Neotel Neobroadband LTE 4meg Home User

[Segg]

I'm also looking into this for the office, but I'm having huge issues trying to find upload speeds, would it be safe to assume that upload is roughly half that of your download?

 

[gpb51]

On the 4mbps line upload seems to be less than half, with download speeds stable around 3.9 to 4.2 upload speeds stick around 1.2 to 1.3 range

 

[Bellerophon86]

Hi gbp51. Could you run two additional speedtests? one to europe and one to USA? will be interesting to see what results you get internationally.

Thanks

 

[SideWinder]

Looking at Neotel's NeoBroadband Wireless pages on the net, it looks like the upload is capped at 1/3 of the download speed. So for a 4 Mbps service, you can expect to see roughly 1.3 Mbps.

 

[gpb51]

@Bellerophon86 some speed tests as requested. In the storm tonight pings seem to be a bit higher but downloads from steam are still at 470KB/s.

UK server


Warsaw, Poland


New York


San Francisco

 

[gpb51]

And some ping tests

Capetown


UK


USA

 

[Bellerophon86]

Thanks gpb51. Those are very good international speeds.

 

[agentrfr]

When I moved house 2 years ago to the Northwold / Northgate area Telkom said we should get 10mbps adsl at the time of installation the max sync rate was only 1mbps due to the distance of the exchange with constant problems. After a year Telkom installed VDSL into our area but missed our street, next door they have 20/40 mbps and we have a downgraded service of 560kbps. Several calls to Telkom asking when/how we could improve the internet speeds for our complex I was told that their is nothing we can do and they cant give me an update or estimated time on the updates for further VDSL roll-out in our area. We had Bitco come out but despite being less than 500m from their tower we had no line of slight. I called and emailed a few companies about FTTH and they all promised to come out to do a site visit for the whole complex but I never heard back from any of them.

So with no other option and reading the review in this thread I took the plunge signed the 24 month contract and got the 4mbps uncapped lte and I must say despite a less than favorable sales/install service I am happy the the overall internet service from neotel stable speeds and low ping. I would defiantly recommend Neotel LTE for those who have been let down but Telkom or that Bitco have been unable to help

Good to hear you are having an experience similar to mine.

Just a question; what are your modem stats? Specifically the RSSI and RSRP. You can get these going to your modem's IP ( normally 192.168.0.1 ), username admin, password admin, status, lte status and they show up there.

I'd like to know that from you and others so we can all compare signal strength / tower clarity and download/upload speeds and ping consistencies.

 

[gpb51]

RDRP = 10(-94dBm)
RSSI = -69dBm

Very similar to your first results, Im looking forward to tinkering with the direction this weekend

 

[nelca]

Small fast question:
Does anyone keep their routers on and connected during thunderstorms with a lot of lightning?
If so, is the antenna earthed?
Does the lightning not hamper the signal?

 

[agentrfr]

Small fast question:
Does anyone keep their routers on and connected during thunderstorms with a lot of lightning?
If so, is the antenna earthed?
Does the lightning not hamper the signal?

I live in Gauteng. I hear lightening and I unplug regardless.

Earthing of antenna depends on the setup I guess. Our pole on which the modem sits is earthed, but the modem isnt (modem and antenna are a single unit powered by POE).

Rain doesnt seem to hamper performance in any way, though this could be that LTE is designed for 100Mbit+ (LTE-A is Gbit+) and I'm throttled to 4Mbit and just cant physically notice it.

 

[nelca]

Hi

They came to install my Neotel Wireless Broadband 4meg LTE and it works very good. I was just disappointed that they gave me a Netgear MBRN3000 router that is not so great.

What other modems can be used on this product other than the Netgear?

 

[altaaf]

Hi nelca
Can you upload speed taste

 

[nelca]

Speed tests around the world...

http://www.speedtest.net/result/4178240531.png
http://www.speedtest.net/result/4178243464.png
http://www.speedtest.net/result/4178246600.png
http://www.speedtest.net/result/4178251939.png
http://www.speedtest.net/result/4178256101.png

Thanks

 

[altaaf]

Thanks that's looks good
I did apply I'm waiting

 

[agentrfr]

Hi

They came to install my Neotel Wireless Broadband 4meg LTE and it works very good. I was just disappointed that they gave me a Netgear MBRN3000 router that is not so great.

What other modems can be used on this product other than the Netgear?

Any. The setup merely uses the MBRN3000 to host a wireless signal, but has DHCP disabled. You can remove it enterly from your network if you want, as long as whatever you replace it with has DHCP turned off and bridges the WAN/LAN ports (if you even bother using the WAN port)

 

[nelca]

Hi

Thanks for the feedback. Is it not possible to disable DHCP from the LTE modem (outside aerial modem ) and enable dhcp on the inside wireless router.

I find that some of my connected devices lose their ip addresses and then they need to be restarted to renew the ip address.
If the routers dhcp was on i could give devices fixed ip's on the on the router itself.

 

[SideWinder]

Hi Nelca,

I've had a simular situation in the beginning (Sept 2014). Everything would be fine, and next day, either had to reboot everything or PC (but only certain ones). The problem was the DHCP lease time expiring. Login to the router (inside or outside, depending on who's serving IP addresses - only one should be active). Give all your fixed devices a fixed IP address. - You can also enable MAC address authentication - for added peace of mind. Also check the value in the DHCP lease expiry time, and set to maximum. I think the units is in seconds (or minutes, can't remember, haven't logged in for ages). You may need to play around with the number.

Hope this helps!

 

[That_JC]

Thank you for this detailed break-down. This convinced me to go for Neotel. Many questions answered! Bye-bye Hellkom!

 

[ChrisG79]

Everyone still happy with Neobroadband LTE? I have a 4 Mb ADSL right now and it is just to slow for me. I have just tried bitco but getting timouts on the link, so didn't help. Want to try the 10Mbps Neobroadband Wireless, just a bit scared of latency as I do play a lot of games? Hope the latency is stable and just as fast as the ADSL.
Can anyone give me some feedback on latency and gaming on the neobroadband lte?