Airtel 4G prices slashed by 35-50%

[vishalrao]

Note my signal strength is 3 out of 5 bars (65%) both on dongle and home wifi CPE device just FYI.

 

[RajanP]

So no Mumbai/Delhi for now?

 

[vishalrao]

even Chennai and Kerala are showing old rates on Airtel/4G website

Maybe Airtel will only update pricing officially after March when Reliance does full launch?

 

[raman07]

@vishalrao When you download direcly in web browser then do you still get 20mbps-30mbps. I am asking this to see if airtel throttle speed or not since in IDM we can use multiple connection to max our speed.

Are you able to stream 4k video on YouTube? Did you ever stuck in YouTube buffering?
Do they shave data?
What is ping result of your CPE to the tower? You can see this when doing tracert to any ip. The second line would show how good your connection is from tower to your cpe.

 

[raman07]

@vishalrao forget to ask, Do you have indoor cpe or outdore cpe?

 

[vishalrao]

Indoor CPE. Let me try YT 4K (never tried before) and also checking to tower if possible and post here shortly...

I get 20-30 mbps in normal downloads in some places like Linux/Windows software updates, but some websites are slow like 2-10 mbps I guess it depends also on the target website capacity/limits.

 

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[vishalrao]

Yup, YT 4K videos (tried a couple) seem to be streaming fine without buffering when I choose the 4K quality - note though I only have a 1200p Full-HD monitor 🙂

Not sure what you meant by "do they shave data" ? Yes the data gets deducted from my FUP limit on YT etc.

Will now try to check that tower ping/traceroute thing you mentioned, if that is possible even...

 

[vishalrao]

Tower seems to be dropping the trace packets:

Tracing route to www.google.com [216.58.220.4]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  airtel4grouter.cpe [192.168.1.1]
  2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  3    59 ms    34 ms    28 ms  10.192.79.36
  4    51 ms    23 ms    20 ms  10.192.79.14
  5    61 ms    32 ms    28 ms  10.49.57.81
  6    65 ms     *       32 ms  10.49.57.9
  7    25 ms    28 ms    20 ms  202.56.246.29
  8    72 ms    30 ms    29 ms  182.79.235.245
  9    58 ms    26 ms    29 ms  72.14.220.197
 10    62 ms    27 ms    28 ms  72.14.232.202
 11    61 ms    30 ms    27 ms  74.125.37.235
 12    49 ms    39 ms    35 ms  bom05s05-in-f4.1e100.net [216.58.220.4]

Trace complete.

 

[raman07]

Yeh they are not showing tower ip and packet response of airtel tower. If your cpe is placed well then it would be less then 10ms.
Here is mine

If i were on fiber then it would be 1ms constant. Since its wireless so its average is 4ms - 5ms

 

[raman07]

Do you get dynamic or static ip on airtel cpe?

 

[raman07]

Do you get dynamic or static ip on airtel cpe?

 

[salaxzar]

I so wish they reduce tarrifs for postpaid plans for 4g at home as I am stuck with max 2mbps speed on their wired broadband and paying 8k for 160gb just seems too much.

 

[vishalrao]

It's a NAT-ed internal/external IP combo, both seem dynamic. Internal IP I get on the device is 100.xxxx while external IP visible to outside world is 106.xxxx

So sadly I cannot SSH or remote desktop to any of my home computers for remotely troubleshooting/diagnosing if required.

 

[suku_patel_22]

It's a NAT-ed internal/external IP combo, both seem dynamic. Internal IP I get on the device is 100.xxxx while external IP visible to outside world is 106.xxxx

So sadly I cannot SSH or remote desktop to any of my home computers for remotely troubleshooting/diagnosing if required.

You can use dynamic dns service like noip.com for this purpose. Provided you have port forwarding on CPE

 

[madhusudhan7]

The way I see it: Just some temporary double data offer. Says 5 + 5gb, this may not be permanent

 

[vishalrao]

You can use dynamic dns service like noip.com for this purpose. Provided you have port forwarding on CPE

But the two (internal and external) IPs provided by ISP must be NAT-ed, right? The CPE does have settings for port forwarding but will it work if ISP itself is NAT-ing the IPs?

Can't try it right now myself because my FUP limit got over and instead of continuing at extra charges my device has gone "red" (disconnected) - I called CC yesterday evening to purchase smartbytes topup which they immediately charged me but the connection is still not re-activated 🙂 so today morning again called them up and they claim many users are facing connectivity issues related to topup so a ticket filed for me which they claim will get fixed today.

So I'm back on my old BSNL 4 mbps ADSL broadband for the time being. I was installing Fedora Linux (rawhide) when my 4G FUP got over and man it sucks to crawl at 4 mbps now 😀