Anyone facing slow speed on International servers??

[deltaechov]

Currently on 100Mbps 750GB plan, for Mumbai Server I am getting around 90Mbps. However issue start when I want to download from the International server, for example, right now I am downloading PyTorch with a max speed of 2MegaBytes instead of ~9MegaBytes. If I do a speed test to Singapore server same thing Download speed is around 20-30Mbps while the upload is going till 86Mbps. Is it just I or everyone is facing this issue?

And can someone suggest good ONT (preferably non-Chinese)
Will BSNL change it for free without any reason(upgrade to gigabit ethernet, maybe)? (it's on rent)

 

[deltaechov]

Okay so BSNL's Routing is shit AF, on 100Mbps they providing an average 60% on Indian servers. an on International it is shit AF. Like why am I paying 1600/- (No other ISP in the area). I have sent email to GM, NIB, and CMD too.

Because of their shit speed, I have installed pfsense on core2duo (which is overkill for a home network) to mitigate any issues from my side.

Can, anyone help me with this? is it an issue with ONT?

 

[vishalrao]

@deltaechov my connection speeds seem fine in various locations

 

[deltaechov]

@vishalrao It must be region-specific. For example, Pune has main BGP routers and is closer to Mumbai. In Jalgaon, NIB only does the monitoring part and connection setup, the rest is either at Pune or Bangalore.

This is how my morning is and what sucks is I start Internship today.


edit: added speed test

 

[deltaechov]

Even after emailing and calling nothing works with BSNL. And Now even Indian servers have low speed. Told this to NIB Jalgaon and they are like we don't take guarantee of speeds outside of the BSNL network.

Then I did a speed test on Check your Internet Speed and turns out speed keeps fluctuating from 10-60 Mbps.

I have decided to take a screenshot every hour and post it on twitter.

And one more thing ping to first hope i.e gateway is around 30ms(on fiber) all-day.

If you guys know any solution please let me know.

edit: added tweet link


Source

 

[sloj]

How does your network setup look like, just ONU or is there an external router, wireless or wired?

 

[deltaechov]

2 week back I had this setup

ONT 100c (from BSNL on rent) bridged ---> AC58U with openwrt+Ubound+samba+DDNS (pppoe) ---> PC, other APs, etc

I was having speed issues with this setup asked NIB they said everything is fine from their side. A little bit of research on the internet I found out, AC58U with 128Mb ram is not able to support(it does when there is 30mb of free ram) 2 Radios 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz (and I had other things running too). My conclusion router was lacking the ram and compute.

Solution:
Current setup

Had old core 2 duo e8200 with 4gb ram laying around, installed a network card and Pfsense, viola A commercial-grade firewall and router(overkill for a home network)

NOw the network looks like
ONT 100c (from BSNL on rent) bridged ---> pfsense (c2d with 4gb ram) --->AC58U (vanilla openwrt)---> other APs and devices

Except for ONT 100c ethernet, other connections are gigabit. For 100Mbps Ethernet I am definitely not expecting literal 100Mbps, I expect approx 93~95Mbps. However, it never reaches for download.

 

[Adithya]

Can you test your speeds directly connected to the ONT?

I agree BSNL is weird, I'm on a 50Mbps plan, speedtests will be around 30-40Mbps, downloading from hetzner is around 14Mbps unless I use a download manager. With a download manager, I can easily max out the download speed although it isn't that stable. Github downloads sometimes crawls on 10-20KB/s, not even WARP could fix it.

PS: GitHub thing was temporary though, now all's fine.

Try testing directly connected to the ONT, see if it's entirely BSNL's fault. Also try test files from Vultr - Looking Glass

 

[deltaechov]

I'll try direct from ONT.

What I learned from NIB today is Speeds outside of the BSNL network is not guaranteed. That is the reason I am only considering the BSNL speed test, because on other speed tests (speedtest.net/dslreports) if slow speed they will say issue from the speedtest server, and if you try other server and then speed reaches above 80Mbps they are like you are getting the speed. However, if the 3rd server fails it is a server issue. During the day speed fluctuation is crazy AF(Google duo is like: weak wifi using mobile data or RDP to company's server lags) and packet drops. Basically if one of the servers gives above 80mbps whole internet is fine. Hence, considering the BSNL speed test only.

If I show packet drops to 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 or google.com with latency above 80ms (with packet drops) NIB says both are international servers and for google.com too they say international servers. All of these servers located at Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, etc (from tracert and 1.1.1.1/help). One more thing, the closest server for 1.1.1.1 is at Mumbai and Nagpur but it goes to Chennai for some unknown reason.

edit added direct ONT speed

what the download manager does is create multiple streams. Hence, the increase in speed.

Check directly from ONT, same issue

 

[shin]

The problem with BSNL is that nobody knows anything. People there just connect things together and hope it works. And those who know a bit underestimate customer's knowledge and just talk tech jargon. You actually can't get through them at all.
I'm in the same situation as you. I'm having random packet losses to international servers, SSH connections dropping.
I only have BSNL at my location. No option.

 

[Adithya]

Your direct ONT results does seem better than previous ones. Your best bet now is to use a VPN ig.

One more thing, the closest server for 1.1.1.1 is at Mumbai and Nagpur but it goes to Chennai for some unknown reason.

afaik packets are sent on the least congested routes not just physically close, at least they're close enough. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong)