Airtel Broadband is now offering 40mbps plans in Chennai

[Vandhana]

Okay, got a reply from Airtel. Unfortunately, they deny that the plans on the flyer I posted a few days back exist. Instead they insist that fiber connections only have three plans, Rs999 - 20mbps - 30GB data, Rs1299 - 40mbps - 60GB and Rs1599 - 40mbps - 100GB. The good thing is that the post FUP speed is 1mbps for the 40mbps plans.

@Vandhana, can you let us know what plan you are currently using?

Having 1299.
Also IIRC 999 - 40G without free local calls & 20 MBPS

 

[Karan]

Though not Chennai, my connection is Gurgaon based, I am on Rapid 1799 with 40Mbps and 150GB data, below is a screenshot of the speed I get on my FTTH connection

 

[bintop]

@Karan Your connection through OFC or co axial ?

 

[Karan]

Fiber into ONT, no Coax, after the ONT to my router it is via a Cat 5E

 

[Prakash K]

Upload speed is less than 2 Mpbs for 16 Mpbs download plan

Airtel confirmed that the speed will be less than 15% of the download speed. So, it might impact the quality of VOIP calls or online games.

 

[Karan]

Really? 2Mbps on FTTH or ADSL/VDSL? When I was on 16Mbps before the 40Mbps upgrade my upload was 10Mbps, I do remember a member on here from Bangalore who got 16Mbps upload on his 16Mbps FTTH connection.

When I asked then what is the "official" upload speed for their FTTH connections, they just gave me the usual 1/8th of download like it is for ADSL, which it clearly is not. Since they only officially quote the download speeds, they can pretty much setup your line with anything >1/8th upload. My case is has been more like 50% of the download.

 

[balajik]

Got this
Speedtest.net by Ookla - My Results

But speed is not consistent, can anyone please confirm?

FTTH or VDSL?

I got a call from Airtel. It appears my connection is eligible for a speed migration from 16mbps to 40mbps.

 

[georgemp]

@balajik, which area in Chennai are you at? Did they offer you VDSL or FTTH?

 

[Prakash K]

Thanks for the reply. Negotiating hard with Airtel for better upload speed and it seems they will do it,

 

[balajik]

@georgemp : Anna Nagar. VDSL, I think. I'll update further if and after they migrate my connection.