EVDO Coverage of Tata, MTS, Reliance in Kolkata & WB

EV-DO is the 3G/HSPA equivalent of CDMA technology. Due to some technical reasons CDMA carriers of India can not utter 'EVDO' term for their high speed data services (HSD or High Speed Internet Access/HSIA). But EVDO is very much developed in India and gave us the taste of wireless broadband before 3G from GSM players set in.

All these private players offer EVDO Rev A - max downlink 3.1 Mbps and max uplink 1.8 Mbps.

PSU - BSNL West Bengal and Calcutta Telephones offer EVDO but there is no definite list of the coverage.

TV Release Group Dump Xvid, I Support

I am a BitTorrent user since 2005, and from around 2006 I find that .mkv files offer better quality than .avi releases. Later as I turned more tech geek, found the advantages of X264 over XVID/DIVX codecs. DivX is already abandoned by BitTorrent release groups.

I asked desi releasers - DDR and XRG to rip in .mkv format for small size and better quality. But what they told that many users watch these rips on their DVD players which are not x264 supported and hence they have to keep releasing xvid rips. I also found that DDR is releasing same release in two versions - x264 and xvid for the convenience of the users but x264 rips go to only private trackers. That is not a big problem for me as I am member of most of the desi torrent groups.

How to Unlock ZTE EVDO Modems?

I have plan to write down on this topic but did not able to make it because of various factors. We all know how to unlock GSM - 2G/3G modems and it is not very tough to do. There are many resellers who sell unlocked 3G/HSPA modems at a very low cost. Check out Nirav Soni's website - http://mymodem.in/ for more details on 3G modem unlocking. As the site is still in a nascent stage, move to http://www.modemunlock.com/ for more updates.

Now coming back to EVDO modem unlock! I think unlocking evdo modems are more important beacuse of some reasons:

1. In India EVDO based data cards are more popular than 3G data cards. Indian CDMA players like Reliance, Tata, MTS and BSNL offers EVDO based high speed data at cheaper tariff.
2. These data cards store the operators'

When Batman and Cricket Mixed Up

I have a habit to check the updates on The Dark Knight Rises, be it on facebook group or via Google news! Interestingly I find this time a search result for TheDarkKnightRises which is:

The Bane of Indian cricket

The Indian cricket team would do well to read stories from the Batman saga to overcome its current bad form

Something related to cricket is mixed up with batman - sounds very interesting to me and I go to the page on livemint. If you are an Indian and cricket maniac and a fan of batman or fan of Chris Nolan's films must read this article by Sandipan Deb. While you may find it unusual to compare the things, do not forget to enjoy this comparison between a outdoor game and a comic hero! If you already saw the trailers of The Dark Knight Rises, you must know the trailer starts with a rugby playground. :O 

Well if I brief up the stuff it is something like - 'Why do we fall? So we can learn pick ourselves up' which came many times in the batman series by Mr. Nolan.

MTS EVDO Speedtest [Barasat]

My friend Anirban got a scope to try MTS EVDO data services. He lives at Barasat. But anyhow his speedtest.net results are not so good, rather average.

So I guess the distance between the EVDO enabled BTS from his house is in between mid zone to periphery zone [ref to Qualcomm's explanation].

Well for some days MTS network has some issues, like complete black out of network, Net Error during a call and etc.

Compare Books Price in India on Indiabookstore.net

I am not a brand loyal when it comes to select a shop! First thing I bought something from online were books from Flipkart and that's too on COD! Well firs time online shopping is to be done perfectly to build confidence to my family & friends for future recommendation! 

Flipkart is a great site to be started with! It has excellent pricing & delivery system and Cash-on-Delivery option to build a customer-base.

Soon I find that other sites are also offering books & electronics

EVDO Speed Test 2

In my last two posts I shared the facts that within core area of a BTS coverage you will get awesome speeds.

Post 1 : Qualcomm explains how speed goes down with distance from BTS.
Post 2 : My tests with MTS EVDO - which says that I am very much near to MTS EVDO enabled BTS

Yesterday I went to my friend's house, where I found that speed is not that good.