RailWire New Plans - December 2019

[happybanana]

I ended up removing RailWire. My LCO didn't give 2 shits about the operation of the service. It was mental agony all the year round.

 

[Realme]

LCOs are haelpless beyond the pysical links to your house, nor they can take a stand against RailWire/BSNl/govt PSu because they paid a lot in bribes to get sweet government tenders ( They basically don not enjoy any contract protections much)

 

[arcadian]

Hey Happybanana, I am thinking of getting Railwire. Can you tell me how much you paid for the installation and if you used it for gaming, was there any packet loss? Also, was there any downtime? Connection quality?

 

[happybanana]

Hey Happybanana, I am thinking of getting Railwire. Can you tell me how much you paid for the installation and if you used it for gaming, was there any packet loss? Also, was there any downtime? Connection quality?

Hey! I paid around 4500 INR for the installation including the ONU. I did use it for gaming. At first, it was great with almost 0 downtime and no major outage. But as months progressed, I faced major disruptions. And the LCO was always like it's all good from our side. Constant nagging would make them drag their ass down to here and then they'd always notice a fault somewhere. Whenever there was an outage, it was almost for a good 2-3 days.

I did experience immense packet loss in Overwatch and Fortnite. Granted, it was not that often; but the times it did happen, it did severely affected the gameplay. Overall, I'd give it 6/10.

But then, please do keep it in mind that the backlash doesn't mean RailWire is bad everywhere. I have read multiple people having good experience with them. If there's a better alternative with a lower installation cost, I suggest you should go for that.

 

[arcadian]

Thanks for your input. Currently, I am using Nextra, although the speed is constant, but there is constant 2% packet loss too. Their customer support is shit and doesn't even understand what packet loss is. I dont mind paying 4k for installation if the quality is good. But after your statement I am reconsidering railwire.

 

[vignesh_venkatesan]

I have railwire connection at my village home which works absolutely fine with no packetloss.
So it depends on Lco and location, try to get a demo from lco and test for latency, loss etc and get the connection.
I pay 999+GST for 100 Mbps Unlimited connection with no fup.