Considering buying Spectra. Need some advice

^^ Glad to know you've subscribed to Spectra 🙂

Yeah you'll need a VPN/Seedbox, torrents are throttled to 2-20Mbps, either that or you'll have to stick with usenet.

Also, what was that about a built-in torrent client, didn't come across it :S don't suppose you could give me some info about it ?

BTW, as of this time, since noon it seems like sites outside India are being badly routed again :/ @varkey
 
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@kevinkeller You could achieve Gigabit speeds over the normal Cat 5e cable as well, you don't necessarily need Cat6.

Yep, the ONT is setup in bridge mode. If you attach the ONT directly to your PC (and also assign a secondary IP address in the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet), you might be able to access to the web UI at http://192.168.1.1. I haven't tried it, but I think that would work in case you want to take a peek.

I don't do torrents much, but although initially it felt throttled at 30 Mbps or so, nowadays whenever I needed to download something from well seeded private trackers, it has worked great. I get around 150-175 Mbps.
 
@Absinthe good to have confirmation about torrents.

The torrent client feature is found under the USB section. It's a Transmission torrent client which runs off the router, so that you don't have to keep your PC running. It needs a USB drive attached to store the files. I can't take screenshots right now, but here is the manual for the router. It is a bit dated, but the features are similar: Source
(go to page 227).

Yeah, I noticed the routing issues too.

@varkey thanks for the info.

I saw the listing for AmazonBasics Cat6 cable (link) where it says speed is 1000 Mbps. Didn't think too much about it. I should have checked Cat5E as well 🙂. Cables haven't arrived anyway, I'll get Cat5E itself.
 
The routing is a mess right now, and many sites aren't opening or its really slow. I have opened a ticket, they said they'll get it fixed soon.

For instance www.amazon.in gets routed via London, Paris to be returned back to India! 😱🙄

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So apparently the above issue is something that is going on all over India (from what the CC rep informed me) and they are working on a fix. Just now got an SMS as well stating that the issue would be resolved by 11 PM.
 

Didn't take the pic myself, but it looks exactly like this :

d-link_xtreme_n_dual_band_gigabit_wireless_router_dir-825_2.png


If it helps, additional information behind the router :
Code: 
P/N : OIR825IIN....G1E
H/W : G1     
F/W : 7.00
 
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@kevinkeller I am not sure, I don't use the D-Link router anymore so I can't check it right away. I now use a Mikrotik hap ac2 as the primary router.

Yep, I do remember that it used to point to fwupdate.dlink.ru and it doesn't show any update.

However I think the firmware etc is managed by Spectra as well, cause one day I noticed that it had upgraded the firmware automatically without any interaction from my end. They do have the remote management system setup and configured to point to Spectra servers.

TR-069 - Wikipedia
 
spectra has really bad routing. im getting 32 seconds traceroute to twitter. Like seriously - twitter.

I'm having a seriously bad experience with Linux updates from redhat and even some reddit forums. Interestingly I had a better experience with ACT (with uncapped torrents and all).

Btw, I had to clone the MAC address of the D-Link router into my main TP-Link router (that I want to use). Without that, I was simply not getting any internet to work.

Code: 
traceroute search.twitter.com                                                                                                                          
traceroute to search.twitter.com (104.244.42.3), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1  _gateway (192.168.1.1)  2.932 ms  2.853 ms  4.342 ms
2  10.205.43.1 (10.205.43.1)  6.678 ms  6.615 ms  7.395 ms
3  203.122.50.25.reverse.spectranet.in (203.122.50.25)  7.352 ms  7.268 ms  7.221 ms
4  203.122.61.74.reverse.spectranet.in (203.122.61.74)  29.956 ms 203.122.61.54.reverse.spectranet.in (203.122.61.54)  29.940 ms 203.122.61.74.reverse.spectranet.in (203.122.61.74)  30.768 ms
5  203.92.38.106.reverse.spectranet.in (203.92.38.106)  31.234 ms  33.178 ms  32.424 ms
6  203.92.38.109.reverse.spectranet.in (203.92.38.109)  33.055 ms  28.190 ms  26.932 ms
7  182.19.88.106 (182.19.88.106)  33.048 ms  35.253 ms  29.919 ms
8  182.19.106.202 (182.19.106.202)  32.658 ms  36.251 ms  34.857 ms
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varkey said:
The routing is a mess right now, and many sites aren't opening or its really slow. I have opened a ticket, they said they'll get it fixed soon.

For instance www.amazon.in gets routed via London, Paris to be returned back to India! 😱🙄
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for me, its routing through Australia.

Code: 
 mtr -w amazon.in                                                                                                                                         
Start: 2018-09-20T01:16:50+0530
HOST: m                                            Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
  1.|-- _gateway                                    0.0%    10    1.9   1.9   1.4   2.4   0.3
  2.|-- 10.205.43.1                                 0.0%    10    2.6   2.8   2.3   3.2   0.3
  3.|-- 203.122.50.25.reverse.spectranet.in         0.0%    10    3.0   9.9   2.7  29.6   9.1
  4.|-- 203.122.61.78.reverse.spectranet.in         0.0%    10    3.3   3.7   2.4  12.4   3.1
  5.|-- unknown.telstraglobal.net                   0.0%    10    4.7   4.7   4.3   5.5   0.3
  6.|-- i-0-0-2-2.imnv-core06.bi.telstraglobal.net  0.0%    10   26.6  26.5  26.1  26.9   0.2
  7.|-- unknown.telstraglobal.net                   0.0%    10  144.2 144.5 142.8 146.7   1.2
  8.|-- i-91.ulco01.telstraglobal.net               0.0%    10  147.3 146.7 146.0 148.6   0.9
  9.|-- 195.66.237.175                              0.0%    10  140.5 140.7 140.4 141.0   0.2
 10.|-- 52.95.61.104                                0.0%    10  141.4 141.9 141.4 142.6   0.5
 11.|-- 52.95.61.111                                0.0%    10  140.7 141.6 140.7 146.7   1.8
 12.|-- ???                                        100.0    10    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
 13.|-- 54.239.44.162                               0.0%    10  155.8 156.1 155.1 161.1   1.8
 14.|-- ???                                        100.0    10    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
 15.|-- 52.93.7.174                                 0.0%    10  156.0 161.7 150.8 174.2   8.8
 16.|-- 52.93.36.191                                0.0%    10  160.3 160.3 159.9 160.7   0.3
 17.|-- ???                                        100.0    10    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
 18.|-- ???                                        100.0    10    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
 19.|-- ???                                        100.0    10    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
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 23.|-- ???                                        100.0    10    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
 24.|-- ???                                        100.0    10    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
 25.|-- ???                                        100.0    10    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
 26.|-- ???                                        100.0    10    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
 27.|-- ???                                        100.0    10    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
 28.|-- 52.95.120.67                                0.0%    10  150.4 150.1 149.8 150.4   0.2
 
silverbyte said:
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Btw, I had to clone the MAC address of the D-Link router into my main TP-Link router (that I want to use). Without that, I was simply not getting any internet to work.
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You have to register the new router with Spectra. I think they allow access from only one router at a time.

I had the same issue. This is what I did:

1. Make sure DNS servers on your new router are set to auto (basically don't have custom DNS). This is because the below address redirects to a *.spectra.co domain, which many DNS servers can't resolve. I was using CloudFlare's 1.1.1.1 DNS, and I faced this issue.

2. Open http://1.254.254.254 after connecting the new router to the ONT. It should redirect you to a login page.

3. There should be a section to register a new CPE. Enter your details. If you don't know, call Spectra support. The user name will most likely be your phone number. You should get a message saying new CPE is activated, or something like that.

4. After ~10 mins, you should get internet access.
 

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