Tata Photon+ broadband service – speed test

Before reading this post, please visit Tata Photon’s home page. You will see the image pasted below flashing every other second…

The award has been given by one of the reputed names in the analytics industry – Nielsen! The moment I saw this, I was slightly convinced that this product should perform relatively better than most other products in the market. I planned to give this a try. Called up the Tata marketing guys, and asked for the demo – 8 days ago. Finally, I got this curvy dongle today. Super fast service!

Installed the software, fired up the program, connected! Tested multiple times in 2 locations in Chennai – city (Guindy) and suburb (Urapakkam). Just check the following screenshots.

Tata Photon+ speed in the city – tested between 3 p.m – 5 p.m

Tata Photon+ speed in the suburb – tested between 8 p.m – 10 p.m

Well, the product of the year is not even capable of touching the minimum broadband speed! For this the company expects a rental of Rs 1500 for 90 days, and for a miniscule 6GB data usage! Ain’t this in other words known as crap?

It’s just plain bad that I’m not gonna be a part of Tata Photon’s elite customers – anytime soon.

Results from speedtest.net