Reliance Jio Fiber experience in DLF, Gurgaon

So I am a long-time user of Airtel, most recently using their VFiber 24 Mbps plan for ~300 GBs paying around 1100 post taxes. Got the call for Jio since I had signed up on their site long back, and they had put the wires under the road sometime last year. Here is my experience:

  • Got the call on Saturday. Asked the salesman to visit once, he came in ~15m. Showed me their box and explained the plans. I booked it there and then, paid online for the Bronze Plan + Tax + 2,500 (1,000 is the security iirc, rest was installation).
  • Technicians came today and installed, took them about ~2 hours since I'm on the 1st floor. Probably the most chill experience I had with any sort of wire installations. The chaps were friendly too, explained everything I asked.
Got the JCO4032 dual-band router from Jio, firmware version: SRCMTF1_JCO4032_R1.12. Not sure if this one is a good model or not, but for me it works fine. Attaching some images for y'all:
Router
Under installation

Wire they used

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Wire spool
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The speed tests are below. This is quite good for me considering I am coming from 24 Mbps down. Upload speeds are meh, but I don't need them much anyways so it is fine.
Regular:
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Singapore Server:
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Via my new extender TP-Link AC750 (Model RE200)-This is nice considering it's an extender!
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Via my WN3000RP extender (7-year old piece)
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So, ending with some good things:
  • Prepaid connection is nice. Can choose not to pay for a month if I want to.
  • Speeds are nice, and no uptime till now. Though it is too early to say.
  • Price is better than Airtel anyday.
  • Range of the 5 Ghz band is quite decent
  • They carried 2 wires (black and white) and offered to install the colour as per my preference! This was nice. According to them, both are same, but based on the colour of the customer's walls, they carry both options to let the customer choose.
The bad:
  • I'm reading on the forum that I may not be able to attach my own router in the future. Strange. Might do a AP mode then if allowed.

If anyone wants me to do some speed/ping tests to servers, can help :)

Thanks!
 
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No I'm using the cheaper version of the one you posted.

TP-Link AC750 Wifi Range Extender | Up to 750Mbps | Dual Band WiFi Extender, Repeater, Wifi Signal Booster, Access Point| Easy Set-Up | Extends Wifi to Smart Home & Alexa Devices (RE200)
 
That is still good.. after seeing those results I feel like I unnecessarily spent extra on getting the Re305 model(the one posted)..😔
 
Yeah, I had looked at the AC 1200 too, but decided that the additional stuff was not justifiable for the price. And this was during the Prime day sales a month back.
 
@kkapoorr I am using the same TP-Link extender that you have mentioned. However, I get about 70-80Mbps speed on the extended 5Ghz network. I am still on the old bronze plan, will mostly get auto upgraded to new Silver tomorrow.
 
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No I'm using the cheaper version of the one you posted.

TP-Link AC750 Wifi Range Extender | Up to 750Mbps | Dual Band WiFi Extender, Repeater, Wifi Signal Booster, Access Point| Easy Set-Up | Extends Wifi to Smart Home & Alexa Devices (RE200)
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What speed do you get, planning to buy one. I have 300 mbps thing
 
I have the same TP-Link range extender. Speed is definitely reduced compared to direct connection to ONT. I get around 40-50Mbps upload and download on the extended 5Ghz network. That should be enough for video streaming. I'm guessing the distance between the ONT and the range extender may also influence the speed.
 
I usually get ~80-90 Mbps via the 5 Ghz network on this repeater (v/s my 100 Mbps plan)
 
I just used their app to get it set up. All instructions were there on it.

Its about 25 feet away in a recess about 1 foot in the wall (no line of sight)
 
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