i just started using airtel Xstream fiber (Port Blair, Andaman & Nicobar islands) with Rs.1079 plan with 3 month package. the quality and range is far better than BSNL Fiber or any. no lag in gaming or video call.
In fiber internet Service matters .. but the fiber cable under bayofbengal is laid by BSNL & shared theirs core to Airtel.. & Airtel is giving good service than bsnl
@@musicalvibez9837this is the sad reality 😢 if BSNL waa better than private ISPs then they will lose crores of rupees, so it feels like even the government won't allow BSNL or any government facility to develop that much willingly
I was watching your BSNL 3G Speed test opinion video which was 12 years old video. It feels amazing how our(Indians) consumption of Internet has changed over the years. 1GBPS is something unimaginable to get for individual connection. Just WOW.
I've been using the Airtel Xstream fibre from the past two years and my experience has been fabulous. I am working from my hometown and I love the fact that they have reached the remotest part of the country and there is no compromise with the quality of internet or even service for that matter. Plans are also good. So it happens to be the best ISP so far.
Hey Ranjit! I can definitely second this opinion from a Mumbai perspective also. Iv been using it for 1.5 years as Airtel Black for DTH+Fiber+Mobile and its been excellent value for money. I am subscribed to the base plan and yet it works seamlessly for multiple TVs, laptops and mobile phones. Also their provided Xstream Set-top box is amazing with great software for a very small one time cost, it was an instant upgrade from LED TV to Smart TV for both TVs, saving big investments in new Smart TVs.
@@Akash_158It's the exact opposite. If it was sponsored, there would have been a pop-up for it plus he would have mentioned it in the video too as he always does. Regardless of that, I was sharing my opinion for others in my city who would be looking for other user experiences to help them with their decisions. Therefore, your comment is irrelevant my good friend.
@@sahildedhia I am confused to see the hashtag in the video. It says collab. Wondering what does that mean. Edit: Thanks for your personal review. That helped.
The service experience totally depends on the area you live in. There have been couple of times here in Chennai where Airtel did not rectify an outage for more than a week.
User experience varies based on the location. Airtel fiber is above average in my area. Service disruption occurs at least twice or thrice a month. Engineer takes 1-2 days to fix it. Sometimes they fix the issue on the same day or the next day. I can’t fully rely on Airtel so I started using ACT fibernet as well with load balancing.
Airtel is a really good option. Only problem I have faced here in Mumbai is during the monsoon season our services were down every 15 - 20 days for about a couple of hours. Otherwise with respect to ping and speeds it is really good.
We had the same issue but everytime it rained the service was down for a day they checked and said water is entering the distribution box we asked when the issue will be fixed they said they don't plan on changing the box so I switched to jio but I had no issues with Airtel for 5-6 years that I used.
@@guyofnewage no issue till date for jio except the accidental wire cut by someone in flats that too they resolved in 2 hrs was one of the first connection in our area but heard some of them have been having frequent disconnect in it I didn't have any
@@guyofnewage if Airtel is upgrading stuff regularly in your location then both are good but my area is not inside City so they don't update things regularly
I can also vouch for that. I have been using Airtel Xstream Fiber for past 2 years. Initially I was on 200 Mbps plan. I also asked for this 6 antenna router and they upgraded me to it. Now for past 9 months I am on 300 Mbps plan. There has been hardly any downtime in last 2 years. Their service is also very responsive.
In the last 5 years and 4 ISP's. I have felt Airtel to be the most stable and with the best stock router that didn't need restart every couple days (the huawei one they gave around 2018). I only switched because I liked Jio's OTT plan(899) at only 100 extra from Airtel's(799) and will definitely switch back if airtel introduces something similar. Although the pricing is higher than most. But the pro rata basis is very nice. You can increase or decrease the speed as required on the app and pay on per day basis. And it switches within minutes.
@@BrijrajJadeja007 i didn't even know airtel offered prepaid for fixed line. Although it doesn't make sense since you already have paid for the designated speed for the duration. They allow switching as soon as it gets updated in the app, you only have to contact customer care when you want to select 499 plan (40mbps) because it is not available in the app.
I was an Airtel Xstream Fiber user for more than 2 years. Honestly speaking, the overall experience including customer serivce, internet speed and connection stability was excellent only for 19 odd months. After that the my experience got deteriorated, also I never got any help from the customer service. Things became worse when (leaving alone the broadband) last month my mobile data also stopped working in airtel sim. I have now switched to jio, I hope it doesn't get bad just like airtel got in my case.
Very true... Me and my friends have also been using Act internet for more than 10 years and now shifted to Airtel for better connectivity and it is working like a charm.
Watching this video in 4k at 1.75x speed with 63% signal strength and luterally zero loading time, i have the Airtel black fiber plan with 40mp/s and most of the time it serves me well, been using since 2022 and haven't faced any major network issues in my area.
Thanks Ranjit for the detailed video on Airtel ISP.. Had switched to airtel Xtreme recently 300 mbps. I had used Hathway and ACT earlier and their customer service was pathetic. Even i had faced frequent drops while attending teams calls. Now i do not face these issues . Moreover with airtel black plan i m able to reduce the bill amount atleast by around 100 to 200 rupees when i bundle dth, fibre and mobile connections. Moreover you get to have a landline connection also. The instrument can be connected to the supplied router. This helps elders at home as it is more convenient for them and avoids mobile radiation. Overall its a good and better experience than other ISP so far.
I have also the Xstream connection, the 200Mb/s plan. Have been using it for more than 1 year now and yes it's pretty good, the reliability/uptime is very good, and when things went wrong, they fixed it pretty quickly :) The best thing is that on a single source I get around 350-400Mb/s and with the multi-source I get around 750-800Mb/s this is just crazy :) The only thing I don't like is the provided router, it's the old one with 2 antennae, it doesn't have features like QoS, Wi-Fi 6 and the range is also poor.
A quick fix would be to just buy an external ap and turn off wifi from the isp router Or, you can get something like a raspberry pi and run openwrt on it and use it as your router, with an external ap. This way the isp router just bridges the connection and you get full control and all the features you could want.
I don't think anyone else beside Tata provides Wifi 6 in India and that too is in initial stages right now. Even Wifi 5hz is not as widespread as it should be.
Airtel has installed 3 connection boxes on the roof of my apartment. I am using from the last 5 months and I can say it's value for money. I have 40Mbps connection. But the speed I get is above 50Mbps. 2 mobiles, 1 laptop and 1 tv is connected to it and it handles extremely well. I am from Patna, Bihar and service here is excellent till now. In 5 months I have experience 2 cable break issue as metro work is going around and Airtel took around 12-15 hours to resolve as the connection cut took place in the night.
I've used multiple fiber connection at different locations of India. While cheking speed test response time with outside server is far more important than default ping response and bandwidth. My pick will more towards leased line instead of taking more bandwidth (gbps) Pro advice: avoid vendor local isp
I have been using GTPL Broadband for 2 years now. And they offer 50 Mbps plan at 5500rs for 12 Months. Considering that and the service they provide is just excellent and I think it's more value for money than Jio or Airtel. But it may vary from area to area.
Dope Video, after watching this i feel like i am living in cave as i have local wifi connection which provide speed of 15 MBPS in monthly bill of Rs. 700, and using it for PS4 Pro, 5 mobiles in home, and for Smart TV 📺,
I had been using Airtel Xstream Fiber in Guwahati for 2 years and honestly, I had a fair amount of issues. It's not the most reliable (at least here), there were several connection drops after midnight. Quite a lot of downtime for maintainance work. Airtel also had major latency issues in games. Switched to Jio, it has been over a year now, no major problems so far.
Same here Airtel also have too much maintenance Breakdown and Secondly They Also donot give fair Compensation only at most 1-2 day extension that too you have to complaint and send mail
same thing for delhi also in my area there were so much downtime and then i switched to act fibernet which works best and also half price for 1 gbps connection at only 1999 per month
This video was really required....airtel is expanding its network in many socities near kokapet and narsingi...dont know about users but this video ia very good for airtel...😂
I have been using it for more than 7 minrhs now and the experience has been very good. The service did went down a few times but as you rightly said they send an sms telling when it will be back. I am using 40 mbps plan
I'm using Airtel Xstream fiber connection with 100 MBPS plan for around 3 years. I'm also very satisfied with the consistency of the speed and range of the router. Especially when it comes to speed. I get around 130mbps download and 120mbps upload. Best part is service, Airtel uses real time monitoring system. Thus most of the time you Don't have to register complaint regarding any Outage. It automatically identify the outage and trust me their engineers already starts working before you complain. I can say because the distribution box is just in front of my house. Every time when there is outage, within 30 mins I see engineers working in front of me. If you want new router just apply for disconnection and then new connection. They will change your router with same wiring or you change wiring too. It is better than Jio fiber for sure.
I have been using the Airtel 50 Mbps plan. But I get more than 100Mbps during speed tests. The connection is stable and the never experienced latency issues. Thank you Airtel!
I use Airtel Xstream Fiber and I live in Begur, Bangalore. For me the latency is low but many a times my ping spikes are very apparent and adheres my gaming. Thinking of switching to ACT.
Switched to Jio Fiber 3 years ago from BSNL 4 days ago switched to Airtel Xtreme Fiber. My reason for switching was Wifi Range, it is so poor in Jio routers that 3 out of 6 rooms are in dead zone. Nokia Router provided by Airtel Fiber is blasting signals all over the house. So far i am finding it to be the best of all.
@@DarkKnight20055 Nah, i haven't found a way yet, except for connecting only to the wifi 2.4 GHz band. That drains battery only at normal speed. If you have remain connected to the 5 GHz band all the time then your battery drain would be much much faster.
I had good experience with Airtel broadband yet. I consider Airtel amongst the best service providers in India. I was so impressed that I ended up buying their stock as well, which is also giving me amazing returns 😊
i have been using airtel broadband since 2008 and i have always had excellent service although back then it was expensive but airtel has never failed to impress me in terms of their broadband service
He might have taken money from airtel but he is honest also. I following him since last 11 years. So there is no harm in saying truth and earning money ❤❤❤
Ranjit Sir, though the service of Airtel is better but I was trying to get connection in Pune city since mid of 2019, I am not able to get connection as there is no feasibility at both places I wish. Airtel fibre broadband is available only in selected big societies and commercial offices but not in other small buildings, bungalows and houses. Jio fiber is having same situation. Hence I can think of situation in rural areas.
Hi Ranjit, Belated New Year wishes! May the new year bring health and prosperity to you and your family. I am a great fan of yours :) I have been using the Airtel Xstream for last two years. The main challenge I am facing is using my custom mesh routers (Deco X 20) with Airtel Xtream 1 GBPS router. JIO and Airtel does not support adding custom mesh routers to extend the range. It will be nice if you can make a video on internet service providers who support use of custom mesh routers with their Modem/Router.
Same here. Been a long time Airtel user (16 years), the airtel peeps upgraded my wifi to xstream fiber in 2019. Been a good experience so far with good reliability, amazing download and upload speeds, low latency and as you mentioned whenever there is maintenance they send out an sms beforehand. The only thing I still complain is not having the option to change the channel on router. Do you have any solutions to this and would you recommend to get a new router?
And here I am still using my old BSNL fibre connection from 2020 with a plan of 30mbps up/down with a ping of less then 5 in Agartala Tripura and in my opinion BSNL is far better now from where it was in 2016 , 17 era because I have used the copper connection of BSNL with a speed of 5mbps up/down 😊😊
I have been using GTPL Broadband for 2 years now. And they offer 50 Mbps plan at 5500rs for 12 Months. Considering that and the service they provide is just excellent and I think it's more value for money than Jio or Airtel. But it may vary from area to area.
Could you please post a video, how we can connect this airtel broadband connection from the modem they have provided to external routers or mesh systems.
I have used Airtel, Jio and Act fiber in Hyderabad. Act is by far the best. The latency is so low everything openes almost instantly. Sometimes Airtel/Jio takes few ms to load. Although the issue is on low side. Not a major concern. But if I have option of all 3 I would choose Act. As ranjeet explained he has postpaid Airtel for family then it might be convenient to have Airtel black over Act.
Amazed that you had good exp with ACT. In the prime area of Gachibowli, I literally suffered with ACT. Had to restart router almost daily to get it working, never picked up full speed. Not to mention fortnight down time, without any notice. Main hub would go down with power. Just wish that you continue to get good service, because when you don't you will have a hard time with disconnection. I had to raise a complaint on consumer forum to get my money back.
@@vishaayush omg that's exactly what happened to me! I paid for 6 months 10k because of the service issue I raised a disconnection request after 3 months they didn't listen then finally when they did disconnect no one is picking my call for the refund luckily I got their premium tplink wifi 6 router which is around 4k worth and for which they called me that they want to pick that up and when I asked what about my refund for the remaining 3 months? They said first give us the router we will surely refund lmao l🤣 now I am not picking their calls. If not the router I probably would follow the same consumer forum route these guys are totally unprofessional and I would never ever recommend it to anyone
For quality definitely Airtel stoods at the Top, I'm not using Airtel Fibre but recently Ported my Jio SIM to Airtel and the experience was Amazing, specially while traveling one can realise the Importance of a Uninterrupted Connection, where the Network of Airtel comes into place, it really worths the MNP.
Hi Ranjit, hope you're feeling better now. If I use Airtel xstream fiber with my own router (TP LINK XE5400, a Triband wifi 6E modem), would it add any value as compared to a low grade wifi 5 modem provided by Airtel ?
In India, you will easily get 1gbps fiber symmetric speed (Airtel, jio, Tata Play, Act, and some other local providers) in every tier 1, 2, and 3 cities, and max 300 Mbps symmetric speed in rural India (BSNL). (FUP-3.3TB) Literally, none of the providers uses any type of copper line (ADSL, VDSL, or FTTC). There is no strict law about fiber laying even in big cities so, it is much more cost-effective to lay the fiber cable above the ground for FTTH connection. Although widespread of FTTH is much better than many developed countries. Some of the providers in London like CFL, YOU Fibre use XGS-PON network to deliver multi-gig speed, hopefully, you will get a FTTH soon.
It doesn't create any issues whatsoever. It's just an newer Protocol compared to IPv4 where we have limited IP Addresses available whereas in IPv6 that problem gets solved as the amount of IPv6 addresses available is very very big. It's not super important to have IPv6 right now because most of the applications and things you visit online will be on IPv4 but it's always a good to have IPv6 support because maybe in the distant future most of the applications and datacenters and hosting providers will migrate to IPv6 when that happens it will be important to have IPv6 enabled. Currently Jio fiber is full native IPv6, Airtel has also rolled it out. BSNL will be implementing the same soon.
80 mbps and a good 3rd party wifi router works absolutely fine for 8+ devices. Comfortable continuous 4k streaming on tv is also possible. Always invest in a good router, not on a high speed subscription.
Unfortunately, Airtel Xtream Fibre isn't available at every location. Even cities like Bangalore, where I live, Many many locations don't even have their services yet. I too wanted the Xtream Fibre services because of it's ultimate low-latency while gaming. I'm a competitive gamer so I require high speed seamless network. Over the past years, I have changed my ISP so much for various reasons but mostly cuz of their poor internet speed (having fibernet). Then there's ACT fibernet which is really good, Comes with wifi 6 n all but very very expensive compared to Airtel. Cost efficient is also one of the reaosn why I wanna switch to Airtel (when it will be available at my location) 😂
wow i have this act fibernet in delhi and its basically half the price for me as i am using there 1gbps plan which costs only 1999 per month compared to jio airtel who take 3999 per month also in my area airtel has higher ping for gaming than my act fibernet i actually bought separate router for that wifi 6e axe75 to achieve 1 gbps on wifi
@@VaibhavKumar1 Wow! How lucky you are. Well, It's totally the opposite here. ACT is a Bangalore startup and was cheap some years before but now the prices are sky high. I've been an ACT user for about 3-4 years. Currently using Excitel (Which I don't recommend, It's really really pathetic and pain in the a$$), Only using it for the time being as there are no options in the area where I live currently. Airtel is something that is kinda affordable and trustworthy as my brother had already been using it and tells me it's the best so far.
Airtel xstream service is extremely good and very reliable. Ive also been using it for over 2 years and couldnt be more happier. 100 mbps plan for yearly recharge
Hi Ranjeet, can you speak on Jio Airfiber? A lot of places in Hyderabad itself, the permission to lay fiber line is not given and Jio is pushing Airfiber in such locations
I have opted and subscribed to Airtel Xstream Fiber plan of Rs. 699 with DTH through Airtel Black Service. And I am very much satisfied with the service in my area. I'd recommend to go with Fiber instead of AirFiber irrespective of ISP because we get amazing speed in Fiber than that of AirFiber. AirFiber could be an option if the Fiber service hasn't reached your area or there is no feasibility of Fiber. Otherwise, Fiber should be first choice than AirFiber.
Airtel xtreme fiber connection was stable for me in the last one and half year, after recent disruption in chennai, I have switched to ACT fiber recently
Using Airtel Xstream for about 2 years now, can vouch for the the sms notifications, they are very helpful and the service is one of the best or the best maybe, their guys are like at my home within a few hours of making a complaint. I have not tried any other provider, never found a good enough reason to.
I'm also using Airtel Xstream finer for like 2+ years so this one is from a common consumer and also a gamer, the plan I have opted is 40 Mbps I live in small town so this plan also works very well for me and I have smart TV so I do watch 4k movies on it varies platforms like Netflix,Zee5,Amazon,Hotstar and I never felt buffer on it also I there's 4 devices in use most of the times so depending on this much devices 40 Mbps works smoothly for me, Also as of being gamer I do competitive gaming online fps games which requires low latency and low ping and Airtel delivers that pretty well too also I do live streaming also while playing and I never felt like that my ping drops or my stream buffer That's from my side of end user experience.
I had not so good experience with Airtel Xstream in Bangalore, there were frequent drops in the speed, latency and high pings. Recently switched to ACT which is one of the best service providers in Bangalore
same it is the best in delhi too i have this 1 gbps plan which costs half the amount of competition only 1999 a month rather jio or airtel which gives 3999 per month
Interesting how the fibre goes straight into the router? In the UK the fibre is terminated as soon as it enters the house, then goes as Ethernet to the router. Surely having fibre lying around in the router presents a breakage risk with kids / pets etc?
