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I spend an average of 3 hours daily travelling. I have a need for a portable way of accesing the internet, so that I can utilize the time spent travelling productively. This has led me to two solutions, reliance r-connect and airtel mobile office. I have posted about r-connect [URL="http://www.broadbandforum.co.in/reliance/163-review-r-connect.html#post693"]here[/URL] and am posting this one about mobile office.

Airtel has gprs coverage almost everywhere and also has edge coverage in major areas, so you are universally covered. I use a prepaid card and do a recharge of 401 bucks, which gives me unlimited internet usage for 1 month. There also an option of daily charge of rs.15 for those interested for shorter time periods.

Activation of mobile office is a 1 step procedure and configuring the PC to use it is also easy, though not very newbie friendly. The browsing experience is dependent on range, network congestion and the availablilty of edge.
Assuming that range is good, browsing can be just managed at peak hours. If edge is available then the experience improves many fold. During off-peak hours, it is a completely smooth journey as long as you don't try to download.

Average speeds are 3-4 KBps for gprs and 15-18 KBps for edge. Max speeds are 6-7 KBps for gprs and 32-34 KBps for edge. Simple browsing is very much possible at gprs speeds and downloading heavy files becomes less of a chore at edge speeds. The connection is not very fast as latencies are somewhat high, but within bearable levels.

Also many features like VPN's are blocked and p2p seems to be moderately throttled, so if such features are essential then some other alternative should be found.

Definately recommended over reliance and tata in areas where edge is available, as both speed and tariffs are better than that of the competition's.

I called CC and they claim there is no 401 recharge for net. Where do you get them?

Maybe they don't have that recharge in your circle, but they do in mine. I can get this recharge from any shop. I think it is only an e-recharge and not available in the form of coupons.

I asked again apparently they do have this recharge.The CC people really need to be better informed

I am also thinking of getting Airtel mobile internet connection as i also travel almost 2 hours a day and there are sometimes i need to be online for some business. I think going for Airtel will be a good option.

I have Internet connection at my office and at my home as internet is one of the most important thing in my business or you can say that i as i do business online it is the basic of my business.Mobile internet is not that much fast but still i have it but i use it rarely.

I am planing to go for Airtel Data card. I think it is the best way to have reliable and good connection without any intereptions as compared to cell phone and more over their unlimited plan is the best one to go with.

Aditya the GPRS schemes vary from market to market.
In KOLKATA unlimited GPRS costs Rs 498

So which circle / loctaion are you in?