Business connection any better quality than regular consumer plans?

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vishalrao

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Tata Play 1 gbps, Microscan 500 mbps, Jio AirFiber 100 mbps. Prior PDPL 300 mbps and BSNL 300 mbps.
Got a call from a Tata sales guy asking me to move my 1gbps connection from home to business plan.

Wanted to ask, is there any difference in the "quality" of the connection? Meaning any improvement in speeds (to far away servers), pings, routing etc?

I know about the typical marketing benefits and drawbacks (no OTT, free static IP, 10tb FUP, faster complaint handling, GST credit etc) just wanted to see if any improvement in the actual connection itself.
 
The guy is from "tata play fiber business solutions" not tatatelebusiness.com his email ID is @ tataplayfiber.com - but I will confirm...

See this image he sent me - I want to know more about the claim "Faster and more reliable download/upload" lol...


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Both upload and download speeds are pretty great on TPF in my experience, not sure what better they would provide with business broadband. There would a slight benefit in the uptime ig because of the ring fiber infrastructure. TPF's uptime is great anyway :)
Paying 50k upfront for broadband service doesn't make a lot of sense to me personally. BTW how does TPF perform at your location?
 
Yeah works very well for me too already like your experience. Just interested to see if any improvement to downloads/uploads to some other far away servers and services like dockehub , github , linux repos etc. I might just take a 3 month 1gbit 4tb plan to try and go back if it doesn't work out.
 
@vishalrao, how is your experience with Tata Play Fiber? I am from Kathreguppe, Bangalore. I assume you are from Bangalore as well? How are speeds to international servers like Singapore and uptime? Also, how is Jio AirFiber working out?
 
@droid im in Pune. overall experience is decent, nothing stellar. uptime is excellent in my place, hardly goes down, and if it does, it gets resolved in an hour or two max.

international speeds are inconsistent, really depends on which server is being used and where, and whether you are using multiple connections per download or single connection - speedtest.net defaults to multiple but you can select single when choosing servers from across the globe.

usually international downloads (which are over single connection) max out at 100 to 300 mbps. only rarely do you get speeds approaching my 1gbit plan speed.

even local (within india or likely to some "peering exchange" datacenter, if im using the right terminology) downloads depends, some services, like windows/linux updates don't cross 300mbps, only rarely some apps/tools update really fast like zoom, docker, etc.

another example, if i have a very large github repo im cloning the speed doesn't cross 80 mbps lol.

as for jio airfiber i have 100 mbps plan (the sales agent said thats the max they can offer in my area), i rarely use it (it's for backup) but seems to work well most places (get close to 90mbps) even during rains.

once, there was a glitch (system backend update?) or something, i was getting close to 1gbit on jio airfiber (!!!) for a few hours in the evening, then it went back to normal lol.
 
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