[Ilugc] Linux and ISPs

[Vamsee Kanakala]

benjamin wrote:
> Why didn't your friend ask for an Ethernet Modem?
> I have their Ethernet Modem which rocks :-)
> for three years now.
>   

+1 for Airtel. Close to 3 years for me too. I've heard good things about 
BSNL, but I probably cannot expect a BSNL engineer to visit me within 4 
hours of giving a complaint. Airtel does, and normally they appear 
within the hour. It's definitely a little more expensive than BSNL, but 
you can at least shout at the customer service and be taken seriously. 
Not that I had to.

I had an instance when the net connection went down at 4 am, and there 
was a technical guy at the other end helping me troubleshoot a DNS 
problem, from Linux. Afaik, their modems normally come with both 
ethernet and usb ports. You can use either.

V.