Aeroway Mysore - Tips and Tricks

Aeroway is a great cheap fast broadband Internet provider in Mysore.

Here are some useful tips for Aeroway subscribers.

Check your plan balance and other details

Go to http://172.16.0.1/myaccount.html
Login with your username and password

Here you can change your password, view package details, expiry date, your assigned IP address, bandwidth usage per session, bandwidth left, etc.

Opening the captive portal directly

You can load the captive portal by going to http://10.10.0.1 or http://172.16.0.1
Pin this tab in firefox or chrome to have it load whenever you open the browser

Use alternate DNS services

Aeroway recommends you to use their own DNS which is at 172.16.0.1, but this is required only for you to get automatically redirected to the captive portal when you're logged out. If you are smart enough to load the captive portal by yourself, using the trick I just described above, you can set your DNS to other great DNSes like
Google: 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4
OpenDNS: 208.67.222.222 or 208.67.220.220
OpenNIC: 89.18.27.34, or 193.183.98.154, or 5.9.49.12, or 31.3.135.232

Recharge or pay bills online

You can use the spotsoon app on iOS or Android to pay Aeroway. But you can also pay directly online by going to aeroway.spotsoon.com

Troubleshoot your internet connection

If all of a sudden you are unable to access the Internet, take some time to figure out where the problem is.
First, check that your router is on and there is power supply. If not, call electricity board.

Then, find the cable that comes from the roof and go into your router. Take a note of all the LEDs that are on. Disconnect this cable, and see if any LED turns off. Connect the cable back and see if any LED comes on. If there is an LED that goes off and comes on, that is the "link indicator". It being on means that you're connected to Aeroway's infrastructure and no monkeys have severed the cable connection.

If the link is up (on), then load the captive page manually and try logging in. If it doesn't log in, either your password is wrong, or your package has expired. If it does log in, but you still can't access the Internet, it's mostly a problem with the upstream and there's nothing you can/need to do.

If there's no link, inspect the cable coming from the roof. If you can find any cuts or if you find banana peels lying around, call aeroway and tell them that the monkeys have cut your cable.

If the link is up, but the captive page doesn't load, there're a hundred reasons why you can't connect properly to your router and teaching you that is beyond the scope of this article.

Aeroway Internet - Cheap and Fast Broadband Internet in Mysore

I am a long time user and fan of Aeroway Internet in Mysore. They have been providing me cheap and fast broadband internet in "namma uru Mysuru" for more than 2 years now.

Tariff
The most attractive thing about the tariff plans of Aeroway is that they have truly unlimited plans (no FUP) at affordable prices. For example, the 1Mbps unlimited for ₹750 (and 15% tax) which gives unlimited unlimited Internet at 1Mbps is really useful if you're someone who likes to download a lot of stuff over torrents. The upload speed would be 1/3rd of the download speed.
And higher speeds are also available, upto 50Mbps. The best thing about the tariff plans is that it is extremely easy to change your tariff plan every month, you just have to choose a different plan and pay accordingly.
Checkout tariff details here

Customer service
My place is full of monkeys and they keep cutting the cables on the roof. But, Aeroway engineers come within hours of calling their office and fix it (for free!) every time without fail.

Drawbacks
One tiny drawback is that there is a captive portal which you need to be logged in to with your username and password for the Internet to start working. This is a very minor annoyance.

Another problem is that you have a shared IP and therefore it is not possible to initiate a connection to your computer from outside. But having said that, it's possible to obtain a static, private IP for just 200 a month!

Visit Aeroway website

Port Forwarding BSNL VMC AN1020-21 Modem (Type WT) for Transmission

Transmission is a bittorrent client like utorrent, for linux.
It uses a default port 51413 to make connections.
You can go to Edit-->Preferences-->Network and look at the Port for Incoming Connections option.
Click Test port under it, and if it shows Port is Open, you have to do nothing.

If it shows Port is Closed, follows these instructions.
Note down the port number (51413 in this case, you can change it if you want, but not all ports are allowed)
Now, go to 192.168.1.1 in your browser. (this is your router's home page)
Enter username and password as admin
On the left pane, under the security tab, select Port Forwarding.
If it asks for password again, type admin as username and admin as password as earlier
Now, you have to add a port forwarding rule.
Click on the Add button

Select user-defined instead of pre-defined
Give some trivial name. I gave Transmission.
WAN interface, the default one. (pppoe_0_35)
Forward to internal host ip address:
Now this setting is what requires caution.
Bring up command prompt or terminal and type ifconfig or ipconfig and find inet address.
Mine was 192.168.1.2
Type that in.
Now in the protocol type select TCP
For External Packet Port Start, Port End and Internal Port Port Start, Port End,
for all 4 of them, type 51413 (the transmission port)
Now in the protocol type (second row) select UDP. And type 51413 for all the ports as we did for TCP.

Click apply and if everything goes well you'll have added two port forwarding rule.

Now, you may have to reboot the router. But if you want you can go to Transmission Preferences and click Test Port to see if it shows up Port is Open now without rebooting.
 If it still doesn't try rebooting the router.
If it still doesn't show port is open, my friend, I can't help you.

(BTW, I set Use UPnP or NAT checked in transmission preferences)

BSNL Broadband Modem type 2 with wifi and TA (Terminal Adapter)

BSNL broadband modems may be with Wifi or without Wifi.

	Modem Type
Nomenclature	ADSL Basic	ADSL WiFi-2	ADSL-WiFi-TA	VDSL WiFi
Short Nomenclature	Type-B1/B2	Type-W1/W2	Type-WT	Type-VD
Modem Sale Price (one time Charges)*	Rs.1100	Rs.1800	Rs.2250	Rs.2950
Monthly Rental	Rs.50	Rs.80	Rs.100	Rs.130
Monthly Rental after 24 months	Rs. 25	Rs. 40	Rs. 50	Rs. 65

The above table from BSNL site shows the cost of various modems

Features	Type-B1	Type-B2	Type-W2	Type-WT	Type-VD
USB Port	1	1	1	1	1
Ethernet Ports	1	4	4	4	4
WiFi Enable	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
VoIP Enable	No	No	No	Yes	No

And also the features

Now the modem I bought for 2250 the Type-WT is special in that apart from the 4 LAN ports (provided by Type-B2) and the Wifi (provided by Type-W2) this one has VoIP support too.

The VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) allows people to make phone calls via the internet (at cheaper rates!!)
But BSNL, as of now, doesn't provide VoIP service. Only private companies are now giving this. And it requires additional equipment (a phone that can connect to internet) too.

That's all. If you want to be the proud owner of cutting edge technology, follow me and buy this one.