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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Nice review @Lolita_Magnum. Hope this is "the one" for you😂
One Giga Fiber does serve my area and few people in my society use their services. It's pretty reliable here, no downtimes and the issues are resolved very quickly if any, according the my neighbour. OLT is handled by LCO which is set in a failover method using Gazon Fiber/One Broadband. Prices are similar to yours. 900/month for 200 Mbps, 600/month for 100 Mbps and 399/month for 50 Mbps.
 
I always thought people from big cities are lucky when it comes to their internet experience because they have so many ISPs to choose from, but I guess I was kind of wrong. Hope One Broadband will satisfy your needs. 👀
 
Hey! Thanks for sharing this review.

My 2 fiber ISPs(AS133676 and AS58965) have Airtel and oneott as the upstream and I am seeing 2 issues. 1 of them might be Airtel but the other I believe is oneott. Can you test it for me please ?

1. What is the latency to 9.9.9.9? I'll include my results below
Code:
                                                            My traceroute  [v0.95]
emerald (10.0.10.5) -> 9.9.9.9 (9.9.9.9)                                                                              2023-07-14T19:54:55+0530
Keys:  Help   Display mode   Restart statistics   Order of fields   quit
                                                                                                      Packets               Pings
 Host                                                                                               Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
 1. _gateway                                                                                         0.0%     8    0.3   0.7   0.2   3.3   1.1
 2. 45.64.11.185                                                                                     0.0%     8   15.3  18.0  13.7  36.1   7.4
 3. 103.47.15.229                                                                                   71.4%     8   13.8  13.9  13.8  13.9   0.0
 4. (waiting for reply)
 5. 14.140.210.93.static-Delhi-vsnl.net.in                                                           0.0%     7   20.9  15.9  14.3  20.9   2.3
 6. 172.23.183.134                                                                                   0.0%     7   35.7  35.9  35.6  36.3   0.2
 7. 172.28.177.73                                                                                   57.1%     7   35.8  35.6  35.2  35.8   0.4
 8. 199.120.142.110                                                                                  0.0%     7  393.9 389.7 369.9 407.4  11.5
 9. dns9.quad9.net                                                                                   0.0%     7  378.5 385.1 363.0 400.0  11.9


2. Is namecheap.com accessible for you? It's blocked on both of my ISPs and Airtel is definitely not blocking it. I ran a measurement on RIPE atlas yesterday and it was only blocked on 3 probes, All 3 with oneott upstream RIPE Atlas
 
@visheshvk22 I think this is on my ISPs. Both of them are doing some thing dumb and I am seeing ~370ms latency on both of them.
 
@ishanjain28 , no issues with Quad9.
Based on the traceroute the issue is like with the way your ISP is announcing your public IP prefix. (Since, issue starts from Woody's Hop)

To further investigate, we'd need a reverse trace or BGP show route. Which I doubt quad9 support will help with.

namecheap works.

Edit - this should help

 
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