Tarun Dua

The airtel guys have wired up the dsl cable, now I need to wait for phone and modem installation guy to come in and do the honours. That would be broadband in my place in 6 days since I moved in not bad at all for this sleepy and dusty cousin of Gurgaon and Delhi.
The reliance CDMA1_x datacard has been nothing better than a dial-up connection with absolutely no reliability, my Instant messenger conversations are disconnected way too often.

The voices inside my head have increased their primal chants of 'broadband broadband broadband' to a crescendo, after all a man can live without food, perhaps even water but not without broadband.

All is forgiven to Airtel , their non-stop pre-recorded voice spam messages in Kannada or Marathi, their text spam, their less than honest pre-paid mobile recharges( once I got Rs. Rs. 199.45 talktime for Rs. 555.00 ), if they can pull it off by the end of today.

Update: 1727 hours
Got a phone instrument on the DSL line. The DSL modem is still not in place.

Update: 1713 hours, 12 Dec, 2008
The airtel DSL installation engineer is sitting next to me and the broadband now works. Yippee

Now for power backup. Sigh! most people in civilized western countries have never heard about 'inverters'.