Afrihost airmobile (legacy sim) battery draining

[Afrigirl]

Can this also be an issue if I have an Afrihost Telkom sim ?

Hi.

It should not be an issue on an LTE SIM.

 

[absynth]

Still fine on my side

Busy getting it sorted as we speak. Thanks for the heads up

 

[Smiggles]

Good luck after almost 10 years it'll never be fully fixed https://mybroadband.co.za/forum/threads/afrihost-apn-high-battery-drain-explained-not-solved.985927/

 

[Jason-ZA]

Can this also be an issue if I have an Afrihost Telkom sim ?

Only if you use the unrestricted APN

 

[RedViking]

Only if you use the unrestricted APN

Not sure what that is, but my apn says "internet"

 

[TheOracle]

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[Jason-ZA]

Not sure what that is, but my apn says "internet"

It won’t be an issue then as that apn implements CGNAT.

 

[Packet-Kollector]

I thought this was nonsense until I used an e-sim on a different network for a while. Eish!

 

[Steamy Tom]

yep I am definitely suffering battery drain yet again

 

[Afrigirl]

Hi All. Checking, we has an emergency change last night on one of our CPT NAT boxes. It may have caused some clients to lose their NAT IPs. We apologise for thr inconvenience.

 

[airborne]

Why is this so hard to fix, 3 months later and the problem is still ongoing??

 

[Smiggles]

Why is this so hard to fix, 3 months later and the problem is still ongoing??

You mean 8 years? https://mybroadband.co.za/forum/thr...in-explained-not-solved.985927/#post-22368571

 

[Afrigirl]

yep I am definitely suffering battery drain yet again

Hi.

Please drop me a PM with the affected number.

 

[mr_norris]

I've been experiencing strange battery behaviour again and I'm wondering if this problem is back again. Went to the trusty website and it shows this:

 

[mr_norris]

I've been experiencing strange battery behaviour again and I'm wondering if this problem is back again. Went to the trusty website and it shows this:

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I asked Afrigirl for advice and I have come to the conclusion that this was not their problem. Something else is chomping my battery when mobile data is active.

 

[Steamy Tom]

I seem to be seeing the same and afrihot also claiming it int them...

 

[Smiggles]

Vote with your wallets they'll never fix it.

 

[Jason-ZA]

I've been experiencing strange battery behaviour again and I'm wondering if this problem is back again. Went to the trusty website and it shows this:

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From that screenshot it looks like you dont have a public IP, that IP seems like one of the IPs that we are usually NATd behind.

You will see you cant ping it either from a PC while your mobile data is on, if you are still seeing that IP then its probably not an Afrihost thing causing your battery drain.