BSNL FTTH speeds still capped for anyone else?

vishalrao said:

He said couple of plans are "approved" - 1249 plan for 200 mbps 1.5 TB FUP and some other lower cost plan I didn't hear properly 40 mbps I think for 599 and it is "unlimited".

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200Mbps Plans? I have a connection directly from BSNL exchange, (also same drop cable is connected to their BTS), still have loads of speed issues. Whenever asked they are like you are getting 60-70Mbps why do you want more. IDK which decade they live in.

I am going to switch to Airtel FTTH as soon as it launches. (Airtel has also rented the same BTS that BSNL uses). The 4G speed at 1:00 AM is around 80Mbps and during the day 20Mbps(on 4G).

I am facing same issue since I opted for ftth 1 week before. From start it was under 40mbps for 50mpbs plan. On wifi its even lesser. I am confused

vishalrao said:

anyways, i have very little hope of getting my original speeds back, already the guy in BSNL main office said 70-80 mbps is "good enough" and they couldn't care less about it. only last remaining hope is if my LCO can do anything about it but even he said nobody else is complaining to him, it's only me.

still clueless whether it's a problem at my end (something like optical signal level or ONT/wiring/desktop issue) or something at either LCO/OLT end or these NIB/NOC people have capped something and forgotten to restore it.

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Maybe ask your LCO if he has a proper split ratio or they have exceeded it . This can be checked by speedtesting at night times.

I don't know how you people end up having the most friendly lco's and bsnl employees.😂 This thread is just a dream for some of us.

Mine was a nightmare. LCO wasn't really involved except laying the cables, I bought the ont went to bsnl for configuring, bsnl engineer just straight up ignored anything I said or asked.

He setup the wifi and it's password even(He did asked what I would like for my password though 🤷‍♂️, so that's something). He didn't even give me the ONT's password (which I've bought) and didn't respond when I asked him about it, let alone pppoe credentials.
We weren't allowed inside the office, so had to beg and shout from the door and he never looks up.

He wrote something on the box finally after much shouting which was my phone number. Dumb me thought that was the password. It wasn't.

So I had to go back and had to ask an other female employee there who was nice enough to tell me the passwords he usually uses while setting up modems.

I have no clue how to approach them if my line ever shows issues. They don't like people learning about these and being technical with them.

Sorry about the rant, carry on 😅

@Adithya

Funny how i am from kerala and its more or less the same experience as you described, in my case lco hasn't laid fiber cable for over a month, i keep calling them and now they dodge my calls and recently even blocked me, i call the nearest bsnl office and the woman says she will speak with them and expedite it, everyone else at the bsnl office looks at me like this is the norm and i should really just wait it out, a month to lay the cable is perfectly fine in their books

if i had the option to use jio fiber in my shithole of a village i wouldn't even consider this whole lco nonsense with bsnl and keralavision

So my LCO guy came to my place to do troubleshooting steps, even did AnyDesk remote session with BSNL NOC engineers who just checked all the various things that I had already checked and still getting low speeds. Changed ethernet cable, changed ONT, various settings like DNS server, MTU, 802.11p priority setting, ONT firewall disable etc etc.

Finally the action plan is to try to improve my optical signal level from -26 currently - even though I used to get proper speeds before at this level itself.

After checking the optical signal then the BSNL NOC engineer will remotely log in to the LCO OLT to see if any issues there.

Fingers crossed. Even though it's taking a lot of time, at least my LCO is co-operative and taking some effort to investigate this, even though he says I am the only customer with 100 mbps plan and other people (mostly elderly retired folks) are all on 50 mbps plans 😀