Airtel Xstream Gigabit Fiber Connection limited to 650mbps

I guess this is traffic and Airtel in my opinion wont be able to do much unless they give you a dedicated OLT port which needs a dedicated Fiber line also which is very unlikely to happen

And dont speedtest on Indian servers not everyone has the capacity for a 1 gig connection. , do with DigitalOcean test files and Singapore servers they are freaking ahead in Networking and already many have equipped 10 Gig NIC cards as the base norm Use GTT or Viewquest Singapore server

Like when you speedtest , you will not be the only person hitting the same server. And in the 1Gbps bandwidth the Speedtest server has , the rest users will also use up some bandwidth giving you wrong results .

Fast.com is better to check your line speed. But as this is peered with Airtel directly. Speeds may differ in real world scenarios

smith.pranjul said:

be sure to connect the ethernet cable into the Gigabit LAN port of the ONT.
They are abbreviated as:
GE (Gigabit ethernet)
FE( Fast ethernet)

Click to expand...

Does the Nokia G-2425 have these abbreviations? I don't see them.

All 4 ports are gigabit ports

UPDATE!

Thank you people for your time on this thread.
I'd like to inform you that after the activation of a static IP on my connection, My ethernet speed is 936 megabits. But still unable to put the Nokia router in bridge mode.
On wifi (with my nest routers), speed is around, 710 - 820 megabits. (keeps on fluctuating),

You should call Airtel support and ask them about Bridge mode.

121 people say that Airtel don't support bridge mode at all.
But the engineer who installed the static IP told me that it can be done and he will do it by tomorrow.
Installation of static IP took around 2 hours.

I have the same Nokia router as you have and is on bridge mode which I got activated from the backend. I am currently using TP-Link c80 router but when I got 1 Gbps connection on wifi 650 and on ethernet 740 was the max speed I got and my router can do better number so it's not a bottleneck. I think it's the max that airtel's backend exchange can support right now.

Just raise a ticket if you don't get the full speeds and they'll rectify it from the backend. I have the Nokia G2524 router and I got full gig speeds up and down.

Does the bridge mode has any effect w.r.t to Latency or Speed? Is it worth getting ? Any improvements anyone has seen as of when compared to Bridge mode vs the Default ?

Jay said:

I have the Nokia G2524 router and I got full gig speeds up and down.

Click to expand...

what about wifi? 😀

I honestly don't remember. It gave pretty good speeds, I think ~ 527 max when they tested it. I switched to my unifi setup after they were done and never looked back. Only tried the giga plan for a month, switched to 300 mbps plan next month onwards. With unlimited data it didn't make much sense to continue, the speed difference was almost negligible in the practical sense. I now get ~ 380 wired on the current plan.

tbh i can't feel a diff between 100 and 300mbps for day to day usage. only when dling on desktop n torrent(not always) diff comes up.

Yes absolutely. For me, compared to ACT, Airtel has been so stable for day to day usage that I'm sure even 25 mbps speed will suffice even for streaming. Downloading files also do not make much difference as it all depends on the server hosting the files and it has been a so-so experience for me. Only when it comes to torrenting, 300 makes a difference. And to me, all the gig speed did was at best save a few minutes which was not worth paying almost triple the price.

My only gripe with Airtel is their blocking protocol. Unlike ACT's half assed attempt at website blocking, using encrypted DNS don't work and switching to VPN all the time is just a pain. I tried bypassing DPI through PowerTunnel etc., but some websites like HDFC Bank simply won't let you in.