BSNL broadband providing 15 KBps to sites like GitHub

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In my case, I feel having an LCO might be better cause the LCO is more approachable than BSNL. Plus once the LCO started servicing my area, I got the connection done the next day after I confirmed. Also they have direct contacts with BSNL and can get things done easily than the end customer. (I experienced this first hand when I had to get the MAC binding reset)

Also, since the LCO uses the same cabling for TV, cable cuts etc might get fixed sooner cause atleast in my area TV not working is a major issue than internet being down. 😂😂😂

Again, it's a personal opinion and would definitely vary area to area.
 
@ajgamer This is at my HomeTown in Kerala and I use BSNL as primary and Jio 4G as backup with an OpenWRT router handling the failover etc.

And yes, BSNL FTTHs last mile connectivity is handled by an LCO in the area in my case. If BSNL has infrastructure and manpower to maintain the last mile connectivity themselves, they do that or it's usually outsourced to an LCO who get a cut from the monthly rental.
 

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If things don't get sorted out even after migrating to FTTH, I think we should all as a group tweet BSNL regarding the predicament. I think the issue here is not many people actually complain about this issue. Or they do it at a local scale. We should actually tweet it to BSNL Corporate. Unless it comes to their notice, nothing will probably be resolved, as this is something that's beyond the scope of the local BSNL personnels.
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Yeah I already submitted a PG Portal complaint to no avail. They closed it saying "we are working tirelessly to resolve your speed issue and it will be resolved soon", maybe once your connection is setup and if you face speed issue we can again tweet BSNL and also file PG Portal complaint (I will do it again). Basically their international bandwidth/routing is screwed up.

I scoured the linux repos and in my case found only a couple of mirrors giving full speeds for my ubuntu/fedora installations, they are in DK (denmark) (dotsrc.org mirror) and IT (italy) (garr.it mirror) 🙂 Github does not have server mirrors so stuck there at the moment. Luckily my KDE Neon installation uses CDN77.org mirrors which they recently only started good mirror in India so I get good speed there too, earlier it was super slow to singapore.
 
I phoned the NIB office in Pune where I am, they did a remote desktop session where I showed them the speed issues and traceroute they gave some stupid reasons like "it is like this only" and "change your MTU" etc, so gave up there.
 
Feels bad for you @vishalrao but can't stop laughing that ISP's have such clowns in their support team.

What did your area engg. say about your issue?
 
@vishalrao Interesting, so I must be really lucky to get pretty decent routing and speeds with BSNL FTTH (I would even say great!) 😊 I just randomly tried to download a Fedora and Ubuntu server ISO, just used the download link on their site and even with a single threaded wget download, I was more or less maxing out my 50 Mbps connection.

Pings to google.com is around 15-17 ms, to Singapore around 50 ms or so. The pings are actually better than my Spectra connection in Bangalore to be honest. 🕺
 
@ajgamer i didnt bother trying to get in touch with local area engg yet, not sure how they can help.

@varkey yeah you and some other users here are getting full speeds everywhere, i guess Pune/Mumbai is the backup DR (disaster recovery) NOC center secondary location, so maybe it has not so good config.

i believe bangalore site is the primary NOC and pune is the secondary AFAIK.
 
vishalrao said:
@ajgamer i didnt bother trying to get in touch with local area engg yet, not sure how they can help.

@varkey yeah you and some other users here are getting full speeds everywhere, i guess Pune/Mumbai is the backup DR (disaster recovery) NOC center secondary location, so maybe it has not so good config.

i believe bangalore site is the primary NOC and pune is the secondary AFAIK.
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Yes, BSNL has Thier primary NOC in Bangalore and secondary one in Pune.
I am on BSNL 20 Mbps ADSL,I get about 14-15 Mbps on GitHub and Linux Repos.
Btw I am from Chennai
 
Frankly, BSNL has served me quite well up till 26th February. Before that, speed to GitHub and AUR were blazing fast. Don't know what they changed, but now it's just intolerable.
 
@MikeHolmes The link started slow but towards midway it reached 5 MB/s+, it was just a single threaded wget download.

2019-04-04 17:42:31 (4.50 MB/s) - ‘eDEX-UI.Windows.Installer.exe’ saved [94242173/94242173]
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Interestingly, on my Spectra connection in Bangalore, this link crawls, just 100 KB/s or so 🙁😱
 

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