Hathway Broadband is now using Reliance Jio gateway which means all Jio blocked services are now blocked on it

I would like to request this forum's mod/admin to kindly tag this post to both Jio's and Hathway's threads, as it kind of relates to both of them.

Okay, so here it is. I'll tell you exactly how it all started...

Till yesterday, I was able to access all the torrent sites (link-removed, link-removed, etc) and some really good sites (hub and all that....) without any problem. I was having a jolly good time too. Everything was going fine, I was happy with my life (or so I've been telling myself).

What I didn't knew was that my happiness was predestined to be short and limited. Thanks to motabhai.

I had my semester exams today, and because of how boring and dry my exam was, I decided to download the recently released Captain Marvel from link-removed on coming home. But on opening the site, instead of seeing the good stuff, here's what I was greeted with:


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Feeling disappointed, I tried some more sites. What I noticed is that, basically all those sites that are blocked in Jio, are now also blocked in Hathway. Nothing works anymore. Even changing the DNS also doesn't help, which wasn't the case earlier.

So, I performed a trace route on the most common site - google.com. And here's the result:


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Here's what I found after after a detailed inspection:
Traceroute IP list :
1. My router
2. Hathway's Kolkata Node
3. Hathway's Mumbai Node
4. Jio's Mumbai Node
5-8. Some Internal IPs
9. Google's Gateway
10. The Final Destination

This means that, from now on, whatever blocking that we have on Jio, all Hathway's customers are going to face the same too.
 
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remains blocked on excitel.
 
Alright. I'm used to quoting posts, so I'll make sure to not quote posts here unless absolutely necessary. Ill have to check the apps. Thanks for that information.

Apart from that, I play online fps games, so latency is a serious thing for my use. Even though it shows around 35ms ping for servers in hong kong, since the past 2 weeks it felt as if I'm playing with 150ms ping. I mean when the CF dns test showed it as "No". Ill try gaming again since it shows "Yes" now.

Ill keep you guys updated regarding the dns issues.

I'm considering moving to ACT as the gaming performance is great on ACT.
 
I don't really understand what's the point of TRAI approving net neutrality and publishing consultation papers on it when ISPs are doing whatever they want with consumer's privacy and accessibility. Some users complained about Reddit ban few months back. I think very soon, our country's internet will be very similar to that of China's.
 
So cloudflare dns still works fine with hathway.

I've installed ACT fibernet and the gaming performance difference is night & day. ACT routing is top notch compared to hathway. The in-game lag is gone even though the ping numbers are almost the same. I played several games over three days to confirm this. I don't get killed around the corner, and I'm winning one-on-one fights, or in other terms, all the bullshit deaths stopped and I'm able to play & get kills without getting killed all the time.

Also, there are several time out errors when loading websites which isn't a major issue but still its an issue with hathway and I don't face that issue with ACT.

The only drawback with ACT is the upload speed but as a gamer, I prefer better in-game experience than upload speed. So if someone needs good upload speeds, then hathway.

So hathway is good for non-gamers, who just do browsing & streaming. But ACT is the best for gamers and they use google's 8.8.8.8 as the default DNS.
 
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