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Afrihost MTN Fixed LTE-A Thread
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OK finally I am connected!
After @AfriMan (thanks for your help in getting things rolling
) got back to me to confirm I was now provisioned my router then showed a 5 bar signal but status was showing as disconnected ( as others had mentioned)
Playing around with the settings ( disabling both data roaming and auto select network - which enabled works with my Rain Fixed LTE sim by the way) it then magically connected.
Impressive speeds...far,far better (x 10) than Rain ever attained in last 18 months I have been with them.
After @AfriMan (thanks for your help in getting things rolling
) got back to me to confirm I was now provisioned my router then showed a 5 bar signal but status was showing as disconnected ( as others had mentioned)Playing around with the settings ( disabling both data roaming and auto select network - which enabled works with my Rain Fixed LTE sim by the way) it then magically connected.
Impressive speeds...far,far better (x 10) than Rain ever attained in last 18 months I have been with them.
Found the link, will give it a try, thanks.Nice forcing you to use a CAT6 and above router yet you don't even get LTE-A.....
You gonna have to use the band tool to force LTE-A
Do you see 4G+ or 4G with Rain?
So just a follow up thread. I'm playing with my B618 and some other network simcards. Keen to see what they up to in terms of LTE and LTE-A Now I can not recall seeing 4G+ with Rain once on my B618 :erm: Put a Cellc prepaid simcard in and aligned my antenna a bit to the closest LTE-A Cellc...
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Found the link, will give it a try, thanks.
Do you see 4G+ or 4G with Rain?
So just a follow up thread. I'm playing with my B618 and some other network simcards. Keen to see what they up to in terms of LTE and LTE-A Now I can not recall seeing 4G+ with Rain once on my B618 :erm: Put a Cellc prepaid simcard in and aligned my antenna a bit to the closest LTE-A Cellc...
So you are going to use
LTE_1800+2100_UPLOAD_2100.bat
MTN uses 3 LTE Bands.
Band 1 (2100MHz) 10MHz dual channel spectrum
Band 3 (1800MHz) 10MHz dual channel spectrum
Band 8 (900MHz) 5MHz dual channel spectrum.
For anyone wondering here is the bands supported and carrier aggregation band supported by the B618s-22d. The -65d version should be similar.
Could be a band change. Router switched from Band 1 to 8 or 1 to 3 and some are congested. If you look at a LTE phone they always support Band 3. That is likely the most congested band on all networks world wide. Band 1 is refarmed 3G spectrum and band 8 is refarmed 2G/3G spectrum.
Band 8 will likely be the less congested band of the 3 but has the least amount of spectrum. Signal from this band also travels so coverage from 1 tower with this band is extensive which could be a problem if there are a lot of users with devices like S8 upwards as they do 3 carrier aggregation.
Thanks.
Well should things change as drastically with my connection I don't think the band tool will help my 22d...tried it for Rain and it failed to change bands( I suspect it is aggregating though with 70+ Mbps speeds )
My signal stats look pretty good ...my connected tower must be much closer than the Rain one or less congested ( at this point in time with MTN onboarding still in early stages.... )
Thanks a lot. It's odd - it was showing 4G+ for a short while, but is showing "4G" now.
Aha, that makes sense.
Ah, that makes sense.
Still battling unfortunately.
