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).
