First of all, he's talking about pings to a Mumbai server.
Many customers are experiencing problems on MTNL at the moment.
As for the SMW4 cable, that's affecting pretty much every ISP in the country.
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I'm from Vashi, Navi Mumbai. I'm too getting high ping rates since 15 days around 91 - 111 ms. Earlier it used to be 32 - 45 ms which was fine. But these days it has been horrific.
What to do can't help it. is it because MTNL is adding too many customer's and so it's bandwidth has become low and contention ratio too has decreased a lot (1:22) which earlier used to be (1:45). :ishock::madness:
Can someone send this message to MTNL, "MTNL increase ur bandwidth backbone first and than add new customer's". Making life of 5 yr old customer's horrible.:madness:
MTNLs contention ratio going from 1:45 to 1:22 is actually a good thing. It means there are now only 22 customers competing for every mbit/s of bandwidth instead of 45.
Secondly, MTNL and BSNL probably buy more bandwidth from the international cables than any other ISP in the country. The decrease in contention ratio should reflect that.