Testing Broadband Limits

Was just going through websites of major Broadband providers for Lucknow. Was inspired to do so by new Airtel ad offering 16Mbps.
First of its very good promotional advertising and targets the right audience. Even the website is well made according to that. http://airtel.impatientones.com/

Currently am using BSNL Dataone 750 plan which provides unlimited download at 256kbps for 750 pm. Will be upgrading soon to 1350 one which provides unlimited download at 512kbps for (yes you guessed it right) 1350pm.

While searching for Broadband limits I paid little regard to the 'cost' tag.

For Airtel in Lucknow the maximum I could find was: 2mbps 4GB download (huh) for Rs 777.
There was another one with speed of 1mbps but unlimited usage at Rs 2222 pm.

BSNL Dataone has no unlimited plans for speed great than 512kbs. Thats at 1350 pm. There is another plan with speed of 2mbps and maximum download limit of 20GB (can do with that for 2 weeks I suppose) for 3300 pm (now thats out of my league).

Next I checked was Reliance Broadband (dont trust much of the information provided) but there I found limited plan of speed 4000kbps (yes thats how it is written, they show off the number of 0's) with doanload limit of 7.5 GB at 1499 pm.

At Tata Indicom Broadband, situtation was quite grim. They refuse to provide High Speed net and you just need to be content with 512 kbps which is though unlimited for 1500 pm.

Sources:
http://www.bsnl.co.in/service/dataone_tariff.htm

http://airtel.in/wps/wcm/connect/airtel.in/Airtel.In/Home/ForYou/Broadband+Internet/Tariffs/

http://www.reliancecommunications.co.in/Communications/rcom/broadband/broadband_con_postpaid.html

http://www.tataindicombroadband.in/access/postpaid/order/post_wl_512_zero.html