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[Rak101]

No idea, maybe not soon, because Azizabad exchange is not even fully upgraded yet,
So pehlay tou exchange upgrade hojaye puri then GPON ka socha jasakta hai.
And GPON in Karachi is limited to very few exchanges only, and even not whole exchanges, just a few areas of exchange having GPON.
I’ve also seen some digging in Block 14, but not sure yet.


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PTCL is installing new cabinets in FB Area. You can see them working on these cabinets in various blocks. As far as their digging goes, they are digging in some areas but their digging is focused on connecting these new cabinets to Azizabad exchange. This digging is not going to corner of each street which is required for GPON.

However there is some rather extensive digging going on in some blocks of FB Area by Stormfiber, where they are putting underground fiber optic cable junction box at corner of each street. But to my knowledge they are initially focusing on Block 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12 and 13 where big bungalows are located. Hopes this helps.

 

[Farrukhkazimi]

PTCL is installing new cabinets in FB Area. You can see them working on these cabinets in various blocks. As far as their digging goes, they are digging in some areas but their digging is focused on connecting these new cabinets to Azizabad exchange. This digging is not going to corner of each street which is required for GPON.

However there is some rather extensive digging going on in some blocks of FB Area by Stormfiber, where they are putting underground fiber optic cable junction box at corner of each street. But to my knowledge they are initially focusing on Block 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12 and 13 where big bungalows are located. Hopes this helps.

You sure it's stormfiber? Because to my knowledge they haven't got the NOC from DMC central.

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[Rak101]

I asked on their facebook page about block 6 last month and they said it is in development whereas in summer they were saying it was in planning. I asked three different guys doing the digging at different days and different places and they told me it is cybernet fiber cable. They are working very diligently as they are digging, laying cable and then covering their digging and putting fiber junction box with lid on top in 1-2 days span. They are even putting yellow banners at junction box sites stating "caution fragile fiber optic cable" written in English and Urdu. I do not think you can expect PTCL to work so quickly and in so professional way. If it is not stormfiber then who else it could be. Stormfiber has already covered almost all blocks of North Nazimabad, which come under district central and Federal B Area is situated next to it so logically they will move their manpower to this area.

 

[mianabid]

New PTCL rates

4mb for 1700
8mb for 2100
15mb for 2650
25mb for 3200

with free call TV and all bundles

4mb without smart TV

 

[iNCEPTiON]

So I got this msg from PTCL Charges are increasing now , not sure if the package has been changed to 25Mbps instead of 20Mbps

"Limited Time Offer !
Now you can upgrade to PTCL 25 Mbps unlimited internet package ABSOLUTELY FREE by calling 1218. Also, charges of your existing 20 Mbps package shall be revised to Rs. 3,200/month, effective from 1st January 2019."


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[Engr Zain Raza]

So I got this msg from PTCL Charges are increasing now , not sure if the package has been changed to 25Mbps instead of 20Mbps

"Limited Time Offer !
Now you can upgrade to PTCL 25 Mbps unlimited internet package ABSOLUTELY FREE by calling 1218. Also, charges of your existing 20 Mbps package shall be revised to Rs. 3,200/month, effective from 1st January 2019."


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I got the same message and after that i tried calling help line but no1 is picking XD #DesperateME
Apart from that i wish they have made it like 30mbps instead of 25mbps

 

[mianabid]

So I got this msg from PTCL Charges are increasing now , not sure if the package has been changed to 25Mbps instead of 20Mbps

"Limited Time Offer !
Now you can upgrade to PTCL 25 Mbps unlimited internet package ABSOLUTELY FREE by calling 1218. Also, charges of your existing 20 Mbps package shall be revised to Rs. 3,200/month, effective from 1st January 2019."


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yes and bandwidth as well

 

[iNCEPTiON]

I got the same message and after that i tried calling help line but no1 is picking XD #DesperateME
Apart from that i wish they have made it like 30mbps instead of 25mbps

I am trying to call helpline and the number is not responding lol .. i also wished 30Mbps would be available .. but I am waiting for my fiberlink connection Dont know when will I get it..


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[ASKnASK]

Did anyone get the 15mbps offer?

I was sent a text today telling me that I can upgrade for free to 15mbps, and that my 10mbps charges will be revised to 2650/month.

UPDATE: 1218 says the upgrade will be automatic (I kinda don't believe them). It will happen automatically on the 1st of January.

 

[iNCEPTiON]

Did anyone get the 15mbps offer?

I was sent a text today telling me that I can upgrade for free to 15mbps, and that my 10mbps charges will be revised to 2650/month.

UPDATE: 1218 says the upgrade will be automatic (I kinda don't believe them). It will happen automatically on the 1st of January.

I am not able to speak to them .. I got the message too as pasted above


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[moosvi94]

Got connected to Helpline after waiting for around 20 minutes. This offer will be effective from 1st january
Also twittercares guy replied - Yes, packages are going to upgrade, please contact us on 1st January 2019 for complete details.

 

[iNCEPTiON]

Got connected to Helpline after waiting for around 20 minutes. This offer will be effective from 1st january
Also twittercares guy replied - Yes, packages are going to upgrade, please contact us on 1st January 2019 for complete details.

Same here lol I waited 30 mins


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[usmanghazanfar]

(not using Tapatalk's PM function since I can't see my sent PMs, and this isn't private information anyway).
[MENTION=32544]usmanghazanfar[/MENTION], can you please tell the network engineers to fix the routing to Fastly's CDNs? I'm getting this on my fiber connection:

Tracing route to turner-tls.map.fastly.net [151.101.1.67]
over a maximum of 30 hops:


1 11 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.100.1
2 29 ms 15 ms 12 ms 182.176.0.120
3 45 ms 12 ms 3 ms 10.10.100.6
4 27 ms 5 ms 15 ms 10.0.2.149
5 26 ms 71 ms 39 ms 10.1.1.6
6 41 ms 34 ms 29 ms khi275.c1.nxb.ptcl.com.pk [221.120.248.51]
7 62 ms 64 ms 35 ms khi275.nxb.1d.ptcl.com.pk [221.120.248.43]
8 321 ms 297 ms 394 ms 195.229.27.137
9 316 ms 341 ms 348 ms 195.229.0.89
10 382 ms 306 ms 353 ms 195.229.0.160
11 311 ms 356 ms 313 ms 195.229.4.245
12 314 ms 300 ms 349 ms 151.101.1.67


Trace complete.

However, on lg.nexlinx.net.pk, the traceroute to the same IP yields this result (and I don't know why):

[FONT=&quot]Target: 151.101.1.67, IP: 151.101.1.67, FQDN: [/FONT]
HOST: queue.nexlinx.net.pk Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1. FE-3-0-100M-CORE.nexlinx.net 0.0% 1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.0
2. 10.10.80.11 0.0% 1 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.0
3. 119.159.233.113 0.0% 1 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 0.0
4. lhr63.pie.net.pk 0.0% 1 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.3 0.0
5. rwp44.pie.net.pk 0.0% 1 21.4 21.4 21.4 21.4 0.0
6. hi77c2-Sw494b.pie.net.pk 0.0% 1 21.3 21.3 21.3 21.3 0.0
7. 195.229.27.213 0.0% 1 36.5 36.5 36.5 36.5 0.0
8. 195.229.0.89 0.0% 1 34.9 34.9 34.9 34.9 0.0
9. 195.229.0.160 0.0% 1 38.8 38.8 38.8 38.8 0.0
10. 195.229.4.245 0.0% 1 37.6 37.6 37.6 37.6 0.0
11. 151.101.1.67 0.0% 1 38.6 38.6 38.6 38.6 0.0
Could you have the teams investigate this? I know I said this was a Cloudfare issue last time, but it appears to be a Fastly CDN issue, and specifically for IPs hosted specifically within the UAE.

Otherwise, it seems almost every other IP has decent pings (except Wikipedia which seems to go to Europe rather than Singapore and hence, ~100ms difference).

Thanks in advance.

Websites like Wikipedia have 0 percent effect with the ping u shared. Don't see any issue. I'm myself on fine and don't see any issue on sites and web content hosting, ping isn't an issue using such

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Did anyone get the 15mbps offer?

I was sent a text today telling me that I can upgrade for free to 15mbps, and that my 10mbps charges will be revised to 2650/month.

UPDATE: 1218 says the upgrade will be automatic (I kinda don't believe them). It will happen automatically on the 1st of January.

Call them after current year ends and they will guide and upgrade u

 

[yasirmehmood282]

Just received a message from PTCL in which they are increasing price of 10 Mbps from 2499/- to 2650/-

after reading message i Said only

“ Jumbo size lol “

 

[shaheerk]

Websites like Wikipedia have 0 percent effect with the ping u shared. Don't see any issue. I'm myself on fine and don't see any issue on sites and web content hosting, ping isn't an issue using such

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Call them after current year ends and they will guide and upgrade u

My suggestion wasn't from the perspective of gaming or VOIP (since Wikipedia is plain HTTP traffic). It's just a suggestion to help improve the routing if there's room available for improvement.

But there are issues with the Fastly CDNs in UAE - or rather, with the UAE Internet Exchange.

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[player1234]

[MENTION=32544]usmanghazanfar[/MENTION] why are you ignoring me? Please PM me back.

 

[usmanghazanfar]

[MENTION=32544]usmanghazanfar[/MENTION] why are you ignoring me? Please PM me back.

Gimme sometime, my inbox is full of messages and I'm away from PC these days, will get back to u soon bro

 

[DarkRaiden112]

ptcl lineman came and i asked him about vdsl but he said instead of vdsl they are going straight for fiber and it will be available in 1.5 to 3 months. but i dont see any digging.

 

[Farrukhkazimi]

I asked on their facebook page about block 6 last month and they said it is in development whereas in summer they were saying it was in planning. I asked three different guys doing the digging at different days and different places and they told me it is cybernet fiber cable. They are working very diligently as they are digging, laying cable and then covering their digging and putting fiber junction box with lid on top in 1-2 days span. They are even putting yellow banners at junction box sites stating "caution fragile fiber optic cable" written in English and Urdu. I do not think you can expect PTCL to work so quickly and in so professional way. If it is not stormfiber then who else it could be. Stormfiber has already covered almost all blocks of North Nazimabad, which come under district central and Federal B Area is situated next to it so logically they will move their manpower to this area.

That's great news man. Eagerly waiting.

 

[Farrukhkazimi]

So I got this msg from PTCL Charges are increasing now , not sure if the package has been changed to 25Mbps instead of 20Mbps

"Limited Time Offer !
Now you can upgrade to PTCL 25 Mbps unlimited internet package ABSOLUTELY FREE by calling 1218. Also, charges of your existing 20 Mbps package shall be revised to Rs. 3,200/month, effective from 1st January 2019."


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Received the same message. However, I don't think I will be upgrading my connection to 25 MB though. 20 MB is more than enough for me. And they mess up a lot when they change ports. I am more than happy for SF reaching my area digging and deploying fiber, will be getting it as soon as they launch. Also PTCL will throttle like hell if they are increasing the packages, I wonder if they can cope up with the structure they have with the new packages. Pretty much speaks how they are scared of new fiber running ISP's.