Inspite of my contempt for their loathsome Internet fleecing plans, I had to reluctantly sign up for a Sify cable internet plan today. Cost me a neat pile for installation and pre-payment for one month. The most painful part of this transition is going back to a NAT-ted private IP. This means no more gnomemeeting, no more yahoo voice/video chat, no more Bittorrent, no more gnutella/fasttrack/openft and other P2P networks, no more logging into my home machine when stranded outside my home office to retrieve a document I left at home. (sob) 
The plan was too irresistable. Just introduced a couple of days back, the plan is 128kbps with a daily download cap of 150MB – all for Rs. 995.
I was also getting terminally sick from the awful Hotwire cable Internet service, whose downtime was causing me permanent heart burn.
I clarified beforehand that Sify has a Linux login client. The sales person also promised that they dont block any outgoing port but I would take that claim with a pinch of salt.
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