[IamNikhil]

Nothing beats a wired fiber connection. All this AirFiber business is pure nonsense, since it's just like a phone depending on network coverage in your area. For complete peace of mind, stick to Fiber at home.

[GeneralJazz]

Originally Posted by deathwalkr

Sorry for reviving this from the depths of necrosis.

Any reviews on Jio Airfiber?

Thinking about ditching my Asianet fiber broadband and Asianet Cable (Simply paying Rs.450 to channel surf) and go for this.

Please dont! We did the exact same thing, ditched our Asianet connection for Jio Airfiber. The connection is extremely inconsistent and speeds are all over the place. The worst part is that every time you have an issue with the connection, you have to raise a request in the app. It will take upto 2 days for a technician to be assigned. Even the technicians told us to get rid of it. While in case of Asianet, a call to the local office is enough to have someone sent over.

We reverted to Asianet in 3 weeks.

[saket77]

In my limited experience with jio air fiber, I’ve found it to be inconsistent. To the extent of total internet failure. It’s just a smart sounding arrangement by Reliance to tap the areas where they don’t have jio fiber’s presence due to any reason.

[SilverSmoke]

Airtel Fibre working best for me from past 5 years. On unlimited plan for 200 Mbps, it consistently provides 240+ Mbps - day or night.

[Gansan]

Originally Posted by dailydriver

At ₹824/- for unlimited monthly data with speed capped at 40mbps, 300 odd TV channels via DTH connection, free subscription to 12 OTT channels, landline connection + installation & equipment fully free, an Airtel Black connection has proved to be a great value for money proposition for us.

I have the same connection for the past several years, very happy with it. The speed is quite sufficient for me. My software engineer son does WFH whenever he is visiting home and he is not complaining either.

[dailydriver]

Originally Posted by Gansan

I have the same connection for the past several years, very happy with it. The speed is quite sufficient for me. My software engineer son does WFH whenever he is visiting home and he is not complaining either.

The landline connection is a bit iffy though. Voice is boomy and clarity missing.

Originally Posted by Gansan

No such issues here, I find it good. The landline part was quite important for me, because in case of any issues/natural calamities a landline will be the last to go down, as was demonstrated during the 2014 Chennai floods. All landlines functioned long after the mobile networks went off the air.

But unlike traditional ones, this landline needs power connection to function, doesn't it? An UPS connection sure makes things easy.

[Gansan]

Originally Posted by dailydriver

The landline connection is a bit iffy though. Voice is boomy and clarity missing.

No such issues here, I find it good. The landline part was quite important for me, because in case of any issues/natural calamities a landline will be the last to go down, as was demonstrated during the 2014 Chennai floods. All landlines functioned long after the mobile networks went off the air.

Originally Posted by dailydriver

But unlike traditional ones, this landline needs power connection to function, doesn't it? An UPS connection sure makes things easy.

I think not. The modem will not function if there is no power, but I think the landline will work if we have an ordinary telephone. It seems to be a usual telephone exchange like BSNL ones, which operate through batteries. My phone is a cordless handset so I am unable to check this.

They do have packages for internet availability even during powercuts, wall to wall wifi etc. which one can avail if there is no inverter at home.

[whitewing]

Originally Posted by Gansan

I think not. The modem will not function if there is no power, but I think the landline will work if we have an ordinary telephone. It seems to be a usual telephone exchange like BSNL ones, which operate through batteries. My phone is a cordless handset so I am unable to check this...

Unless one still has a wireline (I mean copper cable) based connection, then we don't need a power source at home, the exchange provides the power source.
However, if we have a modem, then we need a power source to drive the modem via which the voice calls also are routed over fiber. But a simple modem UPS costing ~2k is good enough to drive the modem for 4-6hrs in case of adverse events.

BSNL has been forcing customers to switch to fiber since I suppose they want to ditch the wireline in metros (in BLR atleast).

[Thad E Ginathom]

Originally Posted by whitewing

BSNL has been forcing customers to switch to fiber since I suppose they want to ditch the wireline in metros (in BLR atleast).

Everybody does. Copper wire for data/telecommunications is now an old, outdated technology, a thing of the past. Fibre is not only the technology of the future, it is the technology of now.

We have had Airtel copper, then fibre, for over a decade. We pay about Rs1100 inc tax for 250Mb/sec. We have had our problems, but Airtel usually get them sorted. Towards the end of last year we, and a number of other nearby customers were offline for a month. It seems that metro work had cut a major connection. I could ask for better redundancy! My only lasting complaint is that Airtel only gave us one week refund.

[shankz]

Home 1 (Delhi-NCR) : Airtel Fiber = 100 Mbps Unlimited , INR 799 + Tax

Home 2 (Kolkata) : Jio Fiber = 100 Mbps Unlimited , INR 699 + Tax

Both good till now.

[Thad E Ginathom]

Originally Posted by Thad E Ginathom

Fibre is not only the technology of the future, it is the technology of now.

In fact, I met my first fibre-optic internet connection over twenty years ago. Mind you, it was One Megabit per second. But a 1Mb/sec both-ways, dedicated connection was hugely superior to the copper ADSL available at the time. Multiple people could use the net simultaneously. They could even do some work too, lol.

I don't recall the exchange rates, but it cost our company over one thousand GBP a month: considerably more than a lakh Rs. But it did come with auomatic refund for downtime, and there were several at-the-same-price upgrades.

And here I am paying about GBP.12 for 250 Gb/sec. Wow.

(Of course, that would be a lot more in UK even now. Data is cheap in India.)

[GoBabyGo]

Hi, Monthly average I pay Rs.3500/- for Airtel Black (Rental Rs.2980 + taxes) which include the following in Greater Noida West:

Airtel Wifi Router with 300Mbps speed
Airtel landline (which I don't use)
Three Airtel Xtreme Set top boxes (DTH) with 350 channels in each boxes
Three Airtel mobile postpaid number (our old numbers included in the black plan)

[Vikash Kumawat]

Originally Posted by IamNikhil

Nothing beats a wired fiber connection. All this AirFiber business is pure nonsense, since it's just like a phone depending on network coverage in your area. For complete peace of mind, stick to Fiber at home.

100 % agree on this, Air Fibers are nothing but a Hotspot which works by the mobile towers in your area.

I dont have any Wi-Fi or Broadband at my home, as these kind of services are not available in my area.

Currently using Vi mobile data, as Airtel and Jio only shows 2G network here.

Don't know if this issue is to share here, but from the last one month only Team-BHP website doesn't open in my phone with Vi internet, while every website, youtube,instagram working fine but only Team-BHP doesn't open, I have to turn on-off aeroplane mode 2-3 times then the website opens, this trick too works only 50% of time. Though Team-BHP opens with Airtel and Jio interest, Don't know if the glitch is with Vi or Team-BHP.

Made high score in offline Chrome Dino game while waiting for the web to open

[puneetakhouri]

Originally Posted by deathwalkr

Any reviews on Jio Airfiber?
And since it is on their 5g network will it be prone to congestion and such?

I am a user of both Jio fiber line as well as Air Fiber, let me sum it up for you.

• If you have a line based Fiber connection provider in your area, eyes closed go for it. It is a lot more reliable, latencies are lower (pings) and gives decent upload bandwidth as well.
• Since I live in Mumbai and BMC loves digging, I have experienced days when they accidentally dug up and cut a few fiber lines which resulted in Fiber connectivity gone for the entire area. Air Fiber is immune to such issues.
• If your area does not have dedicated fiber connections, then you can safely go with Air Fiber. We have a Jio AirFiber at our hometown where there is no line based Fiber connection in that area. Initially used to experience lot of connection drops, where if you are on an office call, then suddenly the connection would go away for a minute, then come back and stay for around 10 mins and then go away again. Was very frustrating. So much so that I used to turn on the hotspot from mobile when getting on calls and that worked fine.
• Having said that in my recent tip a few months back, I experienced no such issues, the calls were as seamless as with my fixed line Fiber connection and bandwidth was also very good so no complains this time. It seems the intial problem was a fixable one and Jio has fixed that. I have been in a call that lasted well over 2.5 hours non stop and there was no call drop or bandwidth issues at all.
• During monsoons and fog, the Air Fiber is susceptible to attenuation of signals but we experienced no such issues and the calls and bandwidth were all working fine. Did not do a speed test to confirm if there was a speed drop but nothing to bother us.

TL;DR - Go for fixed line Fiber if its available eyes closed, if not go for Air Fiber without any worries as it is becoming very reliable and working really well now.

[FiatDiesel]

Fixed fibre from local service provider, 50 mbps for Rs 450 / month. It is seamless and does the job for office work / calls / OTTs.