The disparity between Jio 4G's real-world speeds and their speedtest.net speeds

[tyrannosaurhex]

These days I really don't browse using Jio 4G. It is practically useless. I have queued up http downloads in Internet Download Accelerator and let it rip for 4 GB.

If you go to spedtest.net, it is loading the data from speedtest.net servers. But once you choose Jio Mumbai as your speedtest server, the data is flowing directly from Jio's own server in Navi Mumbai. That has no data capping so you get full possible speed.

Once you start downloading something from cdn, level1, cogent, telia sonera, Amazon cloud servers, then you hit the bandwidth cap and the speeds are laughable.

Today I downloaded Firefox 49.0.1 full exe installer at an excruciating speed of 24 kBps. I remembered those crappy days of Net9Online and dialup.

I am not complaining as I very much filled up my hard drives in April-June period when I was getting stable 60-70 Mbps downlink.

IMO, if you want the true test of internet speed it should be on the "other servers" and not Reliance's Navi Mumbai or Gurgaon servers.

Content on the internet is not hosted on reliance's servers but on servers around the globe, so it is downright misleading and meaningless to check Jio's speeds on Reliance's servers. It is like connecting to another system on LAN via ethernet and boasting about 100mbps connection speed your computer has, while all content is on the internet on the other side of the router.

It is a false and inaccurate representation of speeds.

 

[RaviKiran K]

I do get upto 40Mbps in download tests from torrents and some websites like youtube, but there are websites which only give a maximum of 2Mbps, and speed test results within India is much worse than outside, speedtest or airtel or vodafone servers are pathetic which somehow solves by itself when I use a VPN such as tunnelbear, so I guess some big game is going on

 

[Zaman2011]

Today, it is not getting fixed even with VPN easily. It is not as smooth with VPN anymore. Not sure if they made any changes or if it is only in my system. Browsing speed (without VPN) has slightly improved from last week, though.

Browsing speed without VPN has improved though compared to last week. It still does not work perfectly but is definitely better than in the past. At least pages open and Indian servers are doing better. International sites are still a weak spot.

It might be a case of routing and peering issue from the looks of it. But it seems like they are testing and working on improving the network. Hope they fix it before the FTTH launch at least. I am seriously interested in FTTH if the prices are decent (I do not need super cheap prices. Better prices than BSNL and a good upload speed should be fine for me).