As i said in my  last post, this post is’nt from a ****ing crawling gprs .. Its from my new bsnl broadband..Ok..now here is my bandwidth rates..

But i got very poor speeds after 1 pm .Donno whether its a one-day-problem . Any way..I’m happy.Downloaded around 2 GB in last 20 hours..I dont have to worry about bandwidth limits..no fear..  

PS : People who are not from my sweet home country , THIS IS INDIA!

Competition will ameliorate you.. Atleast thats the case with BSNL and ADL .. The two most accepted broadband providers in Trivandrum and Cochin.. Just after Bsnl introduced an unlimited Broadband plan(256 kbps UL 900 and UL 900 plus) ADL upgraded their existing unlimited homenet to 256kbps. Both ADL and Bsnl have ramped up their Customer care service and  now you get quick responses to your queries.I admired ADL for their fast responses to new connection requests.They used to give out new conections with in 4~5 days where as BSNL took almost a month for my DIAS connection. Whatever it may be, its changing now. I booked for BSNL DataOne connection on this Monday(12th June) and they assured me that connection will be ready within 7 days. BSNL Kaimanam AE called me just a few hours ago and told me that my modem is ready and they will come today afternoon .. A new connection within 4 days! Yea, it depends on your exchange but still … 
              Coming back to ADL..My cousin said she has a new problem with ADL..She loved to call ADL guys and complaint them about noisy connection and drop outs… But now ADL is so smooth ..no dropouts..no blackouts.. Perfect!!  And my poor cousin is furious with a No_Complaint_ADL ..
    About a comparison between these two , it depends upon your usage.If you are some one who play lots of online games and dont care about upload speed , Bsnl is for you. And if you are a serious seeder, broadcaster, or manages a heavy website which needs daily caring(huge ftp uploads ) ADL is suited for you. ADL gives you a full 256 kbps upload bandwidth while bsnl gives you only a 64kbps uload.(ADL bandwidth is shared – that means total bandwidth (Upload +download )is 256 kbps . You can use a full 256 kbps upload with 0 download or vice versa at the same time..Bsnl on the other hand uses dedicated upload and download channels ) . Moereover there are some other factors which decides the Qos like your locality(distance from exchange ) , and density of users ..

 I think it will be my last post from Airtel Gprs connection. I brought back  my pc  to tvm yesterday . And right now, i am waiting for those bsnl guys …for a good connection…for a fraggig fest with my friends…for all those downloads..

                     After a long 6 months here i am , waiting to logon to a broadband connection…

PS: For those who are blessed with a mac, this post isnt for u! Its for poor chaps like me who are stuck with a windows…

          Even though I’m on a pathetic network with a speed of max: 8 kBps , i decided to get my hands on google desktop and yahoo widgets.

Google desktop(with widgets and a super cool desktop search engine ) : 2 MB
Yahoo Widgets Engine (with basic widgets) : 600kb (+ 11mb online installation )

    Now lets start comparison right from scratch.Regarding the download size, google is a super light weight app with 2mb where it includes google talk, google desktop crawl engine(just like google bot which crawls the web for all your search needs! ), some widgets , a cool side bar ) . And the yahoo one is a bit heavy with 11mb of online installation(and thats just a Widget engine) .
  Yahoo widget installation was over within minutes after the file download.Its simple and straight. Google on the other hand needs some hours to set up its desktop file index. It is done in 2 modes .Either you can configure it to crawl the files on idle time or you can have a forced crawl.Crawling is a resource hungry process.It took above 95% of my cpu (1.9Ghz intel P4   ) .So it is better to opt for the first mode.It took around 4 hours to index 120GB  .

    Yahoo widget engine uses a glossy mac like interface for almost all its widgets.Its really cool and yahoo site hosts over 1000 widgets to choose from.

 The engine is basically a java script runtime engine which takes takes full advantage of advanced graphics capabilty of modern PCs.And its available for MACs also! Now who need a standalone widget engine for a MAC?? Yahoo managed to add some eye candy efefcts like fading and sliding effects which seems pretty neat and smooth to me.

Each individual Widget can have its own set of options associated with it.

This allows the user to do things like change the location for Weather, or add, edit and delete To Do list items.

   Google seems to have concentrated more on the search and performance rather than on visual effects.The prime focus is indeed local search by which you can search anything(Yea!! even contents of files!!) with a double tap on [ctrl] key. The speed by which it locates files is simply amazing! It has predictive result display , which shows the results as you type .

 

Look wise, Google is as it is always..plain, classic and white! Some cool widgets are available for google desktop,which integrates with google talk, gmail and orkut.Rss Readers, what’s Hot ( Top most searched keywords  in google) , whatsmyip, etc are some of them.

Google desktop has a nifty replacement for windows Media player. Actually its an extention of windows media player(Only Audio formats are playable).