What makes BSNL the worst ISP.

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Since BSNL is now at the second place down from first, does that gives us a false sense of hope.

What makes BSNL AS9829 as most unstable ASN in the world?!

On weekend I was looking at BGP Instability Report data. As usual (and unfortunately) BSNL tops that list. BSNL is the most unstable autonomous network in the world. In past, I have written previously about how AS9829 is the rotten IP backbone. This isn’t a surprise since they keep on coming on...
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What is the meaning of the "Stable" List of IP DHCP pools here?

 
I think Jio is even worse than BSNL 😀 (not in terms of "unstable ASN" but in general)
 
@f3rmion So if I get those "stable IPs" I'll be getting better latency?

I can get them as static IP.
 

vishalrao said:
I think Jio is even worse than BSNL 😀 (not in terms of "unstable ASN" but in general)
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I'm in a love hate relationship with BSNL, Although I have JIO available in my region, I haven't opted for it because of censorship and other limitations. The downside is, I have to deal with BSNL's pathetic routing on a daily basis. They don't even announce their IPs on NIXI.
 
Dark_Nate said:
@f3rmion So if I get those "stable IPs" I'll be getting better latency?

I can get them as static IP.
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I think so, because every single time I've contacted them regarding this issue, they asked me to switch to an static IP. But I haven't made the switch because I need proof of their claims. I will update regarding the same after some research.
 
For me (strangely enough) BSNL seems to be working great in Pune. At least in terms of download speeds from servers in various different international locations. I don't monitor ping latencies much because I don't do gaming so it doesn't affect me much, but whenever I check it it seems reasonable enough.

I remember when I first got the connection back in September 2018 for the first few months routing was bad (at least download speeds) to many servers like linux archive mirrors or github or docker hub etc. but after a few months they seem to have fixed it as (like I said) downloads are now pretty good.

Also I'm not a heavy downloader/streamer so my monthly usage comes to around 200 GB well within my 750 GB FUP limit 😀

Regardless, I am hoping BSNL soon offers faster speeds like 200, 300 mbps or even 1 gbps (like Airtel/Jio) because I want to try it out just for the heck of it!

(I don't have any other ISP options in my area, only BSNL)
 
Dark_Nate said:
@vishalrao Jio latency performs much better than BSNL FTTH.
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I don't know man, aren't there many complaints on this forum itself of poor Jio latencies/routing issues? Anyways it doesn't affect me much because I don't do gaming/videoconferencing really 😀
 
@vishalrao BSNL has two advantages. They don't throttle the speed, there's no traffic shaping whatsoever. I ran objective tests to confirm this. Not to mention BSNL is Open NAT. Also, they allow transparent bridge mode. Meaning you get total control over security and home networking aspect.

They don't cheat in port profiles, if you're paying for 100 Mbps plan, the maximum speed in the port profile is 120 Mbps. Symmetrical bandwidth.

But the problem is BSNL does not have sufficient bandwidth for all the customers, so the contention ratio is basically 1 Gigabit for 300 customers, at least in Northeast India.

The routing itself is bad, it goes through Russia, sometimes Europe or both before coming back to Asia. On top of that, as the other user-posted, you can see BGP instability every 0.1 seconds.
 
BSNL has become highly unstable now. Don't know whether it's got to do with routing issues or the reduction in staff.
 
vishalrao said:
I don't know man, aren't there many complaints on this forum itself of poor Jio latencies/routing issues? Anyways it doesn't affect me much because I don't do gaming/videoconferencing really 😀
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It's bad because this is India, not America bro. But if you compare BSNL with Jio, Jio's latency is very decent, below 100ms to AWS Mumbai from Meghalaya at least.
 

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