Huawei B315 vs B618

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I would like to get Rain LTE and I have a choice between the Huawei B315 and B618. The B618 is more expensive, so is it worth the extra money?

Also would I be able to use any of these two routers if I get a fibre connection in the future?

Thanks!
 
The B315 that is offered on Rain does not support TDD 2600MHz which Rain has the most spectrum on. If you want the choice of switching between bands 3 and 38 the B618 is the way to go it also supports LTE-A on certain bands but NOT on Rain so if you are happy with only getting access to band 3 then the B315 will work. Vabd 3 has half the spectrum of band 38.

I would always recommend the B618 as you have choice to switch bands with the huawei tool. The B315 you are stuck on 1 band only even if band 38 is faster you can't use it.
 
I have a B618 and it's got an Ethernet WAN port. If your fibre modem has an Ethernet out port you could use the B618 with it, but most fibre modems AFAIK also have Wifi built in, so what's the point.

Haven't used a B315.
 
Anyone else have this problem: you can only set the B618's IP address in the 192.168.x.x range. You can't for example use 10.10.13.x or any of the other private (or public) address spaces. There are only 2 text boxes in the web interface for setting the IP address, relating to the last 2 numbers of an IP address. The first 2 numbers are hard-coded to 192 and 168 and cannot be changed.

This a PITA, as I need to configure this router on a specific IP address to cater a specific network need. This is going to complicate things unnecessarily.

I have the B618-22d from Afrihost on a RAIN package.
 
NO VOLTE on 315... So VoIP protocol will be used (3G) so calls will not improve.
 
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