Discussion How has been your Web Browsing experience with Airtel Xstream Fiber?

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Do you also see high pings on Airtel? Idk what's the problem with Airtel here it's always 7-10 ms only while in other cities like Hyd they do 2ms
Yeah, I am also getting 7-12ms pings, rarely it's 6ms. I feel it's due high users or their speedtest server issue. Most of the areas airtel fiber boxes are full and extra boxes are installed in my location. When using google M-Lab speedtest in google getting 3ms pings
 
Yeah, I am also getting 7-12ms pings, rarely it's 6ms. I feel it's due high users or their speedtest server issue. Most of the areas airtel fiber boxes are full and extra boxes are installed in my location. When using google M-Lab speedtest in google getting 3ms pings
No it's not the server issues. Even to their gateway I see 7-10 ms only very high skill issues from Airtel in Chennai for both fiber and mobile network. It's just sh#t
 
No it's not the server issues. Even to their gateway I see 7-10 ms only very high skill issues from Airtel in Chennai for both fiber and mobile network. It's just sh#t
A few months ago, I made a final attempt by again raising a pgportal complaint to correct the 4G antenna alignment at my location to fix the overlapping issues. They adjusted the nearest site, making it point towards my house, but they didn't change the other site, leaving it in the same overlapping direction. Now, indoors, the overlapping issues are somewhat okay, and the FDD bands are stable. However, if I go outside the house or near the door, the nodes start changing.

I spoke with the drive test guy who takes the signal readings and works for ericsson through another contract company. He was the same person who visited my place 4 years ago. He mentioned that, previously, there were dedicated drive test agents for each region—Chennai North, East, South, and West. But now, most of them left and he is the only person managing the East, west and South regions. Even for tower maintenance, the drive test guy said that one person is now responsible for maintaining 150 towers. In broadband also, the field staffs seems reduced, causing delays in fixing broadband complaints.
 
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A few months ago, I made a final attempt by again raising a pgportal complaint to correct the 4G antenna alignment at my location to fix the overlapping issues. They adjusted the nearest site, making it point towards my house, but they didn't change the other site, leaving it in the same overlapping direction. Now, indoors, the overlapping issues are somewhat okay, and the FDD bands are stable. However, if I go outside the house or near the door, the nodes start changing.

I spoke with the drive test guy who takes the signal readings and works for ericsson through another contract company. He was the same person who visited my place 4 years ago. He mentioned that, previously, there were dedicated drive test agents for each region—Chennai North, East, South, and West. But now, most of them left and he is the only person managing the East, west and South regions. Even for tower maintenance, the drive test guy said that one person is now responsible for maintaining 150 towers. In broadband also, the field staffs seems reduced, causing delays in fixing broadband complaints.
Bruh that's very depressing to hear. I see that's the reason for downfall in Airtel's quality. They still couldn't identify that Uplink modulation has been 16QAM in LTE since 2022 now. Did you try complaining about the uplink modulation issue throughout chennai?
 
Chennai North is totally being neglected by airtel nowadays. B40 swap also happened last month only here and some 6-7 sectors sites have dual/triple eNB and due to that reason FDD-TDD doesn't work properly on most sites
 
See the FDD-TDD CA issue here B3,1 eNB range is 5xx, B40 6xx and B8 7xx.
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