Excitel Broadband User Experience in Gurgaon

[kanurag94]

As per my lco, excitel asks LCOs to lay down new fiber network for excitel fiber which costs them a fortune and excitel only provides them with equipment not compensation for manpower. The fiber speeds are active only on new fiber line.
Then it all comes to LCO for maintenance of fiber as well as they have to adhere to excitel standards ~ from ₹200-250 commission they get per connection.
I don't how much of this is true

 

[philip marlowe]

Yes, LCO needs to lay in most of the cases completely new fiber network because this is the only way it will adhere to required standards so that proper speed and quality can be delivered. There is upfront investments from both parties LCO and Excitel but it pays off with reduced downtime, reduced maintenance costs and improved user happiness and retention.

It's quite fair and provides benefits to all, including the end-user, and already 40% of LCOs have gone with Excitel Fiber. Remaining will do it this year.

 

[Sushubh]

I guess I won't renew for four months this month 😥

 

[Sushubh]

not touching 100mbps it seems.

 

[Sushubh]

too much packet loss happening today. would have to see if it's at excitel's end by connecting the wire directly 😕

 

[Deleted member 77424]

Did have a frequent disconnection issue few hours ago, but no packet loss issues till now.

But speeds are really bad, I have my pi do a simple speed test every hour, 24x7 and log it. Very inconsistent speeds, even at off peak hours.

At Delhi.

 

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[Sushubh]

turns out it was the Amazon cat7 branded ethernet cable. switched to a real old cable and it is fine now.

 

[Sushubh]

but internet is disappearing for a few seconds regularly. i just reconnected my erx so looks like something is messed up on it. 😕

 

[Sushubh]

this is also fixed now. turns out fire tv stick is configured to use 100. i was trying to use the same ip on my pc. so it was conflicting. seems fine now after changing pc static ip to 111 lol.

 

[Deleted member 77424]

Sorry for of topic, how would you compare edge router vs usg for basic pppoe routing, for use with excitel?

 

[Sushubh]

i have no idea what usg is lol. i do have the erx and i recently migrated it to openwrt because failover was very slow on the native firmware.

and recently fucked up the upgrade from previous generation firmware to new one which required opening the device and using serial cable to reset the device. since i was not very comfortable with it, shipped it to a friend who did it for me. and today i configured it back. hence the issues i was facing today.

on openwrt, erx works very well. the way it is configured for me right now, failover works very well. less than 5 seconds. also installed NextDNS on it which means ad blocking is now enabled on router level.

 

[Sushubh]

from what i have seen from other people's experiences, Mikrotik might be worth getting instead of the ERX.

 

[Deleted member 77424]

I meant the edge router vs unifi security gateway. Usg is more like a firewall, but has pppoe router function as well. So was wondering which is better.

 

[Sushubh]

Start a thread in router section. We have some cool people here who would definitely have some experience with usg!

 

[Sushubh]

So anyone else got packet loss problem on Excitel right now or is it a local problem in my area 😀