Huawei E589 LTE Router

[webdudeZA]

Hi,

I have just purchased one of these routers to try test Vodacom LTE.
I am based in Sea Point cape town, and am successfully finally using LTE!

Now I had to drive around a bit to actually find a location it would work.
It seems Sea Point gets a really week signal and basically achieves HSDPA speeds.
I drove up to Fresnaye and tested in a nice clear spot and started achieve 13MB downloads and 7 MB uploads.
My speedtest chowed 20MB :wtf:

I guess now I need to look for better data packages from Vodacom

Where else has anyone tested in SA?
And what has your experience/speeds been like?

 

[ginggs]

How's this?

Another Umhlanga LTE :

Sea Point LTE:

 

[webdudeZA]

That's awesome!
Where about in Sea Point did you get that?
I want to see that!

 

[LowVoltage]

Where did you buy it and how much did you pay?

I have just purchased one of these routers to try test Vodacom LTE.

 

[webdudeZA]

I bought one off BidOrBuy - http://www.bidorbuy.co.za/item/96823394/Huawei_LTE_Router_wireless.html

I shopped around for a bit and got quite annoyed with Vodacom's lack of stock and information.

 

[ginggs]

That's awesome!
Where about in Sea Point did you get that?
I want to see that!

Regent Street, near the Spar.

 

[webdudeZA]

Challenge Accepted!

 

[webdudeZA]

CHALLENGE FAILED

So it is with a sorry heart that I admit i cannot get ginggs speed reading.
Several Kilometers in my car and almost a complete data bundle later, I cannot breach the 14Mb mark in Sea Point

Curse you ginggs and your super awesome speeds!
Did you use Cell C for your test as indicated on the image?

 

[ginggs]

Curse you ginggs and your super awesome speeds!
Did you use Cell C for your test as indicated on the image?

Yes.

Here's another one for you:

Cell-C LTE, Kloof Street, Cape Town:

 

[webdudeZA]

Oh don't make me go buy a cell c sim .... Don't make me!

 

[georgegolding]

Boost your signal

LTE is known for having a weak signal indoors

The clear solution to me for a home or office solution is to put an LTE antenna on top of your house and you will dramatically imrpove your signal.

The speeds of 90Mbs download are maximum speeds if the network has the capacity and there is no one else using the tower, speeds of 13 and 20Mbs as I have seen above are extremely impressive. You can stream FULL HD movies at just over 1Mb/s downloads speed with 1-1 contention. How much BW do more you really need, as an individual?

I believe what we want as consumers is synchronous bandwidth so fast up and down and consistency even during the peak periods. I'll take 2MB of guaranteed synchronous bandwidth over promises of mega speeds every single time.

 

[E:V:A]

Challenge Accepted!

Does your SD card sharing work? (Mine doesn't.)
If it does, could you please provide model number and firmware version?
Thanks.

 

[fakiro]

E589u-12 Lot of Firmware

After a long search on the net, I want to share this flash firmware files for E589u-12
Please note that they are customized version, and need for flash code to load in your E589.

E589u-12 MDM9200Update_11.433.15.04.192.B788.exe thanks to Anton

E589u-12 MDM9200Update_11.433.17.01.260.exe


E589u-12 MDM9200Update_11.433.15.01.673.exe

E589u-12 MDM9200Update_11.433.14.01.1064.B788.exe

E589u-12 MDM9200Update_11.433.15.00.422.B788.exe

A very good list for other version E589u-512 you find HERE

 

[E:V:A]

Has anyone tried any of the updates wich include the ones marked with SDimage.BIN? Would be interesting to know what they changed...

 

[kamikazi]

Hmmm, what are the Wifi speeds like one these devices? The only document I could find specced it at 54Mbps for Wireless G, which would seem a little bit odd considering it supports a max download speed of 100Mbps...

 

[AirWolf]

What the price of these now?