Afrihost Vodacom Fixed 5G thread

William1102 said:
That is unfortunate, you can really feel the added latency. With the Telkom one from Afrihost I can just reboot the router a few times and I am on local routing via Durban or JHB, when it routes to CPT browsing feels slow

Is it possible to do a similar thing to reboot and at least get it to route via JHB instead of CPT
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So far in my experience, the speeds have been perfect, but latency has not been too great, my sim seems to route via JHB from PE no matter how many times I reboot, and I seem to get the same IP every time.

I am hoping it will eventually switch over to CPT at some point.
 
@Jason-ZA Good to hear ! It does appear that the NX510v is on the approved list so hopefully you will not have to purchase anything else. Let us know if it stops working in the future.
 
@Afrigirl I'm moving next month and see that this service has coverage at my new home in the bundus. Can I order the service at my current location, which also has coverage, and transfer it to the new location when I move without too much bureaucratic hassle and within a short timeframe(72 hours)?
 
Psyklops said:
@Afrigirl I'm moving next month and see that this service has coverage at my new home in the bundus. Can I order the service at my current location, which also has coverage, and transfer it to the new location when I move without too much bureaucratic hassle and within a short timeframe(72 hours)?
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Hello.

Yes, we can update the location when you have moved.
 
@Afrigirl how does the pricing work if I want to upgrade during the month.

Will I just be charged the difference between the current package and the package above, or do you have to pay the full pro rata price of the upgraded package?
 
Jason-ZA said:
@Afrigirl how does the pricing work if I want to upgrade during the month.

Will I just be charged the difference between the current package and the package above, or do you have to pay the full pro rata price of the upgraded package?
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Hi.

It will be a pro rata charge of the new package and you will also receive pro rata data allocation
 
Received my router (the ZTE one from Afrihost) and sim (300Gb/month capped package) yesterday. Didn't have much time so I just placed it on a table and got it set up quick. Signal stats don't look bad but also not super amazing, maybe I could improve signal a bit by playing with positioning. Speeds are great, got 200mbps+ on every speed test that I did so far. Steam game updates went at 20MB/s+. Ran out of time and things to download further, but I'm very impressed so far, if it keeps stable at this performance then this will definitely be my main internet going forward. I still need to contact Afrihost support to request/confirm public not CGNAT IP in future though.

afrihost vodacom fixed 5g speed test 1.jpeg

For reference Afrihost MTN fixed LTE 100mbps "uncapped" package in a roughly similar position on a different router would get 35mbps speed tests at a similar time of the day (but I've seen 80-90mbps at 3am). I will be testing the MTN sim in this new 5g router at some point for another point of comparison.
 
ajax said:
It would be interesting to repeat the test in the middle of night.
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no major difference. However swopped the sim into the NX510v and now getting over 500 down. So hopefully they do not block it as the TP-link seems to be the superior router.
 
dotcat said:
no major difference. However swopped the sim into the NX510v and now getting over 500 down. So hopefully they do not block it as the TP-link seems to be the superior router.
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So just to confirm, you placed the NX510v in the same position as the ZTE(?) and you get much better speeds?
 
@AfriNatic / @Afrigirl Do you have any info on how the load balancing works between CPT / JHB for Vodacom 5G?
It seems like it consistently routes via JHB instead of CPT for me, no matter how many times I reboot, and I get the same IP.

I am guessing this is mostly in Vodacom's control, so not the end of the world :)
 
Jason-ZA said:
If your WAN ip in your router matches the IP you see on the Internet, eg when you Google "what is my ip" then your ip is public.

If your WAN ip in your router begins with 100.xxxxxxx then it's CGNAT.
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Thanks for the info. router WAN IP matches "what's my IP" exactly and the IP is 102.xxx.xxx.xxx so seems like I'm good to go already!
 
Jason-ZA said:
@AfriNatic / @Afrigirl Do you have any info on how the load balancing works between CPT / JHB for Vodacom 5G?
It seems like it consistently routes via JHB instead of CPT for me, no matter how many times I reboot, and I get the same IP.

I am guessing this is mostly in Vodacom's control, so not the end of the world :)
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No this is entirely Afrihosts network, a normal Vodacom sim would route in your current location
 
dotcat said:
Correct - same signal stats
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So after many hours experimenting. Better signal stats don't mean better speeds. moving the router 10cm can make a massive difference. I have the sim back in the ZTE and that is now giving around 400 down vs 350 in the TP-link. but more testing will make me go crazy :ROFL:
 
dotcat said:
So after many hours experimenting. Better signal stats don't mean better speeds. moving the router 10cm can make a massive difference. I have the sim back in the ZTE and that is now giving around 400 down vs 350 in the TP-link. but more testing will make me go crazy :ROFL:
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You already sound a bit out there ;)
 
I saw the feature for "preferred position" detection in the ZTE G5TS router setup page and I was wondering how it knows where it's positioned, etc. but I tried it out and now I understand it. The router just averages the signal stats and assigns a "poor", "terrible", "good", etc. description to that average and then you enter your own text description "table near the eastern window" and it stores it on the router for you to review and compare later.
 
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