Beam Broadband Mind blowing lighting speeds

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just now got beam broadband connection activated.

Package- Rs 1020 per month. 10 MBPS upto 30 GB, 2 MBPS aferthat
no words to describe :shock:

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youtube videos @ 1080p doesn't stop at all. healthy torrents zoom beyond 1 MBPS.

Its megabits or megabytes???

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kisame said:
Its megabits or megabytes???

ofcoz its megabits. the one mentioned for torrent speed is megabytes.

relly nyc plan ...... 2mbps unlimited after 30GB Cap its mind blowing....

Amazing man. Which city?

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Nice ping . Just 50 ms.

sharang.d said:
Amazing man. Which city?

hyderabad

Oh damnn..

kisame said:
Its megabits or megabytes???

small b is bits.

BIG B is bytes.

I have heard about from another friend of mine.
The plans are also very cheap.
Wish it was available in my city

ico said:
small b is bits.
BIG B is bytes.

IEEE 1541-2002 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is why I was confused.It would have better if everyone had adopted this standard.

kisame said:
IEEE 1541-2002 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is why I was confused.It would have better if everyone had adopted this standard.

From your link:

bit (symbol 'b'), a binary digit;
byte (symbol 'B'), a set of adjacent bits (usually, but not necessarily, eight) operated on as a group;

Still doesn't explain why were you confused

But... God, I want Beam in my City! :shock:

I think its only available at Hyderabad.......

Vyom said:
But... God, I want Beam in my City!

Me too!

ACT in Bangalore is the only match for Beam !

sc3n3l0v3r said:
I think its only available at Hyderabad.......

had raised a query asking them whether they are planning to open in Mumbai...they said they will in near future

...and somehow I feel that near future is too far away

As of now Beam is available in Hyderabad.. & one of the TDF member also using it
he is S_V

xtremevicky said:
ACT in Bangalore is the only match for Beam !

Beam Telecom is the group company of ACT.

Vyom said:
From your link:

bit (symbol 'b'), a binary digit;

byte (symbol 'B'), a set of adjacent bits (usually, but not necessarily, eight) operated on as a group;

Still doesn't explain why were you confused
But... God, I want Beam in my City!

From my link

Moreover, there is not a consistent use of the symbols to indicate quantities of bits and bytes — the unit symbol "Mb", for instance,
has been widely used for both megabytes and megabits.
IEEE 1541 sets new recommendations to represent these quantities and unit symbols unambiguously.

This thing confuses me.I have seen some sites using these interchangeably.But lets not continue any further on this topic.

Sweet Mother of God. I think I'm going to shift to Hyderabad

Well, I have been using Beam (the same 10 Mbps plan) for the last 10 months, and I must say, it is very impressive.
However, from the shots you have posted, your ping seems to be very high. Mine always stays in 20's or less.

lovedonator said:
sweet mother of god. I think i'm going to shift to hyderabad

+1

aniket.cain said:
well, i have been using beam (the same 10 mbps plan) for the last 10 months, and i must say, it is very impressive.
However, from the shots you have posted, your ping seems to be very high. Mine always stays in 20's or less.

why o why!?!?

Well, here is my shot:

*www.speedtest.net/result/2020069559.png

*www.speedtest.net/result/2020066935.png

I know the ping is higher than I mentioned. :-?

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aniket.cain said:
Well, here is my shot:

*www.speedtest.net/result/2020069559.png

*www.speedtest.net/result/2020066935.png

I know the ping is higher than I mentioned.

what could be reason for my higher ping?

i tried pingtest
*www.pingtest.net/result/65034243.png

ajaymailed said:
what could be reason for my higher ping?
i tried pingtest
*www.pingtest.net/result/65034243.png

Ha Ha Ha!!!U have internet which is faster than 98% of other peoples yet you are worried about small difference in pings.
Hunger for bandwidth never stops. :mrgreen:

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kisame said:
Ha Ha Ha!!!U have internet which is faster than 98% of other peoples yet you are worried about small difference in pings.
Hunger for bandwidth never stops.

no i am curious about it, i did see lower pings with other beam connections compared to mine.
as far as speed is concerned, 10 mbps is an overkill. But 2 mbps unlimited is the real good, for 1500 bucks they double fup speed to 4 mbps.

God dam!But i guess if they set up for all citys i guess they will reduce speeds and FUP?aS THEN it will be a huge comapny and airtel will be in loss

This plan is around from quite some time AFAIK. So if one has this in their city it's a must get :wink:

xtremevicky said:
ACT in Bangalore is the only match for Beam !

ACT is only available in parts's of bangalore too. damn!

I had contacted Beam Telecom for that same 10 mbps internet plan a few days ago... No one showed up. Called them 3 times...

Then finally one sales guy showed up yesterday. I am afraid their after sales service might suck... but still want the faster speeds. So booked 10 Mbps for 6 months plan (saving Rs 500 + 500 installation charges)...

Hope to get it in 3 days....

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Is it available in Chennai, They have in Bangalore and Hydrabad(as mentioned in the previous post), why they skip Chennai? :shock:

wish we have beam in bangalore

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AndroidFan said:
I had contacted Beam Telecom for that same 10 mbps internet plan a few days ago... No one showed up. Called them 3 times...

they came to my house within 30 mins of calling. their branch office seems to be near my place.

Then finally one sales guy showed up yesterday. I am afraid their after sales service might suck... but still want the faster speeds. So booked 10 Mbps for 6 months plan (saving Rs 500 + 500 installation charges)...

me too

Hope to get it in 3 days....

why 3 days?, they would have installed the next day for me, but i told them two days later as i had some other work, then i called in the evening two days later, within an hour they came and installed.

I've a Reliance Broadband connection.
Plan: 12mbps till 30gb then 2mbps unlimited, it is same from speedtest website but its not same when i download stuff in Chrome or bittorrent. I get around 1.6mbps max.
How much speed are you guys getting on downloads on chrome or Bittorrents?

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1.6mB/s is perfectly fine for 12mbps plan...

AndroidFan said:
I had contacted Beam Telecom for that same 10 mbps internet plan a few days ago... No one showed up. Called them 3 times...

Then finally one sales guy showed up yesterday. I am afraid their after sales service might suck... but still want the faster speeds. So booked 10 Mbps for 6 months plan (saving Rs 500 + 500 installation charges)...

Hope to get it in 3 days....

The ASS of Beam is pretty decent. My flatmate broke his cable connector, and the repair guy arrived within 3 hours to change the connector.
Though the best part about Beam is that they forget to trigger the FUP limit time and again, and you will generally get full speed throughout the month.

i have no other option so still using BSNL{Bhai shaeb nahi lagega} :-(

How's the reliabilty and uptime ?? Btw , any idea about Beam Broadband in Delhi ?

Yesterday, I torrented a 900MB file in less than 5 minutes... Got a speed of 4 MBPS/sec... Its not normal... but really amazing...

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Beam seems great, but I am using BSNL boradband from 6 years, 99% uptime. May be it will sound strange but BSNL worked best for me. I can say that if there is anything about this crappy BSNL service I am happy about is it's BSNL Broadband Service. Never ditched me ever. 400/Month - Night Unlimited.

i have used BSNL BB, Sify, Airtel BB & some lesser known ones ,but BeamTele service is way above anything else. Almost 99.9% uptime .

I wish BeamTele someday be a Nationwide service provider, then India will see a cyber revolution for sure.

I envy Beam telecom, their plans are just too great for every Indian.

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i am using ACT in bangalore similar to beam 10mbps 75gb after that 2mbps for 1299

Really impressive

, I might as well go for ACT after a couple of months

No Words... :shock:

lucky

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Even I got all pumped-up when I read abt beam, but since one of the gentleman above mentioned that their ASS might be bad, I decided to gather some Info abt it. Please go to below link and see for urself. I think I'm petty content with my 1 Mbps unlimited plan from Hathway (₹ 1000/- pm, and Im a heavy user.... Generally download abt 25-30 gb per month and even though I know Hathway has a fup in place but it never gets into effect even after crossing the limit. So, its 1mbps unlimited.) as it gives me abt 99.99% uptime and ASS is unmatchable, as my complaints are generally attended in 30-45 mins. Because One of their technician is always stationed at our local cable opertor's office.

Ps - sorry abt mobile site link but I'm surfing thru my phone and couldn't get the original link upon requesting (clicked on full site link)

BEAM CABLE - Reviews | Broadband | Wireless | Ratings - MouthShut.com

ASS of BeamTele is unmatchable to any service provider in india in any field. any request is resolved within 2-3hrs(even in night after 2 am :shock:

) unless it is router failure(which will be addressed next day for sure) or a power failure of local router which they can't address

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BTW, they provide optical fibre connection also at resonable price

beam says

Crazy plans at crazy prices

I have to Move away from FailTel , checked with ACT but they don't have service in my area

.IIRC they has previously said their service was available in my area

pratik385 said:
I've a Reliance Broadband connection.
Plan: 12mbps till 30gb then 2mbps unlimited, it is same from speedtest website but its not same when i download stuff in Chrome or bittorrent. I get around 1.6mbps max.
How much speed are you guys getting on downloads on chrome or Bittorrents?

How much you pay?

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I dunno why Beam is providing nearly 15 MBPS on my 10 MBPS on this connection but its pretty amazing for sure. I was wondering how come i am getting 1.6 megabytes per second on torrent.

the only problem is i am worried about reaching 30 GB FUP within days, its only 2 MBPS after that. Cant believe i am saying this but 2 MBPS sounds a bit slow after getting used to 10 MBPS.

There was a time when i thought 256 kbps was extremely exciting, but that was almost like a decade ago. the first internet i used was dial up, 32 KBPS way back in 2001-02, then used 64 KBPS cable internet for a couple of years suffering heavy downtimes, 128 KBPS for a couple of years local ISP , I started torrenting @ 128 KBPS with Hathway, it used to take two nights to download a 700 MB File, then it was 256 kbps with Hathway for an year,

finally in 2009 i went for Airtel 2 MBPS, first time i got introducted to FUP, but still 2 MBPS was amazing at that time, 512 MB post FUP was gr8. I had to move to another small town for an year where i forced to use BSNL BB 750, as it was only ISP there. Next year i had to shuttle between my home city and another town weekly so had to use both Airtel 2 MBPS and BSNL BB 750.

Again i had to move to another small town which surprisingly had decent ISPs, excel broadband provided 756 KBPS UL for 750 bucks. Finally i moved back to Hyderabad, this time i didnt want to compromise on anything, called up Beam broadband right away.

In all these years i came to experience so many speeds offered by ISPs, right from 32 KBPS Dial up to the 10 MBPS.

^^ Faster than 99% of India.
I envy you!

i'm still using gprs

J

Jesus! -____-
My ping has risen to frigging 467 ms for the past 1 week.

@ajay
Me still stuck with 512 kbps up to 4 GB and 256 kbps after that. I have a used the speed you get maybe once or twice till date..and its..well fast..

Jripper said:
Jesus! -____-
My ping has risen to frigging 467 ms for the past 1 week.

Might be a fault.which servers give you 467 ms ping?

J

^ Err..I just went to speedtest.net and ran a test their. Didn't select any server myself,it was picked automatically I think.

Is it available in Kolkata ?