Mid-April 2007

Caught speeding in Chennai on the highway at 5 am. Sounds odd right. No traffic policeman would be active at night you’d think. Well, that’s cause it isn’t any normal highway – it was the internet highway. You can see a snap below.

Speeding on the highway

This is much better than BSNL DataOne Unlimited – they only allow 8K/s upload bandwidth. The same night, my AirCard made a record upload speed of 14.4 KB/s. The average is what you see in the snapshot above.

Wondering why I call this speeding? Throttling happens in Chennai also. At times, speeds will be below 3 KB/s. But I don’t think download speeds are much affected. Browsing speed is good unlike in Puducherry. I hope AirTel doesn’t degrade this superb service in Chennai.