Excitel Broadband Issues

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A thread with all the stupid issues I'm facing with Excitel Broadband. The way it has fallen down since last few months...
 
I'm having a weird issue with my excitel connection, I mean it's not excitel issue but Anycast issue but still... When using a DNS provider with servers in almost all major cities of India it goes to Delhi server (dns server set on my android private DNS settings). But when I connect my secondary router in router mode (not AP mode as it doesn't cause the issue) all the DNS queries go to Mumbai like just adding NAT makes the DNS misbehave, same with laptop. Even if I connect it directly to the main Excitel router with custom DNS it goes to Mumbai. Anycast is a mess.
 
Traceroute test doesn't show any difference, checking DNS resolver server it shows Delhi when directly connected to excitel router and Maharashtra when using secondary router with NAT. It shows Maharashtra only on windows no matter what I do.
 
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It seems "Budhi" is the company that registered this IP block for Excitel, "BUDHIRAJA INTERNET SERVICES" is an Excitel partner.
This is expected, since Excitel is known to not provide services directly.

inetnum: 103.177.120.0 - 103.177.121.255
netname: BUDHI21
descr: BUDHIRAJA INTERNET SERVICES
admin-c: BS1328-AP
tech-c: AM3232-AP
country: IN
mnt-by: MAINT-IN-IRINN
mnt-irt: IRT-BUDHI21-IN
mnt-routes: MAINT-IN-BUDHI21
mnt-routes: MAINT-IN-IRINN
status: ASSIGNED PORTABLE
last-modified: 2025-08-11T22:51:18Z
source: APNIC
 
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