Saturday, July 04, 2009

My Issues with Reliance Broadband

With all fanfare, I recently upgraded my Reliance
NetConnect High Speed Wireless internet account to
a Broadband one, with speeds upto 3.1 MBps.

But alas, my excitement died very early, as I found
the modem had some issues with my OS (Windows XP
and Ubuntu). It refused to get detected
most of the times, and I had to go for a complete
re-installation. Things became worse, when I used to
do this procedure all the time whenever I need to access
the Net. No doubt, the speed was great, but this flaw
really hurt me a lot. The Customer care people had no
clue, and neither did the people who sold me the device.

Then finally, I came across a document regarding the modem
stating the problem and the solution for it. The problem
was with Device not being detected by the Dialer Software.
Hence I was instructed to go to the Device Manager of the
Windows XP OS and go for UPDATE DRIVER Option against the
modem listing. This could solve the issue. Now All I am left
is to try this out today when I reach back home and pray that
the solution works.

5 comments:

  1. Did the solution work? reliance is anyways pathetic!!! Hope you never face technical issues :)

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  2. Hi Vivek,

    I wanted to check whether you got any solution for your problem. I am facing exactely same problem and was planning to go for re-installation.

    But would like to know if there exist any other solution than re-installation. I have already tried all sort of solution that are available on the internet. however no luck :(

    Hope to hear from you,

    -Alok

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  3. Hey now its working. It seems the problem was the internal modem I had. I uninstalled the modem, and then reinstalled the Reliance Broadband Modem. Voila, it started working. Thankfully now it works most of the time. Also, I noticed that If I connect my modem just after I start the Reliance Dialer Application, it works.
    So just check it out and let me know.

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  4. One more issues w.r.t to the Reliance modem was the use of USB 2.0 port only. I had connected to an old USB 1.1 port, and it was not working. It started working as soon I connected it to the faster USB port.

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