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:

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:

  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

>>> 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

  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.

  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)

I cannot post, fast.com results as my Netflix is being routed via VPN.

Cloudflare:

ultra.cc: (never, had such a consistent graph line)

Downloading via Single-Thread Browser:

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.

 

[Lolita_Magnum]

Hmm.. that is interesting.
Fortunately, for me the service provided is still fairly good and I haven't had any issues yet. Plus, compared to other players, 1148pm target price for 500M+StaticIP is still way cheaper. Hence, I never really bothered negotiating.

 

[Lolita_Magnum]

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.

 

[TheNuttyNet]

What was your data consumption this month? Like even approximately did you touch 4tb+?

 

[Lolita_Magnum]

No. There was not much jobs during the initial months hence the timing but as per what I have been informed the threshold is 3.3TB and my current is 3329GB.

 

[TheNuttyNet]

I was scared of this scenario hence didn't torrent this whole month, since when asked my LCO what if i touch FUP he had no idea since it was being freshly implemented. Let's see how they resolve such cases.

The customer care did tell me, Data quota will reset every month automatically.

 

[Lolita_Magnum]

Reset at the end of the month might be the case but for that means 7 days of delay which will be costly for me.
As per speed tests performed speeds are between 1.2-1.7Mbps max.
I might have to rethink this service or get a different provider.
The app still has absolutely no mention of this nor there is any mentions under ToS.

 

[TheNuttyNet]

Let's see if they can do something from backend and either remove limits for you at some feasible cost or provide some solution, Good thing is your LCO sounds helpful at times.

 

[RS4]

The secondary speed column shows 2Mbps. Looks like One Broadband has implemented FUP to all the plans across all the cities.

 

[TheNuttyNet]

Their speed post FUP is bad like atleast give enough to watch youtube at 1080p

 

[Lolita_Magnum]

an update.
This rollout is for all 1B customers.
Stupid thing is that none of the users are informed nor there is any declaration under ToS and these changes are being done mid plan.
I would have been fine if there was some intimation, especially before renewal.

Currently, while they are looking into possible solutions (which should not have been difficult). 1B has re-renewed my plan for 30 days.