Connection booked: July 2018
Connection done on: 06 Jan 2019
Following is the basic info of the connection
ONU:
Alphion 2018 model supporting
GPON. (In bridge mode)
Plan: FTTH-2000-100MBPS (Rs. 2000 for 1000 GB data @ 100 Mbps)
Router:
Asus RT-AC88U as main router + Asus Blue Cave as Wifi
Mesh node connected with Ethernet CAT7 cable.
Switch: NetgearXS708E 10Gbe Switch.
PC: On 10Gbe Aquantia AQC107s PCIe card
Initial speedtest result
Right now the connection is working flawless.
Pros:
- Good speed to most sites
- Excellent pings to most gaming sites.
- The ONU is good and has given solid 23 hr sessions since 1 week. 0 CRC or FEC errors.
- Connection is stable and IP refresh is fast within 10 sec.
- Excellent telephone voice quality. No khar khar.
Cons:
- Took 6 months to install. Your mileage may vary. Third party contractors do the wiring and install.
- The quality of wiring is a bit questionable as it is coming from terrace. They have no permission to dig roads.
- Shameful upload speed of just 10 Mbps on FTTH. Download and Upload speeds should be same.
- Definitely expensive compared to BSNL or any other FTTH providers.
Nice. How close are you to the mothership?
I recently (finally) got FTTH. I applied in 2015, and since then iI been visiting my exchange every month or so but the past 6 months they have been actually working slowly to make it happen, had to go to the exchange too much too often the past few months. What they did was migrated my current line/BB connection to the new one which meant it comes with a new number. But finally few days ago the installation and activation finally happened. It was a bit of a chaotic process tbh but I am really thankful it happened.
With the current state MTNL is in, they do not have ONTs readily available. Infact WiFi ONTs are out of stock. So for now they got me the wired
ONT (they say they will change mine as soon as wireless come in stock), this has a BSNL branding. LOL Alphion AONT-100C (
Source
) For now I've connected it to my old
ADSL2+ modem/router which I am using it as a Access Point for WiFi.
This ONT is very basic, I do not see any stats on it so not sure how good or bad the fiber is or if there are any issues lurking in the background.
🙁
So far the speeds are good. I've test my speeds at various times of the day and its usually between 89-94Mbps (tried on all good servers like MTNL,
TATA, JIO, Airnet, HNS, etc)
So thats why I asked how close are you to your exchange or mothership to get that amazing speed.
This ONT is a little slow to power ON and connect but is solid once its ON and working. So far no disconnections or ONT restarts. Stays ON and connected for solid long sessions as you said.
I've to ask how have you managed your connection.
ONT -> switch -> Main router -> Mesh
or is it that ONT connects to switch as well as main router?
And all your wired connections are connected to the switch or main router?
I have connected my router to the ONT and all my wired connections are to the router. I am planning to get a switch so I'm curious how is your setup.
BTW how is the router, thats a damn fine router. If you don't mind can you tell me how many devices does it connect and how good is WiFi speeds? For me the best WiFi speed I get from my router is between 65-70Mbps. The lowest at the lowest signal strength is 20Mbps. I am aware mine being a single band router I can't expect more. So the plan is to get a switch for wired connections and a dual band router in few months.