Vi GIGAnet Speed issues

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My primary number is on the Vi network. I had to port it from Vodafone to BSNL a few years ago and back to Vodafone 5 years ago as I moved to different cities and on a network quality basis. Right now I'm in my HomeTown due to work-from-home and Vi always had issues with respect to call quality and network speed. I used to ignore it as I'm using VoLTE for calls and I have got Jio Fiber at home for work so the Vi network issue never bothered me.

Recently I started getting messages from Vi stating that Vi GIGAnet is activated in my city (in city limits) and I should enjoy the High-Speed internet.
I tried to check this and found that it barely makes any difference. The speed ranges between 1mbps to 2mbps at night and during the daytime, it is worse. No improvement in call quality.
I confirmed this behavior in multiple areas of my city, it's almost the same everywhere except in a couple of them where I could get download speed up to 10mbps and upload speed up to 5-6mbps.

I'm using a Realme XT phone, and I tried the Vi on both Sim1 and Sim2 slots without any difference in the results.

I was curious to know if anyone here had a similar experience with the Vi GIGAnet and any solutions around it.
 
Which Circle is it and which bands you're connecting to? It could be due to your phone. Because even in my area my friend's Redmi phone gives 2-3 Mbps on Vi whereas my Motorola devices give 30-40 Mbps at the same location. Did you try using different handsets?
 
Have you tried speed test when it was connected to a different band?
 
@VinayakaSP Which city ur from in Karnataka? Except Bengaluru nowhere Vi is good in Karnataka that msg which u received is they just deployed B1 (2100) extra 5MHz spectrum bought in KA circle
 
@RKhan21 in Hubballi. Yeah I guess so about Bangalore thing you mentioned. I had to switch back to Vi from BSNL as only Vi network was available in my office and apartment building. It was pretty good in Bangalore like 2 years ago. Don't know now 😅

BTW, while travelling it's nightmare. Vi sucks a lot of battery due to fluctuating network and hopping between 4g and 3g
 
Did you try using different handsets?
Tried on another latest model phone. I get CA on 2100 but Bandwidth is 10MHz + 15MHz. Download speed improved to 25-30Mbps while upload speed struggled to cross 1.5Mbps

Looks like my phone doesn't support CA in a particular slot (as I get CA on Jio which is in Sim1 slot).
 
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