Sign up with Google
ghostRgg
Expert Member
- Joined
- Sep 5, 2019
- Messages
- 1,993
I have been messing around with Rain since it seems that Fibre is still a while away (or never coming) and ADSL is even more unstable than dial-up back when with my mom making calls every 2 minutes.
For some strange reason, on the floor of the storage room on a little box, rain gets around 40-50mbps down and 10 up, which is amazing and that's with great latency. The tower it connects to is a normal 4G 1800 which is 940m away, and sometimes if I stand at the edge of the property I get the 2600 range signal, for a second or two (4G+). Although trying to use the 2600 band it hiccups at 6mbps and dies on upload.
So here is my crazy problem. I just picked up a B618-22d router to increase the speed and have been fiddling around for hours now. It gets worse speeds than the phone, while the ping is better by around 5ms its connected to the same tower. Sitting at around 20 down and 1.5 up. I am waiting for much later to test the speeds for more consistency, but it seems broken.
To double-check things, I used my MTN sim in my Samsung S8 to test. Same room, pointed it at the window and was getting 155mbps down and 32 up. Crazy speeds. Threw it into the router and was only getting around 70mbps and 15 up. Which to me feels really bloody strange, especially since the MTN tower is the same and is only 300m away. Both times I have put the router and the phone pointing the same direction.
So... what tests, experiments and crazy contraptions should I try?
For some strange reason, on the floor of the storage room on a little box, rain gets around 40-50mbps down and 10 up, which is amazing and that's with great latency. The tower it connects to is a normal 4G 1800 which is 940m away, and sometimes if I stand at the edge of the property I get the 2600 range signal, for a second or two (4G+). Although trying to use the 2600 band it hiccups at 6mbps and dies on upload.
So here is my crazy problem. I just picked up a B618-22d router to increase the speed and have been fiddling around for hours now. It gets worse speeds than the phone, while the ping is better by around 5ms its connected to the same tower. Sitting at around 20 down and 1.5 up. I am waiting for much later to test the speeds for more consistency, but it seems broken.
To double-check things, I used my MTN sim in my Samsung S8 to test. Same room, pointed it at the window and was getting 155mbps down and 32 up. Crazy speeds. Threw it into the router and was only getting around 70mbps and 15 up. Which to me feels really bloody strange, especially since the MTN tower is the same and is only 300m away. Both times I have put the router and the phone pointing the same direction.
So... what tests, experiments and crazy contraptions should I try?
