Upgrading to 1Gbps Plan and Offer (TataSky Broadband)

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Mumbai does have better latencies, Pune is not really that far but they don't exactly have 5ms ping on everything.
 
@HC1337 I'll let you know if I see improvements. You must remember updating OLTs/ONTs does not necessarily lead to performance improvements but only bug fixes, security updates, feature updates etc that are more often than not invisible to end users like us. Not sure if they change routes.

Mumbai is the intl. gateway for western India and I would gather many places in central India as well. So theoretically Mumbai would be the bees knees when it comes to response times for broadband and other connectivity. Pune is not far behind given the geographical proximity. That's why I keep repeating on here that you really can't expect 300 or whatever Mbps downloads if you connect to a server on the other side of the planet. That's unrealistic. Also, VSNL/Tata Comms has a gateway in Pune too but I am not sure how they route the data. I get better ping responses from TPBB than Airtel. But that's not the sole indicator of network performance and connectivity. As @Lolita_Magnum rightly said, QoS and other traffic priority/shaping settings in a backbone or remote router can affect the timings.
 
That is true but in that 4 hours of downtime just in case they improved some routing related things, that would be a great thing.
 
Well, as I said before I'll check it out over the next few days and update. Please don't expect this everytime there's a downtime, there's also only so much they can optimise their equipment and routes. Remember the internet is like a chain..as good as the weakest link. You may have the best routing tables configured but what if the remote router or one of the intermediate routers is saturated or not optimised?

PS - Telecom is considered critical infrastructure (like power generation and supply) and ANY upgrades/updates/fixes/optimisation on ANY telecom system whether hardware or software is well thought out and implemented. They also have a Plan B just in case something goes belly up and they have to roll back. Believe me when I tell you heads can roll if someone cocks up. :)
 
That is true about the weakest link, and I wasn't really criticizing Tata, in my eye they are Top 2 and from what you have shared so far, they are great in every way possible. Just had curiosity as if every any big ISP has any maintenance downtime, they improved somethings somewhere which might not be noticible but might improve the usage of their services and make them that extra bit special.
 
Even I had same thing like @HC1337 in mind. Let me share... Whenever anything unusual happens like I suddenly get more speeds or lesser latencies I always reboot my router and think it's an OLT update. Even I did this just now after excitel services are back to normal. So yeah it's common to think that 😁
 
@havoc do consider that your router requires a reboot every now and then which frees up memory and makes it perform better. Remember these are cheap built to a cost devices. It may not have anything to do with the OLT. Also rebooting router can get you another IP address block which is routed differently. Things are not necessarily what they seem on the surface.
 
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