What is going on here?

Looks like I may have to do the same.

But I'm pretty convinced now the problem has something to do with the modem they sent me. The SIM works fine in my cellphone tethered to PC. But I can't keep swapping SIMs like this so I'm waiting for their reply yet again.

I asked them how to flash the firmware on this thing and they just told me to hold the reset button :( Did it anyway just for support sake but it still didn't work.
 
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Bobbin said:
Their tech support re-did something to my account, re-provisioned SIM and everything. Still same problem :(

I replied this morning with another ping test and if I should bring the device in to an Afrihost office for them to check. No reply since... lets wait and see.
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Any reply back from Afrihost support?
 
Yeah they say I can bring it in for them to take a look. I just need to make some time now and find an office. I believe there is one on Rivonia road that just recently moved so might make my way there.
 
Success!!! At least for now. They swapped out the device and my ping is stable so far. Can't believe how strange this issue was and it turning out to be the modem.
 
Bobbin said:
Success!!! At least for now. They swapped out the device and my ping is stable so far. Can't believe how strange this issue was and it turning out to be the modem.
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It sounds like your modem was dropping to standby mode early after data transfer with no delay.
I am mot sure if this is the same concept on LTE though, I could be wrong.

I remember on the Huawei USB modems, you could change the power save timeout via AT commands to 0 so the modem would always be in HSxPA mode and never drop to WCDMA, this was very useful when doing Voice over 3G to keep latency constant.

With 3G when there is no activity for more than 30 seconds the modem drops from HSxPA to WCDMA to save power, once you start moving data it jumps back to HSxPA and the cycle starts all over again.

Just a theory :confused:
 
Hummercellc said:
It sounds like your modem was dropping to standby mode early after data transfer with no delay.
I am mot sure if this is the same concept on LTE though, I could be wrong.

I remember on the Huawei USB modems, you could change the power save timeout via AT commands to 0 so the modem would always be in HSxPA mode and never drop to WCDMA, this was very useful when doing Voice over 3G to keep latency constant.

With 3G when there is no activity for more than 30 seconds the modem drops from HSxPA to WCDMA to save power, once you start moving data it jumps back to HSxPA and the cycle starts all over again.

Just a theory :confused:
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If you could give me that at command it woulb be much apreciated. I dont seem to be able to find it with google but my google fu is not very good.
 
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