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An interesting interview with Iqara's CEO where he talks about the present state of broadband in India.

One of your competitors is offering modems free and does not charge for uploads whereas you rent the modem for Rs99 per month and charge for uploads.

Here are my experiences with Exatt Technologies.

I have been using their 512kbps plan for almost 1 year now. The download cap is 60GB per annum. I paid approx. 16,000/- for my 1 year subscription, which is EXCELLENT value for money. The maximum sustained download speeds I achieve are around 50KB/sec, which translates to approx 400kbps. I have NEVER seen a download exceed 55KB/sec, so their 512kbps plan has NEVER achieved 512kbps.

They have 24x7 tech support. The support staff are courteous, but often suggest frustratingly stupid things to the user, which may be of help when a novice user has a problem, but is very annoying when you are well versed in PC hardware and networking.

The Hindujas promoted cable Internet networking company In2Cable is now offering pre-paid broadband connection for as low as Rs 200 per quarter and Rs 450 for a full year subscription.

Subscribers will get 256 kbps speeds and 400 mb free download for the three-month package and 500 mb download for a connection with one year validity, making it one of the cheapest broadband connection on offer.

Source: The Hindu Business Line.

Hathway's connection binds itself to your network card's MAC address. What this means is that if you change the NIC connecting to the cable modem, you are very likely not going to be able to get on the net.

The solution is to spoof your connection's MAC address as explained here.

It is probably a good idea to note down your current NIC's MAC address somewhere, in case it fails and you are unable to access it in the future..

Cheers
-K

hi i've taken hathways broadband and i found out about the routers later. now hathway doesn't provide them anymore. does anyone know which routers hathway previously used?? thanks