Excitel Fiber Broadband in Bangalore - User Experience?

[varkey]

I could confirm that Excitel is hijacking non-ecrypted DNS traffic to servers other than OpenDNS and CloudFlare as mentioned in Excitel Broadband is now allowing some DNS servers including Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 and OpenDNS | Excitel Broadband
I use DNS over TLS anyway, so it's not an issue for me.

Also, ZeroTier works great even with the NAT, I am able to remotely access the network over ZeroTier without issues.

Overall so far, I didn't notice much of an issue with Excitel, clearly the speeds aren't that great. Most speed tests doesn't reach the plan speed level always other than few servers. Single threaded downloads don't reach the full speeds, and have to use multi threaded downloads to max out.

Haven't checked torrents yet though.

Anyway for the price ie Rs 667 or so incl GST for 100 Mbps unlimited, the service is pretty good so far. On Spectra I pay Rs 1180 for 250 mbps but I barely noticed the difference for my use cases (I don't download much these days and 100 Mbps is more than enough). I'm planning to temporarily disconnect Spectra for now and see how Excitel works out.

 

[Sushubh]

excitel does not block many domains. at least the https are usually always working. i rarely end up loading a blocked domain. so that's always nice.

torrents work fine. though you are going to have better luck with popular/recent ones because speeds are better on peered seeders.

 

[varkey]

Today there was a 10 min downtime, my guess is that the LCO was adding a splitter during the process of provisioning a new connection.

My input power level dropped from -1.1 dBm to -11 dBm or so after the link was restored.

 

[vignesh_venkatesan]

@varkey Many will be happy on seeing this post

 

[varkey]

 

[Ameen]

Today there was a 10 min downtime, my guess is that the LCO was adding a splitter during the process of provisioning a new connection.

My input power level dropped from -1.1 dBm to -11 dBm or so after the link was restored.

Not a excite post but still..

Had a 10 min downtime on bsnl too by noon I guess my ip switched from 59 to 117 had to restart the modem.

 

[Ameen]

Today there was a 10 min downtime, my guess is that the LCO was adding a splitter during the process of provisioning a new connection.

My input power level dropped from -1.1 dBm to -11 dBm or so after the link was restored.

Hope it drops down to 15 or 16 then we are even

 

[Ameen]

@varkey Many will be happy on seeing this post

Darn really?
I feel sorry for such loosers

 

[Ameen]

Today there was a 10 min downtime, my guess is that the LCO was adding a splitter during the process of provisioning a new connection.

My input power level dropped from -1.1 dBm to -11 dBm or so after the link was restored.

Now we know the ont isn't inside the olt

 

[TarunSingh]

For me, the value is -32.2 dBm. Is this the reason why I am getting low download speeds?