How much ping and reliability are you getting from Alliance ?

Hey, I am from Bolpur and my LCO is great. I don't know why everyone complains but my latency and speeds with most international locations are great. The connection is stable and if it goes down, it gets fixed soon. I use Azure/ GCP/ AWS servers (all student plans and I'm not paying for these VPSs) and they work great. Latency stays around 250 ms for AWS US and GCP Iowa. Azure VPS is hosted in London and latency is somewhat similar. Last month, direct peering went down with Google and the speeds were capped at 5 Mbps for many in WB circle. I complained and they gave me a 'special' IP with TATA upstream, generally, I get Airtel upstream (but that wasn't the issue). (I guess they gave me a static IP and blocked all ports so that I can't get the associated perks. They always keep open port 83 and a couple of other ports open even with CG-NAT. Visit your public IP on any browser and it redirects it to their website and eventually to your login page. But that's not happening with me now.) Issues on Apple servers were solved but Google issues remained. After 15 days, they called me and told me that they had fixed the problem and the problem indeed was fixed.

anubhav11 said:

Any update on the bandwidth issue in alliance broadband, especially to international servers during evening or night?

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Don't face slow speeds as such. Do you slow speeds on any particular site or services? Do share your problems.

Actually i didn't recharge my alliance fiber connection for 1 month because i was not getting good speeds during late evening till midnight to all international servers, be it on speedtest.net or while downloading softwares from offical sites that are not peered. So just wanted to enquire that has alliance improved than it was a month or two before?
Speedtest.net to international servers after 8pm used to be around 5-8 Mbps that time, any change in that now?

Will test today and try to let you know. Should not be a problem. They have improved a bit. If your LCO keeps the connection OK most problems are solved.

Speed Test
1. Alliance Broadband Kolkata Server

2. Singapore
3. Seoul
4. Hong Kong
5. Paris

6. New York

7. San Francisco

8. Sao Paulo, Brazil

9. Cairo, Egypt

@anubhav11 Please check them out and let me know if you need any other tests or results.

Thanks a lot @Rhishav. Today lco gave me a day trial for alliance broadband. So here are my current speedtest of the same. There is a remarkable improvement in comparison to two months before. NOC is kolkata as of now so high latency for me, also uploads are almost half of the downloads.

Speedtest by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test

Speedtest by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test

Speedtest by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test

Speedtest by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test

Speedtest by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test

Speedtest by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test

Speedtest by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test

Speedtest by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test

Speedtest by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test

Your trial plan is probably Rapid+. Speeds seem OK for your location. Rest of India plans have around 50% upload speed compared to download. Kolkata plans are symmetric.
Service has improved after Jio changed plans. They are pushing for fiber optics in almost every area where possible. They don't want to lose customers.

Actually the plan is premium+, but its being shared with someone so 2 users on it . Once NOC sets up in chd pings would drastically come down. And its a kolkata plan, don't know how but will check with lco tomorrow if kolkata plans are available here.

@anubhav11 What you need to understand with ISPs like alliance is they keep changing their routing channels or whatever the more appropriate term is. One day you will get 150 ping to a UK or German server, the next day 200+. There is absolutely no consistency. You complain, they fix it, then it's back within days. How stable a connection is, how good the routing quality etc. is, are the more important factors than choosing high speeds from bunch of cached/ local servers. But then again if your LCO isn't a jerk then maybe you can opt for Alliance, or any broadband based internet for that matter.

@ithehappy My routing to Cloudflare is screwed up completely for the last 3-4 days. It goes to Singapore instead of Mumbai (via Extreme-Ix). So, latency 80 ms + now instead of the normal 30 - 40 ms. This is causing issues with 1.1.1.1 DNS.

Cloudflare was facing issues in general a few days back not related to any particular ISP.

royalroy said:

@ithehappy My routing to Cloudflare is screwed up completely for the last 3-4 days. It goes to Singapore instead of Mumbai (via Extreme-Ix). So, latency 80 ms + now instead of the normal 30 - 40 ms. This is causing issues with 1.1.1.1 DNS.

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Oh OK. I am an ametuer so I don't know via which channel the traffic is being routed but I just checked 1.1.1.1 and it's averaging at 41-42 ms. I moved out of Alliance anyway.

Please Can someone post ping test results to heredur.drakensang.com ?