^ there is very little incentive for ISPs to do that, a majority of users don't even know the difference between a router and a modem or between bits and bytes. So ISPs just pick the cheapest option. The second best option is for them to offer like a 50-75 Rs a month off if you don't want their routers so that advanced users can just use their own ones
What do you think of present India's broadband scene?
- Thread starter swatkats
- Start date
- Replies 44
- Views 2,299
This seems to applicable for some limited areas / cities. For example, I searched for connectivity options for some areas in Stockholm. Max rates were 1 gbps (for INR ~3k per month). This is not much different from India.
Source
BSNL Fiber(Direct)The 1Gbps is not actually 1 Gbps . It is 940 ish Mbps , the rest goes in the metadata thing depending on the MTU.
No. Most servers can't handle 1 gbps for a single client. For example aws limits most servers to 5 gps for internet (sustained usage). With 1gbps; just 5 clients will be enough to overwhelm a server.
To validate, create an AWS / Azure VM with 10 gbps connection and try various downloads.
Overall Instance Bandwidth Limitations - Amazon EC2 Overview and Networking Introduction for Telecom Companies
As a general guide, the smaller sizes of C5, M5, and R5 instance types can sustain up to 10-Gbps network performance. Larger instance sizes can sustain between 10–25 Gbps. Smaller sizes of C5N provide up to 25 Gbps with the largest C5n instances scaling up to 100 Gbps. Some examples of instance...
docs.aws.amazon.com
Absolutely. Cheap mobile data has killed landline broadband in India. Mobile data plans need to be capped at 2 to 3 Gb per month for Rs300 and then 500 for maybe 10Gb and so on. Only then people would start seeing the benefit of a home broadband plan for 400 to 500 giving them 3.3 Tb.
That's the reason you see US/CA providers advertising 1Gbps plan as 940Mbps.
Why can't telecom companies provide 4 postpaid sim with unlimited calls, sms and 50 Gb bundled data with 100 Mbps fiber connection at around 1000 to 2000 INR, Airtel is doing it but it's plans are costly and not available every where because of less coverage of fiber, I don't know why jio isn't doing it, they have better fiber coverage than Airtel.
hard to go back to that situation, as people are now more addicted towards mobile phones and internet
