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comparing vianet with worldlink nepal

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For the last seven years, I had been using worldlink as my main internet connection at my home and office. No complaints. Very less disconnections, if any. Maybe 6-7 times in 7 years. But maybe my home location being inside ring road, I had access to better infrastructure. Anyways, first it was basic internet through ethernet cable, then they changed to fiber, and the bandwidth kept on increasing too. Started at around 2mbps I think, 7 years ago, to 60mbps today. I was extremely satisfied with worldlink until I set up a plex media server for my home media collection and found out that they used CGNAT for their connection, which made it impossible to set up port forwarding. I kept on calling and messaging their support to give me a dynamic IP for extra charge but they didn't. I was told I had to get a SME package for that. Okay, sure, I was willing get the SME package for twice as much money, but their SME package has a maximum bandwidth of 20mbps. So I decided to look into other I...