Reliance Jio Fiber Queries

[sumantrab99]

@SG_curiosity Yes, I'm well aware of that. The cable provided in the box will be of little help, and will only be effective if your router is next to your STB. Else, you'll have to purchase your own cable and make your own wiring from your router to your STB.

 

[SG_curiosity]

Normally there are black colour Jio GigaFiber fiber optics wires on poles on every streets and roads. But I have also see some dark orange colour wires (same size or may be few millimetres extra thick compared to black wires) in my area over poles in few large size street roads along with normal black Jio GigaFiber wires. I am not 100% sure but I think these orange wires are also from Jio because there is no other private company of fiber internet like airtel etc. I tried to trace these orange wires and I find that these wires are connected to nearby mobile towers and may be those mobile towers are also Jio. But I also remember that few days ago, I talk with Jio GigaFiber installation team and they said all black colour Jio GigaFiber wires comes from nearby Jio Central office (fiber backhaul) of this area but that time I forgot to ask about orange wires.

1. Are these orange wires also in your locality?
2. So, Is internet comes from nearby jio mobile towers to Jio GigaFiber or it is comes from nearby backhaul building or both?

 

[undercover]

Orange cable that you see is an armoured cables. I have one near my house. They had placed it because of shifting of OLT to a different location. Otherwise all other infrastructure is underground.

 

[sumantrab99]

@undercover Aren't armoured OFC a little bit thicker than the standard ones?

 

[SG_curiosity]

Orange cable that you see is an armoured cables. I have one near my house. They had placed it because of shifting of OLT to a different location. Otherwise all other infrastructure is underground.

But why it is connected with mobile towers?
(Note:- It is not very thick. It is almost same as normal black pole wire of Jio GigaFiber. It is laid over pole to pole like black Jio GigaFiber wires.)

 

[SG_curiosity]

May be Jio is planning and preparing infrastructure for 5G. May be these orange wires on poles will be use for small Pico cells on electric poles that's why it is connected with mobile towers. It's just a guess. What you think?

 

[SG_curiosity]

@undercover No. I am not mainly taking about v1.0 or v2.01. My main query is that if White ONT (JCO500) is older model and black ONT is new model then why it's model no. is JCO300 but not JCO500 (Black) or JCO600 etc. ?

Isn't indicates that black ONT may be older model or maybe lower/cheaper version model compared to JCO500 (White)?

@undercover If you have any detail information or any Idea about this then you can share the information with us. It will be beneficial to me and others also. I have raised a valid point. Read it again and think about it.

@undercover can you reply?

 

[undercover]

Reliance is not the manufacturer of these ONTs. Fiberhome is the OEM for the products.
There are several products under active development at given point of time. Take example of D-Link. Higher model number doesn't always means better product. Model number means nothing. All goes down to the performance. If you gonna get stuck with model numbers you can.

 

[sumantrab99]

@undercover Did you get the time to test out the WiFi range of the new model?

 

[SG_curiosity]

Reliance is not the manufacturer of these ONTs. Fiberhome is the OEM for the products.
There are several products under active development at given point of time. Take example of D-Link. Higher model number doesn't always means better product. Model number means nothing. All goes down to the performance. If you gonna get stuck with model numbers you can.

Ok thanks. So can you tell us which one (old white and new black model) feel better in terms of overall plastic quality and device performance i.e., WiFi range & speed ?