How good is BSNL Bharat Fiber in Bihar (more specifically in Nalanda Bihar Sharif) ?

[atif_imam]

Is it not available in your home town or locality? (for work you can renat a room where it';s available)

Otherwise you have no choice except going to BSNL

With BSNL one thing you can do is : VPN

Find a VPN, which has good pings to your home and see which one of them has best latency to AWS US-EAST

Then VPNize your connection, it may provide far tighter pings for your need.

If you are technically adept/or can hire someone , BSNL has good peering with google, host your VPN client over GCloud and VPNIze over that.

Provided you don't transact a large volume of data, your expenses might be manageable.

Also you won't get <200ms in pings from Bihar to anywhere in the US

Hey thank you man for all the stats . No airtel is not available in my city . BSNL and railwire is . I am using Railwire but it is frequent problem . So thinking to try BSNL for once

 

[netfreak]

@Realme . Airtel is not available heere . . I am in my HomeTown currently . And once this corona thing will be over , i will be needing wifi just for normal browsing ( for my parents and siblings) . I don't think people in my locality cares about internet . For them mobile internet is enough.

One option is to get two connections and load-balance. There are routers that can automatically fail over to a different connection if primary connection goes down. Search for "dual WAN router" on Amazon. Cheapest one is around 2.8k

 

[atif_imam]

@netf

Don't know about Nalanda but I am using BSnl FTTH in sitamarhi And the service is quite good, Moreover, it depends on the vendor, My vendor is a very good guy, he is always ready to help, Apart from occasional trucks ramming into poles and some people intentionally cutting fibre There is no problem, Fibre cuts are solved within hours, Totally worth it.

How much did they charge you for the installation ?

 

[Realme]

If your local neighbourhood already has 1-2 connections, then anywhere from 500-1500, otherwise if you are the first connection, they are gonna rip you hard like 4000-5000 overall setup

 

[atif_imam]

@Realme , Man my home is just 50 metre away from exchange . On their website they have mentioned that you dont need to pay for anything and it will be adjusted in first month of billing . WTH is wrong with BSNL

 

[mr.blue]

From Bihar. Gaya.

Took 5k installation. Doesn't matter if line is there or not, it's flat rate. No other ISP so either take it or leave it they don't care.

If you already have Railwire, BSNL is going to be similar. Same situation here too. It all depends on which OLT you're connected to. In my area BSNL is overloaded af so on 100 Mbps plan I get 25-30 Mbps during day and 120 Mbps during night.

One of my friends switched to Railwire and he's at least getting full 100 Mbps due to less number of users in his case but again the problems are still there (speedtest would show 100 but even whatsapp messages won't get delivered sometimes, etc.)