Hacking Tips for Reliance Netconnect

I am living in an area where no broadband service provider is providing broadband connection. So I had to take wireless connection such a reliance netConnect USB modem connection. I can tell you this is the only-only reason why I took this connection.

If you see that reliance netconnect advertisement on TV, you can see guy travelling in his car seeing the video of his new born baby!! Never try to do that in your car because you might be very well disappointed!!

Use only if you have a good signal. If you using a laptop, move around in your rooms and find where you get the best signal. Also, there are some antennas available in ebay for increasing signal strength. I have not tried it. But heard from others that it improves signal to some extent.

Connect the earphone to your USB modem and let it freely hang. This has worked for me!! Try various placements of that earphone cable and find out where you get the best signal.

Try and see whether you can use any nearby browsing center, if you have. The cost involved is more or less the same I think.

Use if for simple browsing/email purpose only. You should forget youtube :(

In night after 10pm you might some good speeds. So if you have freedom@night plan you can think about downloading some stuff.

If you know something about linux, then try to netConnect on easy to use Ubuntu Linux. How to configure netconnect for linux it is given here. I have found the total MBs downloaded per night is more in Ubuntu linux than it is in Windows!!

Finally note that this is no substitute to a wired broadband connection. This can be called as a good Dial-up connection. Also remember that we are living in India. :D We can expect good speed may be when we get 3G in India.

You can read my previous netconnect review here.

Please feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section.

Free Flash Games for Download

Here is a huge (really huge!!) list of flash games for download.
You can see this :"Index of /games" in its title.
It is basically a listing of folder containing flash files (swf files) from the server.

http://games.lynms.edu.hk/games/

This is one more collection. It is small one but has a good collection.

http://tinyurl.com/yp6mq6

This is not yet blocked in websense under games category.
So you can also use it at office for timepass ;)
(Thanks ryankendall)

Here are some more downloadable games.
Enjoy!!

Reliance Net-connect Data Card/CDMA Modem - Review

I recently took a reliance NetConnect CDMA modem Internet connection from a near by reliance web world. I am pretty much satisfied with the connection and speed, considering that this is just dial-up but a high speed dial-up connection. I had to take this since there is no other good providers in my area.



Basically your NetConnect data card's performance depends on signal strength at your place. Take any reliance CDMA phone to the place where you will be using it (like your room). See that it is having full signal inside your room. If it is having full signal, then you can have a very decent surfing speed and download speed of about 14KBps-16KBps (yes.. it is Kilo Bytes) I have full signal (5 bars) in my room and I am quite happy with my connection.

Coming to Net-Connect freedom@night plan, which I have taken, they allow free download from night 10pm to morning 6am. I just tried to download some *** (edited) stuff and I was surprised by the resuls. It had downloaded about 360MB in a night. Theoritically, you can download 420MB in 8 hours if you have a speed of 16KBps.

Remember, it is still very costly to use other than the free usage time slot. It will cost you 50paise/min that is 30Rs/hour in the non-free time period.

So take this only if there is no other good providers in your area and have good CDMA phone signal at your place.

I will post about some hacks in my next post!! Remember to check back.

UPDATE: hack's here

Overcoming Gmail Limitations

I love Gmail. But it has some limitations like limited storage space, no sorting by sender name/size, etc...

Yahoo, Rediff and many others are giving unlimited storage for the mail box. So one thing you can do is you can forward all your mails to your mailbox at yahoo or rediff or what ever. So when your gmail box gets full you can delete very old mails/news letters/big attachments without worrying, since you know that you have a backup at another mailbox. This way you can continue using your Gmail.

Also you now have the option to search for mails 'with attachments' in gmail. You can forward those mails with big attachments to any other mail box by setting simple rules in your settings.

Many of us might be using Gmail drive - A virtual file system built based on gmail's free pop access.
I recommend, using a seperate gmail account for your gmail drive, coz if you use your primary account you account space will be eaten very quickly.

You can utilize the free pop access which gmail gives. That will give you the comfort of Thunderbird or M$ Outlook!!

Dont forget to give me your inputs!