IfranAli
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Hello Everyone! Hope you all are doing great in your life. This is my very honest review of my Jio Airfiber Plus connection.
I bought a new SIM for 299 plan back in April 5th of 2025 via my HSO. He helped me claim the 50-day free trial of Jio Airfiber, alongside 90 days of JioHotstar and 50GB free cloud storage. I was more interested in Airfiber, especially Airfiber Plus, as I already had been using the Airfiber 5G since September 5th of 2024, and disconnected shortly at April of this year. My HSO issued a building ID, which had Airfiber MAX on it's support list.
After 2 days, the Jio Airfiber booking guy called me and booked the Airfiber Plus via the building ID I was issued to by my HSO for Airfiber Plus. After the booking process, I was asked for the coupon code, which was then generated by the Jio guy on his phone. I then paid Rs. 1 as part of the 50-day free trial and scheduled my Installation.
Right after 2 days, I got a call from Jio Installation team: the same team who installed my Airfiber 5G on September of 2024. They came with the Airfiber Plus kit and Router+STB.
The installer guys initially said they can't install the Mimosa C6x at my premises, as the tower is blocked and is at the east of my House, blocked by several buildings.
Later, I told them there is one right at the North-East of my House, with complete LoS. They hesitated it's not a Jio tower, but I forced them for a scan. Surprisingly, they got 5 Jio AirfiberA6 SSIDs, with one having -59dBm in the initial scan. Later, I said to Install it at the cornermost pillar of my house, where the scan gave -55dBm, and the tower was locked. The most tedious part was not the installation of the C6x and fixing the mounting bracket, rather the RJ45 connectors. Apparently these dudes has a crimping tool, older than the Indus Valley Civilization itself, which can't crimp a single connector on the wire, and needed a screwdriver to make contact. After wasting 5 connectors and 10 minutes worth of crimping, finally they made the connectors on both ends, only to be disconnected just 5 minutes later. While the Airfiber IDU and C6x was setting up with the ACS server, I showed them my 1Gbps Fiber speed, which made them awe and joyful. Later, they posted the 1Gbps speed as a Proof of Speedtest (LoL), bid me farewell, and left the premises.
The A6 I was connected to was a 160MHz CH-BW one with DFS Channels, which could do 800Mbps over A6-C6x at Downloads and 350Mbps over A6-C6x at Uploads.
The Router was the JIDU6111, with IPQ9574 as the CPU. The 160MHz never showed up again after the firmware updated to JIO_JIDU6J11_R2.0.18.2. Although powerful, it's underutilized due to Jio being an a**hole.
The STB was the Jio IPSTB JHSC200v5 which was old and used, but I just brushed it off, as I never watch OTT, and kept it on the box itself. Unlike last time, I got the blue one, which is horrible than the white one.
The connector sadly didn't last a night, the day it was installed. I raised a complaint for re-crimping new connectors, and they came back with brand new wire again. Crimped using the same IVC-era crimping tool, they wasted 10 minutes doing the same thing. After much fiddling around, finally Internet came back and they left.
The next day, AGAIN, the connector went poof, since there was a thunderstorm last night, when they installed the new wire. Frustated me, after 7 days of customer care and calling those "technicians", I called my CCTV guys, who had a D-Link crimping tool, and got them crimp both the ends of the wire via D-Link connectors. Since this day, the connectors never ever degraded in signal or disconnected me, even after several thunderstorms.
Sometime later that month, I started fiddling around with the C6x, gaining root access after watching a youtube video which showed the password: root/6jkA.u5#
Sad part being, this worked till 3.2.1-31 of the C6x, after which the password is unknown. Despite this, normal jiouser/Rjil@1234 will give you basic access with signal information and other details. The most important part, Site Survey, is done when the device is in factory state and before "installation complete". There you can point this thing onto any nearby tower, and scan it. It takes approximately 60 seconds to complete the scan, and shows you the signal quality, NEID, MAC, and channel width + channel number. You bind the A6 of the strongest signal via NEID, and wait for 10-15 seconds to complete the process. After that, you do the "installation complete" and wait for 180 seconds for it to reboot.
June started, and I somehow made a root account and gave myself pure uninterrupted access to C6x. Now I can scan anytime, and doesn't need to reset it everytime I want to scan. The primary tower was having signal degradation over long distance, which forced me to open tarang sanchar and find out nearest towers in my locality.
Surprisingly enough, just 2 days ago, I scanned my C6x on a tower west of my house, and I NEVER EXPECTED it to have a -47dBm, a -54dBm and a -65dBm signal of 3 A6s. I was baffled and surprised. I Immediately disconnected it, untangled the cable, and mounted the brackets on the cloth hanging metal pole, supported by the unused pillar rods. I tightened it just enough, where it can even survive a tornado. After mounting it properly, just yesterday afternoon, I got a stable signal of -47dBm and locked that A6.
This gave me expected speeds of 104Mbps and 114Mbps on a uncongested 3AM speedtest (100Mbps Plan since 2nd week of June). The A6 I was connected to was a DFS supported 80MHz CH-BW one.
After a month and 10 days later, I upgraded to 100Mbps, which was not pleasant. It worked for a single day, and the next day, poof. My connection was suspended all of a sudden. After 4 days of SR and complaints to CC, backend fixed my suspended state and made it working back again. Phew!
The speeds of the Jio Airfiber Plus was great and stable, as expected from a UBR 5GHz Link, but the problem arised in ping times and stability. The ping times were stable, for 5 whole pings, and them BAM!, destination unreachable, and again 5 whole pings and poof, gone. This happened everyday and every app felt slow, despite having extremely good speed of 32Mbps Downloads and 34Mbps Uploads(before 2nd week of June, 2025). In discord and telegram, there were very frequent micro-disconnections, which frustated me too much, as I was in the middle of very important convos with other tech experts. Till this day, this issue is very frequent, and the micro-disconnetions boils my blood and moves me closer to a complete disconnection.
The Jio Airfiber Plus is great overall in speed, but horrible in reliability, gaming, and ping-intensive applications: like discord and telegram. Even their own MyJio app takes 30 seconds to load on their own network, which is disappointing. Their DNS sucks so bad, it's horrible than BSNL.
JioJoin never worked from the day of installation, could be an issue with the State, or there is no configuration for voice services in AF Plus.
As of now, my plan is 100Mbps (paid per month), A6 to C6x link is -47dBm, and constant single-device speedtest of 102Mbps DL and 104Mbps UL respectively.
Conclusion: Speed=5/5, Reliability=1/5, Stability=2/5, Ping-intensive Performance=1/5.
PS: If Jio Installation guys says tower is this or that, have them scan your C6x properly before drawing a conclusion.
I bought a new SIM for 299 plan back in April 5th of 2025 via my HSO. He helped me claim the 50-day free trial of Jio Airfiber, alongside 90 days of JioHotstar and 50GB free cloud storage. I was more interested in Airfiber, especially Airfiber Plus, as I already had been using the Airfiber 5G since September 5th of 2024, and disconnected shortly at April of this year. My HSO issued a building ID, which had Airfiber MAX on it's support list.
After 2 days, the Jio Airfiber booking guy called me and booked the Airfiber Plus via the building ID I was issued to by my HSO for Airfiber Plus. After the booking process, I was asked for the coupon code, which was then generated by the Jio guy on his phone. I then paid Rs. 1 as part of the 50-day free trial and scheduled my Installation.
Right after 2 days, I got a call from Jio Installation team: the same team who installed my Airfiber 5G on September of 2024. They came with the Airfiber Plus kit and Router+STB.
The installer guys initially said they can't install the Mimosa C6x at my premises, as the tower is blocked and is at the east of my House, blocked by several buildings.
Later, I told them there is one right at the North-East of my House, with complete LoS. They hesitated it's not a Jio tower, but I forced them for a scan. Surprisingly, they got 5 Jio AirfiberA6 SSIDs, with one having -59dBm in the initial scan. Later, I said to Install it at the cornermost pillar of my house, where the scan gave -55dBm, and the tower was locked. The most tedious part was not the installation of the C6x and fixing the mounting bracket, rather the RJ45 connectors. Apparently these dudes has a crimping tool, older than the Indus Valley Civilization itself, which can't crimp a single connector on the wire, and needed a screwdriver to make contact. After wasting 5 connectors and 10 minutes worth of crimping, finally they made the connectors on both ends, only to be disconnected just 5 minutes later. While the Airfiber IDU and C6x was setting up with the ACS server, I showed them my 1Gbps Fiber speed, which made them awe and joyful. Later, they posted the 1Gbps speed as a Proof of Speedtest (LoL), bid me farewell, and left the premises.
The A6 I was connected to was a 160MHz CH-BW one with DFS Channels, which could do 800Mbps over A6-C6x at Downloads and 350Mbps over A6-C6x at Uploads.
The Router was the JIDU6111, with IPQ9574 as the CPU. The 160MHz never showed up again after the firmware updated to JIO_JIDU6J11_R2.0.18.2. Although powerful, it's underutilized due to Jio being an a**hole.
The STB was the Jio IPSTB JHSC200v5 which was old and used, but I just brushed it off, as I never watch OTT, and kept it on the box itself. Unlike last time, I got the blue one, which is horrible than the white one.
The connector sadly didn't last a night, the day it was installed. I raised a complaint for re-crimping new connectors, and they came back with brand new wire again. Crimped using the same IVC-era crimping tool, they wasted 10 minutes doing the same thing. After much fiddling around, finally Internet came back and they left.
The next day, AGAIN, the connector went poof, since there was a thunderstorm last night, when they installed the new wire. Frustated me, after 7 days of customer care and calling those "technicians", I called my CCTV guys, who had a D-Link crimping tool, and got them crimp both the ends of the wire via D-Link connectors. Since this day, the connectors never ever degraded in signal or disconnected me, even after several thunderstorms.
Sometime later that month, I started fiddling around with the C6x, gaining root access after watching a youtube video which showed the password: root/6jkA.u5#
Sad part being, this worked till 3.2.1-31 of the C6x, after which the password is unknown. Despite this, normal jiouser/Rjil@1234 will give you basic access with signal information and other details. The most important part, Site Survey, is done when the device is in factory state and before "installation complete". There you can point this thing onto any nearby tower, and scan it. It takes approximately 60 seconds to complete the scan, and shows you the signal quality, NEID, MAC, and channel width + channel number. You bind the A6 of the strongest signal via NEID, and wait for 10-15 seconds to complete the process. After that, you do the "installation complete" and wait for 180 seconds for it to reboot.
June started, and I somehow made a root account and gave myself pure uninterrupted access to C6x. Now I can scan anytime, and doesn't need to reset it everytime I want to scan. The primary tower was having signal degradation over long distance, which forced me to open tarang sanchar and find out nearest towers in my locality.
Surprisingly enough, just 2 days ago, I scanned my C6x on a tower west of my house, and I NEVER EXPECTED it to have a -47dBm, a -54dBm and a -65dBm signal of 3 A6s. I was baffled and surprised. I Immediately disconnected it, untangled the cable, and mounted the brackets on the cloth hanging metal pole, supported by the unused pillar rods. I tightened it just enough, where it can even survive a tornado. After mounting it properly, just yesterday afternoon, I got a stable signal of -47dBm and locked that A6.
This gave me expected speeds of 104Mbps and 114Mbps on a uncongested 3AM speedtest (100Mbps Plan since 2nd week of June). The A6 I was connected to was a DFS supported 80MHz CH-BW one.
After a month and 10 days later, I upgraded to 100Mbps, which was not pleasant. It worked for a single day, and the next day, poof. My connection was suspended all of a sudden. After 4 days of SR and complaints to CC, backend fixed my suspended state and made it working back again. Phew!
The speeds of the Jio Airfiber Plus was great and stable, as expected from a UBR 5GHz Link, but the problem arised in ping times and stability. The ping times were stable, for 5 whole pings, and them BAM!, destination unreachable, and again 5 whole pings and poof, gone. This happened everyday and every app felt slow, despite having extremely good speed of 32Mbps Downloads and 34Mbps Uploads(before 2nd week of June, 2025). In discord and telegram, there were very frequent micro-disconnections, which frustated me too much, as I was in the middle of very important convos with other tech experts. Till this day, this issue is very frequent, and the micro-disconnetions boils my blood and moves me closer to a complete disconnection.
The Jio Airfiber Plus is great overall in speed, but horrible in reliability, gaming, and ping-intensive applications: like discord and telegram. Even their own MyJio app takes 30 seconds to load on their own network, which is disappointing. Their DNS sucks so bad, it's horrible than BSNL.
JioJoin never worked from the day of installation, could be an issue with the State, or there is no configuration for voice services in AF Plus.
As of now, my plan is 100Mbps (paid per month), A6 to C6x link is -47dBm, and constant single-device speedtest of 102Mbps DL and 104Mbps UL respectively.
Conclusion: Speed=5/5, Reliability=1/5, Stability=2/5, Ping-intensive Performance=1/5.
PS: If Jio Installation guys says tower is this or that, have them scan your C6x properly before drawing a conclusion.
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no other alternatives I presume
