Reliance Jio Has the Slowest 4G Speed in India, Reports TRAI & Ookla; Jio Offers Explanation!

[SrkOnline]

Ookla, an internet speed test platform, conducted speed trials on Jio and found that the speeds have drastically reduced from over 12Mbps, as opposed to the promised 50Mbps, to about 9Mbps.

TRAI’s MySpeed app launched only a few months back, has also discovered that Jio speeds are extremely low and Reliance might be fooling its customers. A quick comparison shows that Airtel has the highest average 4G download speed at 11.4Mbps, Reliance is at second with 7.9Mbps. Reliance Jio has recorded an average speed of 6.2Mbps across the country.

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[DarkAngel]

It was expected when ppl use the amount of data they use in 1-2 months in a single day. Should get better from Jan I guess. Hope the call issues are resolved by then.

 

[NotMyRealName]

The speeds are so bad you can barely use up the 4gb daily allowance any way.

And the speed problem is mostly related with outside networks. Say while using any of the Jio apps, like Play or Cinema, speeds are fine. Some multi-segment downloads as well as bittorrent work fast sometimes because they use multiple peers/sources. Browsing is the big issue. Speeds are more like dial-up rather than even 2g. I would be happy if i got an overall average speed of 2mbps, like the jio apps; they happily work at around 2-3 mbps. So obviously the issue is something other than 4g wireless bandwidth.

In a side by side comparison, Vodafone 4g goes up to 10mbps and averages way above 5mbps during real world download and browsing tests. On the same 1800mHz frequency.

Yet the fanboys will keep praising Jio like the rest of us don't know what we're talking about.

 

[viktik]

4g LTE radio access network have a theoretical capacity of 100 Mbps. In the real world, it would immediately drop to below 50 Mbps
one tower covers 1 KM radius.
there will be more than 100 people in it.
everyone want to download .
you can do the math. obviously, the speed will be below 1 Mbps when everyone wants to download.

if we assume 50 Mbps is achieved contantly throught the day, then
50 Mbps = 6.25 MBps
24 hour data capacity = 6.25 * 60 *60 *24 = 540,000 MB
each one out of 100 people can download each day = 5400 MB = 5.4 GB

of course, the real world situation is even bad. it will get better when JIO free offer ends.

other telecoms are showing good speed because almost no one uses it.

that's why for high-speed internet i am only interested in wired or fiber optic.

 

[baccilus]

Here in Chandigarh my Jio Dongle works like 2G EDGE Internet. I got my post paid RCom 3G connection disconnected for this but I am thoroughly disappointed now.

 

[SrkOnline]

4g LTE radio access network have a theoretical capacity of 100 Mbps. In the real world, it would immediately drop to below 50 Mbps
one tower covers 1 KM radius.
there will be more than 100 people in it.
everyone want to download .
you can do the math. obviously, the speed will be below 1 Mbps when everyone wants to download.

if we assume 50 Mbps is achieved contantly throught the day, then
50 Mbps = 6.25 MBps
24 hour data capacity = 6.25 * 60 *60 *24 = 540,000 MB
each one out of 100 people can download each day = 5400 MB = 5.4 GB

of course, the real world situation is even bad. it will get better when JIO free offer ends.

other telecoms are showing good speed because almost no one uses it.

that's why for high-speed internet i am only interested in wired or fiber optic.

5.4 GB per day.
Yeah that's the reason I think Jio has capped FUP of 4 GB per day.

Yes, it's true that speeds may improve after free offer ends. But since all this is for free, nothing much to complain. If the speeds are not good after it becomes paid service, Jio will lose many customers.

 

[NotMyRealName]

My guess is half the current users will throw their sims away.

And one of the biggest problems with the 4G only strategy is even with a dual sim phone, jio has to be primary data sim. And if you use a secondary sim to call, the jio sim data (not just calls) will be offline during the call. this is not Jio's fault but the current implementation of dual sim on most phones.[DOUBLEPOST=1477279033][/DOUBLEPOST]

one tower covers 1 KM radius... there will be more than 100 people in it...

How did you arrive at these figures? Any technical sources?

 

[SrkOnline]

The speeds are so bad you can barely use up the 4gb daily allowance any way.

And the speed problem is mostly related with outside networks. Say while using any of the Jio apps, like Play or Cinema, speeds are fine. Some multi-segment downloads as well as bittorrent work fast sometimes because they use multiple peers/sources. Browsing is the big issue. Speeds are more like dial-up rather than even 2g. I would be happy if i got an overall average speed of 2mbps, like the jio apps; they happily work at around 2-3 mbps. So obviously the issue is something other than 4g wireless bandwidth.

In a side by side comparison, Vodafone 4g goes up to 10mbps and averages way above 5mbps during real world download and browsing tests. On the same 1800mHz frequency.

Yet the fanboys will keep praising Jio like the rest of us don't know what we're talking about.

Why do Jio apps get good speed while browser doesn't? What could be the reason?

 

[NotMyRealName]

It means they're either capping bandwidth on connections to outside networks or they don't have enough bandwidth in the first place. Their own network and 4g wireless is good enough.

 

[all4music]

speeds have been really low especially from last one week.
the good thing is consistency of coverage/connectivity is much better than Airtel in Bangalore. at places where Airtel will show full 4G network but absolutely no internet, Jio still works. and at my office and home where Airtel network strength really poor [can't even take calls] Jio [internet] works just fine, but Jio calls do not get connected that easily

 

[sushil.mudgil]

It means they're either capping bandwidth on connections to outside networks or they don't have enough bandwidth in the first place. Their own network and 4g wireless is good enough.

For sure they are capping to connections outside of network. On top of it, they are facing network glitches with the equipment being used Over WAN . While this was almost 1 months back , i am not sure if they have found a resolution yet .

I remember downloading at 40-50 mbps in early day over Mobile connection. With fibre network their capacity is virtually unlimited but i believe the end equipment on both ends is the bottle neck. From what i know , they are using Samsung BTS compared to Ericcson & NSN one;s Being Used by other Operators . Core network equipment are from Cisco