Life, Work and Technology » Mt. Abu http://blog.francispereira.com Francis Pereira's blog Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:01:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Airtel GPRS v/s Reliance NetConnect in Mount Abu, Rajasthan http://blog.francispereira.com/airtel-gprs-vs-reliance-netconnect-in-mount-abu-rajasthan http://blog.francispereira.com/airtel-gprs-vs-reliance-netconnect-in-mount-abu-rajasthan#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:28:34 +0000 Francis http://blog.francispereira.com/?p=18 If you are traveling to Mount Abu with your Reliance data card and hoping to get online, think again. Reliance’s network in Mount Abu is very weak. Chances are that you will not get network at all. At first I taught it was the place where I was, was a poorly covered area until I met Arvind [ St. Mary's computer teacher and a perhaps the largest computer hardware dealer in Mount Abu ] over coffee and he confirmed that Reliance’s network in Mount Abu is beyond poor. This in contrast to all their advertisement on television whose tag line is “Total Coverage.  Air | Food | Water | Network !”

Turned to my last resort: Airtel GPRS. Surprisingly Airtel’s GRPS works very well. I managed to get a peak of 7KB per second and an average of 4.5KB per second. Unlike Mumbai where if you are connected [transferring data ] using EDGE \ GPRS and someone is trying to call you he/she gets a engaged tone, calls come through just fine. I wished it worked this well back in Vasai, Mumbai. EDGE is not available in Mount Abu though is it available in Abu Road. Guessing its a works well in Abu because there are very few users using it.

Cell Phone and Bluetooth saves the day. Connects you back to civilization.

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Captured some breath taking pictures but I don’t have the bandwidth to upload them at the moment. Guess I would have to wait to get back to Mumbai to have decent connectivity. Till then here is something to you an idea of the place


Abu road for diving boardWow pretty nice. I have a haloDiving boardDiving boardCool WindPretty nice huhhh !!

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Wow pretty nice. I have a haloWith the big manThinkingBoundaryFlagySchool from Flagy

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