i've gone ahead and ponied up for it. it works great. the speeds are blazingly fast. however, some hiccups with reliance are worthy of mention:
01. to monitor my net-use, i was told i have to register at the reliance site. when i registered, the web-engine asked for my name and data-card number, and then sent the password to my data-card number. there's no way i can check the data-card number for an sms. it's not a voice and data card. just a data card. 02. i've made three visits to the reliance retailer, and several calls to their customer-support number. all i get to listen to are pre-recorded 'please hold your call is important to us' type of messages. funny they don't mention 'your time is not important to us.' once i waited more than 8 minutes, with no luck. several calls have exceeded 3 minutes of waiting, only terminated when i hung up. 03. an email to their customer-support is yet unanswered. more than 24 hours on that. i refuse to continue using their product since i must monitor its bandwidth use as audited by reliance. this thing is super-fast, and even latent time is billed. it downloaded a 37.5 mbyte software in about 3 minutes while i continued surfing, during day time, when i'd assume more traffic. 04. the usb-dongle does get rather hot. i've not yet used it for extended times to see how hot does it get. will be using it outstation for a few days. will keep you posted on its performance. regards niyam _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
