Slow download speeds on 1gbps plan

[Deleted member 83050]

@SpeedxThunder i am no expert in this but i've had issues with the Nokia 2425 ONT in the past with my tata play fiber connection. Maybe ONT is the bottle neck. Try getting a replacement router from airtel and see if it works?
I read above in the discussion that you are hitting 940 mbps only on speedtest servers but can we really trust speedtest results for bandwidth as high as 1Gbps that too with airtel? I have a 200mbps plan and sometimes it shows 450-500mbps download speed, it's because IPv4 and IPv6 are treated as seperate entities. Actual download speeds which i get while downloading games from steam/epic games is maximum 240-250Mbps.
My point is i find speedtest results very deceiving in case of airtel because of this sort of crap they pull. If you are getting 70-80MBps i.e 560-640 Mbps, i guess that's the upper limit of what a gigabit connection can provide in most of the cases.

Source
Even GeekyRanjit from hyd is gettting a maximum of 600-700 Mbps in wired mode.

 

[Chip]

@rajat_ precisely the reason why I downgraded from the 1G plan to 300 Mbps after a month of trial. Ditto with TPF, they are not worth the money.

If your ONT is bridged it's just an interface and should not be the bottleneck. I have serious doubts if changing the ONT will improve throughput. But both my connections have the Nokia and I won't change them because they have features that I just don't find on other Airtel or TPF supplied routers mainly the hardware buttons to switch stealth mode and wifi on and off.

 

[SpeedxThunder]

@rajat_ I already tried on the excitel onu gx titanium 4224 in that too I was getting the same results

 

[phattunit]

@Chip I am getting full speed 1071 Mbps download for most servers on Tataplay Fiber. Apart from non-ideal IPv6 implementation, it’s really decent ISP if you can get your own ONU to work.

 

[albonycal]

Wait, does it have a 2.5G NIC?

 

[Chip]

It's better to have 2.5G NIC which my mobo has but I'd have expected at least 800-900 Mbps speed on a gigabit NIC but I was getting only between 500-600. I get about the same with the static IP and a 300 Mbps Airtel Black plan Why should I spend nearly 5K/mth?!

@phattunit make no mistake TPF and Airtel are the 2 top ISPs (IMHO) in the country. I'd even consider Jio but their inflexibility on static IP, bridge mode is a massive turn off for me. So Jio is fine as a low speed backup but never a main connection. As for BSNL, well, less said the better.

 

[Deleted member 83050]

Slightly off topic question:
@Chip i recently got an Airtel Xstream Fiber connection because Tata was giving some problems in my area. I have not disconnected Tata, moved to the base plan of 50Mbps as a backup because airtel has recently started its services in my society, i am not sure how reliable it is.
Should i get the static IPv4 for airtel? Does the static IP gigabit speed glitch still work with airtel? I have read on the forum that it has been patched in many cities, not sure about Pune tho. Do you actually get download speed more than your plan or is it just the speedtest server? I am on 200 Mbps airtel black connection btw.
Also how's the browsing experience with static IP? i have seen some people complaining about the same when using static IP

 

[phattunit]

@Chip, I am using my own ONU TP-Link V1 to enable bridge mode on my Jio connection. You will have to telnet into JFHG to find out your REAL GPON SN and rest of the things are very easy with TP-Link ONU

 

[Chip]

@rajat_ the static IP glitch does work but not as effectively as it did back in '21 when I had a static IP for the 1st time. This time around it doesn't exceed 500ish Mbps but then my plan is 300 and a boost to 500 is welcome.

I think sometimes latency is increased on static IP compared to dynamic possibly because a dynamic connection uses both v6 and v4 IPs to pull/push data.

 

[albonycal]

I believe you are on the MUMBRAS-5 (BNG). It has an issue, I don't know why. But the latency increases at either ~12pm or ~6pm. I have noticed this pattern. My ping to Mumbai jumps to 22ms from ~14ms.