NileshGR

Category: India

  • Thoughts after a ride in Pune metro

    On 1st August 2023, Pune metro was inaugurated by our Prime Minister. It was partially operational since March 2022, but it didn’t serve any useful purpose of connecting important parts of the two cities of Pimpri-Chinchwad and Pune – only a joyride. In the current state, it connects important parts of the cities. The current…

  • A trip to the western border of India

    Happy new year folks! This is my first post on my travel. 2022 was ended with a wonderful road trip across Gujarat covering multiple places. I think it’s been a few years since we have been seeing the ads by Gujarat Tourism. I don’t know when, but they appointed Amitabh Bachchan – one of India’s…

  • Owning the networking equipment in your network

    It seems there’s a new trend in India amongst Internet Service Providers to supply their own router. The primary reason ISPs do this is to reduce the amount of on-site support required, which is a very much valid reason. When an ISP has to deal with multiple user supplied equipment – it increases their work…

  • Monitoring your internet connections with OpenWRT and a Telegram Bot

    For the past 5 years or so, I have been using a single ISP at home and mobile data for backup when it went down. But since last few months, the ISP service became a bit unreliable – this is more related to the rainy season. Mobile data doesn’t give fiber like constant speeds I…

  • Asterisk PBX with Reliance PRI Line using Digium TE131F

    So I got an opportunity to set up Asterisk PBX with a Reliance Communications E1 line. I have worked with Asterisk PBX, but without PSTN interfacing. This post is about what all stuff I have done to get a Reliance E1 line with Digium TE131F card. Having explored a lot of other distributions like Fedora,…

  • Results of an online survey about preferred tyres

    I am facing some instability on my car rides and after showing it to numerous mechanics, wheel alignment centers everyone said the same: The tyres have gone bad and they need replacement. The car hasn’t had that much running to justify a tyre replacement so I started looking online for solutions. Finally I have to…

  • Call Rate comparison: Per second vs Per minute

    A simple graph I made using spreadsheet to compare call rate in per second vs per minute. There was a similar graph somewhere around, but I lost the link and hence I made my own graph 😛 1.5 paisa/second and 45p/minute are common rates in per second and per minute plans offered across India, so…

  • A networking insight from the past

    An insight into a networking problem thrt I faced seven years ago wrt unable to use Internet on Linux after learning networking and Linux over the years.

  • The Minimum Attendance Requirement

    One day, I was studying for one of my exams, and this thought came to my mind – Why do colleges keep the minimum required attendance level so high? The first answer that comes to anyone’s mind is: Because students bunk classes. Okay, but why do students bunk classes? The reason is simple: Because the…

  • The Flawed Evaluation System

    It’s semester end again at college and we’ve got hell lots of journal-writing work. The journal-writing work is a indespsible part of every semester in Engineering, at least in my University and possibly every other University out there. The general trend in my college, a lot different from others is – A student (usually the…