LTE vs Fixed LTE

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Whats the difference between these 2? I'm guessing fixed normally has a wifi/LTE router connected to a directional antenna that's pointing to a base station whereas for normal you can use a MiFi device?

Is that why the ISP's site coverage maps have different footprints for the 2?
 
Fixed LTE is fixed. Meant to be used in a fixed location. Subject to a handful of routers only. Mobile LTE is open to any router that one has at their disposal.
 
abudabi said:
Whats the difference between these 2? I'm guessing fixed normally has a wifi/LTE router connected to a directional antenna that's pointing to a base station whereas for normal you can use a MiFi device?

Is that why the ISP's site coverage maps have different footprints for the 2?
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With Fixed LTE - you only allowed to connect to towers that have been allocated for this use, you won't be able to roam on other networks, also majority time it's either 4G or no Internet.

With LTE you can connect to any tower with the ability to roam - you also can connect to 3G.etc
 
If you are in a coverage area, you can take the LTE router and use it there. I give talks at a meeting where there is no internet and take the device along

I have discovered that the coverage area (of Rain at any rate) is a bit optomistic
 
Sumen said:
With Fixed LTE - you only allowed to connect to towers that have been allocated for this use, you won't be able to roam on other networks, also majority time it's either 4G or no Internet.

With LTE you can connect to any tower with the ability to roam - you also can connect to 3G.etc
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Thanks. Pretty much what I thought.

chrisc said:
If you are in a coverage area, you can take the LTE router and use it there. I give talks at a meeting where there is no internet and take the device along

I have discovered that the coverage area (of Rain at any rate) is a bit optomistic
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Hmm... was looking at rain as it's one of the few providers that gice coverage where my sis is staying.

Off topic but seeing as you are a rain user. Could I take the R250 uncapped option and just buy a gig throughout the month if/when I need it?
 
Rain's "fixed" LTE isn't fixed to a tower, I seem to recall Telkom was selling this kind at some stage but I don't know if they are now.

Rain also isn't selling fixed LTE anymore, unless you know someone who already has it and will transfer the contract to you.

You can take the R250 option and cap your spend at R250, i.e. you'd have no internet after 6pm but it would work perfectly fine. Many on this forum do that, some even switch over to a Telkom LTE sim at that time.
 
Hummercellc said:
Has anyone found a way to be assigned a public IP on mobile?
Fixed LTE gets public IP's, but not mobile.
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You can't be connected to the internets without an IP address.

On your phone (if you're on Android) go to Settings - System - About Phone - Status and it'll show you what your IP is.

How your device behaves on the network is a different question, and what kinds of traffic (incoming and outgoing) the ISP provides is also not a given, but you most certainly have an IP address.
 
newby_investor said:
You can't be connected to the internets without an IP address.

On your phone (if you're on Android) go to Settings - System - About Phone - Status and it'll show you what your IP is.

How your device behaves on the network is a different question, and what kinds of traffic (incoming and outgoing) the ISP provides is also not a given, but you most certainly have an IP address.
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Um, OK.
Not what I was asking, but Thanks
 
Rain support has advised that an unrestricted APN is not yet available. Which would lead me to believe that it will be in the near future.
So the best option is a mikrotik router + a VPN account with public IP's.
 
In that case the VPN option is one, or rent a VPS and SSH tunnel into it, this is what I do. I'm not on rain mobile though, I do it for the static IP.
 
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