Upgrading to 1Gbps Plan and Offer (TataSky Broadband)

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With extreme sadness, I am downgrading to 500 Mbps plan (3month package).
Reason: No discount offers.
 
So if I ask for feedback In one sentence "Is 1Gbps from Tata Play Fiber in India worth it?" What would be your answer? (Only thing I want to ask is whether it saturates full 900+ Mbps on sites like YouTube (download and upload), Drive, Steam, Epic Games etc.?). Thanks a lot again. Also let me know about international speeds & mainly upload speeds. You've been using it since more than 1 year.
 
@tatyasky leaving aside the cost factor... what was your experience with tata 1gbps plan? (sorry if you posted it already before, i missed) but stuff like international download speeds etc? (operating system updates in linux/windows etc) torrents etc?
 
@havoc TBH I would say that the 1 Gbps experience was satisfactory. I had low expectations to begin with but speeds did hit 900 Mbps+ at various occasions as I have mentioned in this thread. However, I believe, our ISPs are not yet ready infrastructure wise to offer 1Gbps and higher plans. The peering between various ISPs in India itself is bad. When I try to ping Jio IPv6 address in Mumbai from my TataPlay connection, I used to get 200ms pings with Airtel being the main culprit middleman. All this peering bullshit was bringing the experience down. With 30% discount, it was totally worth it for me. Without discount? NOT WORTH IT. I would need minimum 20% discount to walk this bleeding edge once again. The pricing is just not right.
 
I agree on the peering part. We need to have better inter ISP peeing for overall better experience, but as for plenty of other things what about those IXPs we have? Are they not being under utilized for the most part for this purpose?
 
The data caps are also shit, 3300GB isn't even remotely enough for Gigabit. Minimum should be 10TB.

My Netherlands server for instance has 150TB cap meaning I can fully download at 120MB/s for 15 days no problem. I know, residential ISPs are different but still, even Indian data center bandwidth is really expensive. Most dedis are more than double the price of EU ones while having 100Mbit.
 
Bandwidth has been traditionally expensive in India, and I can hark back to 1995. After the launch of Jio, you have increased data caps but lower speeds due to the phenomenal increase in data consumption. What telecom Cos do is prioritise Corp. customers leased lines etc over home BB connections. Obviously, as the companies pay them hefty amounts compared to us low life home BB guys. They obviously know which side of the bread has more butter. ;)
 
What are you guys using 1 Gbps connections for? On my ISP, it's only slightly more expensive than 500 Mbps but I still couldn't think of any use case to upgrade.
 
Reading views from all of you guys... It feels like in India right now a decent 600 Mbps plan would be truly bang for the buck with like no FUP. I now understand why upto 600 Mbps is feasible in GPON. As it doesn't require additional infrastructure except few changes to OLT's & most importantly it can be provided. I've seen this with other countries like Nepal. Only few ISPs offer 1Gbps there which are also moving towards multi Gig. Below 1 Gbps is their 600 Mbps plan. They instantly upgraded to 600 Mbps for every place but slowly upgraded to 1 Gig because it's a hastle and requires a lot of configuration as per my Nepal friends told me. I wish seeing a plan of 600 Mbps from excitel for 999₹ per month 😁. I'm sure Tata, Jio, Airtel etc. Can also do it. But they're all waiting for Jio to take a step ahead 🤣...
 
havoc said:
@tatyasky what about the 1 Gbps offer? 😁
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@Chip
So an update. It happened....

My trick is this.... Get on 500 Mbps plan or maybe any lower plan. Wait 2-3 days. Call up customer care saying you will upgrade to 1 Gbps plan only if you provide a discount. So the Customer care lady offered me 20% discount on 1 Gbps 12 months (360 days plan)

Calculations are as follows:
36000 + 18% GST = 42480

20% discount on 42480 = 8496

To Pay 42480 - 8496 = 33984

It comes to 2832 per month.

Whatever your remaining validity amount is also credited to your account so you will have to pay slightly lesser than 33984. The CC person will tell you exactly how much you need to recharge.

You don't have to take 12 months plan. This 20% discount upgrade offer is available on 1, 3 & 6 month plans as well as per the lady.

I am now 1 Gbps addict and back on bleeding edge. :cool:

BTW even TataPlay Fiber iOS app has also started showing 20% discount on 1 Gbps upgrade from today. Strange.

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Quick comparison between yearly plans:

Jio 1 Gbps
47988 + 8637 = 56625 (12+1 months)
56625 / 13 = 4356 per month

Airtel 1 Gbps
47988 + 8637 = 56625 (12 months only and no complementary month like jio)
56625 / 12 = 4718 per month

So paying Rs.1500-1800 just to get OTT benefits in Jio & Airtel is not worth it IMHO.

In TataPlay Fiber, you get Static IPv6 for direct access and Bridge mode is allowed so you can use your own powerful router.
 
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