Ah well, it was a nice holiday while it lasted, but now it is over.
On the morning of the 7th of April, BSNL DataOne went down, and every single subscriber that I know of in Bangalore and Chennai (probably elsewhere as well) was either disconnected or experiencing speeds slower than a 14.4kbps dialup modem.
Calling BSNL on the 7th all day resulted in “saar, server down saar, will be fixed by 2/3/4/5/6/7/8/…pm”. Of course nothing got fixed, and by Friday morning, I was upset enough to go and do some investigation.
[Updated 9-Apr-2005 11:50am] More info
[Updated 9-Apr-2005 12:46pm] BSNL gives an “explanation”
[Updated 9-Apr-2005 18:00pm] Services Restored