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MTNL Triband Broadband Horribly Slow

It seems as if I’m back in the 256 Kbps era. Even worse than that maybe. Since today morning, I have been getting very very slow speeds from my MTNL broadband connection. And that too, when I need it the most, to study for my Computer Science Board exam.

I’ve tried changing DNS servers, rebooted my router hundreds of times, tried 5 different browsers, replaced the line, checked connections, got line parameters (SNR Margin and Line Attenuation) checked by an MTNL babu, but no result. And this problem is not only mine, it seems to be spread in the whole of North Delhi. Only I know how painful it was for me to open up the Wordpress Dashboard and write this post. The issue has been confirmed by some Delhi IBF members, and also by a friend who lives nearby.

This has happened before, a lot of times, and was the situation about 40% of the times in January 2008. I even faced a lot of complete downtime, and that was the reason why January was the most unproductive month for me. Every other day, the people at my local exchange claimed to be ‘facing problems’ due to shortage of ports and overloading of bandwidth. They even claimed that the demand is so high, they may terminate services of customers on delay of over 1 month in payment in bills.

Things seemed to have settled down at the end of January, and February was good, with less than 2% of downtime. But now the problems seem to have returned. Considering the high demand, I don’t think they’ll be in any mood to fix things soon.

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