When will BSNL offer 1 Gbps speeds?

I would be happy if they give affordable 50mbps(less than 700) with uniform speed and remove all the malware in their system

varkey said:

Real world speeds? Not really.

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It can be achieved with the right router and client device.

My old laptop with the Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 was able to reach 800 Mbps on an AC router back in my old college.

r19 said:

...and remove all the malware in their system

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What malware in recent times?

I know they were infected with ad injection scripts. But now, I don't see anything?

I would say 1 gbps is overkill for now unless u have lot of devices consuming lot of bandwidth. But in coming years it may become useful because of streaming ultra high definition videos (8K and so on) and downloading games which will be like 150-200 GB in future

@Nitin Games are 90GB+ in the present already.

@Dark_Nate Ya i know

For gamers, heavy internet users, 1 Gbps is like the new minimum. For the average household, 100 Mbps should be the new minimum.

@Dark_Nate But still 1 gbps is damn expensive right now

@Nitin This is India, not America bro. Anything that's 21st century is expensive.

spectra 1gbps costs around 1200 per month. cheaper even i believe. and yes, on paper it's unlimited as well.

Tbf US still has insufficient Internet even in urban areas. Europe is where the fast Internet is at, there is like 10Gbit home connections for 30 dollars . Europe has tons of IXPs and tons of routes to everywhere.

India didn't even have 20Mbit in many urban areas. until a few years ago when many new IXPs started to pop up and ISPs were able to use cheap peering for faster speeds without having to rely on expensive transit. I remember 4Mbit MTNL Unmetered DSL costing Rs 4k a month and having no other option. Its gotten a lot better now with many ISPs offering unique services.

I have been reading a bit about routing in Africa now and its a lot like how India's Internet situation used to be over a decade ago with lack of peering and a ton of dependency on expensive international transit even for something commonly accessed like Google . Link

A 4Mbit DSL connection costs 156000 CFCA in Niger (almost 18k INR a month).

india overall is probably in much better shape than usa. mobile internet is pretty fast and is extremely cheap. and most of the populated areas have access to at least dsl based internet. from what i read online, a lot of areas in usa are still stuck on dialup. because they are in isolated pockets and no one wants to bring them wired broadband and so on.

Dark_Nate said:

It can be achieved with the right router and client device.

My old laptop with the Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 was able to reach 800 Mbps on an AC router back in my old college.

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800 mbps on wifi 5? Can you confirm the specs?

India or usa when unregulated(namesake regulations) capitalist cos are allowed everyone suffers. Europe got better because of better regulation.

Second factor is.
Mtnl bsnl union use to oppose unbundling of last mile and now they are on same verge as others. Had they allowed bbnl future fiber could be theirs.

Still look at landline they don't want to offer cheaper plans just to loot govt psu who are cant avoid them. Vdsl plans are so uncompetitive in comparison to vdsl.

Bsnl still doesn't participate in peering. But buys costly international bandwidth.

Airtel is facing same wrath which it did on small isps. Even honest cos like tata owned vsnl were roadblock in landing stations for so long.

Jio was right in so many days. India is a country where mobile data was cheaper than fixed for first few months when jio launched. All these cable isps n act airtel fixed bb caught up later when they learned they must beat jio mobile data plans to be in competition.
5GB per day plan of jio 700plus tax plus many other lower plans were very competitive. People ditched fixed bb coz of them.

india is lucky coz wired internet scene seems to be quite unregulated. every locality seems to have a local internet guy who buys bandwidth from another source and provide relatively cheaper internet connection in the area. i mean it does not exist everywhere but it's there and it works well for areas where airtel or bsnl are not catering already.

i am not sure if all of these operations are legal or whatever loopholes are exploited. but we are lucky that complete municipalities are not doing exclusive deals with individual companies keeping competition out. not that we have municipal fiber here in india enabling such deals.

rwas are doing that for societies though.