The Search For A Good ISP
Fed up with the worst service that I came across, I decided to switch my ISP. When all hope was lost, an unbelievable offer came up - which I couldn’t resist.
Yesterday, I just reached the end of my patience with my current ISP, Dtech Ltd. from whom I took a broadband connection. The speed was unbearably slow. Everything seemed to take ages to load. Trust me, it took forever. Worse still the connection would drop suddenly and I would not be able to go online for days.
After not receiving the connection for three consecutive days, I got fed up. I decided to call in tech support. There didn’t seem to be any good reason for the connection to keep dropping continually. The tech support wasn’t of great help either.
“We’re doing the very best we can, Mr. Rahman. I will at once increase the bandwidth of your connection.”
After receiving a temporary boost of about two hours or so, my connection resumed its previous state. Again. Agh. That was the last straw, I thought. I need to switch my ISP.
A search on Goolge revealed several ISPs near my home. Most of them offered more or less the same packages to home users. a 28.8 kbps shared bandwidth at 1,500 taka (the same service as I had from Dtech Ltd.). Once or twice, I even considered getting a corporate package in my home!
I feared that the end was nigh. There didn’t seem to be any good ISP available in all of Dhaka city. So it was a chance of luck that I landed on www.zipbd.com Now, what they were offering to home users was unbelievable. A 128 kbps (average) shared fibre optic connection at 1,500 taka per month! Moreover, they offered other ancillary services, such as Video over IP, a gaming server (yummy) and 30 or so free videos on demand. It seemed too good to be true. I even contacted customer support to make sure that all the details were accurate!
So fast forward to today, and I have a delicious fibre optic connection pumping at more than 128 kbps. Now everything loads faster and downloads don’t take forever. I do not have to wait overnight for a 1GB game demo to near completion and suffer from little or no lag while I play Battlefield 2 online. Well see you slow-pokes later, I’ve got a date with my Battlefield 2 clan, online.
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Feb 10th, 2008 at 7:36 am
[...] had lousy experiences with most of the ISPs in Dhaka. The service is unreliable, the speed is at a turtle’s pace and [...]
Mar 13th, 2008 at 8:24 am
hey,
fellow net user from dhaka. I also changed a lot of ISP and they all pretty much sucks. Can you tell me what speed you get in avg? both in KB and Kb?
By the way, have you ever used agni?
Jun 4th, 2008 at 11:04 am
[...] are exploiting the lack of information that exists among us consumers. I recall switching from DTech to Zipbd, and before doing so, one of the customer reps from DTech said to me, “You might change. But [...]
Jun 15th, 2008 at 11:59 am
[...] different speeds at the same price (see my post “The Search for a better ISP” at http://www.gamersworldbd.com/2006/08/search-for-good-isp-fed-up-with-worst.html). So you could get an increase in your net speed by just switching your ISP and you will still be [...]
Jun 26th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
[...] Even I feel a new sense of speed after switching to Firefox 3. Pages load much faster on my turtle-speed net connection than IE 7. Kudos to Mozilla for building a great and free [...]
Jul 2nd, 2008 at 8:53 pm
I thinking of getting Flix. The set up charge is the same as Zip. its Flix network+. its 512Kbps shared for 9000 a month. give your thoughts plz.
http://www.f-lix.net/price.htm
Jul 3rd, 2008 at 5:26 am
@ Imtiaz
I heard about Flix. You mean 900 taka/month? Yep, I think it’s a good buy, considering I pay 1,500 taka to Sirius Broadband and get around 200kbps. You can check out my review of Sirius Broadband (if you already didn’t have) at http://www.gamersworldbd.com/2008/01/sirius-broadband-zipbd-isp-in-depth-review.html and there are lots of helpful info on the comments section.
Aug 8th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
http://www.speedtest.net/result/306556766.png
bd is getting really fast you know
Oct 31st, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Well i had similar experiences of course… but i guess i am a bit tight when it comes to spending upon broadband above 1000/mo.
For that value i suppose BDCOM gives superb service. I recommend bdcom highly.
Speed is a constant of 18-19KB/s and no less. I heard in gulshan, the ISP provides even better speeds.
Moreover, it almost stays operational at 99.5% of the times. I suppose you guys should check this out.
Jan 4th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Hey there fella’s, just want to share some results on my ISP which is Optimax Communications Ltd. and im currently running the 128kbps conn speed package which is costing me..about 2500tk/Month. So do you guys think I am getting ripped off big time??
My Download speed ranges from 14-21 (with DAP)
and results from Speedtest.net were..
DL speed~ 145 kbps (18 KB)
UL Speed~ 109 kbps (13.6 KB)
So watcha guys think? Is this BD Isp serving me for what actually Iam paying for??..I think its outrageously a hack. ;_;