i recharged with rs 175 and had balance above rs 50(must). you can get settings in your mobile by sms:

send sms “handset MODEL” to 58355. eg NOKIA 6630

or call cc at 9400024365/9434024365 (i m in WB circle, so it may be different at different circles)

i tried using bsnl gprs settings that were provided with my sim but it wasnt working so i called bsnl cc and they sent me these settings, i saved it and i m using it successfully:

1) bsnlnet:

access pt: bsnlnet

proxy:

port: 0

2) bsnlwap:

access pt: bsnlwap

proxy:10.220.67.131

port: 8080

some of the old access point connection settings that i have had, are given below:

RIM has launched Blackberry Bold 9700 for price Rs.31,990 and Rs. 33,990 in India. The new Blackberry Bold 9700 has better design and improved specifications over Blackberry Bold 9000. Blackberry Bold 9700 is perfect gadget for business class people and premium class customers. Blackberry Bold 9700 has catchy finishing and light in weight also.

Blackberry Bold 9700 has messenger 5 version for social networking while on the move, 3.2 mega pixel camera and 3G connectivity. Blackberry Bold 9700 is WI-FI enabled, powered with GPRS making it good companion while on the move. Blackberry Bold 9700 has specification better than Blackberry Bold 9000.

Blackberry Bold 9700 has been launched in India in collaboration with leading telecom players. Some of the companies are Vidafone, Airtel, BSNL, MTNL etc. Blackberry Bold 9700 is targeted for premium customers segment especially people who need to use mailing facility heavily. Blackberry Bold 9700 also preferred handset for designers.

However there is no surprise feature in Blackberry Bold 9700 over Blackberry Bold 9000. Also with 3G services launch is yet to happen and limited WI-FI connectivity, Blackberry Bold 9700 continue to be mainly used for mailing services.

See the amount of interest in PRI lines in India. I thought I will add more content for the same -

The three other (other than BSNL) major Telco’s in India that at the moment offer PRI to subscribers are mentioned below. To terminate them on to your cisco router , you shall need to know one very important parameter.

The FRAMING

TATA : crc4
RIC: crc4
MTNL: no-crc4

So your config for the E1 controller would look like for a MTNL PRI circuit

isdn switch-type primary-net5
controller E1 2/0
pri-group timeslots 1-31
framing no-crc4
no shut
description : ISDN PRI (XXXXXX)

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Written in 2007, the introduction to a biz plan for a T-commerce solutions provider.

1 Introduction

Buy Interactive has a vision of bringing online retailing into the drawing room of millions of television viewers via its innovative use of technology. The goal is to integrate the converging technologies of media, the internet, the wireless and retailing to facilitate the extension of e-commerce to t-commerce & m-commerce.

1.1 Objective

The objective of this business plan is to outline a strategy for an interactive solutions software company to target the emerging market for interactive television with a specific focus on interactive shopping as the application of technology with the existing Internet infrastructure as the communication backbone. The convergence of media, the Internet and online retailing is the hub of this identified niche in the content management software industry. Further aspects to be explored are an extension of online advertising and promotions to this targeted market segment.

.2 The Organization

The company, Buy Interactive, is a software products company with a focus on developing solutions for interactive/IP television. The crux of the software solutions are the set-top box, the software stack on the box and a broadband internet connection. Current applications of interactive/IP television are mostly sports-casting, picture-in-picture, video -on-demand, email, interactive games, & information portals; these have limited interactivity. Buy Interactive intends to focus on leveraging existing online retailers and their offerings to bring them to your fingertips.

1.3 The Service

The service offered by Buy Interactive is a unique shopping experience for the couch potato; the not-so-internet-savvy user, the one who is more comfortable with traditional media such as the television & video. No more time-wasting spent on the internet searching for deals; the best deals are brought to you to your finger-tips for use via the ‘power-pad’.

The business model also provides for advertising revenue to be collected by the cable & telephone networks based on the pay-per-click, pay-per-lead and pay-per-sale.

1.4 The Market

1.4.1 Geographic Market

The scope of this project proposal is to be limited to the geographic area of Cyprus with potential users CYTA and PrimeTel. The software will be provided as private label allowing the licensors to customize the look and feel of the software and use a consistent interface. Branding can be a combination of the online retailer and/or the operator.

1.4.2 Current Usage

CYTA MiVision market share among residential broadband users was about 10% when it was first introduced in July 2004. PrimeTel and its competing TriplePlay [includes ADSL 2+] service is currently aiming for a market share of 10-15% of IPTV subscribers. CYTA MiVision currently has 23,000 subscribers to IPTV with growth in subscriptions ranging from 500 to 1000 subscribers per month. PrimeTel, on the other hand, have new customers at the rate of 2000 per month. CYTA MiVision plan to introduce 2 new services soon, namely nPVR and Time-Shift TV. CYTA MiVision’s contract with Amino for STB’s specifies that orders (unit contract price) are placed for STBs based on demand, as the need arises. The price for each STB to the customer is 50 CYP , a one-off price. PrimeTel’s suppliers are Kreatel Communications, a recent acquisition by Motorola. STBs are currently being offered free by Prime Tel to new customers, mirroring a trend in most IPTV providers, to subsidize the STB in anticipation of selling value-added services and recovering the initial cost from the service revenues. Both Amino and Kreatel Communications STB devices both run on the LINUX operating system.

1.4.3 Growth Potential

Broadband usage in Cyprus at the end of the first quarter of year 2006 was 12.1% from 4.1% in 2005. 46% of households have internet access from home. Internet, mail order & telephone sales for the first half of 2007 show a jump in spending from £8.83 million for the whole of 2006 to £25.4 million.

This subscriber base has experienced increasing growth over the past 3 years, from 2004 to 2006, and the potential to convert these to IPTV customers increases as the broadband subscriber base increases. The other way to drive growth is to use the IPTV offerings to get television viewers (99% of the Cypriot population own a television) to switch over with a less intimidating offering, especially for non-computer owners (almost 50% of the population). Once a tipping point for this service is reached, growth will be exponential. Signs of this happening in the broadband market are evident. Extrapolating to IPTV and from there to Buy Interactive’s products is how we predict growth for our products.

IPTV in India

IPTV, in India, is currently offered by MTNL in Mumbai and BSNL in Pune, Kolkata and Bangalore.Other companies with plans to rollout IPTV Triple Play offerings in the near future include Reliance InfoComm and Bharti Airtel.

The PSUs

MTNL were the first to launch IPTV in India, namely in Mumbai and New Delhi in October 2006.

Subscribers now number less than 1,000 for MTNL, but the company is hoping for a high conversion rate as broadband connections grow to a target of 500,000 each in Mumbai and Delhi.Currently, MTNL has 225,000 broadband lines out of a total of 4.5 million fixed line subscribers in the two cities. To enable transport of high-density video content, MTNL is using compression technologies that can zip as much as 3 megabits per second.

Currently, a subscriber has to pay a lifetime payment of Rs 3,500 (approximately 87 USD) [Prices have dropped to Rs. 1000 approx. 25 USD for current new subscribers] for a set-top box, and a monthly rental of 120 rupees for 52 channels in Delhi. As volumes grow, it is expected that STBs will be made available free of cost. The service of course is dependent on the customer already being a broadband internet subscriber with MTNL. Bundling of services such as Internet connection and IPTV are not offered as yet.

MTNL has increased the accessibility of IPTV in a 3 km radius from each telephone exchange, from the initial 800 metres each, and plans to start rolling out fibre optic cables that will reach 20 km from the nearest exchange. MTNL has invested $120 per subscriber to enable the IPTV service, and is betting on instant interactivity to view desired programmes and convenience of viewing to be the distinguishing features.

BSNL, the other large public communications company with most of its subscribers in the Tier II cities & towns, envisaged a “quantum jump” in broadband penetration by issuing around five million new connections over the next few months. These would include an estimated three million broadband connections across 1,000 cities and another two million connections in the rural segments. Currently, 1.15 million subscribers used BSNL’s DataOne, a 40 per cent share of the broadband segment of 2.5 million subscribers.[As of April 2007 India had 2.43 million broadband subscribers, by April 2008 it is expected to rise to 4.21 million. India has around 65 million cable and satellite homes. If even 10 per cent take IPTV then 6.5 million IPTV subscriber base is not a small one].This is projected to grow to 20 million by 2010 according to TRAI.

PricewaterhouseCoopers, on the other hand, says that while the number of TV households in India is expected to grow to 130 million by 2012, DTH will account for less than a tenth of this number and IPTV less than a hundredth.

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) is conducting a feasibility study to launch broadband multiplay service, including voice, video and Internet protocol television (IPTV). The service, to be offered in 789 cities across the country, would be available at an eight megabites per second (MBPS) speed connectivity, instead of 2MBPS.

Cable operators such as Hathway are expected to enter this market as well. Current efforts to digitize their network and then move into the IPTV space with Triple Play offerings.

Further competition to Telco IPTV providers are expected from Tata Sky and Dish TV, two DTH players currently consolidating market share.

Reliance Communications & Microsoft have signed a 8 year contract to supply IPTV services. The world’s biggest software maker is expected to earn $500 million, or Rs1,965 crore, based on a revenue-sharing formula in the contract as part of license fees for its software. Reliance Communications will use Microsoft’s MediaRoom IPTV platform, a deployment that Microsoft has valued at about $500 million. The carrier appears poised to invest as much as $1 billion on its IPTV project.

The Indian Context

Over 50% of India’s telephony infrastructure can support IPTV ,which for a developing country is very impressive.

Global IPTV revenue is expected to touch $17 billion by 2010. Smooth billing of services is crucial to ensure consumer satisfaction. The bundling of telephony, internet access and television channels makes it necessary to provide a single billing facility to the users. Software that provides this as well as integration of discount schemes is key to making sure that transition is smooth and hassle-free.

At IBE 2007, held in Mumbai between 25 and 27 October, it was predicted that there will be one million IPTV subscribers in India by 2011.

Mobile Telephony & IPTV

Besides the use of telephone and cable networks, Reliance Communications Ltd. , Bharti Airtel and BSNL are experimenting with WiMax wireless technologies to deliver IPTV services to consumers via their existing wireless networks. Government regulations have been eased to facilitate increased bandwidth; this coupled with better compression techniques, that already deliver content to mobile phones, should enable IPTV services via wireless networks for the Indian consumer. The consumer is thus faced with a multitude of choices from which a bouquet of services may be chosen. Thus, a congruence of choices implies convergent services for the end-user.

The regulatory body TRAI is struggling to come to terms with the different vying technologies that can provide these bouquet of services; a rapid overhaul of the existing laws & regulations is called for.

Revenue Sharing Concerns

The biggest fear of content firms when it comes to archiving of their programmes, is piracy and proper revenue-sharing. It is essential that the operator, whether it is the cable-industry or the telecom operator, shares the correct figures about the number of people who watch it and gives the right share of revenue to them. Else the question remains as to why should the content firm should provide its programming to be played as re-runs.

1.5 The Strategy

Competitive positioning strategy is to position Buy Interactive as being a total customer solutions (TCS) provider to IPTV providers; the initial focus is to be the best available product and move towards offering customized solutions, consultancy, training and maintenance services to our customers. The strategy model is based on the Delta framework with specific reference to using technology to provide a competitive advantage. System Lock In(SLI) would be an ideal situation; however, we envisage regulatory and customer resistance/customer sophistication as hurdles to any move in that direction. Key to capturing value via our revenue model is the achievement of critical mass in our complementors markets; we hope to ride the network effects of high market share achieved by our partners/customers. Our aim is customer’s mind-share.

1.6 The Business

The business is to provide a complete suite of software services packaged to allow the cable & DSL providers, primarily to enable t-commerce and secondarily the ability to create advertising content tailored by demographics, location & program content. The interactive/IPTV providers are the customers for the packaged products with Buy Interactive providing installation, consultation, customization and maintenance services, thus providing a Total Customer Solution.

1.7 The Mission

Our mission is to provide state-of-the-art interactive software solutions for the IPTV platform, to provide our customers a competitive edge by the right use of technology to meet their business needs and serve their customers better.

“Interactive solutions at your finger-tips”

1.8 Key Success Factors

• Total Customer Solution Provider

• Customer Satisfaction & Long-Term Relationships

• Strong Management Team with Key Technical Personnel

1.9 Customers/Complementors/Alliances

Our core targeted customers are to be the IPTV providers, who would use our products to track & report advertising views, lead statistics, and conversion to sales of advertised products. We also envisage a market for content creation software that would be used by content programming companies, that can synchronize advertised products with the programming content. Direct selling channels/home shopping networks such as QVC, HSN (QVC & HSN already have interactive TV shopping applications) and Shop@Home TV is another customer avenue to be explored. The business model rests on the ability to form strong strategic alliances with online e-tailers to enable their offerings for IPTV. The ability to get strong branded e-tailers to buy in early is critical to the success of the business. The other option is to build a strong local conglomerate of e-tailers and converge their services and products via our software service. This would however require an additional investment in time, capital and training.

1.10 Service/Product Delivery

Delivery of our products would be done by a team of software professionals, that include system administrator, an account manager and a software developer for trouble-shooting issues. Customization of requirements would have to be signed off by the customer and the account manager, after feasibility studies in consultancy with product managers and software architects is completed. Schedules & time-tables for different mile-stones of product delivery are to be agreed on with the customer. Provisions for staging the software and pilot deployments are other important aspects that will have to be considered. All these costs are to be borne by the customer with clauses inserted enabling the customer to pull out if necessary at any stage. Clauses to compensate for new requirements , either overlooked , inadvertent or caused by new regulations will be part & parcel of the contracts. These agreements would be drafted in consultation with our retained lawyers; special provisions to protect our intellectual property (IP) would also be factored in.

1.11 Product/R&D

1.11.1 Base Products & Features

The E-Tailer Enabler

The Enabler is the core product offered by Buy Interactive. The Enabler brings the online retailer to your television set leveraging the use of web-services, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL and the STB stack of software services to provide a much more user-friendly experience for the television viewer. The Enabler has 2 components, the Controller hosted at the operator’s central site and the on-the-fly Intelligent Renderer of the streamed/pulled deals available currently at the online retailer selected. The currently watched television show’s content descriptor tags are scanned for relevant key-words and matched against a local data-base of products and categories. These are then used to pull deals from the online retailer via their provided Web-service APIs and these can be rendered as the user wishes either in a full-screen window or a smaller picture-in-picture (PIP) window. The initial version would leverage the embedded browser components and create HTML pages on the fly to be viewed in the STB browser for speed-to-market. A further development would be a customized viewer with much more interactivity and better graphics; this could be a driver for customer lock-in by the use of a richer user interface.

The Analyzer/Tracker

The Analyzer/Tracker tracks the user clicks per displayed product/advertisement, the no. of views, and conversion to actual sales. This data is used by the operator to bill the e-tailer using a weighted formula based on click count, time spent on related views and translated sales. A percentage of this revenue would be royalty fees accruing to Buy Interactive.

The Distributor

The Distributor component deals with the distribution of advertising and programming related content to the STBs. Premeditated content such as graphics, video & audio can be distributed to the STBs to be scheduled to play along with scheduled programs, ads & events. The pull process is then limited to the prices and deals being offered for the products. The distributing process is transparent to the television viewer; content can be cached at servers located closer to the area to reduce network latency similar to the process used for Video-On-Demand (VOD). This meta-data is to be rendered by the Intelligent Renderer and synced along with the program & ad content.

The Service Updater

The Service Updater component updates the software stack of services on the STB. The Service Updater component seeks to ensure that the STB is autonomic, I.e. It is self-diagnosing and can fix itself except in the most rare circumstances. The STB can communicate with the Updater service and intimate it as to the current status of the STB, it’s content as well as the playout of content, if necessary. The Service Update STB component can check for updates if available and download them to be applied either immediately or at a programmed time or on shutdown or start-up. Care is taken to ensure minimal disruption of the viewer’s schedule.

The Shopping Cart

The STB services platform will include a shopping cart functionality that is owned by the service operator. This can be configured to override the e- tailer’s shopping cart or used for the operator’s promoted products such as telephone & cable equipment to be purchased.

The Billing System (BS)

The Billing System provides the television viewer statements of their online purchasing activity sent out to them either by mail or e-mail.

It also has B2B functionality to bill the e-tailer for service provided. All this is enabled via a server side billing system that is scalable to meet the growing subscriber base. This would integrate seamlessly with the Subscriber Management System to provide a complete customer management system.

The Subscriber Management System (SMS)

The Subscriber Management System would integrate with the operator’s existing customer database and would add additional tables to provide for additional customer specific data needed for the SMS & BS to function.

SME E-commerce Server

For small merchants and local retailers, the SME E-commerce server provides a service where they can hawk their goods and services. This will be provided to local businesses as a SAAS application that can be accessed via their own customer accounts, so that they can upload details of their goods and service including pricing, special discounts, promotions and sales. The E- commerce server is an Open Source based application server, that will have a stack of web-services provided on top of the existing application to enable these to be pulled to the STB to be rendered. An instance of this Application Server will also serve as a proof-of-concept to be shown to prospective clients.

Data-warehousing (DW)

The total suite of offerings would be incomplete without being able to facilitate data- warehousing to enable managerial decisions for the operator. The initial implementation would use an off-the-shelf implementation with data warehousing specialists and business analysts to work together to identify the various data-marts & dimensions to be stored in the data-warehousing system. This differs from the data-warehousing solutions currently implemented & used by both the e-tailer & the service operator.

1.11.2 Add-Ons & Extended Product Lines

The Content Creator

The Content Creator software allows the user to create tailored content using graphics, audio, video and animation to produce MPEG2 and MPEG4 content.

The Content Editor

The Content Editor allows the user to edit existing content mostly to create or edit additional tags to describe the content and add relevant key words and date information.

E-auction Server

The E-Auction server is an application server that incorporates all the features of an e-commerce server plus the ability to store various bids and dynamic pricing of goods and services. This feature will be an enhancement of the SME e-commerce server and will include features that enable tracking bids , closures. Merchants will also have the facility to upload their product offerings and latest deals.

1.11.3 Technology to be used

LINUX OS for embedded devices/Windows CE

Java2 Micro Edition(J2ME) / .NET platform

Java XLETs/Windows API

Proprietary Extension/Set-top Box APIs

SOAP web-services

RESTful web-services

HTTP/HTTPS/SSL

Embedded Browser

RFID for single-sign on

E-commerce Application Server (Open Source)

WebServices API for E-commerce Application Server

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The Jammu and Kashmir State Board of School Education (abbreviated as JKSBSE or JK BOSE) is the main board of school education in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. It is based in Srinagar and is under the administration of the state government of Jammu and Kashmir.

Jammu & Kashmir State Board of School Education (JK BOSE) has Declared 10th & 12th Exam Result 2009.

These Results are available on  : http://www5.indiaresults.com/JnK/jkbse/HSPT2AReg09/rollquery.htm

Industrial Development Bank of India Limited commonly known by its acronym IDBI is one of India’s leading public sector banks and 4th largest Bank in overall ratings. RBI categorised IDBI as an “other public sector bank”. It was established in 1964 by an Act of Parliament to provide credit and other facilities for the development of the fledgling Indian industry.

IDBI Bank has announced Recruitment For The Post Of Manager & Assistant General Manager 2010.

The Recruitment detail’s are available on IDBI Bank Website : http://www.idbibank.com/

Direct Link To Recruitment : http://www.idbibank.com/idbi/careers.asp

BSNL has done it again. And I just can’t tolerate it anymore. I have opted for Home 600 plan – 2 Mbps, 2 am to 8 am unlimited,  Day limit 2.5 GB. Everything was going well until they popped up with a new strategy to rob me. Quite simple, but very effective – Account for the night download too.

And as my luck would have it, I was downloading a film using Bit torrent (that too, a 7.92 GB FIFA 10 image file). So, 1.8 Gb in 5 hours (between 3 am and 8 am) and to my horror it was added to my day download limit. Now, I have only 100 MB left for some 20 days And to make matters worse, the same problem occurred 4 months ago, albeit on a lower scale (just 200 mb).

So, I am going to bunk my morning class (As if I’ve never done this before)  to lodge a complaint to the concerned authorities. Huh. Since I am located in the ill-fated BSNL Road, I am deprived of the services of private operators – No Airtel, No Hathway  -  because they do not have their underground cables running through our area.

So, I am stuck up in a mess and I don’t have even the slightest hope of getting something from BSNL. But I have to give credit, where it is due. It is the cheapest plan around and so may be these are small small (????) issues, I have to compromise on.

P.S: I know this one was quite boring, but I just lost my thought process I’l make sure that the next one isn’t as boring as this.

State-owned telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) today launches 3G the third generation mobile services in the Kerala telecom circle.Presently BSNL 3G services will be available Kozhikode city, suburbs and Kalpetta and it will connect 21 towns covering all district headquarters of Kerala. With the BSNL 3G prepaid GSM mobile service users can enjoy Local Voice and Video calls at just 30 Paisa per Minute and All STD video calls will be chargeable at 50 paisa.

The 3G services allow telecom operators to offer high-speed Internet and video calls on mobile phones as well as mobile TV facility. According to the BSNL Kerala Unit, the process of extending the services will get over by the end of this month.Currently BSNL commence the 2.55 lakh 3G lines in the Circle, including 37,758 lines in Kozhikode city and suburban areas and 1,469 lines in Kalpetta to accommodate the 3G subscribers. BSNL also erect new 100 3G base stations in Kozhikode SSA to provide the seamless 3.5G connectivity

BSNL is the only service provider to procure the license to operate 3G services in the Kerala region and the state-owned company feel this would see a shift of premium customers towards it. The operator has invested Rs.650 crore for the project in Kerala, apart from expanding the accessible 2.75 G network to wrap up more than 95% of BSNL mobile subscribers. The traffic congestion in existing 2G mobile services in the region would be removed by the launch of 3G mobile services and the up-gradation of 2G network.

*Courtesy of Telecomtalk

Tomorow (04-01-2009), BSNL will launch it’s 3G service in Calicut and Kannur. Expecting that, this month, the service will launch all over Kerala. 3G service will enable new facilities like Video calling, VOD, High speed internet etc in a 3G handset. At present, BSNL is offering HSDPA of 3Mbps. There are attracting offers are announced by the operator. BSNL customers can migrate to 3G without changing the present 2G no. User can opt for new 3G SIM without changing the no by paying Rs.59. Already BSNL start 3G service in many parts of India. It have good response from customers. The main attraction of BSNL 3G is low local video call rate (Rs 0.30/Min). If you are interested in BSNL 3G, you can get more info from BSNL site at www.bsnl.co.in . At present BSNL is the only operator having 3G service license in India.

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If (you are a resident of Tamilnadu )

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If(you are using BSNL broadband)

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If(you have complaints)

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If(you are a BSNL cellone mobile user)

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just send an sms to 53576 in th following   format:

bbf <space><landline number>

}

else               /*means you use some other mobile sim service*/

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just send an sms to 9444599999 in th following   format:

bbf <space><landline number>

}

}

}

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else /* means you dont use BSNL broadband*/

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just ignore this post

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All BSNL users beware!

I’m aware many of you must be using BSNL Dataone as your Internet Service provider. BSNL networks are unprotected and can be a great security threat if you do not take care and change your passwords and use firewalls. I will illustrate this by hacking into my own PC.

Some things you should know-

Every computer ( or device to be precise) that accesses the internet is alotted an IP address by your internet service provider. This IP address is unique to your computer and is used to track your internet activity -the websites that you visit online record your IP addresses and store them and make them available to local authorities in case you break the law. An IP address can often be used to identify the region or country from which a computer is connecting to the Internet

Ip addresses are of two types – 1) Shared IP addresses (Local).

 If you are connected to a router or even a modem you have an internal IP address which looks something like 192.168.1.2 , 192.168.1.X etc which represents your laptops/pc’s location internally.These are by default assigned automatically by something called DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol). So they are “leased” for some time and then you get a new ip each time you connect to the network. You can also make it static by setting it manually

The router communicates with BSNL(your ISP) and is your “gateway” to the internet. BSNL assigns your ROUTER a new IP address each time you establish the connection to the internet. However this single address is shared by all the computers on your local network. You can see as in the first diagram.

However that is not the full story

There are many such networks just like yours which are connected to switches and then sent for final routing towards your ISP as shown. These networks should technically be hidden from each other.

However BSNL has not made them hidden.i.e anyone can access your Modem/Router if he knows the username and password.

See for yourself

• 1. Find out your external IP address by going to www.whatismyipaddress.com . Note it down
• 2.  Download Advanced IP scanner from www.radmin.com/products/utilities/ipscanner.php
• 3. Install it and run it
• 4. In the IP range box type in your IP as given for the start. and for the end just change the last three digits group to 255. for example My ip was 117.195.38.19
• So I put my range as 117.195.38.0 to 117.195.38.255
• 5. Hit scan. You should see something like this

How do you make sense of this?

The IP’s you see marked as “alive” are the routers that are connected to your network. The ping – is the time required for a small packet (like 32bits of data)  to go and come back to that router in milliseconds. Any ping <100 indicates the computers are nearby (or the network is amazingly fast!)

If you select one of the IP’s and right click them and select HTTP , Your browser opens and asks you for your username and password. This is essentially the login box of the other persons router.

At the login box , enter admin , admin as username and password. This is the default setting which is alotted to most routers which people do not bother to change. This is ONE BIG MISTAKE. If you are lucky enough you can get in

Here  you are logged into the other persons router. You can do anything like find out their  password, switch it etc. If by chance you know where the network is located nearby you can just join it normally after changing the password.

Lessons to be learnt

1. If you have a router – change the password to some alphanumeric sequence which is hard to guess. Select the type of encryption as WPA / WPA2-PSK and enter your shared key. Do NOT , in ANY CASE set the encryption as WEP or Shared. These keys can be hacked wirelessly under 8 minutes using a linux distro called “Backtrack 3″

2. Use a Firewall like Black ICE / Zone Alarm Pro etc. Do not use the windows firewall. It is bullshit. I believe Microsoft can even find out what sort of illegal software you use even if you enable the firewall.

3. Never give out your IP address. If it is static (does not change) then be extra careful. Change passwords every week.

Note: Please do not use this to hack into other peoples computers. What I have shown is for Demo purposes only

Who said Santa doesn’t exist? He dropped by, this evening.

A short bespectacled man with a pleasant disposition, he brought with him the one gift I’d been wanting for so long – the BSNL modem. After a few minutes of rigging the wires and setting up the network, he turned to me and said: “There.” No conjurer could have done a particularly clever trick and exclaimed “Voila” with more panache. Oh, the joy.

Internet, run for cover. I am back.
*KABOOM!*

While the morality walas get their nikkers in a twist over the former governor of (still) Andhra Pradesh being caught on candid camera with his pants down in the company of a few alleged sex workers, my mobile service provider, the venerable government-owned BSNL, has decided to become something of a pimp.

Yesterday as I was getting into my car, I got an sms telling me: “Keerthi is lonely at home and want to chat n gossip with u, cal her and njoy chatting @ 12630035, Rs1/min, Rs30/month”

Today as I was rushing to finish my breakfast, it beeped: “Swathi is a yung teen from mumbai, she is lonely and want to share her feelings, cal her and chat… “

None of the women I know who have BSNL mobiles (wife, mother, etc) got such messages. Some of the men I know with BSNL (my boss) haven’t got these either. I am sure (hope?) I am not the only one! Why are messages which are soliciting for sex-chat, and maybe more, allowed on mobile phone networks?

While it is easy to demonstrate against the apparent immorality of corpulent governors, it is this creeping sexualisation of the public space which is quite unsettling.

Hello,

In almost all versions of Ubuntu, we have wvdial installed already and there is a front end controller. Use the following procedure

1) Make sure your device is activated by service provider. Connect it.

2) Look at the quick launch buttons, find network applet

3) It will show your device with a connect button. Right click on the applet and take Manage connections. You can see the device listed in CDMA category

4) Click Edit and fill your username and password.

5) You are done!. Click CONNECT to get connected and Enjoy!

… Missed the count on the number of Cellular Phone operators in the City of Chennai. After Aircel, Airtel, BSNL, Vodafone, Reliance (GSM & CDMA), Tata Indicom, Tata Docomo, Idea, MTS CDMA, now its Uninor a Joint Venture between Unitech & Telecom Norway.

One of their new showrooms coming up in the city …..

BSNL introduced promotional tariff for it’s Broad Band services. BSNL have more than 45% of market share in Broad Band. It always trying to attract more customers by introducing some good offers. Most of BSNL’s unlimited plans didn’t have any Fair Usage Policy. BSNL unlimited plans are truly unlimited for given speed.

BSNL introduced 1Sec Roaming for all 1Sec billing customers. Now BSNL 1Sec billing customers can Receive and Make call to anywhere in India for 1ps/Sec and 1.2ps/Sec to on net offnet respectively even under roaming. New roaming tariffs are listed below.

• National Roaming rates at 49 paise/min for customers using FRC/STV of all@49.
• Roaming rates of 1p/s for on-net and 1.2p/sec for offnet calls for customers using FRS/STV for per sec billing.

Now BSNL mobile service is more attractive than the trend starter’s – TATA DOCOMO – mobile service, both in service quality and coverage.  It is good to see that BSNL started to think fast, apply decision fast and start new plans as the market need. But BSNL once again failed to give better publicity for this new plans.