On 15 June 2017 at 22:43, shirish शिरीष <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I had a guy from Airtel coming for a visit to my home today. While he > showed the device, it was black in color and had huawei written on it, > I was unable to get the model no. Does anybody know what model it > could be ?
Are you able to connect & login to the router via http/https/ssh/telnet/ftp? [to retrieve model number] >More importantly does it have a broadcom chip by any > chance. I ask as broadcom continues to be a pain in the butt to > GNU/Linux users to this date. You mean range issue with broadcom chip in a broadband router? > I know some of the cheaper routers use > broadcom. > > The black box stood on its legs while most D-Link devices sleep > > The router had standard LAN port (guess 10 mbps) power connector > socket, another round socket with a wire protuding which I didn't > understand. Few years back I was AirTel broadband subscriber. That time they used to provide connectivity over RJ11 port & Beetel landline phone. > Going further, can anybody share their experience if they used/using > airtel and approximate place where they belong. If anybody lives near > Bal Gandharva or J.M. Road it would be more preferable and would be > more relevant experience. - AirTel *broadband* has limited presence in Pune compare to other players. - I used AirTel broadband for long duration in Pune & never faced any down time. - Speed was stable always. - Even in heavy rain, there was no issue with cable cuts,short circuit in local DP box etc. > Another thing while the speedtest showed some amazing numbers using > speedtest, I wasn't able to figure out the latency. Can anybody > comment on that ? > > One more, has anybody being able to use torrents and tor effectively > with airtel. All ISP's in India has blocked most *public* torrent sites. Private torrent sites are accessible & I get superb download speed but no uploading doesn't happen i.e. can not maintain ratio :-/ Upload doesn't happen because private IP & 2ndly no leechers from India within same ISP range like before. For latency, Browse non frequent cached sites from Russia,South Korea,South America & Africa. Probably you can access Debian ftp mirrors in those countries to check the speed. Use 'Tor' browser. It works fine :-) There are some java based web torrent extensions for 'Tor'. >I do know that airtel does do lot of blockage and > censorship, even good sites once in a while. > > I had read few years back that airtel gave private network IP instead > of public dynamic IP like BSNL and others do, is the situation same ? Yes it's same. All ISP's absolutely has blocked public torrent sites as per the order from court. > Also as the ipv4 stack is getting emptier, is airtel or any other ISP > (local) has started giving/leasing out ipv6 range of addresses *Unfortunately no! Even big companies are still having IPv6 internally but WAN is on IPv4. [*in Pune city] Regards, Amey >to be > used by multiple devices or it's a sill no-no. > > Lastly, for FWIW. I didn't have to do any special configuration for > either pinging external site or surfing the web. > > Looking forward to know some of the answers. > -- > Regards, > Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल > My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ > http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com > EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8 > _______________________________________________ > plug-mail mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.plug.org.in/listinfo/plug-mail _______________________________________________ plug-mail mailing list [email protected] http://list.plug.org.in/listinfo/plug-mail
