It works quite well except for infrequent dhcp no ip address issues. I am using it with both Ubuntu & Fedora with a wi-fi AP cum router in between the reliance wimax router and my laptop.. The wimax router requires power so u need some ups/inverter for use during power cuts.
Regarads Koustubha Kale
Original Message: ----------------- From: Abhishek Amberkar [ठà¤à¤¿à¤·à¥à¤] abhishek.amberkar@gmail.com Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 00:16:38 +0530 To: linuxers@mm.glug-bom.org Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] [X-Post] Reliance WiMax
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Pradeepto Bhattacharya pradeeptob@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Has anybody use the Reliance WiMax (Broadnet) services? I ammore interested in their services in Mumbai. Good, Bad, Ugly? Apparently they install separate antenna for each connection. The size of this is as big as a laptop monitor or such, thats what the marketing exec told me.
What I want to know is - 1) compatibility with Linux Boxes
- does it work during the rainy season? Considering that rains in
Mumbai or Panvel is slightly on the extreme side ;), does it work fine during the rainy season? I guess the same applies to the DTH setup even.
Only reason, I am thinking its worth a try is because I won'thave to depend on availabilty of power and such because I will be responsible to provide power to the setup which I can in case of load shedding as well. Thanks in advance.
Any more experiences? I want to try it.
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:00 AM, kmkale@anantcorp.com kmkale@anantcorp.com wrote:
It works quite well except for infrequent dhcp no ip address issues. I am using it with both Ubuntu & Fedora with a wi-fi AP cum router in between the reliance wimax router and my laptop.. The wimax router requires power so u need some ups/inverter for use during power cuts.
Regarads Koustubha Kale
Thanks for the info. Do you recommend static ip?
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] < abhishek.amberkar@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:00 AM, kmkale@anantcorp.com kmkale@anantcorp.com wrote:
It works quite well except for infrequent dhcp no ip address issues. I am using it with both Ubuntu & Fedora with a wi-fi AP cum router in between the reliance wimax router and my laptop.. The wimax router requires power so u need some ups/inverter for use
during
power cuts.
Regarads Koustubha Kale
Thanks for the info. Do you recommend static ip?
well i guess the wimax router device that sits in your home assigns a dynamic ip to your wireless router / pc / laptop etc.
check with reliance techsupport team if they can set it to static. L1 support knows basic debugging only so try to have a ticket created for L2 / L3 engg they know their job .
HRB
-- With Regards Abhishek Amberkar
Learn to appreciate a beauty within...
Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] wrote:
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:00 AM, [1]kmkale@anantcorp.com [2]kmkale@anantcorp.com wrote:
It works quite well except for infrequent dhcp no ip address issues. I am using it with both Ubuntu & Fedora with a wi-fi AP cum router in between the reliance wimax router and my laptop.. The wimax router requires power so u need some ups/inverter for use during power cuts.
Regarads Koustubha Kale
Thanks for the info. Do you recommend static ip?
I just learnt from the other post that reliance indeed offers static ip for the wimax service. When I had asked for it at the start they had refused. If possible I would get one.. -- Regards, Koustubha Kale
References
1. mailto:kmkale@anantcorp.com 2. mailto:kmkale@anantcorp.com
What are the areas where reliance wimax is rightnow available i live in goregaon (E) . The customer support says its not feasible in my area but there technical dept says it is feasible. The problem is i live in a bunglow & only 1 side is open while other 3 sides have 2-3 floor buildings. As per what i have seen from the wimax field tests it is feasible in my scenario.
Yes are really cheap compared to the local cable operators & with very min or i would say 1% downtime tillnow. The bandwidth is perfect as per what i have tested in field tests & also some reviews from my friends who live in the worli area. They have a problem with the dhcp taking a long duration for assigning ip addresses.
I would like to know has any person really terminated the reliance connection after the wimax router to any wifi router for use on laptops etc.
Thanking you, Dilip Khanolkar.
Information Security wrote:
I would like to know has any person really terminated the reliance connection after the wimax router to any wifi router for use on laptops etc.
Thanking you, Dilip Khanolkar.
Yes I have a D-link DIR-300 wifi router cum AP. Took me quite a while and a embedded s/w upgrade to get it to pass on dhcp to my laptop but its working well now.. ( except many times I don't get assigned an IP then I have to make a complaint and wait for an hour to get it resolved :( ; I am gonna see about a static ip again.) A simple AP would be easier to set up in reliance wimax case due to the dhcp ip's.
Information Security wrote:
Yes are really cheap compared to the local cable operators & with very min or i would say 1% downtime tillnow. The bandwidth is perfect as per what i have tested in field tests & also some reviews from my friends who live in the worli area. They have a problem with the dhcp taking a long duration for assigning ip addresses.
I would like to know has any person really terminated the reliance connection after the wimax router to any wifi router for use on laptops etc.
A client of mine uses Reliance WiMax in his office. Now that you mentioned the dhcp problem, I recollect the client mentioning that the device has to be started 10 min before they start work. Otherwise it works fine. The client is into share trading and his systems are updated every second. The WiMax is also routed to the Netgear Wireless router for his laptop. Sometimes to take care of downtime, the MTNL router is also in the circuit with appropriate IPs. The client simply changes the gateway and DNS (same as gateway) entry.
For WiMax, the minimum height of the dish antenna has to be 3rd floor and facing the tower without much obstacles.
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Information Security < khanolkardilip@gmail.com> wrote:
The problem is i live in a bunglow & only 1 side is open while other 3 sides have 2-3 floor buildings. As per what i have seen from the wimax field tests it is feasible in my scenario.
Line of sight is required. The 1st question they ask is how tall is your building. They recommend to install on building with min 3 floors.
I am using Reliance WiMax for last 4-5 months (in Hyderabad). I too use a router (linksys). There are DNS server issues at times. The router need to be reset once in every 3-4 weeks, else the speed of the connection become very slow (the issue is of router, if we connect the modem directly to system it works well). Once router is reset and configured again, it works well :)
Downtime is less. I faced a major downtime (almost a day) only once, when they were upgrading servers.
Regards
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Dileep Kumar M [ദിലീപ് കുമാ൪] < dileep.kumarayil@gmail.com> wrote:
I am using Reliance WiMax for last 4-5 months (in Hyderabad). I too use a router (linksys). There are DNS server issues at times. The router need to be reset once in every 3-4 weeks, else the speed of the connection become very slow (the issue is of router, if we connect the modem directly to system it works well). Once router is reset and configured again, it works well :)
I was told by the call center guy that with Linux I MUST use a router and cannot connect the disk directly to my PC. Is that true? He even offered me two options for router costing Rs. 3500/- and Rs 4500/-. Can someone clarify?
Regards Aseem
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Aseem Rane aseemrane@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Dileep Kumar M [ദിലീപ് കുമാ൪] < dileep.kumarayil@gmail.com> wrote:
I am using Reliance WiMax for last 4-5 months (in Hyderabad). I too use a router (linksys). There are DNS server issues at times. The router need
to
be reset once in every 3-4 weeks, else the speed of the connection become very slow (the issue is of router, if we connect the modem directly to system it works well). Once router is reset and configured again, it
works
well :)
I was told by the call center guy that with Linux I MUST use a router and cannot connect the disk directly to my PC. Is that true? He even offered me two options for router costing Rs. 3500/- and Rs 4500/-. Can someone clarify?
i dont think that is correct. the device assigns ip to the PC through DHCP . other posts suggest they do suggest that there is a static ip option. i dont think anything stops u from using any os as long as it talks TCP/IP :-)
Regards Aseem -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
On Monday 15 Dec 2008, Aseem Rane wrote:
I was told by the call center guy that with Linux I MUST use a router and cannot connect the disk directly to my PC. Is that true? He even offered me two options for router costing Rs. 3500/- and Rs 4500/-. Can someone clarify?
Not related to WiMax but Reliance Broadband help desk told one of my colleague that she needed to buy a static ip address (Rs. 2K/yr) to send outgoing messages from Thunderbird client over port 25. Ditto for Outlook. :(
Arun,
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Arun Khan knura@yahoo.com >
Not related to WiMax but Reliance Broadband help desk told one of my colleague that she needed to buy a static ip address (Rs. 2K/yr) to send outgoing messages from Thunderbird client over port 25. Ditto for Outlook. :(
Nowadays, all SMTP submission is done over SSL port which is generally 993. You need Port 25 only if you want to run your own mail server or your mail provider does not give secure submission.
Please check if the other SMTP submission port(s) are open.
-- Arun Khan
HTH. With regards,
On Monday 15 Dec 2008, Dinesh Shah (દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह) wrote:
Not related to WiMax but Reliance Broadband help desk told one of my colleague that she needed to buy a static ip address (Rs. 2K/yr) to send outgoing messages from Thunderbird client over port 25. Ditto for Outlook. :(
Nowadays, all SMTP submission is done over SSL port which is generally 993. You need Port 25 only if you want to run your own mail server or your mail provider does not give secure submission.
Please check if the other SMTP submission port(s) are open.
Won't help, since you still need to make an SMTP connection, and then negotiate it (using STARTTLS) into a TLS connection. I don't believe there's any way to start a TLS connection directly, though I wuld be happy to be proven wrong.
Regards,
-- Raju
Raj,
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Raj Mathur raju@linux-delhi.org wrote:
Nowadays, all SMTP submission is done over SSL port which is generally 993. You need Port 25 only if you want to run your own mail server or your mail provider does not give secure submission.
Please check if the other SMTP submission port(s) are open.
Won't help, since you still need to make an SMTP connection, and then negotiate it (using STARTTLS) into a TLS connection. I don't believe there's any way to start a TLS connection directly, though I wuld be happy to be proven wrong.
This is my Out Going SMTP server settings in ThunderBird.
Server Name: smtp.gmail.com Port: 587 user name: <my mail ID> Secure Connection: TLS
As you can see there is no Port 25 anywhere.
Regards,
-- Raju
With regards,
On Monday 15 Dec 2008, Dinesh Shah (દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह) wrote:
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Raj Mathur raju@linux-delhi.org
wrote:
Nowadays, all SMTP submission is done over SSL port which is generally 993. You need Port 25 only if you want to run your own mail server or your mail provider does not give secure submission.
Please check if the other SMTP submission port(s) are open.
True but still small time ISPs and some web hosting companies do not have the port 587 you refer to. Outgoing email from MUA still has to go over 25. (see below).
Won't help, since you still need to make an SMTP connection, and then negotiate it (using STARTTLS) into a TLS connection. I don't believe there's any way to start a TLS connection directly, though I wuld be happy to be proven wrong.
This is my Out Going SMTP server settings in ThunderBird.
Server Name: smtp.gmail.com Port: 587 user name: <my mail ID> Secure Connection: TLS
As you can see there is no Port 25 anywhere.
As you can see my colleague still needs 25 to be open to send outbound messages.
$ telnet mail.aaaaaa.zzz 587 Trying 97.65.128.80... telnet: connect to address 97.65.128.80: Connection refused
$ telnet mail.aaaaaa.zzz 25 Trying 97.65.128.80... Connected to mail.aaaaaa.zzz. Escape character is '^]'. 220-beta.routhost.com ESMTP Exim 4.69 #1 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:56:16 -0500 220-We do not authorize the use of this system to transport unsolicited, 220 and/or bulk e-mail. EHLO 250-beta.routhost.com Hello static-mum-xxxxxxx [a.b.c.d] 250-SIZE 52428800 250-PIPELINING 250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN 250-STARTTLS 250 HELP
On Monday 15 Dec 2008, Arun Khan wrote:
True but still small time ISPs and some web hosting companies do not have the port 587 you refer to. Outgoing email from MUA still has to go over 25. (see below).
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1838667,00.asp
I thought I had included the above in my previous post :(
-- Arun Khan
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Aseem Rane aseemrane@gmail.com wrote:
I was told by the call center guy that with Linux I MUST use a router and cannot connect the disk directly to my PC. Is that true? He even offered me two options for router costing Rs. 3500/- and Rs 4500/-. Can someone clarify?
Router is not required for that. The modem has RJ45 connection. The IP address is allocated from the DHCP server. Also if you want to share your connection, you can go for router which can be rented @ Rs.100/month.
Regards
On Monday 15 Dec 2008, Dileep Kumar M [ദിലീപ് കുമാര് എം] wrote:
Router is not required for that. The modem has RJ45 connection. The IP address is allocated from the DHCP server. Also if you want to share your connection, you can go for router which can be rented @ Rs.100/month.
or buy one :) they are under 2K IIRC.
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