Airtel Broadband throttling speeds of their users?
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Airtel Broadband throttling speeds of their users?
We now have some idea on why some users (including us at TechWhack) are noticing falling speeds on Airtel Broadband. The company is expanding their user base at such a speed that their backend is unable to meet up with the growing demand.
The company is offering free installation in the new areas they are expanding their operations at and had recently announced double speeds at night. All of these are taking its toll on their DSLAMs.
One user on the India Broadband Forum had this to report through a statement made by the service engineer who visited his house:
a. Airtel’s free installation offer has completely choked their dslams (?)
b. new cables are being laid, to keep up with demand.
c. the double speed offer at night worsens things.
d. “actually” there’s a lot of bandwidth available.
e. Airtel implements throttling. i.e. if you’re a big downloader, you’ll be cut down to size by being given less speeds. (By a policy, that monitors entire account categories/groups.)
These problems should be sorted out fast as the company is working on upgrading the capacity of their DSALMs.
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Off-topic, but I didnt know where else to post this, can you (the reader) repost to better forums/blogs etc?
The broadbandforum.in, broadbandblog.in, sushubh.net sites are showing “domains are suspended for overuse” something like that…
A small clip on the front page of today’s ET (Pune edition) pointed out http://mybudget.economictimes.com/ ( http://o3.indiatimes.com/budget06/ ) saying this was your opportunity to be heard amongst the govt and industry folks (or something like that)…
Anyone would be interested in posting (comments) there about the state of broadband and what you think is the way to improve? Something technically “authoritative” explaining how costly and slow broadband is here, the “interconnect”/peering problems (nixi.org?), compare with other nations, etc…
I wonder who will be reading the comments, really people from govt/industry interested in hearing “budget proposals” from the common man? or just the economic times webmaster :-)
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“Thou shalt not follow the null pointer for at it’s end madness and chaos lie.”
Sify also did some such thing (among other things) and got spanked rather badly on this blog, but the post above seems to be almost forgiving Airtel ???
Well, you make a valid point. But their are several factors…
1. it seems to be temporary.
2. it still is impressively stable.
3. the speeds are bad, but i am not surfing the net at 2KBps.
4. i have already posted my thoughts on falling speeds on airtel…
http://sifybroadband.techwhack.com/378/sucky-ai...
Off-topic, but I didnt know where else to post this, can you (the reader) repost to better forums/blogs etc?
The broadbandforum.in, broadbandblog.in, sushubh.net sites are showing “domains are suspended for overuse” something like that…
A small clip on the front page of today’s ET (Pune edition) pointed out http://mybudget.economictimes.com/ ( http://o3.indiatimes.com/budget06/ ) saying this was your opportunity to be heard amongst the govt and industry folks (or something like that)…
Anyone would be interested in posting (comments) there about the state of broadband and what you think is the way to improve? Something technically “authoritative” explaining how costly and slow broadband is here, the “interconnect”/peering problems (nixi.org?), compare with other nations, etc…
I wonder who will be reading the comments, really people from govt/industry interested in hearing “budget proposals” from the common man? or just the economic times webmaster :-)
–
“Thou shalt not follow the null pointer for at it’s end madness and chaos lie.”
Sify also did some such thing (among other things) and got spanked rather badly on this blog, but the post above seems to be almost forgiving Airtel ???
Well, you make a valid point. But their are several factors…
1. it seems to be temporary.
2. it still is impressively stable.
3. the speeds are bad, but i am not surfing the net at 2KBps.
4. i have already posted my thoughts on falling speeds on airtel…
http://sifybroadband.techwhack.com/378/sucky-airtel-broadband/