One Broadband Mumbai : 200Mbps Review

Going to keep this very short.
I recently moved to One Broadband after a troublesome affair with Airtel and 10 other ISP over the span of last 2 years.
The debacle started after a call a from a known colleague that he is partnering with them, and it is promising.

This connection is provided by him (known as, Speed Infosis) who take care or the end user to OLT fiber, while everything else is maintained by ONEB. Kind of, like what Excitel does.

I paid INR 2700 for 200Mbps @90days(this was the highest plan they offered here) free installation and INR 500 refundable for the dumb Syrotech ONU (SY-GPON-1000R-DONT). It's 950 INR for 1 month, 4750 if you go for 6 months, saving over 600 INR.
The connection itself is GPON and the input power is -24dBm (stable) with the core being shared with 5 other parties.

My Connection IPV4 is in the 203.194.99.0/24 (CGNAT) range, and they are providing IPV6 which is a 2404:ba00:XXXX::/64.
Both are working with no issues, with most games via IPV4 show NAT as moderate or open. (tried, War zone, Wild lands and GTA5)

Important bits:

Code:
Ping statistics for 8.8.8.8:
  Sent = 500, Received = 500, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
  Minimum = 2.48ms, Maximum = 4.87ms, Average = 3.45ms
 
Ping statistics for 76.76.2.0:
  Sent = 500, Received = 500, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
  Minimum = 2.20ms, Maximum = 4.21ms, Average = 3.13ms
 
Ping statistics for 46.232.210.29:
  Sent = 500, Received = 500, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
  Minimum = 120.18ms, Maximum = 144.25ms, Average = 121.33ms
 
Ping statistics for 162.159.192.5:
  Sent = 500, Received = 500, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
  Minimum = 67.61ms, Maximum = 69.60ms, Average = 68.49ms

Installation Experience:
Since this bit is going to vary, I am going to summarize.
I accepted the call on 12th June for installation the next day. They arrived at 6PM, installation completed within 30 minutes.
ONU activation took 2 hours, as it can only be done by NOC, and they had left for the day. The guy activated from his home.
Cabling work and everything else was done well.

Traceroute:
Code:
  1.|-- 172.20.16.1      0.0%     5    0.6   0.4   0.2   0.7   0.2
  2.|-- 172.21.255.62   60.0%     5    0.9   1.0   0.9   1.1   0.1
  3.|-- 172.21.255.6     0.0%     5    1.5   1.7   1.5   2.2   0.3 >>> No NAT up to this point.
  4.|-- 100.68.0.1       0.0%     5    3.2   3.2   2.9   3.7   0.4 >>> ISP starts from here
  5.|-- 203.192.217.37  40.0%     5    3.0   3.3   3.0   3.6   0.3
  6.|-- 115.117.107.141 80.0%     5    3.9   3.9   3.9   3.9   0.0
  7.|-- 172.28.177.206   0.0%     5    4.1   4.0   3.4   4.3   0.4
  8.|-- 180.87.39.25     0.0%     5   10.4   5.2   3.4  10.4   3.0
  9.|-- 180.87.38.1      0.0%     5  121.8 122.4 121.8 122.8   0.4
 10.|-- 195.219.174.16  60.0%     5  121.7 121.2 120.7 121.7   0.7
 11.|-- 195.219.174.70  60.0%     5  122.5 122.6 122.5 122.7   0.2
 12.|-- 195.219.87.214  80.0%     5  118.2 118.2 118.2 118.2   0.0
 13.|-- 195.219.156.150 80.0%     5  122.8 122.8 122.8 122.8   0.0
 14.|-- 195.219.194.149  0.0%     5  118.4 118.6 118.3 118.9   0.2
 15.|-- 46.232.210.29    0.0%     5  121.2 120.9 120.5 121.2   0.3

Code:
>>> steampipe.akamaized.net

  1.|-- 172.20.16.1      0.0%     5    0.5   0.5   0.2   0.7   0.2
  2.|-- 172.21.255.62   20.0%     5    1.4   1.1   0.8   1.4   0.4
  3.|-- 172.21.255.6     0.0%     5    1.5   1.7   1.2   1.9   0.3
  4.|-- 100.68.0.1       0.0%     5    2.6   3.3   2.6   3.9   0.5
  5.|-- 203.192.223.201  0.0%     5    3.1   3.0   2.5   3.3   0.3

Code:
  1.|-- 172.20.16.1     0.0%     5    0.8   0.5   0.1   0.8   0.3
  2.|-- 172.21.255.62   0.0%     5    1.5   1.2   0.9   1.5   0.2
  3.|-- 172.21.255.6    0.0%     5    1.4   1.9   1.4   2.4   0.3
  4.|-- 100.68.0.1      0.0%     5    2.4   2.8   2.4   3.6   0.5
  5.|-- 103.27.171.242  0.0%     5    4.3   7.1   3.8  12.6   4.1
  6.|-- 10.90.0.10      0.0%     5    5.3   5.0   4.1   6.7   1.0
  7.|-- 10.90.0.150     0.0%     5    4.3   3.7   3.2   4.3   0.5
  8.|-- 76.76.2.0       0.0%     5    3.5   3.4   3.0   4.0   0.4

Sometimes, it uses its Airtel backbone if there are no better options. I believe this option is kept for Enterprise.
Code:
  1.|-- 172.20.16.1     0.0%     5    0.9   0.5   0.2   0.9   0.3
  2.|-- 172.21.255.62   0.0%     5    1.1   1.1   0.9   1.4   0.2
  3.|-- 172.21.255.6    0.0%     5    2.0   1.9   1.2   2.4   0.4
  4.|-- 100.68.0.1      0.0%     5    3.1   3.1   2.9   3.6   0.3
  5.|-- ???            100.0     5    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
  6.|-- 59.145.216.49   0.0%     5   14.8  13.0   3.7  23.6   7.6
  7.|-- 116.119.50.254  0.0%     5    8.0   5.2   4.2   8.0   1.6
  8.|-- 59.144.137.26   0.0%     5    6.8  10.3   5.0  21.1   6.7
  9.|-- 100.64.217.139  0.0%     5    5.8   5.8   5.6   5.9   0.1
 10.|-- ???            100.0     5    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
 11.|-- 119.31.171.44   0.0%     5    6.0   5.9   5.4   6.5   0.5

Speedtest: (I have like 5 other users, using the internet right now)
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I cannot post, fast.com results as my Netflix is being routed via VPN.

Cloudflare:


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ultra.cc: (never, had such a consistent graph line)
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Downloading via Single-Thread Browser:
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Not doing torrents nor any probe tests.
Website blocking should be the general, and since NAT type is moderate, torrent will work decent.

No blocking or tampering of FTP or any other kind, nor the ports are being aggressively reset. (I am looking at you Jio)

Steam-Downloads:
Getting full speeds, download uses their internal caching servers. (Traceroute above)

Verdict:
Recommended. Prices are up to the mark for the service provided.
Reliability is something, that would be known with the coming days, but with what I am seeing the NOC is knowledgeable, and the backbone is proven to done by someone who knows their stuff.
Only con, would be the lack of OTT, but I don't use/care for things like that.

Let me know what else, you'd like to know.
 
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Wow. I was about to renew my plan but with their 1000Mbps plan(I have 200Mbps), but it looks like with this FUP, I will have to hold off. I was using onebroadband with my local provider.
 
Quick update, I have been throttled to 1Mbps even though there has been no mention of an FUP anywhere.

I’m in talks with their senior team, but this would make my work very difficult.
I have tons of jobs being backlogged due to this.
When I exhausted my 3TB usage on JioFiber the speed went down to around 40kbps. This happened about a year ago and the internet was basically unusable, I had no about this as I just switched from a local ISP where I used to exhaust upwards of 4TB a month.

I still won't switch back to the local one as it was very unstable and service times were pretty bad. Jio for me is very stable and is fixed very soon.
 
I was just surfing through BSNL website and noticed some of their plans look better in terms of FUP and speed after limit. Like Jio, 1B, Airtel are providing 1mbps after FUP is crossed meanwhile for BSNL it ranges from 8-10mbps affordable home plans.

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@Lolita_Magnum See if it is any good for you.
 
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There is no BSNL in Mumbai. There is that one called MTNL… but that is a unique nightmare of its own.

I do not have any plans for switching, as long as the ISP is doing my bidding. Additionally, I still have a pending contract of Static IPs with them which is due to expire next year.
 
I have been experiencing heavy packet loss (>20-30%) since morning. The issue appears to be on all of ISP BNG's egress upstream ports.
Code:
1  100.68.0.1     0%     100  1.2ms  1.5  1     2.4    0.3
2  72.14.219.218  23%    100  2.2ms  2.2  1.3   6.3    0.8
3  72.14.239.103  27%    100  2.7ms  3.8  2.3   39.1   4.9
4  72.14.237.139  22%    100  2.3ms  2.5  2     3      0.3
5  8.8.8.8        32%    100  1.6ms  1.7  1.3   2.3    0.4
 
All good here, maybe it has something to do with your static ip configuration on their end since we both share same Access Concentrator
 
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