Wheras much of india rejoices with the comming of the monsoon season .. being primarily an agricultural country it is quite joyous , however to some internet users it means hours & days of downtime with blown off switches (switches blown off during lightning are a very common feature) & cutting of the wires due to tress falling on them & so on. ... anyone with similar tales ? Any one feels my pain
you are right dude Monsoon = a Nightmare for me hours of Downtime will start in few days Last year due to Thunder and Lightening my Lan Card got damaged 2 times this sucks!!! any Idea when those Internet Service Provider Giants coming to India - AOL, Comcast etc..
do you remember Mumbai Floods in 2005 we had no Internet for 2 weeks and no Electricity for 3-4 Days OMG!!!
yeh the same thing, my mistake i just dont beleive 2yrs have passed.. that was real bad.. i couldnt return home for 2 days coz of the rain/floods, and when i reached home no net for 2 weeks.. that was really horrible.
In Guwahai , Assam the monsoon season is really terrific. The yearly flood damage entire state's back bone. Last year i got 17 disputes in paypal within 96 hrs for not delivering items when Internet was unavailable due to heavy flood and thunder storm.
I have a record 35 stays offline history. Two years back, lightning destroyed 3000 modems of my ISP in a single strike,...it took them 35 days to find 3000 new modems and restore all connections back. .
Haha I was probably the last to come back here in 2005, was an experience of a lifetime! And the other guys, get a home stabiliser installed and get a damned inverter FFS!
Sorry guys, Its to bad that you get an disadvantage just because you live in that area. Good luck this year
yes, the days are back! am planing to get a gprs, my bsnl broadband will be down for weeks or months in that period! hard time is going to come not exactly, i have big invertier and battery to keep it online for days, then i have a generator!! for internet, i do have a lot of options, so living in this area is not all that disadvantagous!!
Good for you then I know some people that live in areas that really are affected and cannot afford generators. They lose money because of the weather
lol that made me and my friends sitting besides me laugh haha Even I got confused whats the use of Generator to keep ur internet On for long ??
lol, i was talking about the electricity! inverters, battery, ups, generators all for electricity! not for internet!
i agree..even though for me current is not an issue..the ISP sucks. i dont live in india..i go theere for vacationing..so i get stuck sometimes.. but then u have gprs...using mobiles..but i cant logonto DP ;-) tho
blew one lan card of mine , and the lighthing took out all the switches in my area , my net was down for 15 days , it was sheer torture !!