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Hi all,

I recently moved to Richard's bay and unfortunately cannot get fibre or adsl. I game a lot particularly COD and the like, and as we all know mobile network and NAT do not go well together.

From my research it seems having an unrestricted APN is the only possibility of getting NAT type 2/ moderate NAT on LTE. I'm using a CellC Sim currently and went through the process of filling all the forms and sending to CellC to request an unrestricted APN and sadly have had not luck yet.

My only internet option is fixed LTE and MTN have the best coverage in my area, but from the info on mybroadband it seems they only offer what they call MTNVPN to contracted users for business needs.
Vodacom coverage is horrible in my area so they not an option. Rain I believe do not offer any options on APN or the like that would suit my needs.

Telkom have good speeds and I've heard an unrestricted APN is possible with them? But the thread I got that info was a couple years old.

It's almost impossible to get info from the call centre's and from my experience the reps and users here have a lot more experience.

I would love some Info from anybody with some experience particularly gaming on LTE when it comes to NAT. And whether there's a network that can allow for my needs that you know of. Thanks in advance guys.
 
Telkom's unrestricted apn is done by entering unrestricted in apn section and it works better than adsl for gaming.
 
CookieSon said:
Hi all,

I recently moved to Richard's bay and unfortunately cannot get fibre or adsl. I game a lot particularly COD and the like, and as we all know mobile network and NAT do not go well together.

From my research it seems having an unrestricted APN is the only possibility of getting NAT type 2/ moderate NAT on LTE. I'm using a CellC Sim currently and went through the process of filling all the forms and sending to CellC to request an unrestricted APN and sadly have had not luck yet.

My only internet option is fixed LTE and MTN have the best coverage in my area, but from the info on mybroadband it seems they only offer what they call MTNVPN to contracted users for business needs.
Vodacom coverage is horrible in my area so they not an option. Rain I believe do not offer any options on APN or the like that would suit my needs.

Telkom have good speeds and I've heard an unrestricted APN is possible with them? But the thread I got that info was a couple years old.

It's almost impossible to get info from the call centre's and from my experience the reps and users here have a lot more experience.

I would love some Info from anybody with some experience particularly gaming on LTE when it comes to NAT. And whether there's a network that can allow for my needs that you know of. Thanks in advance guys.
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Vodacom fibre in Meerensee and Frogfoot fibre going live in most of Richards Bay by end November start December.

As for fixed LTE telkom has the unrestricted apn. You simply change the profile or apn to unrestricted and it will open the nat.

Which area are you? In Meerensee Telkom has 1 tower. In Richards bay there are a couple. 1 at Ricardia. 1 in Veldenvlei. 1 in Brackenham and 2 in the CBD.

Supersonic also sells MTN LTE sim only deals. Axxess sells month to month sim only Telkom deals at relatively decent prices
 
cavedog said:
Vodacom fibre in Meerensee and Frogfoot fibre going live in most of Richards Bay by end November start December.

As for fixed LTE telkom has the unrestricted apn. You simply change the profile or apn to unrestricted and it will open the nat.

Which area are you? In Meerensee Telkom has 1 tower. In Richards bay there are a couple. 1 at Ricardia. 1 in Veldenvlei. 1 in Brackenham and 2 in the CBD.

Supersonic also sells MTN LTE sim only deals. Axxess sells month to month sim only Telkom deals at relatively decent prices
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Im in Meerensee, I've been looking at axxess and if I can get unrestricted apn on the month to month then I'm happy.
The supersonic deals are great and speeds are good here but my main concern is the APN and its not possible with MTN.

Thanks for the info
 
Telkom might not be the best option but gove it a try with a prepaid card and Telkom mo nice deals.

Just change the apn name to unrestricted and you are good to go nothing complicated.

To get open nat use unrestricted as apn and set dmz to the pc or console you are playing on.
 
cavedog said:
Telkom might not be the best option but gove it a try with a prepaid card and Telkom mo nice deals.

Just change the apn name to unrestricted and you are good to go nothing complicated.

To get open nat use unrestricted as apn and set dmz to the pc or console you are playing on.
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I'll try it the next couple days and post my results. What other options are there? Vodacom Fibre is the only other and I'm staying away from vodacom.
 
CookieSon said:
I'll try it the next couple days and post my results. What other options are there? Vodacom Fibre is the only other and I'm staying away from vodacom.
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Well Vodacom fibre is Open access now. You can choose Cool Ideas or Accelerit as an ISP and never deal with Vodacom.
 
Anyone know whether Supersonic (MTN) has an unrestricted APN for VPN purposes?
 
BradleyKZN said:
I never got the PM, and now I no longer have supersonic so wouldnt be able to help. Maybe someone else will pop in that can
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As far as I know you get a 41. Supersonic IP on the wan port which means no unrestricted APN is required as the IP is not a natted one.
 
For what its worth, I still play a lot of UT around the world and I used to have ADSL which was reasonable but had a fair bit of lag, some disconnections etc.
In 2018 I switched to Telkom LTE and am still there, although I have 3 companies Fibre outside my gate.
I am extremely happy with my LTE and would not swap it for Fibre.
Gaming is smooth like I've never known it with ADSL, even in OZ and NZ where my pings are over 400, the gaming experience is very smooth.
 
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