Upgrading to Reliance Broadband plus from the old Reliance Netconnect

I was amongst the first few members who took the Reliance Netconnect 1x connection, when it got introduced in my locality. It was around 2.5 years back. From then I was using Reliance Netconnect and I was pretty much satisfied with its performance. Mainly because I was not using internet for any download purpose. So, the slow speed 1x connection was suffice, then.

Recently a big change has happened in Indian Broadband sector. All major wireless internet providers have introduced new wireless broadband schemes. Tata has brought Photon+, Airtel has Airtel Broadband and Reliance introduced Broadband Plus. All are wireless broadband connections with USB modem.

I was not sure whether it was a coincident or not that ever since Reliance Broadband plus came into picture, my already-slower existing Netconnect went slower than the usual speed. May be it could be the strategy from Reliance to force the old connection users to the Broadband plus.

Whatever it is, I decided to switch to broadband. The increased speed was one reason. And, Reliance gave an RS 250/month offer to all user who upgrade their 1x connection to broadband. So, if your plan costs you 850/month, you only needs to pay 600. And this offers is valid for one year. So the total money comes around RS 3000. But the USB modem costs only RS 3500. So, you almost get your money back (with a catch of 1 year waiting time, anyway!). Pretty good deal, though.

So, I switched to Reliance Broadband plus and have been using it for the past two weeks. I’m very pleased with the speed it gives. The signal strength is pretty good in my locality, so I’m almost getting the higher bandwidth speed at all the times. The upload speed is also very good, even though I don’t upload much. The Reliance dialer has a slick UI, which is not at all connected anyway with the speed/performance. But, I like to mention about the UI here.

If you are in India and want to get a wireless broadband connection, I’ll recommend Reliance Broadband Plus to you.

If you are using any other broadband connection (such as Photon+, etc), feel free to comment on their performance. I’ll be happy to hear about them too.