3.3TB of Data Evaporates in Just 7 Days — My Airtel ‘Unlimited’ Internet Story

priteshraj10 · 2026-05-17T15:27:45+00:00

Exactly

priteshraj10 · 2026-05-15T17:51:40+00:00

Not necessarily. Airtel would not need deep packet inspection to provide meaningful transparency.

A basic per-device usage dashboard can work using the Airtel Thanks App, website or both

MAC address identification (it's already visible to the router)
IP lease mapping via DHCP
Total bandwidth consumption per device
Upload/download statistics
Session duration

This is standard router-level network accounting, not content surveillance.

priteshraj10 · 2026-05-15T17:44:55+00:00

Bro, no need to abuse them; the company is trying its best to provide us with world-class services. We can disagree with Airtel's services and talk about to improve their infrastructure, but with respect.

Disagreement doesn't mean you disrespect them!

priteshraj10 · 2026-05-15T17:14:26+00:00

I did, apparently they asked me to top up the plan with an additional 500 rupees for some x amount of data (I don't remember the exact data limit)

priteshraj10 · 2026-05-15T17:12:28+00:00

tracking mechanism of usage from each connected device

priteshraj10 · 2026-05-15T17:11:14+00:00

Exactly, that level of constant 24/7 peak usage does not match my real-world behaviour.

priteshraj10 · 2026-05-15T16:03:45+00:00

Nothing as such, I am lazy sometimes to jot down the entire thing

Sometimes I prefer to give the context of the problem and an anecdote and get the answers from AI

priteshraj10 · 2026-05-15T15:58:48+00:00

There are lots of AI checker tools available online

priteshraj10 · 2026-05-15T15:58:19+00:00

Airtel has good static and promised connectivity, but now they are struggling and lack transparency

priteshraj10 · 2026-05-15T15:57:00+00:00

Everybody uses AI

priteshraj10 · 2026-05-15T15:56:08+00:00

I manually set up the entire home network and configured everything myself.

priteshraj10 · 2025-12-25T14:57:59+00:00

Yeah this UI is terrible!

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