Airtel Broadband is now offering 40mbps plans in Chennai

[igloo]

I never asked for modem upgrade. Just asked what is max speed feasible in my exchange. He said 16 & i asked to upgrade me.
He said a modem change would take place never told about cost & was never even billed for it.

 

[salaxzar]

yes as igloo said that is the best way. I applied for disconnection as I felt hathway as backup is cheaper than Airtel. Retention team asked the reason and i said that since 2-3 years stuck with 8mbps. Post that they notified that max speed available in your area is 16mbps and also offered me additional 100gb per month. So got upgraded to VDSL (16mbps only though) and now receiving 190gb for Rs 900

 

[raman07]

@salaxzar what is your upload speed? Which city do you live?

 

[salaxzar]

I live in Delhi. Upload speed for Airtel is 2mbps or so (better than 0.7mbps when I was on ADSL).

 

[raman07]

what about trying 1099rs plan. You probably get 40mbps dl and 5mb to 15mb upload.

 

[salaxzar]

max speed in my area is only 16mbps

 

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[raman07]

Airtel 1000GB bonus data is valid till 31mar 2018. So i opted airtel bb from 1 aug then how much bonus data will i get every month till 31mar?
There are 8 months left before validity date so does it mean i am going to get 1000/8= 125GB bonus data every month?

 

[raman07]

@raj2007 Did they give you D-Link DSL-224 modem?

@salaxzar which modem they gave you for vdsl?

 

[raj2007]

@raman07 Yes
Its a stripped version of the following model. i.e., without WPS & WLAN buttons
D-Link

 

[salaxzar]

@raman07 They gave some D-Link router (was very bulky). However, as people have mentioned in this forum, i started to face link drops as soon as I got upgraded to VDSL. The guys kept saying must be issue in the line etc and we will replace your lines. However, I knew when my lines were fine for ADSL, then how come suddenly they have developed issues. Luckily I had Huawei VDSL modem, so i replaced D link router with that and boom all link drop issues went away.

Range of D Link router is much better than Huawei though.

 

[Rahul Awana]

@raman07, No, it will not work like the way you are thinking. If you have a balance of 1000 GB, then Airtel boardband permits you to use that data for the entire 8 months as per your requirement. You can use it on the first month itself, with 3 months or extend upto 8 months. There is no boundation as per the monthly limit.

 

[warpspeed]

They have removed the 5 Mbps upload cap in Chennai. Getting around 10 Mbps (Max line rate) now.