On Friday 05 August 2005 13:02, Kartik Mistry wrote:

Can you give me any contact no of Sify People? and Rates ? I live in Malad (West) Thanks.

Are you out of your mind? :O Sify is the worst "broadband" ISP around. Don't get caught up in their "web". I think Malad has exatt. Find out @ exatt.net They have some pretty plans ;)

On 8/5/05, Anurag anurag@bsd.miki.eu.org wrote:

Sometime on Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 04:29:28PM +0530, Ninad Bapat said:

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Hi I am looking for a broadband connection in Chembur station area. My cable operator provides Hathway connection. But calling him and just enquiring about the same has been a pain. I dont know abt the connection

Anybody who can help?

[The best broadband offers available across India] http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14034

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Hi, I must elaborate on what I wrote earlier. (Sorry I was in a hurry then). No, I don't work for sify. ;) Sify, is a nasty ISP and people have really been frustrated with the connection. So have I. Google on "sify sucks". ;) But things seem to have changed now.

1) The connectivity: Once you login, you usually don't get disconnected, except at night. This happens about once a week on an average. Rest of the six days, I can download/upload all night without any problems. (this is just a rough estimate). As far as logging out is concerned, its bad. You can get messages like "session invalid" or something, so you wont really know whether you are disconnected or not. So if you are planning to go for an hourly connection, Sify is a big NO.

2) The Client: This is a piece of software, probably made by people who have learnt to "hello world" in some cow-shed computer institute. The linux client is the worst. It hardly gives any details, and most of the time it fails to login. So how do I live? I use the MacOS client. Its made in java, and is probably the best one of the lot. So if you can't run java in linux, say NO to sify. The windows client is pretty annoying, it forces you to install an antivirus, and you have to phone the support guys to get rid of the antivirus, if you don't want it.

3) The packages: Read the fine print before buying anything.

4) Customer Support: Really bad. They'll assume you use windows, and ask you to click on "Troubleshoot" which is not there in the linux client. So you'll have to manually ping the gateway and the sify server and tell them. They have a new phone number now, and you'll usually get thru the line in the 2nd or 3rd try, (as opposed to the 10th try, which was the case earlier)

So why do I use sify? Because I want unlimited downloads, and its the best thing I have in my area. So in conclusion I'd say that you could sify only if you need unlimited downloads, and you don't have any other ISP to satisfy your requirements. Sify is just and *option* you can choose from. Whether it is a good option or not, is relative to your other options. In the suburbs like Goregaon and Malad, I have found only two ISPs that give unlimited connections: Sify and Pacenet. However, there may be better services down south and in Chembur.

Hmm..this post is getting long. I should stop now :)

Packages: http://sifybroadband.com/master_pricelist.html Support: http://customercare.sify.com/ Ph:16003453330

-Akshay

On 8/6/05, rohit bhute rvbhute@gmail.com wrote:

Akshay Dewan wrote:

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like Goregaon and Malad, I have found only two ISPs that give unlimited connections: Sify and Pacenet. However, there may be better services down

Avoid Pacenet like the plague. Linux support has to be enabled and its for packages with speed 64 kbps and above. Thats discrimination. Its reliability is also going down (maybe due to rains). I don't remember connecting for more than 6-7 hours and there's an outage almost daily. -- Rohit V. Bhute http://rvbhute.blogspot.com/

-- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Hi rohit...

Firstly, There is a simple workaround to make it work with any package on linux. i've been using their connection since before they even offered linux support. If you need help with that, feel free to contact me even. On the reliability front, i agrr, the rains have messed them up, But a few simple shell scripts can make sure wour downloads arent interrupted. Uptime for sure is definitely better than some of the others that my friends are using. Plus, a little tweaking gives be sustained 8 KBp/s on my 64kbps line. Also, they give you a public ip, and ping times are usually pretty good, low latency even. Do check it out to be sure, and dont dismiss it soo easily.

Regards R. K. Rajeev

On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 03:54, Dinesh Joshi wrote:

BTW does sify block a lot of ports? what about p2p and stuff?

P2P works fine. However, for some strange reason, I am not able to ping their default gateway. I am able to surf fine. Perhaps they block ICMP. Its annoying during troubleshooting.

Regards, NMK. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- There is no proverb that is not true. -- Cervantes

On Saturday 06 August 2005 18:52, Rony Bill wrote:

Here is anoother option available in almost all areas. Check out the night unlimited offer.

http://mumbai.mtnl.net.in/internetservices/adsl/adsltariff1.html#serv ice

I think its available only for a limited period...Thats a big con but the connection is over all good.

Regards,

On Sunday 07 August 2005 05:44, Akshay Dewan wrote:

I must change my stand. Sify looted me...again. No matter what happens, DONT take sify, please don't... -Akshay

OMG! It's blitz kreig. What happened that you were compelled to change your mind in such a short time?

On 8/7/05, Amish Munshi lists@munshi.biz wrote:

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On Sunday 07 August 2005 05:44, Akshay Dewan wrote: I must change my stand. Sify looted me...again. No matter what happens, DONT take sify, please don't... -Akshay

Hi guys, Sify...well, they were supposed to cut one day from my account if I downloaded more than 150 MB per day, and every extra 25MB downloaded. (excluding the night-free time). I realized that they dont mean "downloads", they mean "downloads+uploads". It makes a big difference when you download loads of anime using BitTorrent. :( Yesterday, my account was going to expire on the 13th of December, and today, I realized that I lost NINE days in one go!! Now it expires on 4th Dec. Geez this has been a really bad day. And I cant really challenge them in court, now can I? They've got better lawyers. And they may not be "legally wrong"... Gotto go now, got loads of homework :'(

-Akshay

On Sunday 07 August 2005 17:20, Akshay Dewan wrote:

Yesterday, my account was going to expire on the 13th of December, and today, I realized that I lost NINE days in one go!! Now it expires on 4th Dec.

Use MTNL dialup(Rs.700 a month UL) or MTNL ADSL NU. It will save you a lot of money...

Rishi wrote:

Call Viren from Hathway: 9819694933

This list is available on the net too so we need to avoid giving someone's cell number without his/her explicit permission. Its a bad world out there. Maybe you already sought his consent. :)

Regards,

Rony.

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