How to create a killer LTE set-up

[Kevin Lancaster]

How to create a killer LTE set-up

Andre Fourie, Chairman at Poynting Group, has explained how you can build a killer LTE set-up which provides great speeds, low latency and jitter, and high reliability.

 

[Icemanbrfc]

Meh

 

[Ockie]

Very interesting with good results, but not very practicle for the every day person.

 

[Thor]

Those uploads speeds are pretty bad.

 

[Romito]

What's with the Vodacom + Telkom obsession. What about the other 2 operators?

 

[dotcat]

Been tryna do this ages ago - first! But then I realised you would need a gigabit version of the load balancer and double your speed for double your money. Decided one is good enough as I get 80Mb/s with one anyways.

https://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showth...-confusion?p=18993712&highlight=#post18993712

 

[JerryMungo]

Very interesting with good results, but not very practicle for the every day person.

Very practical actually - just point your tech to the article and pay them what they're worth

Very good article... useful real world info.

 

[JerryMungo]

Those uploads speeds are pretty bad.

Compared to? ADSL? VDSL?

 

[AirWolf]

Vodacom LTE costs both arms, both legs, both kidneys, your liver and your heart, if you want any kind of decent cap i.e. 100GB+.

 

[deweyzeph]

Vodacom LTE costs both arms, both legs, both kidneys, your liver and your heart, if you want any kind of decent cap i.e. 100GB+.

Exactly. Telkom is the only LTE provider provides even remotely affordable high volume LTE packages. The rest of the providers will bankrupt you.

 

[Chingha]

CellC Giga at R2k for 200GB prepaid doesn't seem too expensive...

 

[AirWolf]

CellC Giga at R2k for 200GB prepaid doesn't seem too expensive...

It is when compared to Telkom Mobile R599 for 300GB soft-cap. Granted you can't get it at that price now. Current price is R799. But still dependant on tower and area. One of the good things about not living in a city .

 

[supersunbird]

CellC Giga at R2k for 200GB prepaid doesn't seem too expensive...

It is when compared to Telkom Mobile R599 for 300GB soft-cap. Granted you can't get it at that price now. Current price is R799. But still dependant on tower and area. One of the good things about not living in a city .

Prepaid vs contract... R2000pa (for 200GB) vs R9588pa (for possibly 3.6TB)... sure thing to buy vs Telkom credit check dependent

 

[AirWolf]

Personally, prepaid vs contract doesn't bother me - price per GB does.

 

[supersunbird]

Personally, prepaid vs contract doesn't bother me - price per GB does.

Of course it doesn't, with your superior credit record, but some young person with hardly a credit record it might

 

[ThinkCentre]

This is very interesting reading! I would like to know what kit is used and what did it cost?

 

[supersunbird]

This is very interesting reading! I would like to know what kit is used and what did it cost?

The 2 LTE routers are Huawei B315s, the external antennas are Poynting’s XPOL-6-10M outdoor antennas and the load balancing box... who knows, skipping important details, the Poynting gets a model nr and everything, the other items no mention.

 

[Thor]

Compared to? ADSL? VDSL?

I get 3.88 consistently on vdsl

 

[ThinkCentre]

The 2 LTE routers are Huawei B315s, the external antennas are Poynting’s XPOL-6-10M outdoor antennas and the load balancing box... who knows, skipping important details, the Poynting gets a model nr and everything, the other items no mention.

The load balancer is a TP-LINK TL-R470T+ router and is at Takelot for R1 122,00.
http://www.takealot.com/tp-link-tl-r470t-router/PLID32579745

The 3G Routers is at Takealot for R1 925.00
http://www.takealot.com/huawei-b315-lte-wifi-router/PLID38676635

How is that an advert for Takealot?

 

[AirWolf]

At 1.5k a piece, you're looking at, at least R7.5k.