1-Month Experience with BSNL Bharat Fiber – Calcutta Telephone Zone (Panihati Exchange)

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Wired - AS9829 | Not using AS55836, AS132115, AS142451
Mobile - Chotel (Primary) , VI 4G

✅ Order & Installation:​

  • Ordered: 20th May 2025 via BSNL website.
  • Initial Call: Received a call from Panihati BSNL Exchange officer the same evening; confirmed ~110 active connections in the area, including PNB Bank.
  • Fiber Laying: Done on 21st May morning by vendor team; TJP was ~600m away, so ~700m fiber was used to reach my home.
  • Activation:
    • KYC & OTP verified, account created on 21st.
    • Fiber sliced and pigtail prepared on 22nd.
    • Installed Digisol Single Band ONU on 23rd May.
    • Landline tested; speed and ping checked.
    • Received activation confirmation via email.
  • First Month Charge: Only ₹100 for ONU as per the officer. No installation charges.

🌐 Plan Details:​

  • Plan: BSNL Fibre Basic – 60 Mbps up to 3000 GB, then 4 Mbps.
  • Usage:
    • 23–31 May: ~800 GB
    • 1–20 June: ~1200 GB (1.2 TB)

⚙️ Technical Setup:​

  • MTU: Set to 1500, as advised by JTO (Auto BNG compatible).
  • DNS: Using Quad9 (9.9.9.9 / 149.112.112.112) – stable ping at ~22–25 ms.
  • Support: Very responsive – JTO shared personal number and portal guidance.

🔧 Downtime:​

  • 3 minor downtimes (all early morning):
    • 2 for system upgrades
    • 1 for PPPoE server maintenance
      (4 AM – 8 AM; did not affect regular use)

🌟 Overall Experience:​

  • Much better than expected.
  • Compared to Jio, Alliance, Wishnet, GTPL KCBPL: BSNL offers more consistent bandwidth and no overcommitment issues so far.
  • Fingers crossed, but happy with service quality, honesty, and responsiveness at this stage.




 
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I've been using it for four months and it is stable and no major outages.
But the annoying thing is they drop the connection every 24hours, even with a static IP.
 
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I too am a user of BSNL ftth from Panihati exchange. MTU for PPPoE was earlier 1480 now it is 1492 after BNG upgrade. Yes the JTO is very supportive even though he is not technically sound. I have static IP yet key ports are blocked like 8291 (winbox), 123 NTP. PPPoE disconnects every 24 hours which is very very annoying. Speeds are very consistent. Latency is also acceptable.
 
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@Netmagic @mafiosa guys does BSNL FTTH blocks any major website or ott service like telegram and their otps ? and how is the experience now in regards with UL download data as advertised, downtimes, wire cutting by competition, ping, buffering and ofcourse peak throttling if heavy downloads?

thanks in advance
 
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@Kaiju404 no it does not, they do not have any DPI at all. Only DNS level blocks which can be easily cirvumvented. If you are going the BSNL route look for packet drops they get a lot of packet drops and throttled at peak hours.
 
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You should be aware although BSNL won't do DPI, their upstreams might. I've seen it redirect to airtel's "block page" IPs. If the site is using cloudflare it'll show up as SSL errors. Just keep refreshing in that case and it'll load the website provides you're not using BSNL's own DNS.
 
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