Afrihost Vodacom Fixed 5G thread

Jake45 said:
@camross007: Where are you moving ?
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Hey Jake moved to Telkom LTE. Running the connection via an Xpol-6. If you can get the antenna alignment correct band 40+40 and band 3+40 works like a dream.

Band 40+40 dl 125-150 mbps up 8mbps
Band 3+40 dl 100-125mbps up 22-25mbps

My breakout connection is also in the same town so latency from PE-JHB around 40ms
PE-CPT 20-25ms
PE-London around 175ms
 
Really bad speeds on during work hours - then recovers - seem like tower is overloaded.
 
Here are my latest MyBB Speed Test results from my CI/Vodacom 5G service. As you can see from the coverage map there is no 5G Home coverage in my suburb. Speeds do deteriorate when the tower is busy. I have been very happy with the performance over the last 10 months.

Using the MyBB app ...
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Directly from the website ...
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Vodacom coverage at my address ...
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So I tested out the Afrihost supplied G5TS router - whereas the mc801a had really good signal and speeds, this router can't even pick up a 5G signal. Also Afrihost has locked down the interface so you can't even force 5G. very disappointing experience....
 
dotcat said:
So I tested out the Afrihost supplied G5TS router - whereas the mc801a had really good signal and speeds, this router can't even pick up a 5G signal. Also Afrihost has locked down the interface so you can't even force 5G. very disappointing experience....
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Hmmm, makes me tempted to try out MC801A. I'm also not very impressed with the G5TS router signal and when I plug in external antenna it didn't seem to help either.
 
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