Finally I Get Broadband Connection
Hoorahh!!! I am finally into the information super highway!
Yesterday, the gentleman from Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) called me and installed the broadband connection on my laptop. I have been longing for the high speed net connection since I started my online journey way back in November -2006. It has been exactly two years and only now that I could join the web community on equal footing.
All these days - it was a frustrating experience to put it gently. While all my online friends and webmaster colleagues were plying their trades with the latest high-speed internet connection, I was trying to do it with DialUp! Dial-up connections with 2-10 kps is not only slow and inadequate, but also very very expensive indeed as my telephone bill was running upto as high as $175 per month. But did I have a choice? No.
Then came the GPRS facility in the beginning of this year- whereby BSNL was offering net connection through mobile for a fixed monthly charge of Rs.199 (approx. $5). I was very excited as I thought I could now atleast save some money even if the speed was just like dial-up connection. But alas! The GPRS signal was as rare as water on desert! Sometimes there was absolutely no signal for weeks. Few months back Airtel too introduced the GPRS facility. Although the cost ($7/m approx) was a bit higher than that of BSNL, still the GPRS signal remained almost 24 hours per day. The speed is always the same.
Now that I got what I dreamt for, I can certainly hope to serve my clients better and faster, not to mention my huge improvement in my business opportunities. I can now open any page 100 times faster than before, pay only $15 per month for unlimited access to the web and upload and download files as I wish contrary to my previous experience when it used to take 8 hours to download Yahoo Messenger!
