Afrihost MTN Fixed LTE-A Thread

Aha, looks like it’s woken up now. :)
 

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cavedog said:
Try Forcing band 8 900MHz only. See if that helps. I really am surprised that you are getting poor speeds like that especially on MTN.

Also I see you are using wifi. Try changing the wifi band in router or use cable just to diagnose.
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Thanks, looks like it's okay now but I'll give it a try if it starts acting up again.

Thanks a lot for the help, I really appreciate it.
 
Ok so My device got the green light, Got very nice speeds of about 20mb up/down . BUT I cannot run anything "online-game" related. Tested on all my games and they just lag to the point that some even crash. Is there a setting I'm missing?
 
Unlitcrow said:
Ok so My device got the green light, Got very nice speeds of about 20mb up/down . BUT I cannot run anything "online-game" related. Tested on all my games and they just lag to the point that some even crash. Is there a setting I'm missing?
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You could try playing around with the bands to see if it improves.

What games are you struggling with?
 
@cavedog I guess I've just confirmed it's not aggregating but still damn fast... :thumbsup:

D:\Downloads\huawei_band_tool_v0.1\Windows>huawei_band_tool --show-signal-strength-no-cls
[LTE] [RSRP: -86, RSRQ: -4, RSSI: -67, SINR: 18] [1800 MHz, 10 MHz, 172202]

D:\Downloads\huawei_band_tool_v0.1\Windows>huawei_band_tool --show-band
Current Network Mode: 03
Current Network Band: 3FFFFFFF
Current LTE Band: 20000800C5 (800+900+1800+2100+2600+2600|TDD)

Will test band change/aggregate tomorrow and revert.
 
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cavedog said:
You could try playing around with the bands to see if it improves.

What games are you struggling with?
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I will try this thanks.
I have tried these games:
Wow Classic - Getting 3500 ping
LeagueOfLegends - Client not even loading menu adds/etc
Apex Legends - When Entering a match I only see a white screen then crashes
(All these games I have played in the week with no problems on my old CellC-Afrihost setup)
When I open Youtube or Talk in Discord I get no problems :/
 
Unlitcrow said:
I will try this thanks.
I have tried these games:
Wow Classic - Getting 3500 ping
LeagueOfLegends - Client not even loading menu adds/etc
Apex Legends - When Entering a match I only see a white screen then crashes
(All these games I have played in the week with no problems on my old CellC-Afrihost setup)
When I open Youtube or Talk in Discord I get no problems :/
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The MTN Fixed lte sold by Afrihost runs over their own network so latency to eu will likely be slightly higher due to their routing compared to MTN direct but it shouldn't be like that.
 
OK, seems we'll be making a West Coast trip with the new MTN fixed LTE router and SIM next Friday. I hope we have a no hassles setup that side. We really need reliable fast internet at the holiday house and I doubt rain will ever bother with Dwarskersbos. So far they have Atlantis and Malmesbury but not even Vredenburg.
 
cavedog said:
The MTN Fixed lte sold by Afrihost runs over their own network so latency to eu will likely be slightly higher due to their routing compared to MTN direct but it shouldn't be like that.
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I tried all bands and only 1800-4G allows me to atleast have internet. All other options disconnects my internet.
I did a constant ping to a game server and it looks like this:
 

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Rouxenator said:
OK, seems we'll be making a West Coast trip with the new MTN fixed LTE router and SIM next Friday. I hope we have a no hassles setup that side. We really need reliable fast internet at the holiday house and I doubt rain will ever bother with Dwarskersbos. So far they have Atlantis and Malmesbury but not even Vredenburg.
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I think they said you’re only allowed to switch towers once a year?
 
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Rouxenator said:
OK, seems we'll be making a West Coast trip with the new MTN fixed LTE router and SIM next Friday. I hope we have a no hassles setup that side. We really need reliable fast internet at the holiday house and I doubt rain will ever bother with Dwarskersbos. So far they have Atlantis and Malmesbury but not even Vredenburg.
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I don't think all MTN towers are provisioned for fixed LTE.
 
I was really hoping that MTN would be able to deliver the best Fixed LTE service in SA ... Hopefully all of the issues can be resolved since the few remaining alternatives are very unappealing.
 
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Not sure what's going on but it's actually extremely flakey. 40mb+ one moment and then down to crawling speed again and staying like that most of the time. Done a speed test early this morning and got 2mbps. Tried the 900mhz as well.

I'll keep trying over the weekend and see how it goes, I know it's pointless logging a call with Axxess so I'll probably cancel and give Telkom a try.
 
@SAV: I think somebody mentioned in one of the related threads that WebAfrica may be doing a Black Friday special on one of the Telkom LTE packages. I think I will wait for that now and either go with that or reactivate my Rain package if that is still possible.
 
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@SAV: I think somebody mentioned in one of the related threads that WebAfrica may be doing a Black Friday special on one of the Telkom LTE packages. I think I will wait for that now and either go with that or reactivate my Rain package if that is still possible.
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Thanks, I'll keep an eye out for that. I've luckily not canceled Rain yet.
 
So after giving up with MTN today, I thought I'd give Rain another try, but switched to 2600mhz with the help of @cavedog's thread and the band tool - great success! In the screenshot red is mtn and green is Rain.
 

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Update:

I must admit although the painful order/activation process is/was not something I/many of us it should be expected to endure as clients...and must definitely be improved and expedited the speeds (10-20x faster) I am getting are remarkable considering my previous Fixed LTE with Rain I've had for over 18 months...

A 600Mb Adobe RAW update took less than a minute ...with Rain it would have taken <yawn>

Here's hoping these speeds remain consistent.

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