Reliance Jio Fiber experience in DLF, Gurgaon

So I am a long-time user of Airtel, most recently using their VFiber 24 Mbps plan for ~300 GBs paying around 1100 post taxes. Got the call for Jio since I had signed up on their site long back, and they had put the wires under the road sometime last year. Here is my experience:

• Got the call on Saturday. Asked the salesman to visit once, he came in ~15m. Showed me their box and explained the plans. I booked it there and then, paid online for the Bronze Plan + Tax + 2,500 (1,000 is the security iirc, rest was installation).
• Technicians came today and installed, took them about ~2 hours since I'm on the 1st floor. Probably the most chill experience I had with any sort of wire installations. The chaps were friendly too, explained everything I asked.

Got the JCO4032 dual-band router from Jio, firmware version: SRCMTF1_JCO4032_R1.12. Not sure if this one is a good model or not, but for me it works fine. Attaching some images for y'all:

The speed tests are below. This is quite good for me considering I am coming from 24 Mbps down. Upload speeds are meh, but I don't need them much anyways so it is fine.

Regular:

Singapore Server:

Via my new extender TP-Link AC750 (Model RE200)-This is nice considering it's an extender!

Via my WN3000RP extender (7-year old piece)

So, ending with some good things:

• Prepaid connection is nice. Can choose not to pay for a month if I want to.
• Speeds are nice, and no uptime till now. Though it is too early to say.
• Price is better than Airtel anyday.
• Range of the 5 Ghz band is quite decent
• They carried 2 wires (black and white) and offered to install the colour as per my preference! This was nice. According to them, both are same, but based on the colour of the customer's walls, they carry both options to let the customer choose.

The bad:

• I'm reading on the forum that I may not be able to attach my own router in the future. Strange. Might do a AP mode then if allowed.

If anyone wants me to do some speed/ping tests to servers, can help

Thanks!

 

[Aravb]

So i am assuming max speed is 100mbps

I have the same TP-Link range extender. Speed is definitely reduced compared to direct connection to ONT. I get around 40-50Mbps upload and download on the extended 5Ghz network. That should be enough for video streaming. I'm guessing the distance between the ONT and the range extender may also influence the speed.

Does the Extender slows with time or use.
Many say it heats and only works 4 months like that. Is it true? If yes, how to get a decent life out of it.

 

[zervinb]

I don't keep it on all the time. Just when I need the internet in that room. I haven't experienced overheating or slowing of speed with time. I have been using it for more than a year now without issues. The speed I've been getting has been the same. Not sure why it isn't as fast as @kkapoorr but it's probably due to the distance between the ONT and the extender.

 

[Aravb]

Alright thanks alot.

How do you get 90 mbps @kkapoorr

 

[LordSpymaster]

So i am assuming max speed is 100mbps


Does the Extender slows with time or use.
Many say it heats and only works 4 months like that. Is it true? If yes, how to get a decent life out of it.

The extender has an option to shut down and start back up on a routine, like shutting down at night and back on.
Haven't tried that yet.

And yeah I guess my distance is not that much between the 2. Where I sit I get decent signals on the 5 Ghz network on the Jio router itself too.

 

[Aravb]

Thank you , Great Help

 

[LordSpymaster]

Recently my Jio Fiber is giving me latency issues on connecting to the virtual desktop for my work. No clue why. Using an airtel Hotspot is better than Jio.

Other stuff like UL/DL are fine. But this latency and lag is a problem now...