the numbers at the back of the BSNL bill for public relation/nodal officer are never answered. Tried calling these numbers many times.
There is no email address or address to write to for complaints.
I've complained about packet loss on the online complaint booking website but I didn't get any kind of response.
In the meantime packet loss is still awful every day and begins at around 8am and lasts until late in the evening.
It's probably worse than yesterday, not sure what's going on.
Code:
Reply from 66.199.244.82: bytes=32 time=324ms TTL=45
Reply from 66.199.244.82: bytes=32 time=326ms TTL=45
Reply from 66.199.244.82: bytes=32 time=322ms TTL=45
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Reply from 66.199.244.82: bytes=32 time=351ms TTL=49
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Reply from 66.199.244.82: bytes=32 time=352ms TTL=49
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Reply from 66.199.244.82: bytes=32 time=360ms TTL=44
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Reply from 66.199.244.82: bytes=32 time=316ms TTL=47
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Request timed out.
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Reply from 66.199.244.82: bytes=32 time=270ms TTL=51
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Reply from 66.199.244.82: bytes=32 time=272ms TTL=51
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Reply from 66.199.244.82: bytes=32 time=321ms TTL=44
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Please have a look at the above ping.
To any website outside india the ping trace is similar-
normal ping time is 273-280.
As you can see it starts a bit high with 320-330. Then there is a huge string of dropped packets then latency spikes up to 360, slowly drops down to ~320 then again there is a series of dropped packets; then normal latency for a few seconds then dropped packets again etc etc.
Huge jitter (fluctuating latency), packet loss and what seems like a complete outage frequently.
Meanwhile traces/pings to any server inside india are perfectly normal (45ms/under 60).
What could be going on ?
Does BSNL just randomly switch to a garbage 3rd party routing company and never check it for days together ?
And again at the moment airtel pings are completely fine and there is no packet loss. Yet on bsnl packet loss is so ridiculous I can't even post a proper trace route yet since the complete outage to anything outside india keeps happening every 10-15 seconds.
finally got a "good" trace to the same server as above:
Code:
Tracing route to 66-199-244-82.reverse.ezzi.net [66.199.244.82]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms 59.93.240.1
2 42 ms 40 ms 41 ms 218.248.255.6
3 53 ms 40 ms 41 ms 59.163.206.157.static.chennai.vsnl.net.in [59.16
3.206.157]
4 68 ms 75 ms 85 ms 172.31.16.173
5 67 ms 67 ms 67 ms if-0-100.tcore2.MLV-Mumbai.as6453.net [180.87.39
.25]
6 180 ms 177 ms 177 ms if-2-2.tcore1.MLV-Mumbai.as6453.net [180.87.38.1
]
7 174 ms 175 ms 175 ms if-3-2.tcore1.PYE-Paris.as6453.net [80.231.154.7
0]
8 174 ms 175 ms 181 ms if-2-2.tcore1.PVU-Paris.as6453.net [80.231.154.1
7]
9 268 ms 268 ms 267 ms 80.231.153.66
10 268 ms 267 ms 267 ms ae-34-52.ebr2.Paris1.Level3.net [4.69.139.225]
11 284 ms 281 ms 283 ms ae-43-43.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.137.5
8]
12 284 ms 281 ms 283 ms ae-5-5.ebr2.Washington12.Level3.net [4.69.143.22
2]
13 287 ms 287 ms 287 ms 4.69.148.49
14 283 ms 287 ms 289 ms ae-71-71.csw2.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.134.70]
15 274 ms 275 ms 275 ms ae-2-70.edge2.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.155.80]
16 278 ms 275 ms 277 ms ACCESSIT.car1.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.53.82.186]
17 275 ms 275 ms 275 ms ads-bsh-fwb4.ezzi.net [72.9.110.203]
18 277 ms 275 ms 277 ms 66-199-244-82.reverse.ezzi.net [66.199.244.82]
Trace complete.
Here is a similar website in the USA, using Airtel (again, almost all foreign websites on airtel gives pings/traces similar to this server)
ping:
Code:
Reply from 67.207.192.146: bytes=32 time=296ms TTL=57
Reply from 67.207.192.146: bytes=32 time=291ms TTL=57
Reply from 67.207.192.146: bytes=32 time=297ms TTL=57
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Reply from 67.207.192.146: bytes=32 time=319ms TTL=57
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Reply from 67.207.192.146: bytes=32 time=309ms TTL=57
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Reply from 67.207.192.146: bytes=32 time=292ms TTL=57
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Reply from 67.207.192.146: bytes=32 time=291ms TTL=57
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Reply from 67.207.192.146: bytes=32 time=291ms TTL=57
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Reply from 67.207.192.146: bytes=32 time=297ms TTL=57
Reply from 67.207.192.146: bytes=32 time=291ms TTL=57
Reply from 67.207.192.146: bytes=32 time=291ms TTL=57
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Reply from 67.207.192.146: bytes=32 time=297ms TTL=57
Reply from 67.207.192.146: bytes=32 time=297ms TTL=57
Reply from 67.207.192.146: bytes=32 time=297ms TTL=57
Reply from 67.207.192.146: bytes=32 time=291ms TTL=57
Reply from 67.207.192.146: bytes=32 time=291ms TTL=57
Reply from 67.207.192.146: bytes=32 time=296ms TTL=57
Reply from 67.207.192.146: bytes=32 time=292ms TTL=57
Reply from 67.207.192.146: bytes=32 time=296ms TTL=57
Reply from 67.207.192.146: bytes=32 time=294ms TTL=57
trace:
Code:
Tracing route to ss0434.svwh.net [67.207.192.146]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 27 ms 27 ms 29 ms ABTS-North-Static-136.237.160.122.airtelbroadban
d.in [122.160.237.136]
2 28 ms 27 ms 27 ms ABTS-North-Static-233.237.160.122.airtelbroadban
d.in [122.160.237.233]
3 28 ms 27 ms 33 ms AES-Static-021.78.22.125.airtel.in [125.22.78.21
]
4 304 ms 327 ms 299 ms 125.62.187.113
5 309 ms 309 ms 309 ms te7-8.ccr01.lax04.atlas.cogentco.com [38.104.83.
81]
6 293 ms 285 ms 283 ms te0-3-0-7.mpd22.lax01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54
.44.1]
7 312 ms 313 ms 313 ms te3-1.mpd01.sjc01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.5.1
81]
8 316 ms 315 ms 317 ms te7-1.mpd01.sjc05.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.6.7
4]
9 305 ms 305 ms 305 ms SiliconValley_WebHosting.demarc.cogentco.com [38
.112.9.214]
10 296 ms 303 ms 305 ms vlan933.po33.g1-0-11-g1-0-12.dist01.sjc01.svwh.n
et [208.166.59.150]
11 296 ms 291 ms 297 ms ss0434.svwh.net [67.207.192.146]
Trace complete.