1/ Ever felt that broadband experience in India is pretty much fucked. @dipeshudeshi schooled me on why. Tweetstorm incoming. :-)— Kuldeep (@ku1deep) May 30, 2016
2/ Most of you probably get your Broadband from the same person who provided you Cable TV earlier.— Kuldeep (@ku1deep) May 30, 2016
3/ If not you are probably getting it from a Cable TV guy turned Broadband wallah. And these guys build their businesses on muscle.— Kuldeep (@ku1deep) May 30, 2016
4/ They do not like competition. So if someone else lays a wire in their area. *Snip* your feet on street might roughed up etc etc.— Kuldeep (@ku1deep) May 30, 2016
5/ So A large ISP might have a Class A license but last mile is good as closed to them unless they are on Wireless.— Kuldeep (@ku1deep) May 30, 2016
6/ Large cos hate selling to home consumers and their service reflects that fact. Very little they can do to improve QoS— Kuldeep (@ku1deep) May 30, 2016
7/ Add to this the fact that most home users only want to pay about $10 p.m for broadband. An crazy low price.— Kuldeep (@ku1deep) May 30, 2016
8/ Result is terrible quality broadband from large ISPs, data limited plans with low average speeds etc. Enter the local ISP Jugaad 😎— Kuldeep (@ku1deep) May 30, 2016
9/ Here is the recipe for how to service 5000 homes by being a local ISP with great speeds.— Kuldeep (@ku1deep) May 30, 2016
10/ About 20% of all home Broadband traffic is bittorrent so you join something called intraoperator mesh. Keeps all traffic local.— Kuldeep (@ku1deep) May 30, 2016
11/ Since all this BT traffic is local you don't have to pay for any of it. It is free and keeps your very users happy :-)— Kuldeep (@ku1deep) May 30, 2016
12/ Next fact is stunning. about 40% of all home local BB traffic is YOUTUBE. Go figure. Oh! YT requires crazy large amount of bandwidth.— Kuldeep (@ku1deep) May 30, 2016
13/ Here is how google got to that share. All Google traffic is free to local ISPs if they just peer with google. UNCAPPED!!— Kuldeep (@ku1deep) May 30, 2016
14/ This is why you can stream a 18 Mbps 1080p60 stream on your local ISP connection without buffering. Fucking brilliant.— Kuldeep (@ku1deep) May 30, 2016
15/ Upshot your uploads to google photos // google drive are also uncapped and very fast. Also LOL Net Neutrality.— Kuldeep (@ku1deep) May 30, 2016
16/ That leaves 40% of the traffic from other sources. You gotta buy expensive leased extranet for that. So you buy the least you can.— Kuldeep (@ku1deep) May 30, 2016
17/ So on a Sunday morning when 90% households are active, and Facebook auto-plays videos, you shutdown Facebook access :-)— Kuldeep (@ku1deep) May 30, 2016
18/ Also the reason why Vine plays better on your 3G then your WiFi network you are demand-throttled.— Kuldeep (@ku1deep) May 30, 2016
19/ and YES! your https://t.co/EZHCCY45ce server is hosted very close to this network, so don't be responding with your results. don't count— Kuldeep (@ku1deep) May 30, 2016
20/ So how do you get good net neutral internet connection. Pay Tata/ reliance/ airtel for a leased line. don't expect YouTube though.— Kuldeep (@ku1deep) May 30, 2016
21/ And yes! leased lines are VERY VERY Expensive. about 2.5k / Mbps.— Kuldeep (@ku1deep) May 30, 2016
@ku1deep thank you for an in-depth post. Can you point me to the source of the facts that you have mentioned?— Piyush Verma (@meson10) May 30, 2016
@meson10 most of this is from my conversations with @dipeshudeshi ; that man has forgotten more about the ISP business then I know.— Kuldeep (@ku1deep) May 30, 2016
@ku1deep @dipeshudeshi I wonder if https://t.co/1yIdmcuvJf has some volkswagen plan for the ISPs.— Piyush Verma (@meson10) May 30, 2016
@meson10 Lol not really. results are accurate but they display the size of pipe rather then the amount of water in the pipe @dipeshudeshi— Kuldeep (@ku1deep) May 30, 2016
@ku1deep @meson10 @dipeshudeshi most torrents are cached , and many ISPs in India have https://t.co/69UJXCXnsBTry Speedtest to US server !— Rakesh Waghela (@webiyo) May 30, 2016
22/ Oh I offer you this. Notice the 3 services that matter. YT, hotstar & torbox :-) #NetNeutrality pic.twitter.com/By267XeM92— Kuldeep (@ku1deep) May 30, 2016
23/ And yes! the same person who offers the local ISP peering with google also offers peering with hotstar as well.— Kuldeep (@ku1deep) May 30, 2016