Cell-C / IS "fixed" LTE

Applied for the Axxess 55GB package originally on the 13th of Feb, on the 19th they sent me a text to say my payment failed, I resubmitted on the 20th and the payment was successful, on the 27th they gave me call to say the estimated delivery date is the 5th of March :( so much for 10 business days
 
Sim still not activated. Received it on the 20th! Axxess cannot help. Is the Cell C rep online?
 
hcpeer said:
Sim still not activated. Received it on the 20th! Axxess cannot help. Is the Cell C rep online?
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Hi hcpeer

Drop us a PM with your query and contact details, we will see what we can do from our side.

^MM
 
Recieved my Router and Sim Card at 10 in the morning, 1pm everything was already up and running.Only had to restart the router once.
 
Anyone know what bands Cell C uses for the Fixed LTE?
Wanted to try to switch bands on my B618s to get a better connection. Thanks

EDIT: Nevermind, found this post:
https://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showth...ng-details?p=21113421&viewfull=1#post21113421

Cellc uses their own network not Rain.


Let me just make a quick summary of what bands networks use.

MTN: 2100MHz (band 1) and 1800MHz (band 3). For LTE-A they aggregate these two bands.

Vodacom: 1800MHz (band 3) own network OR 1800MHz (band 3) Rain and 2600MHz (Band 38) Rain. For LTE-A on Vodacom they rely on Rain and aggregate band 1 and 38 on Rain network.

Cellc: 2100MHz (band 1) and 1800MHz (band 3). For LTE-A they aggregate these two bands

Telkom: 1800MHz (band 3) and 2300MHz (band 40). For LTE-A Telkom aggregates 2 x 20MHz spectrum blocks in band 40.

Rain: 1800MHz (band 3) and 2600MHz (band 38). For LTE-A they aggregate these two bands BUT you will never see LTE-A on Rain as the 5 routers supported on their network including the B618s-22d does not support aggregation between these 2 bands thus you can only connect to one of them at a time...

Cellc and MTN has the advantage because as far as I could see all the B618 models will support their LTE-A network.
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PixelZA said:
The '... 22d' version. What is the difference between n the 22d and the 65d?
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From: https://www.4gltemall.com/blog/tag/huawei-b618s-65d/

Huawei B618s-22d Supports:
– 4G LTE Band 1/3/7/8/20/38 (FDD 800/900/1800/2100/2600MHz & TDD 2600MHz)
– DC-HSPA+/HSPA+/HSPA/UMTS：Band 1/8 2100MHz/900MHz
– EDGE/GPRS/GSM：Band 2/3/5/8 1900MHz/1800MHz/850MHz/900MHz

Huawei B618s-65d Supports:
– 4G LTE Band 1/3/5/7/8/28/40 (FDD 700/850/900/1800/2100/2600MHz & TDD 2300MHz)
– DC-HSPA+/HSPA+/HSPA/UMTS：Band 1/5/8 2100MHz/900MHz/850MHz
– EDGE/GPRS/GSM：Band 2/3/5/8 1900MHz/1800MHz/850MHz/900MHz
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PixelZA said:
Axxess / Cell C

Tracing route to www.google.co.za [216.58.223.35]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms homerouter.cpe [192.168.1.1]
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 92 ms 32 ms 18 ms rfc.private.address.invalid.query [10.178.230.178]
4 21 ms 20 ms 17 ms rfc.private.address.invalid.query [10.220.232.193]
5 19 ms 16 ms 16 ms rfc.private.address.invalid.query [10.178.230.2]
6 14 ms 19 ms 16 ms rfc.private.address.invalid.query [10.178.231.9]
7 56 ms 20 ms 16 ms 196.23.129.193
8 32 ms 14 ms 24 ms 197.98.173.1
9 25 ms 18 ms 20 ms 196.38.77.32
10 38 ms 18 ms 17 ms 168.209.0.34
11 18 ms 16 ms 18 ms pr2-pkl-xe-2-2-0.ip.isnet.net [168.209.1.179]
12 29 ms 16 ms 19 ms 72.14.205.16
13 20 ms 19 ms 19 ms 72.14.239.129
14 23 ms 18 ms 18 ms jnb01s08-in-f3.1e100.net [216.58.223.35]

Trace complete.
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It must be Axxess messing up. Here is on the plain Cell C SIM card, note my signal is much lower (3 bars), hence longer ping at times.
Code: 
C:\>tracert www.google.co.za

Tracing route to www.google.co.za [216.58.223.35]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  homerouter.cpe [192.168.8.1]
  2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  3    48 ms    26 ms    24 ms  41.48.22.34
  4    43 ms    50 ms    41 ms  10.228.233.193
  5    33 ms    19 ms    21 ms  41.48.16.1
  6    30 ms    20 ms    25 ms  41.48.0.2
  7    29 ms    19 ms    20 ms  41.48.253.81
  8    33 ms    17 ms    18 ms  209.85.149.148
  9    34 ms    22 ms    22 ms  72.14.239.129
 10    24 ms    28 ms    20 ms  jnb01s08-in-f35.1e100.net [216.58.223.35]

Trace complete.
 
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This is my speed but I can’t even watch a YouTube video on 360p. When it finally plays it buffers all the time*♂️
 
Axxess the same. They only allocated the same amount of data that they allocated pro-rata last month.
Logged it with Axxess account support. Will see what they respond with...
 
Sumen said:
Ok the problem was that the sim was micro, so i popped it back into the Standard sim frame and it worked.
Everything is working after I entered the Username and Password, I also had to change the APN which Mweb didn't give.

This is the speed so far - View attachment 503405
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That upload though. So it works even though you are not in Fixed LTE coverage?
 
neoassasin said:
That upload though. So it works even though you are not in Fixed LTE coverage?
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You can say so , Maybe Cell c's map is outdated.

I did get 10mbps upload but now I don't know what happened.
 
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