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Sify servers providing high speed internet (17Mbps/4Mbps)

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Every internet user has a unstable download speed to uplaod speed ratio. The ratio always being greater than one. Although connections with stable ratio do exist but they are very rare and atleast not in India.

I am on a 64 Kbps (150MB day time limit and night unlimited) internet connection and usually gets 60-62 Kbps as download speed and 50-60 Kbps as upload speed. What happened with me yesterday made me wondering. I was downloading a small file (~4 MB) and before I can see the download starting, it was completed. I thought of it to be a browser issue, I ignored it and tried downloading the file again just to find that it has again completed in no time. Out of curiosity, I checked my speed and was surprised to see the results and I bet you will be surprised too.

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I was getting ~17 Mbps as download speed and ~4 Mbps as upload speed.
I thought of downloading movies but then the day time limit shatters my excitement but still browsing heavy pages and downloading small files was a cool experience.

I was excited to know what could be the reason that Sify servers were so kind to me. I tried googling around but didn’t found any reason regarding what can cause the servers to leak bandwidth to random connections.

Has it ever happened to you with your ISP? What did you do downloaded in such a case? Do you have any idea what can be the reason for getting such enormous speeds?

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  • 2 Vinay Mar 21, 2008 at 9:11 pm

    buddy sify server’s sumtimes boosts up…

    njoy till d time they r given u such speeds,soon u will b back to ur speed :mrgreen:

    regards
    vinay

  • 3 Ashfame Mar 23, 2008 at 2:57 am

    @Vinay
    I am interested to know the reason why their servers boost up random connection.
    Do they have to reach a certain level of bandwidth consumption and when they are away from it, they boost up random connections. :mrgreen:

  • 4 Joel Mar 23, 2008 at 3:10 am

    Oh wow!!! Thats called SPEED!!!

  • 5 Ashfame Mar 23, 2008 at 8:54 am

    @Joel
    I would call that insane speed. :razz:
    In India highest bandwidth connections are of 8 Mbps only. Never heard of plans offering greater bandwidth than 8 Mbps.

  • 6 sunil May 19, 2008 at 11:37 pm

    tell me how hack download speed sify server thank u

  • 7 Ravi Jun 22, 2008 at 9:17 am

    I have faced the same thing for about 4-5 times.. and downloaded somewhere around 4-6GB in just 10 hrs of nite.. it started from 10pm and stopped at 8 in morning.. still I have no idea why and how.. if u know how, then please share it with me..

  • 8 Ravi Jun 22, 2008 at 9:20 am

    @Ashfame u r rite.. even when I notice this the speed was 700-900kbps of download rate that means around 6-8mbps not more than that.. even the cable they use cannot provide more than 10mbps..

  • 9 Ashfame Jul 5, 2008 at 2:11 am

    @Sunil, Ravi
    I can’t replicate this. Ask Sify. :lol:

  • 10 MANISH Jul 28, 2008 at 9:41 pm

    HI … I’M USING THE SAME PLAN AS U ..BUT I AM UNLUCKY IN THE SENSE OF DOWNLOADING SPEEDS….IT IS ABOUT 8KBPS…

    TELL ME …HOW 2 INCREASE DWNL SPEEDS….

  • 11 Ashfame Jul 31, 2008 at 1:54 pm

    @Manish
    The 64Kbps plan will give only 8KBps speed. There is no way of increasing speed beyond this. You should go for other ISPs checking the availability in your area.

  • 12 Manish Aug 12, 2008 at 8:20 pm

    what happen when your sify account expired…and internet continues…..

  • 13 Ashfame Aug 13, 2008 at 1:02 pm

    @Manish
    Was that a question or a taunt?