my daugther has BSNL broadband wifi as her house is in a valley and no other system including tata would work, they download everthing films games the lot with no problems and very quick she lives in Arpora costs 1200/ a month but of course being a FN had to pay a 5.000 deposit!!!

Can you let us know how or who your daughter arranged this with. Name, phone number and address if possible. I have tried other options but not found anything satisfactory as yet. Our apartment is in Arpora and I would happily pay that for a good service.

she just went to the BSNL office in Mapusa just up from the court house and applied, my son in law gets all the downloads through the laptop onto his iphone much to the delight of his kids

Thats great thanks, I will be there the day after I arrive.

It might work well in Apora but in Calangute it never works so if you are moving into Calangute i would look at the Bsnl line not the soma wi max under the umbrella of bsnl. I am having to work with tata stick whilst paying 1.800/- rs for a connection that is useless.

I already tried the tata dongle. Not worth the money. I will take note of your advise thanks.

this connection she has is just BSNL and a couple of my friends have it in candolin and by taj, i have no problems now ith my airtel mobile/usb/pc connection either

Find Airtel mobile is as good as the cyber cafe - at least it is cooler at home.
It amazes me that in the same grounds, how the connection differs from one computer to another.

yes thars the wired one i think we should have had, but the salesman was raving about wimax being quicker better connections etc. Have lived here long enough now should never have beleived him

here in goa at the moment there are a lot of new dongle broadband connections coming out, i work with the new tata indicom usb modem, this allows you to take your laptop anywhere to use it, it cost 801 ruppes a month unlimited download, or if you do not use a lot it cost 1 rupee per 1 mb. where i live the connection to airtel was very scatty and unreliable and slow, but this is not as fast as broadband but not far behind the internet cafes.
reliance have just brought out a new broadband dongle which is supposed to be 20x faster,
also an unknow company has just brought out a new broadband connection, i will keep you informed of this when i here what its like
also for those asking of vodaphone my mobile connection is very good, (mobile pick up in my area is very low) and i get internet connection on my mobile which is not too bad speed wise but also as a vodaphone customer get to check my emails for free.

There's a new service going to be launched from tata indicom called photon+ , its supposed to be a wireless broadband service (a dongle which u can plug in ur desktop or laptop) .

though the service is already launched in goa,they haven't started giving the broadband speed for it... the manager informed me that the broadband speeds would start by 30th september 2009

the unit is costing something like rs 3000/- and its like rs 1000/- for 10gb monthly usage. (not sure of exact figures)

there's reliance also in the market with similar services.

if your requirements are confined only to ur home then there's bsnl broadband and sify broadband....

I am surprised, and pleased, that you tell us that it is available already in Goa as I only yesterday looked on the website here;
http://www.tataindicom.com/HSIA-phot...-personal.aspx
where it says nothing about Goa?

This page seems to offer 3 different alternatives;
https://www.ichoose.in/etrade/wireless-internet.jsp
If you choose Photon+ it costs Rs3500 for the dongle but you have to select Maharashtra then Mumbai as it does not accept Goa.........?

The next choice is the "Whiz" dongle at Rs2500, which as far as I was aware (until you told us differently) was the one available in Goa at present. Its pig-slow and reception in most places is very poor. Checking out this one, it at least allows you to select "rest of Maharashtra" but not Goa.

Tariffs for the Photon+ are here
http://www.tataindicom.com/hsia-usb-...-personal.aspx

I am probably wrong but was under the impression that Photon+ rides on the back of the new 3g networks being rolled out across India that are rather like the new generation of dongles already in use throughout the UK.

At present, Goa most certainly does not have 3g.

Reading between the lines in your post, could it be that the Tata salesman was actually telling you that Photon+ will not be available until end of September as this is the system with "broadband speeds"?

As we have been promised 3g "anytime now" for almost two years, I would take any of these promises with a large pinch of salt............

I notice that in you first paragraph you say it is "going to be launched" whilst in your second paragraph that "the service is already launched in goa". This is rather confusing, could you clarify please...........................

In margao, tata has already started marketing for the product.. i was told that photon dongle (some offer) is available for purchase HOWEVER you will not receive the broadband speeds (3.2mbps or wotever) until 30th september.

it wud be better to call the office in margao directly rather than check the website...

i only hope that photon does work in goa ,its high time we got some real broadband..

I purchased the Tata dongle in Calangute in March this year for about 3000 rupees and then 1000 for one months unlimited downloads. I took my laptop to the shop they installed it and set it up and worked fine - not to bad at all my grandaughter loved it was on it everynight on facebook and msn and was quite adequate for my needs as well. All I have to do when I return is top up my monthly download again.

my experience of broadband here is that you are very much in the hands of the supplier and service has been pretty shitty with what is mainly available in vagator. Sify is supposed to be ok, but im with a supplier that uses another one now and it is diabolically slow for downloading. after paying rs8000 for a "box" thought it would be fast, but it takes up to 20 minutues to watch a 5min you tube video, and then if i want to download it onto my system 45 minutes!"!!!!!!

would suggest searching out sify and doing it that way as my friends that have sify are getting far better download speed than me.