Vodacom LTE - congested Tower Tokai

[Nardeth]

Hello MyBroadband

i have just done A Speedtest on SpeedGuide.net to France.
5.85 Mb/s Down
1 Mbit Uplink (105 kB/s)
285ms to France

i am using The Vodafone R216 MiFi Router with 2 Bars Signal. waiting for the Brand New Huawei B593 from Huawei Canal Walk. with the Huawei B593 and 3-4 Bars Signal, i use to Get 3.2 MB/Second Down & 2.5 MB/Second Uplink

Speedtest: Speedtest Network Platforms Johannesburg

 

[Nardeth]

Speedtest with Mozilla Firefox 57.0.1

 

[Nardeth]

Speedtest with Mozilla Firefox 57.0.1

 

[Nardeth]

http://install.speedtest.net/app/windows/latest/speedtestbyookla_x64.msi OOKLA Speedtest app for windows 7

 

[Nardeth]

Vodafone UK Speedtest R216 MiFi Router 3 Bars Signal Tokai

 

[Nardeth]

i Phoned vodacom 082 155 and asked for LTE Synchronization Turned off my Vodafone R216 LTE MiFi Router @ 13:14 Switched it on at 16:25 FAST LTE. LTE Sync takes THREE Hours to Complete after the Tech puts the phone Down.

 

[Nardeth]

Speedtest LTE R216 MiFi Router 2 Bars Signal With LTE Sync

 

[Nardeth]

Vodacom LTE Speedtest Tokai

 

[Nardeth]

 

[RedhotNeo]

Those speeds are weak.. log a fault with vodacom

 

[Nardeth]

Those speeds are weak.. log a fault with vodacom

yeah, they said it will take 7 working days including weekends to Resolve the issue, i logged a fault on Saturday night.

 

[Nardeth]

The reason i use vodacom Which i realize now, is not a good idea, i did a Telkom LTE speedtest 3 years ago 4G LTE Was 100 kilobytes as well, So? i don't know how good Cell C is in my Area.
The Vodacom LTE use to Be 1.6 Megabytes - 3.2 Megabytes Per Second. It's Dropped so Low as you can See.

 

[Nardeth]

This ^ is How Good the LTE use to Be.

 

[Nardeth]

Huawei B315 LTE Speedtest Tokai

 

[cavedog]

It does seem slow for LTE especially with Vodacom. They usually have a good average download speed.

 

[RedhotNeo]

Huawei B315 LTE Speedtest Tokai

that is terrible.. i did a speed test on tuesday in an area where there LTE-A and i got max 30Mb.. i was expecting something like 60 to 100Mb.

At home i get 45Mb with normal LTE

 

[Nardeth]

It does seem slow for LTE especially with Vodacom. They usually have a good average download speed.

this is with 3 Bars signal. two built in antennas

 

[Nardeth]

it turns out that downstairs the LTE is Slower.