How good is BSNL Bharat Fiber in Bihar (more specifically in Nalanda Bihar Sharif) ?

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Hello Guys ,
I am planning to take BSNL Bharat Fiber connection. I am just looking for your feedback on it . Like connection stability , issue resolving time. Ping.
Upload and download speed . Ping to international servers.
If someone who is using can give me some insights it will be really really nice.
 
Don't know about Nalanda but I am using BSnl FTTH in sitamarhi And the service is quite good, Moreover, it depends on the vendor, My vendor is a very good guy, he is always ready to help, Apart from occasional trucks ramming into poles and some people intentionally cutting fibre There is no problem, Fibre cuts are solved within hours, Totally worth it.
 
BSNL at any place is used to be dependent on the local exchange offices attitude and proximity of your home to the local exchange.


Now it also depends on your LCO guy: If your LCO guy is good, you will most likely have a smooth overall experience, I would recommened you to consult the locals in your area about his reputation.

Ping: To judge BSNL's ping especially with regard to connection quality, measure your pings to Google dns(ping dns.google , don't put 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4) and cloudflare dns pings

Based on that you can get a fair idea of your pings to most of the servers local or international

Google pings:
Less than < 20 ms : Your pings will be reasonably good to most servers
< 25 ms : You are still lucky, some servers might be shaky but overall good
< 30 ms : Some server might be good, others be bad, you won't get best pings but won't be in the worst zone
30+ ms : Gaming might not be fun, only cache servers on BSNL/ local network might give you manageable pings

Reasoning: this is BSNL's routing as of now:
Your LAN router/modem --> Your LCO Router --> Your Local Exchange Router --> Your City Exchange router--> THE BIG REGIONAL Router

At this BiG Regional router: BSNL handles off your packet to either Airtel or to Tata and host Google's DNS server/Earlier it was handled to Airtel.(sometimes still do)

Also for the local caches(like NFLX OCAs), your city exchange router decides where to redirect your packets

NOTE: This advice subject to change in BSNL's routing policy.
 
abhinavkumar041 said:
Don't know about Nalanda but I am using BSnl FTTH in sitamarhi And the service is quite good, Moreover, it depends on the vendor, My vendor is a very good guy, he is always ready to help, Apart from occasional trucks ramming into poles and some people intentionally cutting fibre There is no problem, Fibre cuts are solved within hours, Totally worth it.
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so fiber cutting is a thing . Wow , i dont know how people are so idiot to cut the fiber to create trouble. How much time is it takes usually to do a fix the fiber for you ?
 
abhinavkumar041 said:
Don't know about Nalanda but I am using BSnl FTTH in sitamarhi And the service is quite good, Moreover, it depends on the vendor, My vendor is a very good guy, he is always ready to help, Apart from occasional trucks ramming into poles and some people intentionally cutting fibre There is no problem, Fibre cuts are solved within hours, Totally worth it.
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Also can you do some speed test on , singa pore , US , Delhi , etc . Please provid screenshot or stats like ping , speed . Will be really helpful
 
Realme said:
BSNL at any place is used to be dependent on the local exchange offices attitude and proximity of your home to the local exchange.


Now it also depends on your LCO guy: If your LCO guy is good, you will most likely have a smooth overall experience, I would recommened you to consult the locals in your area about his reputation.

Ping: To judge BSNL's ping especially with regard to connection quality, measure your pings to Google dns(ping dns.google , don't put 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4) and cloudflare dns pings

Based on that you can get a fair idea of your pings to most of the servers local or international

Google pings:
Less than < 20 ms : Your pings will be reasonably good to most servers
< 25 ms : You are still lucky, some servers might be shaky but overall good
< 30 ms : Some server might be good, others be bad, you won't get best pings but won't be in the worst zone
30+ ms : Gaming might not be fun, only cache servers on BSNL/ local network might give you manageable pings

Reasoning: this is BSNL's routing as of now:
Your LAN router/modem --> Your LCO Router --> Your Local Exchange Router --> Your City Exchange router--> THE BIG REGIONAL Router

At this BiG Regional router: BSNL handles off your packet to either Airtel or to Tata and host Google's DNS server/Earlier it was handled to Airtel.(sometimes still do)

Also for the local caches(like NFLX OCAs), your city exchange router decides where to redirect your packets

NOTE: This advice subject to change in BSNL's routing policy.
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So what should be your recommendation . I mainly want connection for getting my work done . I work on Amazon workspace( like a remote desktop ) and that is situated in US East . Will BSNL will be good for that ?
 

See a rule of thumb is 200ms is where latency sensitive internet things goes to die.

For work connection: I think Airtel will be better(It might vary as people in other threads commented about Airtel pings in Bihar being bad)

Maybe look at their Work-From-Hoe plans :

SD-WAN Lite

Airtel's Lite SD-WAN is a low-cost, entry-level cloud SD WAN solution built for SME and small branch office needs.
www.airtel.in www.airtel.in

They haven't commented on pings and stuff like that, so it's better if you contact them.

If you work is really latency sensisitive + it has good salary, may try to pool up with guys at your locality who also need connection for latency-sensitive need and get a share leased line connection. (optimized for a particular route)
 
@Realme . Airtel is not available heere . 🙁 . I am in my HomeTown currently . And once this corona thing will be over , i will be needing wifi just for normal browsing ( for my parents and siblings) . I don't think people in my locality cares about internet . For them mobile internet is enough.
 
Is it not available in your home town or locality? (for work you can renat a room where it';s available)

Otherwise you have no choice except going to BSNL

With BSNL one thing you can do is : VPN

Find a VPN, which has good pings to your home and see which one of them has best latency to AWS US-EAST

Then VPNize your connection, it may provide far tighter pings for your need.

If you are technically adept/or can hire someone , BSNL has good peering with google, host your VPN client over GCloud and VPNIze over that.

Provided you don't transact a large volume of data, your expenses might be manageable.

Also you won't get <200ms in pings from Bihar to anywhere in the US
 
For your reference:

2 PM Latency to US EAST Cities:

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Realme said:
Is it not available in your home town or locality? (for work you can renat a room where it';s available)

Otherwise you have no choice except going to BSNL

With BSNL one thing you can do is : VPN

Find a VPN, which has good pings to your home and see which one of them has best latency to AWS US-EAST

Then VPNize your connection, it may provide far tighter pings for your need.

If you are technically adept/or can hire someone , BSNL has good peering with google, host your VPN client over GCloud and VPNIze over that.

Provided you don't transact a large volume of data, your expenses might be manageable.

Also you won't get <200ms in pings from Bihar to anywhere in the US
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Hey thank you man for all the stats . No airtel is not available in my city . BSNL and railwire is . I am using Railwire but it is frequent problem . So thinking to try BSNL for once
 
atif_imam said:
@Realme . Airtel is not available heere . 🙁 . I am in my HomeTown currently . And once this corona thing will be over , i will be needing wifi just for normal browsing ( for my parents and siblings) . I don't think people in my locality cares about internet . For them mobile internet is enough.
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One option is to get two connections and load-balance. There are routers that can automatically fail over to a different connection if primary connection goes down. Search for "dual WAN router" on Amazon. Cheapest one is around 2.8k
 
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abhinavkumar041 said:
Don't know about Nalanda but I am using BSnl FTTH in sitamarhi And the service is quite good, Moreover, it depends on the vendor, My vendor is a very good guy, he is always ready to help, Apart from occasional trucks ramming into poles and some people intentionally cutting fibre There is no problem, Fibre cuts are solved within hours, Totally worth it.
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How much did they charge you for the installation ?
 
If your local neighbourhood already has 1-2 connections, then anywhere from 500-1500, otherwise if you are the first connection, they are gonna rip you hard like 4000-5000 overall setup
 
@Realme , Man my home is just 50 metre away from exchange . On their website they have mentioned that you dont need to pay for anything and it will be adjusted in first month of billing . WTH is wrong with BSNL
 

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