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.

 

[Ameen]

But that @varkey is too lucky guess I should take him to vegas and place bets on him..
I'm sure I can win alot

 

[JB701]

Lco fixed the power issue. It's now at acceptable levels whereas earlier at time it used to be - 33dBm or not showing power at all. Still jelly about @varkey power levels doe

 

[varkey]

There was an interruption for few minutes where the optical signal was gone (less than 10 min) and once it was back, my signal levels dropped to realistic levels Perhaps the LCO added an optical splitter somewhere on the way

 

[JB701]

Looks like Tripleplay got itself an IPv6 prefix recently 2400:80c0::/32 ; its currently routed through VIL rather than Airtel, its not available to customers yet and I doubt it'll be anytime soon considering it would require cooperation from LCOs but still, its something.

 

[gomfi]

VIL came up with the Transit too?

 

[JB701]

Yeah, I did some traceroutes to some of their IPv4 IPs before getting the connection and some of them are routed through VIL, others (including mine) through Airtel. I havent been on any VIL Transit ISPs yet so Im not sure about their routing.

 

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[gomfi]

@JB700 So, What was that Vodafone leaving India thing? No ISP would invest such money to have the transit

It is either the sitting asset of Vodafone which they might be trying to make use of or maybe it is Idea's.

But certainly, something is happening.

Because, Airtel to Vodafone on FTTH is 1Gbps. It used to be peanuts on 40Mbps Connection and I would get 1-2Mbps only.

Moreover, I think there was a common Fiber deals among the 3 Majors: Jio, Airtel and Vodafone. Maybe it's that?

 

[JB701]

They probably have a contract with VIL I guess. Most small ISPs I know now use Airtel/TATA as transit providers (Excitel, ANI, Comway,PNPL etc). Usually never see VIL being used as upstream.

Yeah, peering between transit providers have certainly improved a lot; haven't read too much into the details of it.

 

[JB701]

Edit:
I can't seem to edit my original review now since its old now, anyways, I made an error when in the "Censorship" section, Tripleplay uses Airtel for its transit, so you'll face their annoying TCP RST blocking on HTTPS, making certain piracy and adult sites completely inaccessible. This is very obviously a con but I can't completely blame Tripleplay for this, Airtel is the one who is actually blocking the sites, Tripleplay merely buys Transit bandwidth from them.

TATA is the only transit provider still left who afaik doesn't do this garbage. You can go for Excitel, Comway, Precious Netcomm or any ISP that useS TATA for transit. TATA only blocks on unsecure http right now and I really hope they don't follow Jio and Airtel on this.

You can bypass this block either with a VPN/Proxy to get around this, or use a DPI Circumvention program like ValdikSS/GoodbyeDPI .If you have a 'fancier' router with PFSense or Mikrotik, you can have a network wide VPN setup through which you can selectively route only the blocked sites; I made a post about this on here Unblocking specific blocked domains on MikroTik using PPTP VPN | Internet (General Discussions) .

 

[Sushubh]

yeah this is kind of annoying. xenforo does not have special permission for first post in a thread. i could make editing capability permanent. i suppose i should. it is abused at times. but i guess it has more benefits than negatives.