How to set-up your BSNL broadband wi-fi using Landline.

This tutorial is going to teach you to set up your BSNL wi-fi broadband on your own.This is pretty simple and going to save you the installation charges and give you the satisfaction of fruit of labour.So here is how you go through with it.
 1. Firstly, you need to have a BSNL landline connection to avail the broadband facility.In case you already dont have it, get it.
 2. After you get the landline connection,you need to apply for the broadband connection with yout ISP ( Internet Service Provider). After your connection is through  you will get a username and a password.
3.Now you need to get a wi-fi modem which either you can purchase from market or can be provided by your ISP.Now most widely used Wi-fi modem is Dlink.In this tutorial we are gonna take the example of D-link DSL 230u.
4. Your modem comes with following entities in a package.

• A Modem cum router device which has four ethernet ports(Blue outline in the figure below) and a single DSL port(white outline).
• A splitter which has two ports on one side and a single port on the opposite site.
• A DSL phone cable
• An ethernet cable.

Fig 1: Modem cum router.

Fig 2: Splitter

Now DSL cable and ethernet cable look similiar to each other but remember ethernet cable has wider ends.

5. Now make physical connections as illustrated in the diagram below

Fig 3 : Making connections

6. After you have already made the connections.You need to configure the Modem for the first time.For that ,you can either use the CD that may or may not be included in the package or you can do it manually.For that you need to connect the router to your laptop PC so that effective network looks exactly like in the Fig 4 below.

Fig 4: Connections to configure the modem for the first time.

Needless to say,the modem needs to be plugged in for the power.Configuration is pretty easy and self explanatory.You need to type a given IP adress in your browser and go to the modem interface.You can enter the default values there in the set-up wizard and you are ready to go.

On the road : How highway and highway affected me.

They say travel gives u perspective ,atleast i get it. Having watched the movie highway,i boarded the comfortable shivneri bus from Pune to Mumbai.I felt like a part of the movie after having fought my anxieties and demons the very same day,the movie opened the pores of my brain (abstract,ofcourse!).The director is one free soul,his movies are never bound by limits of conventionalism.Surreal yet so real. Weird yet so relatable.Isnt this what we all desire?Pure unadultered freedom uncorrupted by worldly limitations.His movies sure haunt my brain.Coming back to the travel,i was already riding high on the rush i got after the movie(it could be samosa-diet coke,but iam reasonably sure it was the movie).Funnily or interestingly,of all the Batman's and Spidermans ,one character that i could truly relate to is a girl.The bus was extremely comfortable and less than half filled.The AC complemented the outside rain and further added to the poetic rush.The bus reached outskirts of pune and developer machine studded suburbs started appearing.Huge cranes against the mountains of khandala gave a deserted look.One building stood among sugarcane fields.just one building representing how innocence of the earth is corrupted by corporate bug and competition.Much like our lives,ruining our pure selves for the sake of success which is hardly a success now that i think.Yes u earn money,but is it really what we desired?Further into the road,i saw a bullock cart and a apartment building side by side.Never had i seen such simplicity and monstrous technology existing in such close vicinity.How oblivious is that simplicity of technology.Such serene wilderness corrupted by endless advertisements of Rahuls and modis and upcoming flats.Interestingly one ad for LAMCON read www.Iamcon.com. The name itself read "Iam con".Further greeted by the wilderness around lonavla and khandala,i just wanted to soak in the calm and freshness and never let go.why do i need a destination or an agenda or a dream,why cant i just live through.we work hard to reach a dream and then harder to sustain it but when do we live it.This whole concept of life seems like one big contradiction to me.Whuy should i do something to keep up with world,why cant i just live and keep up with me.Much like the protagonist in the movie,i wanted no aspirations ,no destinations,just mindless travel with no reason.Why do i need a reason to please myself.I seemed to agree with some ad in which aamir khan says,kabhi kisi anjaan station pe utar ke dekho ( Feel alive,just unboard at some unknown station).I might have gone overboard but this travel sure led me to rethink my priorities. Doing things just because they need to be done is not my cup of tea,I do things i want to do.I might feel trapped but its never too late.Bikers on the world class highway among wilderness gave me a complex. What bliss it must be to bike on this road in this weather.Finally the suburbs started prevailing again and welcome to the big bad mumbai. This dream of a travel may have dawned,but this poetic rush is yet to subside. Some may compare it to a little kids sugar rush,but hey ,we used to love that. Life as we know it can wait for this one hell of joyride. As i unboard the bus,joy is perhaps the most misunderstood entity.Its trivial,its within us.

Facebook Diaries : Adventures of an average Indian Facebook user.

In current scenario, when facebook has become a parallel life for most of us, maintenance of virtual persona has become sort of a daily chore. In an age ,where everyone is “cool”(on fb) ,there’s a sudden surge in weird and bizarre face-book handles, not to mention that every other teenager is a rapper or  hip-hopper ( on their profile’s) and every other girl is an angel or a doll.The deal with Indian kids is that anything remotely cool must have something to do with a rap or hip hop. ‘Angel’ and ‘dear’ must be the among  the most abused words in India on facebook  as of today . An average kid may not be sure about his vowels and punctuations, but he sure believes that adding  “f**K” in every sentence makes it cool (or kewl as some may say ). LOL is used more frequently than MOM nowadays (not that mothers are happy about it ). Well there are tons of people making a fool out of themselves on social platforms (whow, we thought only Miley Cyrus did that!). Youngsters don’t want to leave any stone unturned on the platform where every girl who accepts their request is a potential girlfriend (that’s what they like to think!). Desperation for popularity paves way for some hilarious screw-ups. Facebook is like a virtual party where you throw cheesy pick-up lines, get humiliated (in inbox,if lucky), get lucky ,get burned and sometimes end up making a complete fool out of ourselves(Admit it!).Well for the sake of sophistication,we all have a twitter account, but twitter mein woh baat kahan.Facebook status is the new broadcast now leaving jobless the gossip chachi's and maasis.

Presenting you the most ridiculous facebook handles i have come across during my face-book chronicles.

Khooni  Raghav

Drug  Addict Manoj (seriously???)

Smartboy Sharma ( He actually refers to himself as “smartboy” in his posts. )

Maya Dollas ( and he upgraded it to Maya Dollas II, poor guy!)

Nanhi Pari (Trust me,she’s not nanhi by any means or any scale for that matter)

Rapper abc xyz (well,thats your average guy who thinks uttering fast means hip-hop)

Kalyugi Baba (Ghor Kalyug!!! For sure )

Well,coming to demographics ,sociology could incorporate one more case study “Friendlist”. What i have observed is some components are universal for every friendlist. Well, my theory is well suited only for Indian profiles.

Puts every new song for a status ( Here you go “Aaaah,that one!!)

That one girl with a tv serial actress for DP.( or few for that matter)

That one  girl who’s the admin of sad shayari page.

That one guy who intimidates you with every post and photo.

That one guy/girl who tags you in his pics and mundane good morning wallpapers ( Got to agree,those piss me off the most!)

That one girl you message every time and end up labelling her “attitude wali” every one of those times.

That one back-up chat- girl who you could go back to anytime in case you don’t crack any new nut.

The one girl who has “hmmmm disease “.

That one girl who uses her nephew/niece for her profile pictures and a bunch of lurking guys ready with “cute angel” comments .

That one gym fanatic ready with his biceps and workout photos.

That one guy who  writes everything in decorative font.

That one girl whose posts make you seem like Hollywood is just about “Edward and Bella”.

That one cutie pie whose rare pics keep you waiting and sure land up in your laptop/mobile.

That one girl with more than 5000 friends who never replies to you ( Guys will agree to this.)

That one school-mate who’s sexy all of a sudden.

It’s amazing to see how facebook has become such social phenomenon and a high maintenance errand. This fever doesn’t seem to die down in near future. Here are a few mistakes or screw ups that we all have probably done or come across at one point of time or another.

Getting played by a friend with an alias profile.( Embarassing )

That one ugly fight in the comments