Hi,
Its been a whole month (Feb) since I've been using Excitel. Things have been great so far. Compare the data transferred between the months of January and February (Jan = MTNL, Feb = Excitel):
Furthermore, there are a couple of other things worth mentioning about Excitel's internet, that I just recently figured out. First of all, be aware of the fact that with Excitel, you will be "Double NAT'd". For those of you who have no idea what that is, allow me to explain.
Normally, when you get an internet connection from an ISP, you connect your computer to a router and the router connects to the WAN IP provided by the ISP. So, essentially, your router gets the public IP of your internet connection directly from the ISP. This involves just a single NAT, which is that of your router and this is the most commonly found orientation as far as broadband internet is concerned.
However, double NAT is a completely different ball game. Fortunately or unfortunately, Excitel uses double NAT. In this orientation, your computer is connected to your router. However, on the router, instead of receiving the public IP address directly as the WAN IP, you will instead receive a private IP address. So basically the connection has two middle-men instead of just one. Your computer sends a message to your router, which in-turn sends the message to the second NAT (ISP end) WAN IP and this ISP end gateway / 2nd NAT forwards the message to the outer world, i.e. the internet.
Now, as far as advantages are concerned, you get super fast torrent downloads thanks to local peer connectivity, which I believe, is dependent upon the second NAT discussed previously. The disadvantage, however, is the fact that anyone on the outside (from the internet) will NEVER be able to contact your computer directly. This is terrible for IP cameras, games that require port forwarding, torrents (they need ports forwarded to be able to accept incoming connections) etc. Basically anything that requires connections from outside to be received on your computer WILL NOT work out of the box.
As a solution, Excitel offers a static IP upon request. You will require to pay Rs. 1100/- per YEAR for this. I'm not sure if this will have any impact on the local peer connectivity / torbox / augmented speeds, but I don't think those things should be affected by this.
Below, I'm including a screenshot of a torrent running via augmented speeds. Its downloading at 3.09 MB/s (24.72 Mbps) while I'm on a 5 Mbps connection.
*i.imgur.com/5POupW1.png
However, as you can see, although I have downloaded the entire torrent at insane speeds which are 5 times faster than the connection speed I'm paying for, I will NOT be able to connect to any peers that are trying to connect to me and thus, I will NOT be able to SEED torrents back in the most optimal way. Be advised, seeding can still be done and it works, just not to the maximum amount that you could possibly do, in a single NAT environment.
I'd reckon this would be hated by those of you who use PRIVATE trackers, such as me. Your ratio is going to be hit, lol. However, the static IP does really seem like a good option, since it guarantees that everything will work perfectly and seamlessly.
Any Excitel user in Satya Niketan, New Delhi?
I just saw their pamphlet there and need to know if they will really refund our money if we don't like it in one month.
Any experience with that?
Hi,
Well, Excitel currently doesn't have any way by which you could pay online. Moreover, its a prepaid connection and not postpaid. Therefore, if you use its services for a month, but dont wish to continue further, you can refuse to pay for the next month and your connection would be assumed disconnected and would be subject to a re-activation fee.
However, as far as the money back for the first month is concerned, I have no credible information on it. Have you tried calling on the number stamped onto the pamphlet you received with your query? In case there's no "stamped" number on the pamphlet you received, check the pamphlet I received from the first post of this thread and contact the number stamped on that, instead. That would be your best shot. They should have some sort of answer about what happens in such a situation, since that is what they seem to claim.
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Downloading a torrent at night (non speed augmented, so should be getting 630 KB/s, but getting 1 MB/s at night)
