Airtel V-Fiber (VDSL) - Link Drop & Other Issues [HELP]

[rohantaneja]

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[Karan]

My cousin just had her connection upgraded to V-Fiber, it took airtel almost a month to set it up. They claimed the VDSL modems were out of stock till now. The modem airtel gave her is a D-Link DSL-224. Seems to have excellent wifi range, even beats her existing D-link AC router. The connection too according to her has been stable.

 

[4uziaul]

Do you have any pics for that VDSL modem, can't find any such model online.

Edit: Never mind found it.

 

[Karan]

D-Link

 

[4uziaul]

That's a much better option than the current beetel one.

 

[Karan]

Yup, most certainly is. She even had them waive off the Rs. 1000 for it. Then again she has been an airtel dsl customer for over 17 years!

 

[rohantaneja]

I got my VDSL upgrade 3 days ago. My router Beetel 777VR1 showed frequent disconnections within 30-45 mins of usage, Internet link dropped like hell.
So, today I requested the local engineer who installed the router, and after changing firmware given by @ganesh177 and from engineer, same issue continued,

After that local engineer mentioned that D-Link VDSL routers are available in stock and we need to request airtel for modem change. Airtel is intentionally providing Beetel router as they in-house cheaper builds as compared to costly D-Link and Huawei routers.

Really pathetic 3 days of internet ever used.

 

[dragonball]

I recently migrated to 16mbps VDSL and still the max download speed I get is about 900kBps (~8mbps). I am on 777VR1 modem. How to improve this?

Also what torrent settings (no of connections, etc) do you use?

 

[Deleted member 63558]

Try to use Google DNS @dragonball

Best way to test the speed of internet connection I find myself is that download video from Youtube using IDM.

You can use seedr for torrent download. It's so many months since I have used BT for download torrents. Seedr is perfect.

 

[Karan]

I recently migrated to 16mbps VDSL and still the max download speed I get is about 900kBps (~8mbps). I am on 777VR1 modem. How to improve this?

Also what torrent settings (no of connections, etc) do you use?

900KB/s is too low for 16Mbit, check your sync rate in the modem's GUI. You should ideally be getting over 2MB/s

BT settings are dependent on whether it is a public torrent or private, for private I prefer at max 25, on a public torrent I adjust it on the fly, sometimes as high as 300 peers. If it is well seeded then even 50 does the trick.

@Adidam: Changing the DNS will only speed up name resolution, provided the one you change to is quicker to begin with. It will not increase your download speed one bit.