@Sidharth P its not your lco . its excitel . i get full 50/50 on excitels server as well as other delhi servers. twitch is horrible due to their networking being pathetic
and this response that these guys give - ''they are not present in india and are not ready for peering .''
man i tell you, this response really gets on my nerves.
Having popular platforms cooperate with an ISP and working together for peering is a bad thing, you're claiming? If direct network connections were such an amazing thing, why do people prefer game servers closer to them? Why are people so pleased with the speed performance of Youtube? Its due to the peering efforts and collaboration that we've undertaken. Since when has having a server closer to the source country been a bad thing, I fail to understand? Since you try to portray peering to be some sort of a devil and direct connections with offshore servers as an angel.
Direct connections with offshore servers works without extra efforts, sure. However, please understand that it is not always possible to do that, due to the different routes used by different upstream providers. Peering with major platforms helps us counter that, atleast temporarily, if not a permanent solution. Instead of seeing that as a positive effort to atleast ensure that customers are able to use such platforms optimally, you have a critical opinion of the same. And obviously, had the peering gone through with Twitch in the first go, you would be rejoicing here. Then it would suddenly turn out not to be such a devil of an entity, right?
whatever the case , these issues only happen with excitel
sure out of their total userbase , people who uses twitch and such sites are very small , but still they should rectify it and make users happy.
Yes, I agree. And we never refused to fix the issue and neither did we ever deny having any issues, either related to Twitch or any other aspect of our services, as well. A newer ISP has to expand its coverage area, improve upon stability, improve upon a ton of other pressing concerns. Do you suggest we should refocus our energies and resources from those areas and direct it towards very specific issues, first? I'm not saying that the Twitch issue isn't important. We will come around to it.
@Excitel How am I able to stream Twitch without any buffering at source on my Airtel 16mbps plan but not on Excitel 50Mbps?
After Excitel's unblocking they have again started thier usual BS. Just answer this one thing, why can't 50mbps stream Twitch, Prime Videos, Vimeo and others without buffering but Airtel on 16mbps heck MTNL on 8mbps DSL is able to handle it without any hickup.
Because all companies are not using the exact same routing strategies? Because they're not one and the same company. Or maybe because Excitel is not as "set-in"/old as the other companies that you're trying to compare us with. This is something which I find surprising. Comparing new companies with old ones isn't exactly an apples to apples comparison, now, is it?
Also someone mentioned fast.com have their servers moved to some norsk country, so it may be having some problems outputting the real throughput, when doing a speed testing via fast.com on Airtel I get almost 15-16mbps on it consistent, but Excitel will just say fast.com shouldn't be trusted but you must check the actual stream using a
Netflix account.
@Excitel I would like to highlight the fact that, Netflix specifically their started their own speedtests servers in order answer ISPs that are indulged in unfair practices of speed throttling. So instead of blaming Netflix or Twitch better check your
DNS configuration and packet loss problems.
We have established peering with Netflix. This peering using a specific route which is NOT equivalent to the route that is used while testing connection speeds on Fast.com. As far as your comparison between Excitel and other ISPs in this regard is concerned, refer to my previously reply, above.
Agreed, Excitel is just pushing the blame on to others. " Oh its the distance problem!" " Oh fast.com and twitch servers are far away". I'm tired of listening to this same garbage over and over. Excitel may have good speeds for torrents and peering but everything else sucks. They never admit that the problem is on their side and that their network may have some problems.
We have, never, and I repeat, never, refused to accept the problems experienced in relation to our services.