Excitel Fiber Review West Delhi

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I was one of few early adopters of Excitel ethernet back in 2015 I think and left it in few months due to downtime every other day, thanks to LCO n way they handle switches n wiring. This time on dedicated fiber line by Excitel I am told downtimes are fewer.

This time back from Airtel who were not ready to increase speeds(16mbps on vfiber for last 3 years) and facing few network problems like some app won't download or stuck at 99% unless i switch to mobile data Plus customer support of Airtel was down the drain in last one year. I think mobile support and landline support is on same level now aka hopeless. also upload speed hurts more than download.

Got new diwali offer plan 2000 for 4 months 100mbps + 750(refundable but no receipt provided) for ONT + 300 for installation(for box with ont n yellow wire).
LCO took 2 days to install it & would have taken probably one more but a warning after wire installation led to same day final activation else he would have lost all the effort till now. And same old money saving ways were used, no use of clip, tying wire to dish n pipes . I think Excitel should handle new installation itself instead of leaving it to LCO.

Speed is 100mbps without any ping loss for now.
But connection do becomes little jittery at too many times so a big no for gamers.
Even youtube streaming sometimes show pixelation when no big load on connection.
At one instance Whatsapp was not connecting.

So glitches still are there like old excitel but no complete downtime for time being.

I'll update if I face more problems. Hopefully rain, moisture and dust won't affect fiber.

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Try disabling QoS in Advanced>QoS if you have it enabled?

ONU is in bridge mode right? So when you connect directly to PC and dial PPPoE on PC, the PC does the routing,pppoe (and I don't think there is NAT in this case).
 
Qos is already disabled.

onu seems to be in bridge mode. I havent done any thing to it. I have a dial up pppoe connection on my pc.
 
found the culprit. in archer c6, there is a feature called NAT boost. with this feature turned off, i get limited to <200Mbps and with it turned on, i get full 300Mbps.

I remember turning it off when i first got the router, do not remember exactly why i turned it off.
 


What router are you guys using? I think turning on nat boost has reduced my actual file downloading speed. Grabbed highest seeded torrent from a well known torrent site and speed wouldn't cross 10MB/sec . Tried Ubuntu torrent file as well and I was barely touching 1MB/sec on it.
 
What router are you guys using? I think turning on nat boost has reduced my actual file downloading speed. Grabbed highest seeded torrent from a well known torrent site and speed wouldn't cross 10MB/sec . Tried Ubuntu torrent file as well and I was barely touching 1MB/sec on it.
That doesn't seem right. I have the Archer C6 too and with just the NAT Boost enabled I get full 300mbps. With QoS and NAT Boost both enabled I get 250mbps. (it's contradictory but TP-Link allows it no clue why)

I tried the Ubuntu torrent. 29mBps (232mbps). No VPNs.

Give speedtests a try. Torrents can be a hit or miss on Excitel.
If fast.com and different speedtest.net servers (Excitel, ACT) show ~250 to 300mbps then the connection's good.
Also give some direct downloads a try.

If your speeds are good but the torrents slow then either Excitel's throttling you (I haven't experienced this but I've heard it happening) or your torrent client settings are wrong.
 
For certain IP ranges even 8.8.8.8 (google) goes via extreme-ix and not directly peered.

Code:
    |------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

    |                                      WinMTR statistics                                   |

    |                       Host              -   %  | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |

    |------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|

    |                             OpenWrt.lan -    0 |   13 |   13 |    1 |    1 |    2 |    2 |

    |                             103.95.80.1 -    0 |   13 |   13 |    2 |    2 |    3 |    2 |

    |                   No response from host -  100 |    3 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |

    |                            103.56.231.1 -    0 |   13 |   13 |    5 |    8 |   20 |    6 |

    |              as15169.del.extreme-ix.net -    0 |   13 |   13 |    3 |    3 |    5 |    4 |

    |                          74.125.244.193 -    0 |   13 |   13 |    3 |    3 |    5 |    4 |

    |                           172.253.67.95 -    0 |   13 |   13 |    4 |    4 |    6 |    6 |

    |                              dns.google -    0 |   13 |   13 |    3 |    3 |    4 |    4 |

    |________________________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|

       WinMTR v0.92 GPL V2 by Appnor MSP - Fully Managed Hosting & Cloud Provider
 
My IP changed again today, now its in 103.46.201.x and PPPoE gateway is 103.46.201.1 (a public IP instead of private one). Still on CGN though (CGN IP 10.13.146.x).

Also, dns hijack is back 🙁
 

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