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MTNL Mumbai restricts 3G download speed to 384 kbps

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 03:35 AM PDT

Nice!! more than 2.2 mbps? Hope that MTNL is updating to HSDPA 7.2

Airtel Broadband throttling torrent downloads

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 03:34 AM PDT

Quote:
Originally Posted by xred View Post
Some insight:

Companies which own international bandwidth (like RCOM, Bharti Airtel) have found a new business model to make money from underutilized network during non peak hours. They sell bandwidth for releasing Indian content in US. This content (such as movies to be released in theater) is very heavy (Few TB) and is required to be delivered at a particular time (content owners hand over content to distributor just before the release in order to minimize piracy). The network utilization follows a particular pattern and especially during the night, network utilization falls below 10% of peak utilization. So, generally they choose this period and block very high portion of bandwidth (lets say 80%) for this content. In order to avoid any breakdown in the network, they might throttle the torrent and other data hungry program.

I do not want to suggest that this is the reason for throttling at a particular time but this can be one of the reasons.
With the amount of capacity the ISPs such as Bharti have available to them, a few TB here and there doesn't affect much of anything. To put it in to context, Bharti could transfer 10TB of content over the lit capacity of it's international pipes (not total capacity, but lit capacity) in about 15 minutes without blinking an eyelash.

The setup of content distribution networks is designed in such a way that the content is sent from India to the US and is stored in the US itself for distribution in the US through whatever channel - be it a movie theatre, netflix, the cable providers or others.

Secondly, network utilization at off-peak hours is significantly more than 10%. Indicative traffic graphs show about 30% usage on average - in Mumbai that number is as high as 50%, in Delhi about 30%, in Chennai about 40%. This is significantly higher than graphs I've seen for ISPs in other countries, however I expect this is due in part to the popularity of "night unlimited" type plans in India.

Thirdly, the direction of traffic is wrong - if Bharti is sending content to the US, that's going to have little (if any) effect on the downloads of it's users in India, because almost all users (especially on ADSL) have much less upload capacity than download capacity, and as such the theory goes that there is plenty of spare upload capacity at any time of the day.

Fourth, they simply aren't *allowed* to simply "block off" chunks of bandwidth to allocate it to some other purpose just because it's off-peak hours. They're still required to maintain their contention ratios and provide the same quality of service no matter what the time is as per whatever plan the user is on. The exception to this from memory is if the government declares a state of emergency, and that too I think a national emergency, at which point ISPs are obliged to surrender their resources to the government/military/etc (I'm oversimplifying it a bit, but it has such clauses in the ISP license agreement).

Last, but not least, the above graph shows that the user received full speeds in the night, not throttled speeds - which contradicts the theory you've put forth.

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...I think I had another point, but I can't think of it right now.

'Sudden' leader of a 'troubled' nation

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 03:34 AM PDT

Quote:
Originally Posted by SVK View Post
It was a 'troubled' nation, situated besides 'biggest democratic' nation. 'Troubled' nation never looked settled and always had issues with leadership, development, internal conflicts, etc and few wars with 'democratic' nation over a 'region'. Then 1 day by some unfortunate events, the 'troubled' nation gets a new 'sudden' leader. Many people from the nation & abroad had doubts about mentality & calibre about the 'sudden' leader.
This 'sudden' leader happen to visit the 'big' nation for important international meeting. And as usual or may be lack of experience of such situations before, this 'sudden' leader calls the 'hopeful deputy-leader' of 'big'' nation as 'pretty' and makes some more comments against the protocol of any leader should follow raising eye-brows of many people in the 'big' nation, especially when the 'troubled' & 'big' nation relations not going well.
So the main question is, whether this 'sudden' leader be trusted by 'democratic' nation for the solution over the disputed 'region'. Is the 'sudden' leader capable of making some decision & will he get support from their nation over any solution if any?
Did you make that up yourself or copy+paste it from somewhere else ?

If its the latter its customary to provide the source.

Selling my laptop dell xps m1210

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 03:32 AM PDT

Why?;Did your dell pc cause problems?This is not inspiron shit where it will overheat every summer.This is XPS version aka xtreme performance system.

Men deliver babies in Rajasthan claims health centre

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 03:23 AM PDT

Yes, It looks like the latest Kaand of UPA Govt :p

Letsbuy.com: User Experiences

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 03:20 AM PDT

It happened with lots many, so need to post on their Facebook page .

Reveiw and Buying Experience of my New SONY BRAVIA 40" Full HD TV

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 03:11 AM PDT

with respect to HD Channels i feel like i am not facing this issues...

but yes in normal channels like Star Cricket this issues are there.....

Facebook Updates

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 03:09 AM PDT

I have feeling that Facebook is now planning to enter territory of linkedin too!

Great Aahat (1996-2000) Fans : Attention Please.

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 02:46 AM PDT

Aahat (1996-2000)


This was very great horror show & I am great fan of it. If any of u too, Lets share good stories from OLDEST AAHAT. I couldnt find more videos of oldest Aahat but we can share good stories of Aahat 1.

I have just open this thread to find Aahat 1 fans. & I hope we will refresh our memories of the great OLDEST AAHAT (1996-2000). Time to time I will share the show's memorable stories.

I got inspiration from facebook a/c made for Aahat season 1.

NOTE: Only reply on Aahat season 1. Dont reply on later versions please.

Thanks.


Introduction:

Aahat was aired in 1996 on sony telivision. These seasons around 98% stories were very impressive & memorable. This show was horror but just by stories. No extra Ghost costumes, no extra effects, no shrivelingg sounds, no over use of ghosts. Aahat 1 was owesumly good but later versions spoil it's image continuously. Each story was different & impressive, hardly few stories was not impressive . Aahat made under Akshaya production in 1996. Later it handle by CID director B. P. Singh & he made it a detective & comedy series.


NOTE: Only reply on Aahat season 1. Dont reply on later versions please.

Thanks.



Keep replying, sharing, refreshing memories of Aahat (1996-2000))

3 new devotional channels added on Tata sky !!!

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 02:35 AM PDT

What is this 3 to 9 concept? Do we still have channels which air only a few hours a day