Moved router from one side of house to other side
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OK so I'm in this scenario now. I sold my house - need to rent for 6 months while my new place is being built... so I'm giving up my fibre connection temporarily
So now my only immediate option is to get LTE while I'm renting. Where i'm building there wont be fibre till at least the end of the year maybe....( or so im told )..
So which LTE option is the better one, and with whom ? MTN or Telkom, with AH or Axxess ?. Rain is out of the question - no way im paying R50/g for evening usage....
So I have to order now probably, but when i move - can i take the LTE with me ? I will move about 5km from where i live now...
Our options in this country really sucks if you cant get fibre....
Go with mtn if you have reception at both locations. You are allowed one move per year on axxess (officially). Probably more unofficially. You'll just move the router from your rented place to your new place. It will get blocked. Then you log a call to have it unblocked.
Rouxenator
Dank meme lord
Power went today (load shedding) but I left for home yesterday. My dad called me and said there is no internet, light is red.
MTN, please sort out your tower on Dwarskersbos - there really is only one to sort out.
MTN, please sort out your tower on Dwarskersbos - there really is only one to sort out.
But how do you know its on a different tower?Moved router from one side of house to other side
Yeah about that...
Battery theft forces MTN to shut down cellphone towers
MTN has announced that it has been forced to shut down a number of its cellphone towers due to the increasing occurrence of vandalism and battery theft.
mybroadband.co.za
CELL_ID: value is different on router and matches manual checks I have done with phone at tower.
Hmm. Smart you are.
Magandroid
Expert Member
My understanding, when I spoke to the Afrihost person, is that with MTN Pure LTE you are fixed to a tower once registered as they provide you with a slot on that tower. If you move to another tower, you will be blocked.OK so I'm in this scenario now. I sold my house - need to rent for 6 months while my new place is being built... so I'm giving up my fibre connection temporarily
So now my only immediate option is to get LTE while I'm renting. Where i'm building there wont be fibre till at least the end of the year maybe....( or so im told )..
So which LTE option is the better one, and with whom ? MTN or Telkom, with AH or Axxess ?. Rain is out of the question - no way im paying R50/g for evening usage....
So I have to order now probably, but when i move - can i take the LTE with me ? I will move about 5km from where i live now...
Our options in this country really sucks if you cant get fibre....
With their Telkom fixed LTE offering on the other hand, you can move to any location as long as there are Telkom LTE services in the area.
My connection is down again from yesterday. Was working fine now nothing router shows connection is there, I can do a tracert and ping but nothing else works.
The last time it magically fixed itself and they asked me if I moved the router or the sim but this thing is fixed in my pc room for a year now. Never had these issues with cellc
The last time it magically fixed itself and they asked me if I moved the router or the sim but this thing is fixed in my pc room for a year now. Never had these issues with cellc
Anyone else experiencing speed issues since last night? I’m in Rietvallei park Pretoria east. At times it’s totally dead then I restart and get around 1 Mbps down for a few minutes then it dies again. No Afrihost support over weekends
deweyzeph
Honorary Master
I'm also experiencing strange issues all of a sudden. I can't connect to any SSL-enabled websites. But I can connect to websites that are non-SSL. It's a big problem because almost everything uses SSL. Anyone else experiencing this?
deweyzeph
Honorary Master
I had to get Afrihost support to reset my connection from their side. Once they did that everything started working properly again.
CheddarByte
Senior Member
I have this issue quite frequently, it's not only you.
deweyzeph
Honorary Master
It's a really strange issue. When this problem occurs I can still ping external ip addresses, DNS works fine, traceroute works fine, I just cannot make any outgoing connections that use encryption of any sort. HTTPS is blocked, RDP (Port 3389) is blocked, SSH is blocked, basically anything that uses any sort of encryption is blocked.
CheddarByte
Senior Member
Exactly the same issue, I've had a support case open at afrihost for weeks about this.
I've even created a post at afrihost answers forum.
DNS/ICMP (trace,ping) works fine, normal TCP and UDP does not - when this happens if I reboot my router I think I get blocked from the tower as I get "connection profile invalid" message on my router.
deweyzeph
Honorary Master
Normal non-encrypted TCP and UDP connections work fine for me when this issue occurs, it's just encrypted connections that are blocked. If I reboot the router everything comes up fine and the data connection resumes to the tower without any error, but the blocked encrypted connections remain. The only way to get it fixed was for Afrihost to reset the connection on their side.
CheddarByte
Senior Member
Hmm okay that's odd - when it happens to me I can't even telnet to anything over port 80 to get a website in plaintext.
Any existing connections work, but new ones are rejected. I might be wrong about the UDP getting blocked, as most of my apps do require a TCP overlay to init the session (think RTSP)
TCP is definitely blocked, and DNS definitely works, as does ICMP.
UDP is stateless so might not be affected by whatever is causing this.
When this occurs my voice calls continue if they are already running, and certain services which keep open connections keep working (steam, discord, skype, long-play youtube videos, etc)
If I kill these connections they're unable to resume, and new connections to anything are blocked.
It seems that whatever is upstream at MTN hits some kind of connection limit and starts blocking new connections?
When you get afrihost to reset it at an APN level it's freeing sessions?
I could speculate all day but we seem to have a similar issue and we need someone from afrihost to comment on what the actual problem could be.