones? Do you had any such experiences? ADSL is a standard and the modem can be used with any service provider, provided we have the necessary details. Thats what I think I don't know whether some providers provide modem locked to their network. I've tried VSNL, BSNL & Airtel land line BB. None of them seems to lock their modems.

[rohan_iitr]

Originally Posted by bhp_maniac

I've a netgear router at my apartment in my current place and a BSNL provided WiFi at my home town. Both are giving me very healthy coverage. My home town house is a 2400 sq. ft one and every corner is very well covered including sit outs.
Why you say if you purchase from service provider, we can't use it with other ones? Do you had any such experiences? ADSL is a standard and the modem can be used with any service provider, provided we have the necessary details. Thats what I think I don't know whether some providers provide modem locked to their network. I've tried VSNL, BSNL & Airtel land line BB. None of them seems to lock their modems.

Some members have reported poor network coverage from BSNL provided wifi routers, in the wifi router thread. May be they got a defective piece, but I still have my doubts on equipment provided by service providers. They select customer premises equipment based on pricing, not based on quality or features.

Yes, ADSL is a standard technology and (technically) there should be no problem in using a BSNL provided router with an Airtel connection (for example), except for modifying a few settings.

But whenever you need tech support from the other service provider, the tech support guys will always give you a lame excuse that BSNL router is not compatible with our network.

Rohan

[bhp_maniac]

Originally Posted by rohan_iitr

Some members have reported poor network coverage from BSNL provided wifi routers, in the wifi router thread. May be they got a defective piece, but I still have my doubts on equipment provided by service providers. They select customer premises equipment based on pricing, not based on quality or features.

Yes, ADSL is a standard technology and (technically) there should be no problem in using a BSNL provided router with an Airtel connection (for example), except for modifying a few settings.

But whenever you need tech support from the other service provider, the tech support guys will always give you a lame excuse that BSNL router is not compatible with our network.

Rohan

Yes, its lame in fact. That for sure may be an issue as you pointed out.

For those who are having WiFi coverage issues, I suggest you manually changing the channel used for WiFi. You can do this in modem settings. This will help you especially if you are into an apartment or so where there are chances of so much routers present in the vicinity and there fore interference. I had such issues with mine and changing the channels for sure fixed the issue. But I had to spend some time using trial and error to find which channel gets me the best coverage

[bhaani]

Facing a peculiar issue with BSNL broadband modem which was working fine till now. The default gateway on the modem (Device info) now shows as 10.xxx.xx.xx instead of the 119.xxx.xx.xx earlier when it was working.

Only thing i had changed was tried to connect a separate wifi router to the modem (but that didnt work either)

Any idea of where could be the issue and corrective steps?

[bhp_maniac]

Originally Posted by bhaani

Facing a peculiar issue with BSNL broadband modem which was working fine till now. The default gateway on the modem (Device info) now shows as 10.xxx.xx.xx instead of the 119.xxx.xx.xx earlier when it was working.

Only thing i had changed was tried to connect a separate wifi router to the modem (but that didnt work either)

Any idea of where could be the issue and corrective steps?

Possibly, the modem may be in static IP mode. Change it to dynamic IP and it may get fixed