Timbl Broadband Review

I recently shifted from excitel to Timbl broadband. Excitel in my area does not offer FTTH and their transit speed chokes during evening time (9 pm-12 am).

I am on a 50mbps FTTH Unlimited connection paying about Rs 700/month (inclusive of taxes). Static IP if you need is another 400/month. ONU Security was Rs. 500. Running my own router with Unifi Access Point.

It's been 6 days since I shifted has till now there has been no downtime. Initially, I had to contact the customer care to get the admin password of the ONU which was given to me within a day or two.
Another great point about Timbl is that they offer dynamic public IPs to every user. No port blocked, you can run whatever you want and with a dynamic DNS service, you basically have a static IP equivalent domain name.
Timbl uses google DNS by default.

Below are a few speedtest results to UK, US, Singapore, Ind using on speedtest. Upload struggles a bit but I won't be uploading much to US/UK. Tested on a 5Ghz wifi.

I will keep updating the thread with my findings.

 

[dagasaheb]

@dagasaheb Airtel has 3.3 TB FUP and Excitel has no FUP. Airtel is more stable than Excitel.
The services of Excitel depend majorly on the LCO. My LCO provides great service. But don't know why he doesn't want to invest in Excitel Fiber.

It requires a substantial amount of investment on LCO's part.

 

[Realme]

hevc is computation intensive and it is shrouded by hardware DRMs, so unless you have a very recent gfx card or new hardware with hw decoding support, hevc 10bit hdr video file, on the plus side it reduces file size to crazy low.

 

[MadAxe]

Excitel has fiber on utility poles whereas Airtel has them underground so its kinda expected.

Agreed.

 

[dagasaheb]

hevc is computation intensive and it is shrouded by hardware DRMs, so unless you have a very recent gfx card or new hardware with hw decoding support, hevc 10bit hdr video file, on the plus side it reduces file size to crazy low.

Oh really! What does that has to do with Indians

 

[Realme]

not many Indians have nvidia shields or gtx 1080 or later nor can many Indians justify buying one

 

[dagasaheb]

not many Indians have nvidia shields or gtx 1080 or later nor can many Indians justify buying one

Is it a vague figment of your imagination??? Or ....... Can you support your argument with any statistical report or even a blog article.

By the way, are you from Britain?

 

[vignesh_venkatesan]

@Realme My Firestick 4k can play x265 content fine.
Some 30Gb x265 movie from my NAS did play well on firetv stick.
So you don't need very high end things to play hevc these days

 

[a.c]

Even my mid range Xiaomi can play hevc x265 even 10 bit (non HDR). Most TV/Android Box/TV Sticks have hardware decoding for hevc so you don't really need a high end gpu for that

 

[Realme]

I quote myself again:

...new hardware with hw decoding support,

People don't update PCs that fast , especially not in India

Nvidia on Indian Gamers, the GeForce GTX 1070 and 1080, and Pricing

take 35% of total users with PCs with gfx card(non -intel hds) and in that 35% not everybody has gtx 1080 or 10 series

Even my mid range Xiaomi can play hevc x265 even 10 bit (non HDR). Most TV/Android Box/TV Sticks have hardware decoding for hevc so you don't really need a high end gpu for that

Just curious whats the size of those files, my PC can't cough up 20+ Gb 1080p HDR/4K

not most TVs, only recent mid+ to high ends, if you fina an android box which is not nvideia shiel and can run 1080p HDR/4K, do send me the link.

tv sticks: yes certain Amazon one does.

One more thing data sample of IBF Members is certainly biased towards users who are technically adept and are keen to invest new tech if their wallet allows.

 

[dagasaheb]

I quote myself again:


People don't update PCs that fast , especially not in India

Nvidia on Indian Gamers, the GeForce GTX 1070 and 1080, and Pricing

take 35% of total users with PCs with gfx card(non -intel hds) and in that 35% not everybody has gtx 1080 or 10 series



Just curious whats the size of those files, my PC can't cough up 20+ Gb 1080p HDR/4K

not most TVs, only recent mid+ to high ends, if you fina an android box which is not nvideia shiel and can run 1080p HDR/4K, do send me the link.

tv sticks: yes certain Amazon one does.

One more thing data sample of IBF Members is certainly biased towards users who are technically adept and are keen to invest new tech if their wallet allows.

Dear Realme

The article you provided is 4 years old, published in 2016......... Do I say more???

But I get what you are trying to convey here. All I would like to say is 'If it is not broken, why fix it'