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Why I moved away from Airtel?

Little over a year ago, I ported one of my BSNL numbers to Airtel. The idea was to make Airtel my primary number, essentially due to strong coverage at my workplace. However, post becoming a customer things took a different turn. It turned out that Airtel's coverage is pretty bad across Hyderabad - except for okayish internet speeds, calls were a nightmare. Call drops and getting connected to a number other than the called number was way too common. The experience became even poorer after much-hyped network upgrades to offer VoLTE services. I'm yet to meet anyone in Hyderabad who is constantly seeing VoLTE active on the device. In contrast, several of my friends and colleagues who even use high-end devices like iPhone and OnePlus didn't see VoLTE show up even once. In the recent months, several of them ported out and the first choice was Jio. Speaks volumes about India's fastest network.  I should add that beyond the network experience, there are several other fa

Nginx - Solution for 10060: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond

I was in the process of setting up Nginx to serve as the reverse proxy for Nexus Repository Manager OSS. However, the Nexus repository started loading really slowly post this and used to repeatedly display disconnected and reconnected messages. The Nginx log file used to log the below error - <timestamp> [error] 3240#3632: *1 upstream timed out (10060: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond) while connecting to upstream, client: <ip address="">, server: <fqdn>, request: "GET /nexus HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://[::1]:8081/nexus", host: "<fqdn>"