Jio 4g Tariff ....Airtel vs Jio ....Fiber is Superior ........[fast forward to present day] with Reliance Jio creating disruption in Indian Telecommunication space with Jio it was now the turn of Broadband a at home , being a heavy pc and data used I knew as soon as Jio would come to my locality I would switch to it as soon as possible because however good Airtel Service has been in my Area their offering has not been able to match with their competitions in past few years in Broadband space like Speed upto 100Mbps and Fiber Connectivity or Volte Service when all these services with are offered by the competitors at smaller price ,so as soon as the booking for GigaFiber started I was among the first ones to signup
Registration : Refundable Installation fees of Rs 4500 (can be paid using Card, Paytm)along with copy of ID proof and photo if not using Aadhar with Online Receipt generated
Offer : initially 100Mbps Broadband with Unlimited Data , with addition of Landline and TV connection on same fiber as soon as it comes in testing phase or becomes available in my area and no Monthly Charges until the public roll-out of the service [expected in December of this year]
Timeline :
Day1 Sunday : Completed Registration and got SMS confirmation with Booking Number
Day2 Monday : Public Holiday
Day3 Tuesday : Installation Guy Came had to reschedule for later on customer care
Day4 : Installation was quick hardly took an hour , the fiber cable is super tin and flexible to install and mount on walls the wifi was up and running , after few hours of playing with router dashboard and doing some tests myself here are few observations
- After Installation router takes about an hour to fetch and update to the new dashboard and if Logged in before that into dashboard after update the dashboard will appear all broken so clear your cache
- The Ping time was very high initially about 44 ms sometimes which reduced to 7ms later
- Maybe its the crowded channel in my residence but device using only 2.4Ghz Band aren't able to get speed test reading past 60 Mbps even when sitting next to Router other devices on 5Ghz Channel only are reaching max to 98Mbps
- Couldn't find the setting to automatic schedule wifi to turn off at certain time at night
- When there is some network problem in Jio Giga Fiber from backend the essential websites [>_<] whatsapp , facebook , google , Instagram, youtube keep working but sites like Github , Twitter , Azure Portal , even my own domain did not load for a while on entire network but other sites worked perfectly
- There are no manuals or instruction to play around with the router yet online
- One thing I noticed with Jio Fiber is that the IP address is not reachable from outside even the iPv6 it's like a double NAT / Jio Firewall. It's not an issue for normal users but if you are planning to host a server that won't be reachable from outside .
- [will update about it later ]FTP, VoIP , IPtv Service
