Airtel Broadband Latest Plans (As of April 2017)

[dj2006]

It's FTTH to the main box in my society. After that its VDSL to my home.

 

[xyx2000]

VDSL

 

[Karan]

It's FTTH to the main box in my society. After that its VDSL to my home.

Then that would be Fiber To The Node (FTTN) which is what VDSL is. FTTH is Fiber To The Home, i.e the fiber cable comes all the way to your house.

That is pretty good upload speed they have setup for you. What modem did airtel provide you?

 

[cyberwiz]

well I recently upgraded to VDSL and from what I can gather, the upload speed on Airtel VDSL is not a fixed ratio viz 1:8 or 1:4 infact they are providing different profiles in different areas for example my sync rate is 35mbps/14mbps.

I am on the 899 plan with 60 GB data in Delhi.
I was forced to take Binatone dt910w modem and wireless router combo which runs the same chipset as beetel. But the biggest problem is that I had to unplug my Asus rt-ac66u which resulted in ddns problems.

Here is what I get in terms of speed

 

[dj2006]

Then that would be Fiber To The Node (FTTN) which is what VDSL is. FTTH is Fiber To The Home, i.e the fiber cable comes all the way to your house.

That is pretty good upload speed they have setup for you. What modem did airtel provide you?

Yes, it's FTTN. Previously I had the Huawei but it burned up. Now they have provided me Beetel 777VR1. It's working good.
What speeds do you get on FTTH? my sync rates are 123557 up and 23444 down.

 

[Deleted member 63558]

well I recently upgraded to VDSL and from what I can gather, the upload speed on Airtel VDSL is not a fixed ratio viz 1:8 or 1:4 infact they are providing different profiles in different areas for example my sync rate is 35mbps/14mbps.

I am on the 899 plan with 60 GB data in Delhi.
I was forced to take Binatone dt910w modem and wireless router combo which runs the same chipset as beetel. But the biggest problem is that I had to unplug my Asus rt-ac66u which resulted in ddns problems.

Here is what I get in terms of speed

Let me correct you here.

My friend lives front of the exchange itself. I mean it is like 5 meters away from the exchange.

The speed he gets is 100 Mbps on 40 Mbps plan and upload is also very fine like this.

Now let me correct you about the profile, there is no profile thing as they used to have in ADSL. What I mean here is that, 40 MBps or 100 Mbps that's it but the modem would sync at full available bandwidth.

No matter you are on 40 Mbps or 100 Mbps. It would show the sync rate of available.

In ADSL they were manipulating / relatively manipulating the syncs but in VDSL they are not.

So enjoy good upload as much as possible.

 

[Karan]

Yes, it's FTTN. Previously I had the Huawei but it burned up. Now they have provided me Beetel 777VR1. It's working good.
What speeds do you get on FTTH? my sync rates are 123557 up and 23444 down.

Good to hear that the beetel is working well for you, a lot of people on here have had nothing but trouble with it.

As for my speed:

@cyberwiz: Thats true, since airtel doesn't officially state the upload for any of their plans, just just provision customers to whatever takes their fancy. Even on my FTTH when I started with 16Mbps, they gave only 10Mbps upload, later when I upgraded to 40Mbps they gave 20Mbps, it is only now with the 100Mbps plan that they have given the same upload speed. They officially "don't guarantee upload speeds".

 

[cyberwiz]

Let me correct you here.

My friend lives front of the exchange itself. I mean it is like 5 meters away from the exchange.

The speed he gets is 100 Mbps on 40 Mbps plan and upload is also very fine like this.

Now let me correct you about the profile, there is no profile thing as they used to have in ADSL. What I mean here is that, 40 MBps or 100 Mbps that's it but the modem would sync at full available bandwidth.

No matter you are on 40 Mbps or 100 Mbps. It would show the sync rate of available.

In ADSL they were manipulating / relatively manipulating the syncs but in VDSL they are not.

So enjoy good upload as much as possible.

You seem to be too happy to correct without first understanding what is written.

By profile is meant the speed profile on the BRAS or broadband remote access server. If you think that in ADSL there were no speed profiles, you are incorrect, the speed profile would determine the speed even if the syncrate was high. They dont use the syncrate solely to control speed even in case of ADSL.

 

[Da SpoilerGuy]

Hmm, but he did say that in ADSL they do have speed profile. He said that in VDSL there's no such thing. Not saying he is correct all the way. I don't have knowledge in this subject, but I think you misunderstood what he said.

 

[Karan]

If you look at the screenshot below, technically if there were no profiles then @manojrk should be getting 100Mbps speeds as that is the speed he is synced at, however, his speed is capped at airtel's end to 40Mbps. DSL has two things, one is your sync rate or line rate, that is the maximum your speed will go to if no other restrictions apply, the other is your line profile that is applied by the BRAS at the ISP end which it gets from the LDAP, which stores your username/password and speed details etc, this is also the same way without changing your sync rate airtel FUPs your speed down to 512Kbps on the fly.

So, @Adidam your friends' speed is running at 100Mbps probably coz his line profile is not setup correctly, the moment airtel realises it, if they ever do, the speed will set to 40Mbps.