Airtel Broadband seems to have doubled speeds for all it’s users. I have confirmed the same from users based in Chandigarh, Gurgaon, New Delhi/NCR and parts of Punjab. It could be a totally North Indian thing but until there’s an official word from Airtel there’s no proper way to explain this phenomenon.
My 256 kbps connection has been steadily giving me a sleek 512 kbps speed for the past one week now. I really hope Airtel isn’t messing with us so that we just end up consuming the data cap under FUP and they choke us for the rest of the month on 128 kbps speeds. I don’t think it’s a possibility with Airtel.
Now let me raise your hopes. I hope Airtel is experimenting how doubling the speeds for broadband users across the country will affect it or may be it’s a load-test. Whatever it is Airtel’s certainly got all it’s users happy! I hope this party never ends.
I have had prior experience of travelling in the Chandigarh-New Delhi Jan Shatabdi Express train. Both the times the train was more than two hours behind schedule. It is not a big deal for the Indian Railways but for a 4-5 hour journey even a delay of half an hour makes a difference, to the passengers of course and not the Railways. I prefer the Kalka-New Delhi Shatabdi Express which has been by far the most comfortable experience while travelling from New Delhi to Chandigarh and vice versa. It’s the next best thing to travelling in your own car. Taking the aerial route isn’t always a good choice except for when you’ve got to get there quick because of both cost as well as the location of the airport (and mostly it’s present state). So Jan Shatabdi is like super ultra cheap mode to travel from New Delhi to Chandigarh. A seat in the second sitting class costs Rs. 107 which is even cheaper than a bus ride for the same trip. Apart from the cost things aren’t on the greener side for obvious reasons.
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