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45mbps would be fine for me, would take even 40mbps, main thing I can just continue as normal when loadshedding starts, which is not possible witg Rain.
 
Anyone have any info on router below. Will it be suitable for this Telkom deal

All series｜WiFi 6｜ASUS South Africa

In ASUS 「All series」 - Networking / IoT / Servers , you could find most appropriate Networking / IoT / Servers based on product features, specification or price. And you also could get product's detail information and comparsion, even add it into the wish list in buy page.
www.asus.com www.asus.com

ASUS AX1800 Dual Band Wifi 6 Gigabit router.
RT-AX1800 is a 2x2 dual-band Wi-Fi router that provides 80MHz bandwidth and 1024-QAM for dramatically faster wireless connections. With a total networking speed of about 1800Mbps — 574Mbps on the 2.4GHz band and 1201Mbps on the 5GHz band — RT-AX56U is 1.5X faster than 802.11ac 2x2 dual-band routers.
 
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Anyone have any info on router below. Will it be suitable for this Telkom deal

All series｜WiFi 6｜ASUS South Africa

In ASUS 「All series」 - Networking / IoT / Servers , you could find most appropriate Networking / IoT / Servers based on product features, specification or price. And you also could get product's detail information and comparsion, even add it into the wish list in buy page.
www.asus.com www.asus.com

ASUS AX1800 Dual Band Wifi 6 Gigabit router.
RT-AX1800 is a 2x2 dual-band Wi-Fi router that provides 80MHz bandwidth and 1024-QAM for dramatically faster wireless connections. With a total networking speed of about 1800Mbps — 574Mbps on the 2.4GHz band and 1201Mbps on the 5GHz band — RT-AX56U is 1.5X faster than 802.11ac 2x2 dual-band routers.
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The routers are irrelevant for wifi purposes but you need an LTE router atleast

I have meshed my house with Tplinks connected to my huewei b618
 
Mxolisi Maxwell said:
at crusader would you try this Huawei router tool and go to internet tool to check which network bands your Huawei B618 uses. Download here> View attachment 1350676


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Release Huawei Router Tool v1.1 · pearlxcore/Huawei-Router-Tool

Added : Added option to display more SMS list Fixed : Fixed "Session error" on certain router model Fixed : Fixed broken link for new program update release Fixed : Prevent the program to open mult...
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I've stowed the B618 for now, but will give this a go when I have a chance to switch back to it. Telkom have confirmed that our tower only provides B1, B3 and B20. Sadly no B40 support.

My MR600 V2 arrived yesterday and I did some quick testing. I'm quite impressed with the amount of detailed info it provides out of the box. I struggled to get it to work on 4G+. Disabling roaming on the SIM seemed to have done the trick.

According to the admin interface it shows B3 and B20 as available from Telkom. I've left everything on auto and 4G preferred and it automatically switches to 4G+ using B3 + B20.

Speeds seem good, but the ZTE still has a magical upper hand with speeds mostly in the 55 -60 Mbps range. Haven't seen the MR600 hit 60 yet:

DL 56 Mbps, UL 7.09, 24 ms
DL 52.3 Mbps, UL 6.85, 25 ms
DL 52.9 Mbps, UL 7.27, 29 ms
DL 44.6 Mbps, UL 6.83, 22 ms
DL 45.4 Mbps, UL 7.59, 24 ms
DL 45.9 Mbps, UL 7.04, 30 ms
DL 49.1 Mbps, UL 6.32, 27 ms
DL 46.6 Mbps, UL 6.75, 25 ms
 
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I've stowed the B618 for now, but will give this a go when I have a chance to switch back to it. Telkom have confirmed that our tower only provides B1, B3 and B20. Sadly no B40 support.

My MR600 V2 arrived yesterday and I did some quick testing. I'm quite impressed with the amount of detailed info it provides out of the box. I struggled to get it to work on 4G+. Disabling roaming on the SIM seemed to have done the trick.

According to the admin interface it shows B3 and B20 as available from Telkom. I've left everything on auto and 4G preferred and it automatically switches to 4G+ using B3 + B20.

Speeds seem good, but the ZTE still has a magical upper hand with speeds mostly in the 55 -60 Mbps range. Haven't seen the MR600 hit 60 yet:

DL 56 Mbps, UL 7.09, 24 ms
DL 52.3 Mbps, UL 6.85, 25 ms
DL 52.9 Mbps, UL 7.27, 29 ms
DL 44.6 Mbps, UL 6.83, 22 ms
DL 45.4 Mbps, UL 7.59, 24 ms
DL 45.9 Mbps, UL 7.04, 30 ms
DL 49.1 Mbps, UL 6.32, 27 ms
DL 46.6 Mbps, UL 6.75, 25 ms
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When you say "Telkom have confirmed", who or where is it you're contacting to get that sort of info.?

I got nowhere via 10210 (agent tried to get me through to some other dept, twice, that apparently deals with tower faults, but a dead-end).

10213, suggested before in this thread I think, is for contracts and I'm on prepaid essentially.

Via Twitter they always ask for more personal info but don't bother with the tower ID nos. I send them to look into.
 
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When you say "Telkom have confirmed", who or where is it you're contacting to get that sort of info.?

I got nowhere via 10210 (agent tried to get me through to some other dept, twice, that apparently deals with tower faults, but a dead-end).

10213, suggested before in this thread I think, is for contracts and I'm on prepaid essentially.

Via Twitter they always ask for more personal info but don't bother with the tower ID nos. I send them to look into.
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Afrihost logged a support ticket on my behalf and managed to get some info that way.
 
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Afrihost logged a support ticket on my behalf and managed to get some info that way.
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You're fortunately dealing through Afrihost, who are willing to do something on your behalf.

This is the exact answer I got from Axxess (owned by Afrihost) late last month, when I tried to get them to contact Telkom (primarily to do with how this load-shedding was messing up signal strength for at least 2,25 hours after power came back on - sometimes closer to 2,5 hrs.) :

"Thanks for contacting Axxess,

Apologies for the issue, unfortunately, Telkom handles their tower we cannot really tell them to go to maintain their towers, the issue might be with the network, hence the bars get full after some time, it means there is nothing wrong, it's just the load shedding messing with the tower."

Only reason for moving to Axxess was the far better cost compared to Afrihost, for the identical bundle ; means being stuck with inferior support, but thanks for your reply.
 
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My speeds are not able to go over 50mbps on speedtest.net. Doesnt matter if i test with my B618 or B818. If I use my normal telkom mobile 40GB data contract speeds fly to over 120mbps.... Wonder whats going on.
 
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