Timbl Broadband Review

I recently shifted from excitel to Timbl broadband. Excitel in my area does not offer FTTH and their transit speed chokes during evening time (9 pm-12 am).

I am on a 50mbps FTTH Unlimited connection paying about Rs 700/month (inclusive of taxes). Static IP if you need is another 400/month. ONU Security was Rs. 500. Running my own router with Unifi Access Point.

It's been 6 days since I shifted has till now there has been no downtime. Initially, I had to contact the customer care to get the admin password of the ONU which was given to me within a day or two.
Another great point about Timbl is that they offer dynamic public IPs to every user. No port blocked, you can run whatever you want and with a dynamic DNS service, you basically have a static IP equivalent domain name.
Timbl uses google DNS by default.

Below are a few speedtest results to UK, US, Singapore, Ind using on speedtest. Upload struggles a bit but I won't be uploading much to US/UK. Tested on a 5Ghz wifi.

I will keep updating the thread with my findings.

 

[MadAxe]

@igloo We're comparing FTTH here.

 

[igloo]

But excitel connection of urs is ftth?
Excitel ethernet n airtel vfiber are almost level.

 

[MadAxe]

Nope. But Airtel Fiber is any day better than Excitel Fiber in terms of reliability.

 

[ijsa]

Please explain how???

 

[MadAxe]

Check the other thread on the effect of Covid-19 on ISPs and also Excitel has more downtime than Airtel.

 

[JB701]

Excitel has fiber on utility poles whereas Airtel has them underground so its kinda expected.

 

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[dagasaheb]

Oh boy! I thought this thread was about Timbl

 

[dagasaheb]

@dagasaheb Airtel gives 3.33 TB a month. If you’re using more than that, chances are you’re supporting piracy.

Nope.
My work requires it & my company pays for it.

 

[dagasaheb]

@igloo: HD(1080p) at 20+ mbps bitrate is around 30-44 GB for one hour + something minutes, multiple HD streams will consume that much data?

I have heard of HVC these days but I don't know if Indians have that gear to run it

What do you mean if Indians have the gear to run it.............. Elaborate a little🙁😒👿

 

[dagasaheb]

Tbh for me airtel vdsl and excitel fiber are on same level as far as reliability is concern.
Excitel ethernet was hopeless in comparison.

Agreed!

 

[dagasaheb]

@dagasaheb Airtel has 3.3 TB FUP and Excitel has no FUP. Airtel is more stable than Excitel.
The services of Excitel depend majorly on the LCO. My LCO provides great service. But don't know why he doesn't want to invest in Excitel Fiber.

It requires a substantial amount of investment on LCO's part.

 

[Realme]

hevc is computation intensive and it is shrouded by hardware DRMs, so unless you have a very recent gfx card or new hardware with hw decoding support, hevc 10bit hdr video file, on the plus side it reduces file size to crazy low.

 

[MadAxe]

Excitel has fiber on utility poles whereas Airtel has them underground so its kinda expected.

Agreed.

 

[dagasaheb]

hevc is computation intensive and it is shrouded by hardware DRMs, so unless you have a very recent gfx card or new hardware with hw decoding support, hevc 10bit hdr video file, on the plus side it reduces file size to crazy low.

Oh really!🤣 What does that has to do with Indians

 

[Realme]

not many Indians have nvidia shields or gtx 1080 or later nor can many Indians justify buying one