[Shankyz]

They have changed pairs and now the noise on telephone line is gone, the SNR and attennuation are better but not quite in the range you gave. Posting the snapshot below, hope it works with these numbers.

Which service provider do you have? Airtel?

[clevermax]

I was looking forward to contributing in this thread , but I am waiting for over 14 days to get my modem, as I got the land line connection 2 weeks ago.

Is this normal waiting time? I heard that modem will be installed within a week after getting the telephone.

[djjebs]

@Clevermax - I got my modem in 3 days after I received the land line connection in Bangalore. Had to wait for another week for it ti start working though.

[clevermax]

Originally Posted by djjebs

@Clevermax - I got my modem in 3 days after I received the land line connection in Bangalore. Had to wait for another week for it ti start working though.

So looks like these guys delaying it, may be because of unavailability of modem. I am trying to reach the telephone exchange but no-one ever picks up the phone! I am hating BSNL already!

[djjebs]

Originally Posted by clevermax

So looks like these guys delaying it, may be because of unavailability of modem. I am trying to reach the telephone exchange but no-one ever picks up the phone! I am hating BSNL already!

Maybe due to unavailability. These guys at the exchange rarely pick up the phones. The best thing to do is walk in to the exchange and get things sorted out or try calling the guy who installed your telephone line, he might have an answer.

[clevermax]

Originally Posted by djjebs

Maybe due to unavailability. These guys at the exchange rarely pick up the phones. The best thing to do is walk in to the exchange and get things sorted out or try calling the guy who installed your telephone line, he might have an answer.

That;s the problem. They installed the phone when I was not around. So I could not note down the number. Anyway, he told Modem comes form another department.

Going to the exchange tomorrow or day after to sort things out.

[aargee]

@Clevermax - Just get the email ID of all the entire top community from BSNL & shoot an email. But do this only if you wait for over 3-4 days. People from local exchange will be running towards your home. Trust me, the email stuff works!!!

By top, what I mean is CGM, GM & what not? Here you go - http://www.kerala.bsnl.co.in/tvm/srtvm.asp; once again, do this only if you've waited for quite sometime.

[mod-the-pc]

Originally Posted by Shankyz

Which service provider do you have? Airtel?

I've BSNL and I'm a few hundred metre away from the exchange which would explain the low attenuation. The SNR is okay but the line attenuation still seems to be high. If your broadband works fine don't worry over these numbers.

[clevermax]

Originally Posted by aargee

@Clevermax - Just get the email ID of all the entire top community from BSNL & shoot an email. But do this only if you wait for over 3-4 days. People from local exchange will be running towards your home. Trust me, the email stuff works!!!

By top, what I mean is CGM, GM & what not? Here you go {URL} once again, do this only if you've waited for quite sometime.

Thank you aargee! I will surely do that if the modem doesn't come in another few days time!

[rajushank84]

My BSNL broadband has been working fine without any issues for the past 5 years. Then a couple of months back, it started getting disconnected frequently. I logged a complaint, no response. Then after sometime, the landline would work but the broadband link would often be down. Then the landline itself went totally dead, no dial tone. After a month of logging complaints and not getting a response, I decided that enough is enough and filled a request to close the connection.

Moral of the story: BSNL works very very well when it works, proving that their infrastructure is good. But when things go bad, the tech support is horrible.

[scorpio_fan]

Me too uses BSNL broadband at home. I used to use Airtel initially, thier customer service is the best but i was nit happy with the speed and also the charges.
BSNL has good plans and the speed is also nice, i agree here completely if it works no issues but on the event of issues, forget it. As one of the member said, email helps. the top officials in BSNL has customer focus but this has not reached to the bottom . You send email detailing out your issue, it will surely speedup the resolution.

Scorpio Fan

[ghpk]

yes its a pain to tackle BSNL issue, In my small town, BSNL is the only broadband option and its a pain to get it fixed if it goes down.

Mostly if a problem occurs with DNS servers on sunday, you are hopeless till monday morning if its a working day.

[Gansan]

The issue seems to have been resolved from yesterday morning. The speed in the mornings (till 8.00 AM) is very good. The speedtest.net shows speed up to 2 mbps and the ping test shows grade-B. But the speed goes down a lot in the evenings, which was not so noticeable before.

[omishra]

Originally Posted by ghpk

Mostly if a problem occurs with DNS servers on sunday, you are hopeless till monday morning if its a working day.

, This is not issue of your town only. We face this issue on any weekend (sometimes), from DNS server going down to main server down. I see ADSL is up till exchange.

[bhp_maniac]

Originally Posted by omishra

, This is not issue of your town only. We face this issue on any weekend (sometimes), from DNS server going down to main server down. I see ADSL is up till exchange.

In such cases, you can try open DNS no? I hope they will work even if the BSNL DSN is down.