I am thinking about signing up with DishnetDSL. I have still not decided on it, but from what information I have gathered from them, it seems attractive.
You have to buy a ’’different’’ modem from them and they give a direct connection to your PC without having to connect through a telephone line. The SET-UP COST (modem + wiring etc.) is about Rs. 30, 000. Then they have various monthly plans. I liked the ’’Flexi Plan’’. Under this plan, just paying the set-up cost of Rs.30000, you get 1 hour per day free, for 5 years. Every additional hour is charged at Rs.24/- per hour. If we calculate the set-up cost of Rs. 30, 000 for 5 years, it comes to Rs. 500/- per month. 1 hr. per day, not having to pay the telephone charges, itself, pays for the set-up cost. Moreover, they claim that with their 64K modem, it takes, only about 8 minutes to download a 10 MB file, which if you try through a dial-up connection using a 56K modem could easily take up to 30 minutes. However there is a 1 GB per limit of total downloads. I am not sure if this relevant because 1 Gb is far more than what you can download, using 1 or even 2 or 3 hours a day.
But this is just what they have explained to me. Going by what they claim, their offer seems attractive. I have not come across anybody using their service, and can inform of the disadvantages. If anyone here has signed-up with them please post a comment...enlighten me.
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ADDITION : MAY 18 2001.
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Two persons, One Mr. Nehal Mehta and another (dont remember the name) supposedly, the area manager (sales) came to meet me in December 2000. With their sweet talk and a lot of blah...blah...blah about the DSL technology, (the information I wrote above), they got me (rather conned me) to pay an advance of Rs. 1000/-.
They told me that a connection would provided within 4 to 5 weeks, as they still did not have enough number of people wanting to subscribe, in my area. (I did not know that in their terminology 1 week equalled 1 month..) It was only in April 2001, when they finally informed me that it was not possible for them to provide a connection to me. They requested me to fax a simple letter claiming refund of my deposit, which I did.
I have repeatedly FAXed the letter 7 to 8 times since then.
Till date I neither have a DSL connection nor my refund.
I WOULD GO WITHOUT AN INTERNET CONNECTION RATHER THAN SIGN UP WITH DishnetDSL. THEY ARE NOTING BUT A BUNCH OF CON-MEN.