oh yes, basic quality of the connection? speed consistency? since it's BSNL nothing can be said for sure. hardware used? latency constant or varies at peak hours? download upload ratio? fup? and should I be able to apply for it directly to the the exchange? wouldn't BSNL have to lay down the line till my house/closest dp?
1. Exchange is in the basement. So, upto there its fibre anyway, difference is from exchange to my house the wiring is fibre (about 12-14 floors or so) instead of copper. Nothing wrong with the wiring, so in that aspect its good.
2. Download speed is 1 mbps throughout and upload speed is 9 - 12 mbps. I had a 512k connection but since I'd taken part in the beta test, my speed was upgraded to 1 mbps. No fup.
3. Hardware - a white coloured wire enters the
ont (
GPON terminal here). ONT has ports for telephone , internet and iptv. Iptv is your normal sd stuff, nothing exceptional except time shift. The ont is a
Huawei/Sterlite HG850a.
4. Before and after the recent routing problems, the latency is consistent and better than copper. 1 ms to bsnl's gateway and 12-14 ms to 8.8.8.8 (
google dns)
5. Officially no plan has fup, the 512k plan costs 825, 1 mbps costs 1999 and 2 mvps so on. There are limit based plans but with crap limits. As I'd said Ive got 1 mbps for 825.
6. Customer support is actually nice though there is no call center is such. Few backend guys volunteer.
7. In order to get the connection you will need fibre upto your house, i dont think they do that om individual basis. Also, most bsnl chaps have no idea about ftth, you will have to find the ftth dept or the company who is handling the roll out (aksh here)
In a nutshell, I'm hanging on to the connection only because of the upload speed.
. Attenuation is 1.6dB as I type this !