How is your ISP doing with increased traffic due to the COVID-19?

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What I don’t understand is why aren’t companies shifting bandwidth from their leased lines to their residential plans during this season?
Legal agreement, that's why.

@vignesh_venkatesan @JB700 Check out how much Gigabit leased line costs in the US, they are dirt cheap compared to us. Even the average user can afford leased line in the US @ 1 Gbps symmetrical.
 
@Dark_Nate Airtel Gigabit is priced comparable/cheaper than Gig in USA.

I am confident in 5 years local ISPs will start offering Gig within 2k per month in India.
 
No company offers a gigabit leased line in USA except for 1000’s of USD a month.
Most US ISPs like Verizon actually give 200-600 Mbps to their own server on Gigabit.
 
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I’m aware. But none of these are leased lines.

What Airtel offers is same/better than them and cheaper than them.

All of these are shared lines. Even on a shared line you’ll always get 750+ consistently on Airtel. 100% of the time. To their own server. That’s the same thing these US ISPs promise too. None of them guarantee full gigabit all over the world. That’s luck.

Even during peak times these days I still get ~900 D ~900 U on Airtel Gigabit.
 
@Dark_Nate Even in USA FTTH isn’t available everywhere.

The reason it’s cheap is because they practically only have 1 plan. That’s gigabit. I expect the same to happen in India I’m 5 years if ISPs get Gig under 999.
 
lol every other provider here is on FTTH Even BSNL, airtel still on VDSL 16 MBPS
 
@Dark_Nate I have. And it makes no sense. Airtel doesn’t even go down for 30 mins every 365 days. That is way better than 99.95% SLA.

If a leased line could improve the below, that would be a big USP:

1. Full speed to every single server in any part of the world. Not just to local servers.

2. Way better ping and jitter.

3. Better VOIP, browsing speed, etc.
 

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