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Dialog HomeNet, a lookback

Well, I've used the connection for a while and on the verge of a radical change in my lifeline (THE INTERNET CONNECTION). So thought I'll look back on the past few months with my beloved connection (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)




In-terms of speed...I was neither complaining nor really happy. The connection was serving the purpose for the most of the lifetime, but nothing fancy. I would have liked it to be a bit more speedy during the morning hours of week days, but I rarely stay home on weekdays in the morning. Weekends was a complete disaster though, speeds drop to about less than 10kBps. Still, at most nights I get a good speed of about 40-50kBps.
This is a bit strange though, as in the morning is weekdays, there should be minimum congestion. This is what I've seen with Mobitel HSDPA connections. But in Dialog HomeNet, it is quite the opposite. Probably because, Dialog has their corporate client base connected via WiMax

In-terms of cost.... I think at the current rates, the Dialog HomeNet is ridicules. SLT is offering ADSL at 1600/= Mobitel is offering a good HSDPA connection of 2Gb for 900/=. (and thats with a nominal speed of 1Mbps) Even Dialog themselves are offering a 5GB campus package (which isn't very hard to get even if you haven't seen a university) for about 1600/=. BUT with all this in the market, Dialog HomeNet is still at 2587.50Rs. Now that's STUPID. Hopefully Dialog will understand this and decrease the tariffs soon, but they'll be a be too late by then....

As for the service offered....it sucks. I remember calling a customer care guy sometime back to figure-out why I got a 5175/= bill the very first month, and this guy wasted about 45 minutes of my (very valuable :) time telling me "that it is like that and I just have to admit that" since I demanded to know why exactly it is like that, he put me through to a senior executive who took about 2 minutes to clear out the situation to me. PATHETIC. But I guess the customer care at even Mobitel is like that, and even worse in SLT

NOW..... I'm going to switch to a simpler PLAN. I have several options at hand.

1.) Dialog HSDPA campus package
2.) Mobitel HSDPA
3.) Airtell HSDPA
4.) SLT ADSL
5.) Lankabell WiMax


I'm weighing my options these days... soon I'll come out with a comparison and a new connection........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





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