Unreliable but faster connection: Netconnect+

To all my friends who ask me about Reliance Netconnect+ Broadband service.

I have been using it since its inception.

The speed is very good,on FTP you can get up to 2Mbps. Normal download is 600-700kbps which is fairly acceptable to me when considering it is a wireless modem.

However,it is an unreliable connection...sometimes you will loose signal strength completely or even if signal is full you will stop receiving data stream or it will suddenly change to 1X from HSD for no apparent reasons.

If you are planning to have some important activity where you need to be connected continuously,like stock trading, please watch out- you may not be able to close your deal and may either loose or miss out on an opportunity in trading.

Earlier I was using a ZTE card and hence had specified to supply the other card so that I could use the 1X card also (as I wanted to take a city specific 10GB plan). However,the representative dropped in my house when I was outstation and dumped ZTE Netconnect+. Now if I wish to use old card I have to uninstall the ZTE Netconnect+.

When I changed my plan from Freedom to 10GB, I had asked to commence the new plan from the next billing cycle and I was assured that. However, later I found that it was activated much earlier.I felt cheated as I could not take advantage of higher volume plan earlier and yet I was charged for it.I was told that an email to that effect was sent by them but could not locate on my Gmail account. Obviously that was a white lie. But that is their (Reliance) reputation and you have to live with it.

This service is a big leap over 1X service and even with some,even major, problem like unreliable connection, one would like to go for it if you think it as a necessary evil.

Now this is addendum:
At a request of one of the reader I decided to test the Netconnect+ in a running car albeit in a crude manner.
On a relatively small stretch between Mulund East to Kaparbawdi / Majiwade,Thane on Eastern Express Highway-NH4 / LBS Marg between 6.45 a.m. and 7.15 a.m. the signal strength remained remarkedly same....full scale over the stretch. None of my friends was ready with mic/camera then on Skype. So I logged on YouTube and videoa played flawlessly. Wanted to download a large file and see graph of download speed, but that is for later. Testing during the peak business hours and travelling through the known blind spots remains to be seen.
It appears that the product is performing reasonably well (unlike in the past with 1X product.. Reliance Data card).

5th sentence on page 56

One of my contact on Facebook, Chuck Zdrojowy, in his post said:

" Grab the book nearest you. Right now. *Turn to page 56. *Find the fifth sentence on that page. *Post the sentence as YOUR STATUS. *POST these instructions as a comment to your status. *Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, or the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST book."

It was around 7 O' clock and I just thought to play on this. I reached for the book case. There was this " Notes To Myself" by Hugh Prather. I knew the book pages were not numbered. Still uncertain, not believing in myself...catching up with 50s...I opened it and found it to be unnumbered.

I turned to the next book which was " How Starbucks Saved My...." byMichael Gill. The book was numbered but the problem was this it had few quotations on the page 56. Incidentally that was a beginning of the new chapter and have these quotes before the text of the chapter starts. Had a dillemma as to where to start from and thus count the 5th sentence.

I turned to the third book, "Simple Abundance" by Sara Ban Breathnach. I started turning the pages...Oh! The pages of this book are also unnumbered.

So I stopped for a while. I said, "let's see what is in the fate." Take case of each book...

1. Notes To Myself - " I am not interested so much in what I do with my hands or words as what I do with my heart." is the 5th sentence on page 56th from the start of the first 'Note'.

Of course the result would be different if you take the page immediately after the inside cover jacket as the first page for our purpose.

2. " The train from Bronxville to Grand Central took at least thirty minutes." is the 'sentence' from ...'Starbucks..'

3. Simple Abundance was infact physically closest to me when I was on PC....see the position (yet to add the pics taken by Nokia 5800).

" You move into a completely empty house and start over from scratch-money is not a consideration." is the 'sentence' from the first page of the Diary (1st January): Simple Abundance is "A DAYBOOK Of Comfort & Joy".

It was an interesting excercise as I wait for vehicle pick which is scheduled at 08.30 local time.

False update on Twitter from 1kfollowers.com

Has anybody witnessed a false post/update on their Twitter account from :

www.1kfollowers.net ?

I am getting an hourly update on my Twitter account as an update from me which is not posted by me.

vu2cbuCHECK out this site, im a member of it, It gets you more followers: http://1kfollowers.net

Something seems to be fishy...or may be something in fineprint which we do not read.

Be careful of http://1kfollowers if you wish to be a member of it.

See how BSE sensex is recovering....

ZX Spectrum software

I am displaying a collection of software for Sinclair ZX Spectrum 128 that I wish to give away.

The 128 was my second computer, after Commodore 64.

A friend who had used Spectrum 48 earlier and was interested to have 128 as a collection, took this computer (but didn't take the tapes).

I know that these tapes may not serve any purpose other than a simple nostalgia to anyone who wish to dwelve in to the past.

We, at home, are on a mission to make our home clutter-free and have got a permission from my "home ministry" to keep them for a week in which I need to find a donee. Else it would find a place in a dust-bin.

Anyone interested?