Telkom Uncapped LTE Deal - My Trials So Far...

[kianm]

Slow

Lol you privileged internet user

 

[sand_man]

Just walked got home. Insert SIM and was surprised to see green light. Did first my speed test without even checking anything, using small aerial, in my lounge..

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Decent base on which to work. Reckon you could get 50mb easy with external.

 

[pinball wizard]

Just walked got home.

Do you work close to home, or is your car broken?

 

[CAPS LOCK]

Slow

Attached external aerial - no idea where the base station is....

 

[pinball wizard]

Attached external aerial - no idea where the base station is....


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That's pretty good. Should improve when you direct it at the tower.
Can you post your signal values?
Wireless Status
1 PLMN: 65502
2 Service status: Valid service
3 RSSI (dBm): -54.0
4 RSRP (dBm): -80.0
5 RSRQ (dB): -6.0
6 Roaming: No

 

[CAPS LOCK]

That's pretty good. Should improve when you direct it at the tower.

I'm happy with that actually. I don't have LOS to the base I'm pretty sure. Coming off 2mb line, it's surely delightful.

 

[pinball wizard]

I'm happy with that actually. I don't have LOS to the base I'm pretty sure. Coming off 2mb line, it's surely delightful.

I don't have LOS, and I'm nearly 2km from the tower, and I get:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/5054645935.png

And that's below what I average. I'm usually around 15-20% better than that on the DL side.

 

[Zyzzyva]

I'm happy with that actually. I don't have LOS to the base I'm pretty sure. Coming off 2mb line, it's surely delightful.

For now.

There was a time when i thought 4Mbit adsl was fast enough.

 

[Gtx Gaming]

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/5054708608

I used prepaid sim so long ,while i wait for my sim to go active.

Got 49mps with just the bunny ear antenna's that comes with the router!

 

[Boom3laar]

Got no clue what's going on with my lte finally got 5 bar signal telkom confirmed it's connecting to the right Base station yet I can't even get 10mb download

 

[Zyzzyva]

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/5054708608

I used prepaid sim so long ,while i wait for my sim to go active.

Got 49mps with just the bunny ear antenna's that comes with the router!

Thats similar to what i get using my iphone. It will be interesting to see what you get with the antenna.

 

[pinball wizard]

Got no clue what's going on with my lte finally got 5 bar signal telkom confirmed it's connecting to the right Base station yet I can't even get 10mb download

Don';t look at the "bars". That's signal strength, and is not really relevant. Look at the actual radio signal values.

 

[Boom3laar]

Don';t look at the "bars". That's signal strength, and is not really relevant. Look at the actual radio signal values.

Got the Huawei B315 router all I can find is

Rsrp -83db
Sinr jumps from 10 to 16 db

 

[pinball wizard]

Got the Huawei B315 router all I can find is

Rsrp -83db
Sinr jumps from 10 to 16 db

Guys posted the interpretation of the values and what is better here somewhere. I'll try find it.

 

[Boom3laar]

Guys posted the interpretation of the values and what is better here somewhere. I'll try find it.

http://blog.industrialnetworking.com/2014/04/making-sense-of-signal-strengthsignal.html

According to this website I got excellent signal but speeds not so hot

 

[pinball wizard]

http://blog.industrialnetworking.com/2014/04/making-sense-of-signal-strengthsignal.html

According to this website I got excellent signal but speeds not so hot

Yeah, that's it. Try different towers and try and get better values?

 

[cavedog]

Attached external aerial - no idea where the base station is....


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What area are you using the service?

 

[Boom3laar]

Yeah, that's it. Try different towers and try and get better values?

This is the closest station I got...it's just weirs the db ratings better than a few others yet I don't get any where near the speeds

 

[pinball wizard]

This is the closest station I got...it's just weirs the db ratings better than a few others yet I don't get any where near the speeds

I dunno then. I have a tower 200m from me, but I rather use one nearly 2km from me, cause I get better throughput.

 

[Gtx Gaming]

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/5054802308

I moved the router outside my home with the UPS keeping it alive.

80mps with the bunny ears ,I think the router might burn out if it goes any faster

Hope my uncapped speed are the same then the prepaid sim speeds.