How is Excitel Broadband so cheap?

[JB701]

I went with 750 Rs ONU. Just a simple ONU with single Gigabit ethernet port and no wifi intended to be used in bridge mode. I use my own PFSense router.

 

[rajil.s]

Here is another test to SIngapore on a 200MBPS line,

 

[JB701]

If it were router capacity issue , wouldn't speed on Indian servers gets affected too ?

i'm not entirely sure where the bottleneck is, i mentioned here before on how a test account belonging to Excitel got very good intl speeds where as my own LCO's Account got bad speeds.

i think it is that each router has a lower transit bandwidth or something.

 

[AAK]

Speeds on Singapore servers should be fine as its the closest data hub located near India with several submarine routes . Problems happens when you need speed on servers located in UK/American region.
(Talking in general,not specific to any isp )

 

[Sushubh]

ps. this forum is hosted on DigitalOcean Singapore.

 

[JB701]

On Excitel, ive noticed that speeds to American servers take quite some time to max out:


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With VPN (same server):


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[Jonas]

They’re offering 300 mbps for INR 2k quarterly. No installation charges or security if I take this plan. I wonder what the caveat is.

 

[rajil.s]

Very poor reliability. It will go down regularly at a whim. Excitel is good as a secondary WAN but not as a primary connection.

 

[nishantt6969]

@JB701 since excitel is no more providing no-wifi ONU, can we still use any ONU by cloning mac address and serial number? will it work?

 

[JB701]

I believe excitel uses more complicated method of doing it, matching hardware ID, software version on onu etc. Just SN and MAC won't work.