JioFiber Review

I got my JioFiber connection installed on Saturday and am sharing whatever I have noted till now.

Plan: 150Mbps 3.3TB at 999+GST
Location: Jharkhand
Installation cost: 2500(Router + STB)
Time taken for installation: They visited the third day after online payment and completed installation in less than 2 hours as they just had to drop the fiber cable from my home to the ground floor, where their distribution box is installed.
The optical power they noted here was below -21.

My Existing connection: Railwire - 100Mbps unlimited at 999+GST

My observations:

• AWS Ping test(Ignore few irregularities)

• DNS servers pings: (Fairly stable)

Surprisingly, while writing this post, Cloudflare's DNS is pinging at 110ms

• Valorant Ping:

• Few Speedtest results:

• NAT Type: Strict(No change with UPnP)

Pros:

1. 150Mbps plan at the same price I paid for 100Mbps
2. STB with few OTTs subscriptions
3. Fairly constant ping throughout the day
4. The router has good range

Cons:

1. Very High ping even on local servers. Same with those in SEA and EU.
2. The installed JioTV app on the STB doesn't work which means very limited live TV channels
3. Traceroute displays almost no information
4. Strict NAT

• Sample traceroute results

Comparison with my primary connection(might discontinue):

1. Ping: The main disadvantage I see on JioFiber is that my ping is nowhere close to what Railwire offers. I could get 35ms on servers in Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi etc and 70ms for Singapore ones, 160-170ms for Europe. But on JF, Mumbai has 80ms ping when it's best, 65ms for Chennai and 120ms for SGP. I could easily get 35-40ms for CF DNS, 40-50ms for Google DNS on Railwire.
2. Speed: JF-Speed is good on Indian servers but not that great on International ones. Railwire-Good speeds locally and better than JF on international ones(considering the percentage of the plan:100,150).
3. FUP- Railwire has no FUP but since I don't hit 3TB monthly, JF's 3.3TB cap should be enough.
4. NAT type: Strict on JF and Moderate on RW.
5. Hard bandwidth cap: Jio limits the total speed around the plan speed specified(150Mbps here). Railwire does have the cap for most servers but I have crossed 200Mbps speeds on Netflix(Fast) and some other peered servers which is twice my plan speed.

After the above comparison, many of you might have the opinion that Railwire is better in most of the aspects, so now the reasons I was looking for alternatives :

1. Poor uptime: There can be a fiber cut any time. Even if there isn't, the connection can disconnect while you're playing a game, attending online classes or while on a call. This is the very reason why I even considered JioFiber as my friends never complain about downtime.
2. Upload speed: Due to some strange reason not yet known, the upload speeds are limited to 10-15Mbps on windows machines while it's perfect on other OSs. This is not very significant to me as I can use my Pi3 to host a proxy server for my windows device and I mostly don't upload much.(Edit1: This issue is only for states which have their routing through Railtel's Kolkata NOC)

 

[nimish2079]

False marketing for 5G
Dont be lured into getting a 5G connection from jio for this is a big scam.

They make u surrender you old internet plans and services and then make a fool of you and there is nothing much you can do as your previous connection is already gone.

Also the vouchers are worth nothing as that puts you in an additional soup of Rs 40k plus.

Bloody scamsters .

 

[chsachin]

Worst service ever....Jio do the mistake and client has to pay for it now and they didn't even refund or upgrade the plan without you paying the double the GST And recharge again...so that first recharge money directly goes to their pocket only....even local service provide are good then this....Recommending not buy this service...if you got problem then it never resolve...