Kerala Vision Broadband FTTH - User Experience

Now that I am evaluating Kerala Vision broadband, thought I would create a thread to share my experience. My LCO provides broadband services from BSNL and Kerala Vision, so thought would be good to evaluate Kerala Vision as well.

Getting the account setup was pretty easy, cause there was no need for additional cabling or ONT etc. I shared a photo and ID/address proof doc to the LCO, and the same day evening he setup my account and shared the credentials. The LCO shares the same OLT for all services, so on my end, I just needed to configure my OpenWRT device appropriately.

Initially I didn't get the Kerala Vision VLAN, so I had to reach out to the LCO's tech guy who shared the id. I added the VLAN to the switch (my ONT is a transparent bridge, so I needed no change on the ONT) which created an interface and all I needed to do was add the necessary interface configuration with the PPPoE credentials.

As you can see, they use CG-NAT which is disappointing but other than BSNL and few others nobody else gives public IP addresses. Also I liked the fact that things just worked on first try (the above screenshot is from my first try to connect)

Will add more details as I explore more.

 

[Sammy]

BSNL plans, atleast the ones on their website are so bad. I use ~1500GB on average every month, I'd have to pay an arm and a leg to use their service. Plus seeing how badly their cables are placed on my street, reliability seems like a worry.

 

[coolguyy666]

@Sammy Yep, I see the same issues. The packet loss is crazy, during the day I see at times 25-50% packet loss at times for a continuous ping. You could try BSNL, it's relatively much better.

Varkicha ath venoo bsnl chilappo chathikum

 

[arunkadambanattu]

Ping to international servers much better than BSNL now.

 

[philip]

@arunkadambanattu thats beacuse i believe kerala vision is transiting international data from kochi tata vsnl gateway which is more closer , while with bsnl every data from kerala is going to their banglore noc from which it transited to the vsnl from there , which all accounts for increased latencies and speed reduction during congestion. I have seen similar latencies like kerala vison with another local isp in kerala, there traceroutes accounts for it.

 

[varkey]

@arunkadambanattu are you not seeing packet loss any more on KV?

 

[arunkadambanattu]

Now it is perfect. I don't see any packet loss. Very stable.

 

[varkey]

Interesting, perhaps they added additional capacity?

@vu3knb @Sammy Do you guys see the same improvement over the last 1-2 days?

 

[arunkadambanattu]

KVs maintenance not completed. It takes time. Cable operator told me that, it's almost finished. But, not over.

 

[philip]

Interesting, perhaps they added additional capacity?

@vu3knb @Sammy Do you guys see the same improvement over the last 1-2 days?

Do also face slow speeds to many international servers ,like singapore ,new york ,london with bsnl. Beacause i am getting only below 10mbps to these servers.

 

[Sammy]

Still facing packet loss while gaming. Speeds/ping to international servers through certain routes are still