Slow Reliance Jio 4G speed ,how to increase Jio speed
Reliance Jio's interesting strategy of free SIM, free internet, free voice calls and free SMS has gathered plenty of steam in last few months. It would be more interesting to see how Indian customer reacts once the services are not free, which is from January 1, 2017. Reliance has managed to improve its call quality in the last one month, if it can also work on the speed it could be the moment Indian telecom market changes for good.
Nowadays the speed is down. It didn't take long for Jio's fabled speed to drop from 50Mbps to a crawl of 6-10Mbps. Even at 8Mbps, the speed is not constant. Before September 5, the day when Reliance introduced Welcome Offer and the SIM was available to almost all users, would see speed as high as 30Mbps to 50Mbps. After September 5 it has only gone down. The average Jio 4G speed is now abysmal.
There can be several reasons for this. Reliance might still be testing its network before the commercial release on Jan 1, 2017 and the Welcome Offer is probably the final beta of the Jio service. Or maybe there is something wrong with the network.
Method 1: Lock the 4G network to band 40
To get best coverage you don't need to do anything, your phone will automatically switch to the band that offers better coverage.
To increase speed follow these steps:
-- Dial *#*#4636#*#*
-- Select phone information
-- Select "Set preferred network type"
-- Select LTE Only
For Qualcomm processor
-- Install Shortcut Master (Lite) app from Play Store.
-- Menu > Search
-- Type "Service Menu" or "Engineering Mode" and search
-- Open if found and access to change LTE bands
For MediaTek processor
-- Install MTK Engineering Mode
-- Run app
-- Select 'MTK Settings'
-- Select 'BandMode'
-- Select SIM slot where you have put your Jio SIM
-- Select 'LTE mode'
-- Select band 40 for best speed or band 5 for best coverage
-- Save settings & reboot mobile to activate changes.
Method 2: Change APN settings
You can also increase speed of your Jio internet by changing the APN settings. But before changing it we suggest you to note down the current settings.
Change the APN Settings as shown below.
-- Name - RJio
-- APN - jionet
-- APN Type - Default
-- Proxy - No changes
-- Port - No changes
-- Username - No changes
-- Password - No changes
-- Server - www.google.com
-- MMSC - No changes
-- MMS proxy - No changes
-- MMS port - No changes
-- MCC - 405
-- MNC - 857 or 863 or 874
-- Authentication type - No changes
-- APN Protocol - Ipv4/Ipv6
Download Snap VPN from Play Store
After changing the APN settings, download Snap VPN app from the Google Play Store. Once you have installed the app connect to Singapore or France server. This should improve your downloading speed but not browsing speed.
