Home Connecta Flexi

joshuatree said:
Off topic. Anybody tried keeping a Mifi plugged in permanently? End result would be a botched battery and fire?
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Hi,
At the moment I have the charger attached to a timer. Running for about 4 hours 3X a day. Might change the period. Watching how low the battery gets just before the timer charges it again.
Will post here, although probably different for each household depending internet usage.
Hans
 
My home connecta sim wws witkikh perfectly until yesterday, it says no sim. I bought it on Thursday 17 June 2021. What could be the problem
 
Sonkophe said:
My home connecta sim wws witkikh perfectly until yesterday, it says no sim. I bought it on Thursday 17 June 2021. What could be the problem
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This could be the problem :

Cell C HomeConnecta sim deactivated

I bought a Home Connecta new Sim Pack at Cell C outlet in Gateway , Umhlanga last month. All was well with the 5GB+ 5GB till I finished using it. I loaded 200 Gb for R389 and it worked for few days and all of a sudden it has just stopped. I rebooted my router and it just showed red...
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Answer from @Jake45 - "I bought and Rica'd an All-In-One SIM for R4 from Checkers which I converted to the Home Connecta Flexi tariff and loaded the 5+5GB bundle. I recently loaded the R199 50+50GB bundle and the new bundle has been working since the 2nd June. I think the customers who are using the SIM cards bought directly from Cell C appear to be having these type of disconnection problems."

Did you perhaps buy your SIM directly from Cell C ?
 
Sonkophe said:
My home connecta sim wws witkikh perfectly until yesterday, it says no sim. I bought it on Thursday 17 June 2021. What could be the problem
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I'm on my 3rd sim card. There's something on Cell C's side surely. My first 2 sims went kaput the in identical fashion: first day after midnight.
BayCityRoller said:
Did you perhaps buy your SIM directly from Cell C ?
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That's what I did. my 3rd sim is still working so here's hoping.
 
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My area gets 100+Mbps on MTN but on Cell C I get the above.
 
elriconess said:
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My area gets 100+Mbps on MTN but on Cell C I get the above.
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I do somewhat better on Cell C, but not by too much, though it's usable for me ; in fact, my downloads seem (from a sensory perception point-of-view) to be almost as fast on Cell C as they are on Telkom, and I also don't sense pings are any slower when loading web pages.


Ping 45ms
Jitter 2ms
Download 7.9Mbps
Upload 1.7Mbps

Mweb
Johannesburg
Cell C
105.0.1.255
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Ping 61ms
Jitter 4ms
Download 8.6Mbps
Upload 1.7Mbps

Mweb
Cape Town
Cell C
105.0.1.255

Don't know why the IP address is the same for JHB & CPT - is that possible ?
I clearly did a 2nd test choosing the CPT server.
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My Telkom speeds can be similar to yours, but usually somewhere between 50 - 100+ Mbps.
MTN I used to get about 45 / 45 Mbps, but that went away suddenly & had regular cut-outs from their network, daily (via Afrihost, last year).

I'm taking a bit of a chance from the 1st July by getting the 200 GB (100 + 100) Cell C package for R389 (60 days), while still available - might be gone after the beginning of September ?
Had previously thought to get a more balances mix of Telkom & a lower package of Cell C, but this Cell C pricing / data is too good to pass up.

Will keep 10 + 10 GB Telkom going through Axxess, in case Cell C conks out at times, because I double-checked in my router the other day that Cell C only has 4G / Auto (one and the same, I'm sure) available so if that goes, there's no way to use 3G as a backup, unlike Telkom which reverts back to 3G at times (primarily when power outages occur).
 
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It seems to be all over the place but not complaining at the price.
 
BayCityRoller said:
I do somewhat better on Cell C, but not by too much, though it's usable for me ; in fact, my downloads seem (from a sensory perception point-of-view) to be almost as fast on Cell C as they are on Telkom, and I also don't sense pings are any slower when loading web pages.





My Telkom speeds can be similar to yours, but usually somewhere between 50 - 100+ Mbps.
MTN I used to get about 45 / 45 Mbps, but that went away suddenly & had regular cut-outs from their network, daily (via Afrihost, last year).

I'm taking a bit of a chance from the 1st July by getting the 200 GB (100 + 100) Cell C package for R389 (60 days), while still available - might be gone after the beginning of September ?
Had previously thought to get a more balances mix of Telkom & a lower package of Cell C, but this Cell C pricing / data is too good to pass up.

Will keep 10 + 10 GB Telkom going through Axxess, in case Cell C conks out at times, because I double-checked in my router the other day that Cell C only has 4G / Auto (one and the same, I'm sure) available so if that goes, there's no way to use 3G as a backup, unlike Telkom which reverts back to 3G at times (primarily when power outages occur).
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This is my biggest issue. Data transfer is also not available on this package so can't use another sim without paying extra.
 
Swa said:
This is my biggest issue. Data transfer is also not available on this package so can't use another sim without paying extra.
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You can transfer up to 1GB to another SIM from the Home Connecta Flexi. If you recharge with amounts of R50 onto an All-In-One SIM card you can accumulate 4~8GB of additional data which only lasts 7 days but I normally use all of it before it expires or you can spread the recharges throughout the month to allow usage over the entire period.
 
Jake45 said:
You can transfer up to 1GB to another SIM from the Home Connecta Flexi. If you recharge with amounts of R50 onto an All-In-One SIM card you can accumulate 4~8GB of additional data which only lasts 7 days but I normally use all of it before it expires or you can spread the recharges throughout the month to allow usage over the entire period.
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Doesn't work on the Home Connecta plan.
 
Jake45 said:
You can transfer up to 1GB to another SIM from the Home Connecta Flexi. If you recharge with amounts of R50 onto an All-In-One SIM card you can accumulate 4~8GB of additional data which only lasts 7 days but I normally use all of it before it expires or you can spread the recharges throughout the month to allow usage over the entire period.
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There's no such option. I know where it is for my other sim but it's not there for the Home Connecta Flexi plan.
 
I transferred 1GB from my HCF to my AIO SIM a few weeks ago using the android app.

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Gudnews said:
I'm on my 3rd sim card. There's something on Cell C's side surely. My first 2 sims went kaput the in identical fashion: first day after midnight.

That's what I did. my 3rd sim is still working so here's hoping.
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Mine also stopped working on Friday. I have Cell C signal but no 4G. I still have 7gb left according to the app. I tried a different phone as well. Guess I'll need to get a new sim but I still have 7gb left.
 
Raxi said:
Mine also stopped working on Friday. I have Cell C signal but no 4G. I still have 7gb left according to the app. I tried a different phone as well. Guess I'll need to get a new sim but I still have 7gb left.
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If you have data left it wasn't deactivated and a new sim won't make any difference. During load shedding I had many issues with this even at times there wasn't load shedding. When you activate it it locks to one tower. Pray this is the one with the strongest signal and it's the only one on the same level so it doesn't switch. Despite the tower further away having 0-1 bar signal on my old sim it simply refused to allow data to pass through. When the 2-3 bar tower returned it worked again. So if your usual tower goes then so does your service.

The way this was implemented leaves a lot to be desired and they should go back to the drawing board. Nowhere was it said to be fixed LTE.
 
Raxi said:
Mine also stopped working on Friday. I have Cell C signal but no 4G. I still have 7gb left according to the app. I tried a different phone as well. Guess I'll need to get a new sim but I still have 7gb left.
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On a phone, select only 4G ( preferred network type - prefer LTE ) at network settings and see what happens?
 
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joshuatree said:
On a phone, select only 4G ( preferred network type - prefer LTE ) at network settings and see what happens?
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Thanks. I've tried that as well, but if it's locking to a tower, or has limited switches between towers, that might be the issue.
 
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