Thread: "Planned maintenance activity in BSNL’s international Bandwidth" 26th-30th July

And it's apparently still not finished since internet right now is completely horrible.

"India broadband users be ready to face slow internet speeds starting today to 30th July .This is due to a planned maintenance activity in BSNL’s international Bandwidth for internet equivalent to 19 STM-16(47.5Gbps) will be down during this maintenance activity period.

Its is believed that STM-16 12.5Gbps bandwidth has been restored by Tata Communication thus out of total planned outage of 47.5 Gbps international bandwidth 35Gbps of bandwidth will be affected.

So what does this mean we believe BSNL broadband users will be most affected during the downtime."

1st August, no updates and the international lines are completely awful.

So, guys, if someone posts about:
1) slow speeds
2) packet loss/latency/slow stream/disconnection/jitter
3) low download speeds
4) slow torrents

*especially* from any international server
it's pretty safe to say the problem is entirely on bsnl's end.

changing dns server, checking line, splitter etc will do absolutely nothing.

Originally Posted by rsen

And it's apparently still not finished since internet right now is completely horrible.

"India broadband users be ready to face slow internet speeds starting today to 30th July .This is due to a planned maintenance activity in BSNL’s international Bandwidth for internet equivalent to 19 STM-16(47.5Gbps) will be down during this maintenance activity period.

Its is believed that STM-16 12.5Gbps bandwidth has been restored by Tata Communication thus out of total planned outage of 47.5 Gbps international bandwidth 35Gbps of bandwidth will be affected.

So what does this mean we believe BSNL broadband users will be most affected during the downtime."

1st August, no updates and the international lines are completely awful.

So, guys, if someone posts about:
1) slow speeds
2) packet loss/latency/slow stream/disconnection/jitter
3) low download speeds
4) slow torrents

*especially* from any international server
it's pretty safe to say the problem is entirely on bsnl's end.

changing dns server, checking line, splitter etc will do absolutely nothing.

yes its because its from the hardware side i guess.

so is that in all India or just your location, if to be precise?

Originally Posted by mickey

yes its because its from the hardware side i guess.

so is that in all India or just your location, if to be precise?

Supposedly all of india but only BSNL. Airtel seems to be working mostly fine (at least it has been the 2-3 times I tried today and yesterday).

The thing is the repairs were to be 26th - 30th july; but for some reason everything just got worse even though repairs officially finished.

In India everything seems to get worse AFTER repairs which is kind of dumb.

anyway sorry forgot the link to the website I found this :

Prepare Yourselves For Slow Internet Speed in India

Nice. But I am getting normal speeds. Thanks for the info.

Originally Posted by rsen

Supposedly all of india but only BSNL. Airtel seems to be working mostly fine (at least it has been the 2-3 times I tried today and yesterday).

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you are so lucky have two connections..


so what should we do? i mean we bankers.. move to airtel bb?

Well, i didnt see much a difference during the planning cable repair of SMW4.it was as good as normal.

undersea cable repairs will obviously only affect routes that pass through there.

also, if using internet involves checking emails or downloading torrents seeded in India it won't affect you

Anyway right now there is still intermittent packet loss along these routes, and latencies are usually the same 288-330ms (to the US).

Originally Posted by mickey

you are so lucky have two connections..

so what should we do? i mean we bankers.. move to airtel bb?

Using Bsnl combo 500 plan with night time unlimited and an airtel 500/600 type plan is actually cheaper than what most people take (some crap wifi plan or a horrible FUP plan that's rs 1500+ or more).

anyway airtel BB has typically higher latencies to all servers outside india and costs significantly more.
The connection however is far more reliable - less packet loss, less latency fluctuations, less outages and better customer service.

BSNL is hit or miss. When it runs fine latencies are better than bsnl (for example US/EU server latencies are easily 30-50ms lower).

However no matter how good the bsnl conditions are it seems packet loss is just really bad. It happens no matter what, even when everything on their end is "good". Even with the "best" conditions according to them you will get packets lost every 20-30 minutes. This doesn't happen with airtel or reliance.

But the main problem with bsnl is that there are very frequent outages, line drops, maintenance outages, times of heavy packet loss, congestion (=slow speed/high latency), bad routing that isn't fixed for a long time etc etc.

However BSNL is by far the cheapest ISP and possibly the only isp that is widely available and offering an unlimited night time plan with decent speeds (2mbps).

It's really a matter of what you require.

thank you for informing

I didn't experience slow speed but I get disconnected a lot!!