Tripleplay Broadband Review

I recently switched again ISP again from ANI Broadband to Tripleplay.

Context:-

ANI Broadband had been running very well for me with close to full speeds to international servers and good routing but recently they switched me (or rather the LCO) over to a different network which had many problems with reliability and speed. I was quite annoyed considering that ANI has worked well for me for close to 8 months. It seems to be an LCO specific issue as it is still good on other LCOs.

My LCO decided switch me over to another ISP (Precious Netcomm or PNPL) as ANI was having some reliability issues even on their side.

Unfortunately PNPL has its own share of issues, it works very well during morning (over 100Mbps to international servers) when there is little to no congestion but in evening it chugs (<5Mbps). So I was on the lookout for another ISP from another LCO.

@kanurag94 helped me out a lot in finding a new LCO (he lives in the same area as I). He told me about Tripleplay Broadband and gave me their number (Tripleplay doesn’t advertise much in my area; I wasn’t able to find any flyers with their number on it).

Setup/Installation:-

I messaged Tripleplay LCO and told them to set it all up on Sunday (9th Feb). The entire installation took 4 hours; I opted for fiber instead of copper, so setup took much longer. They came to my house at around 11AM and I had internet around 3PM. Installation cost was Rs. 2000. I had my own ONT so told them I didn’t want one. The termination box looks just like the one that ANI had.

Initially they didn’t set me up with Tripleplay, they made me an account with Zeonet. Zeonet had the same congestion problem as with PNPL except it was much worse (slowed down to mere 1Mbps at night). Here are the speedtests if anyone is interested:

At evening:-

@kanurag94 again helped me out and told me ask my LCO to switch me over to Tripleplay, I was worried that they won’t do it because I already paid for it. I messaged them again and they were willing to switch me over to Tripleplay.

The day after, they switched me over to Tripleplay with static IP.

Pricing:-

I’m paying Rs.1000 for 100Mbps. Its a much better deal compared to Rs.2500/month for ANI I have been paying for until now.

Public static ISP:-

In my ANI review I said that they were the only ISP in my neighbourhood who offered static IP but it turns out I was wrong. My LCO hooked me up with a public static IP right away. Its not 1:1 NAT like ANI either, I just have to put in my public IP directly on my router; pretty neat.

Speedtest Results:-

Speeds are very good even better than ANI. At 6-7AM I’m able to hit close to 120Mbps even on international servers. The tests above were done at around 9:30PM.

 

[vignesh_venkatesan]

@swapneelp Thanks for the insight.
That probe lives in an remote village so I have to rely on railwire portal and the probe to check the connection stats because I don't have anything except a TP-Link wifi router there.
Planning to put a Raspberry Pi for site to site VPN for cctv and uptime monitoring

 

[pswapneel]

@vignesh_venkatesan Yes, sometimes it's difficult to get internal monitoring in place. Based on my previous experiences with measuring & comparing data consumption data on the Railwire billing portal and my own internal monitoring, I'd say take the data on their portal with a pinch of salt. A RaspberryPi is an excellent choice for something like this.

 

[JB701]

I found something kinda interesting I wanted to share, when I traceroute Linode Speedtest it goes to Vodafone for some reason directly, not hopping from Airtel to Vodafone but rather straight from Tripleplay to Vodafone.

                                                                           Packets               Pings
 Host                                                                    Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
 1. AS???    router.lan                                                   0.0%     5    0.3   0.3   0.3   0.3   0.0
 2. AS132453 dhcp.tripleplay.in                                           0.0%     5    2.2   6.2   1.7  23.7   9.8
 3. AS132453 wan-switch.static.tripleplay.in                             60.0%     5    3.2   4.0   3.2   4.8   1.1
 4. AS132453 core-router.static.tripleplay.in                             0.0%     5    1.5  13.7   1.3  61.9  26.9
 5. AS55410  118.185.108.230                                              0.0%     5    3.1   2.9   2.6   3.1   0.2
 6. AS55410  182.19.106.113                                               0.0%     5   31.7  35.6  31.7  49.8   8.0
 7. AS55410  118.185.45.45                                                0.0%     5   32.0  32.4  32.0  32.8   0.3
 8. (waiting for reply)
 9. (waiting for reply)
10. (waiting for reply)
11. AS63949  speedtest.mum1.linode.com                                    0.0%     4   21.9  21.6  21.4  21.9   0.2

Rest of the stuff goes through Airtel:

 Host                                                                    Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
 1. AS???    router.lan                                                   0.0%     7    0.3   0.3   0.2   0.3   0.0
 2. AS132453 dhcp.tripleplay.in                                           0.0%     7    2.1  10.5   1.8  36.9  12.4
 3. AS132453 wan-switch.static.tripleplay.in                             42.9%     7    3.5   4.7   3.5   8.0   2.2
 4. AS132453 core-router.static.tripleplay.in                             0.0%     7    2.4   2.0   1.7   2.4   0.2
 5. AS9498   nsg-static-073.92.72.182.airtel.in                           0.0%     6    2.3   6.9   2.3  19.1   6.4
 6. AS9498   116.119.52.165                                               0.0%     6  205.0 204.3 203.7 205.2   0.6
 7. AS???    de-cix.pat1.nyc.yahoo.com                                    0.0%     6  203.2 203.6 203.2 204.6   0.6
 8. AS10310  ae-0.pat2.bfw.yahoo.com                                      0.0%     6  225.4 225.3 224.7 225.7   0.4
 9. AS10310  et-18-1-0.msr2.bf2.yahoo.com                                 0.0%     6  229.1 228.7 228.0 230.3   0.9
10. AS26101  UNKNOWN-74-6-122-X.yahoo.com                                 0.0%     6  228.2 227.5 226.4 229.5   1.2
11. AS26101  eth-17-3.bas2-1-flk.bf1.yahoo.com                            0.0%     6  224.1 224.3 223.9 224.7   0.3
12. AS26101  media-router-fp1.prod1.media.vip.bf1.yahoo.com               0.0%     6  222.7 223.2 222.7 223.6   0.3

 

[ijsa]

how are speeds on international servers.... I am getting very poor speeds on International servers..... will move to Excitel, if they don't improve.

 

[JB701]

@ijsa

For me international speeds are good, I did these in the morning and the speeds does drop at 9:30PM for around 2-3hours but other times its doing good. I also want to get Excitel Fiber for that 300Mbit but my LCO is being very slow about deployment. Speeds were really bad during complete lockdown but it is back to normal now.

But I gotta admit, Tripleplay is the best among the ISPs in my area right now (maybe other than ACT but I haven't tried them) for international speeds and torrenting with seeding.

 

[JB701]

It seems like TriplePlay has been having slight packet loss since atleast last week. I don't notice it in my normal usage but its there.

This is 8.8.8.8 btw

 

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[Deleted member 77424]

What software is this? @JB700

 

[JB701]

Smokeping

Docker

 

[JB701]

TriplePlay stopped working for a few minutes and started routing through JIO on some sites. TF

 Host                                                                        Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
 Host                                                                        Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
 1. DESKTOP-L8K59D2.mshome.net                                                0.0%     4    0.4   0.6   0.4   0.8   0.2
 2. 192.168.5.1                                                               0.0%     4    1.7   1.6   1.3   1.9   0.3
 3. dhcp.tripleplay.in                                                        0.0%     4    4.8   4.0   2.8   5.1   1.1
 4. wan-switch.static.tripleplay.in                                           0.0%     4    3.9   4.4   3.9   4.9   0.5
 5. core-router.static.tripleplay.in                                          0.0%     4    3.7   4.7   3.7   6.5   1.3
 6. 136.232.137.57.static.jio.com                                             0.0%     4  208.9 209.7 208.9 210.6   0.9
 7. (waiting for reply)
 8. (waiting for reply)
 9. (waiting for reply)
10. (waiting for reply)
11. (waiting for reply)
12. 172.69.104.254                                                            0.0%     3   59.2  59.3  59.2  59.5   0.1
13. one.one.one.one                                                           0.0%     3   55.3  54.8  54.2  55.3   0.8

Also, crazy latency for a EU Server normally its 150-180ms, going through Airtel this time

 Host                                                                        Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
1. DESKTOP-L8K59D2.mshome.net                                                0.0%     5    0.5   0.6   0.4   0.7   0.1
2. 192.168.5.1                                                               0.0%     5    1.6   2.0   1.5   2.6   0.5
3. dhcp.tripleplay.in                                                       20.0%     5   28.6  21.1   4.8  29.7  11.5
4. (waiting for reply)
5. core-router.static.tripleplay.in                                          0.0%     5    5.6   6.7   3.5  12.9   3.7
6. nsg-static-073.92.72.182.airtel.in                                        0.0%     5    4.8   9.3   4.8  17.7   5.5
7. 182.79.134.112                                                           20.0%     5  131.3 132.2 131.3 134.1   1.3
8. hu-0-6-0-0.bb03.ams-01.leaseweb.net                                       0.0%     5  146.6 145.1 143.6 146.6   1.5
9. ae-103.br01.ams-01.nl.leaseweb.net                                       20.0%     5  280.1 280.8 279.7 283.2   1.6
10. ae-10.cr01.ams-01.nl.leaseweb.net                                         0.0%     5  280.5 282.7 279.8 288.7   4.1
11. po-1003.ce02.ams-01.nl.leaseweb.net                                       0.0%     5  287.3 282.2 280.2 287.3   3.4
12. nmis01.ams1.nl.leaseweb.net                                               0.0%     5  280.8 280.6 280.0 281.6   0.7

 

[a.c]

Oh man anything other than jio would have been fine.