Cell-C / IS "fixed" LTE

treebsd said:
thats correct, cellc doesnt allow regional break-outs in cpt, dbn etc.. according to them this is planned for sometime in 2018.
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Ah that's great news, I thought I was going to be stuck with the extra latency until I get fibre in my area.
 
DJAJ said:
Has it improved your latency/speeds?
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I think latency is as good as its going to get (around 31-35ms to minimum since traffice is routed through centurion and I'm in cape town), download speed has improved somewhat, I now get around 60mbps down which isn't the best I've seen based on speedtest results here, but it's very acceptable for sure: http://www.speedtest.net/result/7164264312
 
I was in Durban, New Germany for a few days and speed test returned with the same router, huawei B618s-22d:

down 25mbps, up 10mbps, ~45ms

Would be interesting to see if I get CA in Cape Town and if things have improved, but I'm not expecting it based on me being on the outer rim of the coverage area for Fixed-LTE of Cell C.
 
Hi. Can someone confirm the outgoing smtp settings for this service. I am using Axxess.
 
Is there an outage in Cape Town? When I try to connect, it says the connection has been reset and I can't do anything.
 
Turns out I had reached my limit. I ended up having to top up my data. :/ Here's the email that I received from Axxess:

Hi GenuinePleather,

We have compiled a data usage report to help you track your monthly Internet usage. According to our records your usage on account [XXXXXX@axxess] at 2018-03-26 10:15:36 reflected the following:

Total bandwidth used: 89%
Account limit: 45.3GB
Available bandwidth: 5.16GB

Please bear in mind that this is a usage-based service and as such is subject to a Account Limit of 45.3GB.

Please Note: When your account is capped, you can easily topup/upgrade your account and make payment by using the Axxess Mobile Control Panel (App), available for download on iOS and Android
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Huh. I wasn't aware this was how it worked. Thought that if you pay for 50G that's what you get... Why advertise it as 50G if it's technically only 45?
 
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GenuinePleather said:
Turns out I had reached my limit. I ended up having to top up my data. :/ Here's the email that I received from Axxess:



Huh. I wasn't aware this was how it worked. Thought that if you pay for 50G that's what you get... Why advertise it as 50G if it's technically only 45?
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Something doesn't make sense since it says 5.16GB available.

Does it take you to the "capped" page?

Were you pro-ratta'd? you're supposed to get the full 50GB unless it was activated after the 1st.
 
cavedog said:
Sigh boring then. They allow you to connect to band 1 and 3 separately but not together as LTE-A.... :wtf:
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Interestingly, highvoltage, a few posts back just said he/she gets CA and LTE-A.
Maybe they've enabled Carrier Aggregation on this service now.

I only get a 10mhz band on 1800mhz.

Code: 
Current Network Mode: 03
Current Network Band: 3FFFFFFF
Current LTE Band: 20000800C5 (800+900+1800+2100+2600+2600|TDD)

Code: 
[LTE] [RSRP: -88, RSRQ: -4, RSSI: -67, SINR: 12] [1800 MHz, 10 MHz, CE701]
 
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For a brief moment I got 4G+, this is what it shows on the huawei B618s-22d:

Cell_C_Fixed_4G_Plus.png

And this is what happens when I run the huawei_band_tool

Code: 
[LTE+] [RSRP: -94, RSRQ: -13, RSSI: -65, SINR: -1] [1800 MHz, 10 MHz, 104804]
[LTE+] [RSRP: -94, RSRQ: -12, RSSI: -65, SINR: -1] [1800 MHz, 10 MHz, 104804]
[LTE+] [RSRP: -94, RSRQ: -10, RSSI: -65, SINR: -1] [1800 MHz, 10 MHz, 104804]
[LTE+] [RSRP: -94, RSRQ: -12, RSSI: -65, SINR: -1] [1800 MHz, 10 MHz, 104804]
[LTE+] [RSRP: -94, RSRQ: -11, RSSI: -65, SINR: -1] [1800 MHz, 10 MHz, 104804]
[LTE+] [RSRP: -94, RSRQ: -11, RSSI: -65, SINR: -1] [1800 MHz, 10 MHz, 104804]

Clearly shows LTE+ but still 10 MHz, so I don't know if this is a limitation with the huawei_band_tool or if something else is applying.

This is using internal antenna only.
 
Haven’t used my router in over two weeks, I tried using it yesterday to no avail, even hard reset the router and setup everything all over again but it’s still not working. I left my phone connected to the WiFi throughout the night and it seems to have used 15mb but I can’t open any pages or do anything*♂️*♂️.

What else can I do? Is the APN still lte.broadband.is?
 
epah said:
Haven’t used my router in over two weeks, I tried using it yesterday to no avail, even hard reset the router and setup everything all over again but it’s still not working. I left my phone connected to the WiFi throughout the night and it seems to have used 15mb but I can’t open any pages or do anything*♂️*♂️.

What else can I do? Is the APN still lte.broadband.is?
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email me your username, let me have a look ... [email protected]
 
Haven't had any internet connection with Cell C since the 27th of this month.
Located in the Southern suburbs. No update has been posted to their website.
 
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