Airtel Broadband Fibrenet FTTH Plans for Delhi NCR!

[mgcarley]

btw ftth would mean a different type of modem/router right? i wonder if they are going to offer iptv through ftth as well. the medianama guy was cribbing about limitations of dsl causing problems with iptv rollout.

Definitely 100% will involve a different modem... but fortunately most FTTH modems are built to handle IPTV and usually one of the Ethernet ports is dedicated to IPTV (if IPTV service is active, of course).

This is done through 802.1q tagging which allows them to segregate the Data and IPTV bandwidth streams more effectively... I *think* up to the point where you could consume the full 100mbit/s of data bandwidth and not experience any issues with your IPTV stream but this isn't always the case... I think most just use a 100mbit/s profile and subtract X for IPTV and Y for VOIP, leaving you with around 94mbit/s for data.

 

[Sushubh]

sadly in any case, they have totally ****ed up their iptv packages and offerings.

 

[mgcarley]

sadly in any case, they have totally ****ed up their iptv packages and offerings.

Just the packages or is it a quality of service issue? Fibre can/will/should solve the latter problem, but as for the actual content...

 

[Sushubh]

last i heard, the quality of service had become awful. they still have not added all the new channels that have launched in india in the last couple of years. and they keep on removing channels from the timeshift platform which was the only good thing about iptv. i believe star world and other important channels are no longer part of timeshift rendering it useless for almost anyone who might be interested in this platform.

 

[mgcarley]

Interesting. I wonder if the feature has been being removed due to the QoS issues?

 

[mohit.joshi]

do they have ftth in mumbai as well ??

 

[mgcarley]

do they have ftth in mumbai as well ??

As far as I can ascertain from the plan page, no - it's ONLY NCR as of now.

Which part of Mumbai are you in?

 

[Sushubh]

well when i had airtel iptv, i had a 1mbps plan. i understand that iptv is unlikely to work on plans with 8/16mbps speeds. i remember times when iptv feed struggled when i was downloading a torrent with excessive number of connections otherwise, it used to work fine. nothing spectacular. of course, the charm of iptv platform diminished with the arrival of hd channels on dth.

 

[mohit.joshi]

As far as I can ascertain from the plan page, no - it's ONLY NCR as of now.

Which part of Mumbai are you in?

I stay at Malad.

 

[balajik]

Irrespective of the plans with low datacaps, Airtel providing 100 mbps in India is big progress and should be commended. It's a different thing if these plans are just on paper and that there are actually no customers using these FTTH plans.As a home user, I'm relatively happy with 4mbps speeds and I'd be glad if I can get 8 or 16mbps at an affordable price.This has been mentioned in these forums several times; the two main problems with Airtel plans are:1. Ridiculously low data caps.2. Ridiculously priced smartbytes packages.They should either introduce plans with higher data usage per month or bring down the prices of smartbytes packages to sensible levels. If given a choice, I could consume 200-300 GB per month but I'm limiting my consumption to 150 GB because there are no higher plans and the smartbytes packages are a rip-off.