@shashankb most of your points are vague and don’t really mean anything. Now please don’t call me pro reliance or pro Jio but you have to be clearer. As a customer, I don’t care about personal qualities or political affiliations of Ambani or whoever, and a big part of the anti Jio rhetoric among many people seems to be emotional rather than technical. No company is saintly here and every single company is looking to maximise profit. Our national PSU BSNL is injecting ads, launching plans only in areas with competition and so on. So don’t judge companies on ethics but purely on what you’re getting vis a vis others. So according to me, here are the cons of Jio:
1. Blocking. It’s not a huge problem in terms of how it affects users directly, but the in principle violation of net neutrality is completely unacceptable to me. Although Twitch is the only example I know, but the point is, we need not go into the severity of the problem, i.e. the number of sites blocked and how frequently, but the principle itself.
2. CGNAT. This will not affect most people, so users can decide on their own, but a point that should be highlighted and explained. This affects me though.
3. Bridge mode. Again not applicable to most users. And since CGNAT is already there, bridging will not have many benefits anyway, in this case.
Pros:
1. Good uptime and QoS. Speeds to international servers are full plans speeds all the time. No peak time drop in quality or whatsoever.
2. Pings are pretty good in games to Singapore servers, don’t know why Jio’s routing is considered terrible. It may not be best but it’s pretty decent. See Airtel’s threads, people are complaining about pings being bad since 2 months.
3. Prepaid. Can easily put it in hibernation when not in use, this makes it a really good backup option.
This has been my experience during one month, but I’ve also got reviews from neighbors who have been using it since preview offer days and vouch for reliability, no downtimes at all they said.