What is the difference between MTN Lte and Afrihost Lte

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@Dan C Is correct it's not the same at all except for the tower and the transit to Teraco after that it's all Afrihost network.

This is essentially the same as having FrogFoot as your fibre provider and using Afrihost or Mweb as the ISP for example.

ISPs manage their own network capacity both on national and international transit, peering and other network resources. The MTN Fixed LTE is no different. MTN provides the last mile infrastructure just like a FNO and Afrihost does the rest as the ISP.

If you choose Afrihost as your ISP on MTN Fixed LTE you will get an Airmobile IP which is or mobile data network name. The routing will be that of Afrihost. If you choose MTN directly or Supersonic you will be using the MTN SA network or MTN Business network respectively.

I hope this clears it up.

Sorry if I'm reviving a dead thread here but I genuinely need some advice.

I live in the Eastern Cape and I'm currently on Supersonic, connected to a tower 800m away with excellent signal stats, my only issue is the latency to Cape Town, I get 70ms on average, and 30-50 to jhb. If I decide to cancel this and use Pure LTE, would this fix all the routing issues (especially cape town), including the connection drops and tower kicking me off (for whatever reason, thank you Supersonic)

I have cancelled my Supersonic package and hoping to move to Afrihost Pure LTE based off this post.

 

[longboy]

Are you talking about the MTN LTE mobile product or one of MTN's Fixed LTE services? The Afrihost Pure LTE is a Fixed LTE service. The mobile products can be used anywhere in South Africa while the Fixed LTE products are restricted to a single tower (which it appears can be changed from time to time). The Afrihost Fixed LTE products cut off your service once your monthly data bundle has been consumed. I don't know about the MTN mobile and Fixed services.

The Fixed LTE products must be used in Huawei B525, B612, B618 or ZTE MF286 router while the mobile products can be used in any router or phone etc. The mobile MTN LTE is obviously a more versatile product but you need to sign a 2 year contract. If you are prepared to sign up for a contract and all that entails and the prices are the same then the MTN mobile LTE is a better choice because you can use it anywhere.

If you order an Afrihost Pure LTE SIM it is a month to month service and can be cancelled at any time. The 6 month cancellation fee only applies if you purchase a subsidised Fixed LTE router and router plus SIM package from them and terminate the service within the first 6 months. I am using a 30+30GB SIM only bundle at the moment and the performance has been very predictable and reliable over the last 9 months or so.

If you don't already own a suitable router and you are considering the Fixed LTE products to avoid a contract, then one of the packages from WebAfrica that include a refurbished B618 router for R999 might be a cheaper option. The current routers that are approved for the Fixed LTE service are getting very dated so I don't think it would be advisable to spend much on something that will probably need to be replaced quite soon.

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Otherwise you can also look at Telkom prepaid. This may work out cheaper than a Telkom contract as you can purchase 61-day bundles and split your usage across two months. I think there is a 220+220GB prepaid option for R1059 which works out to R530pm for 110GB per month with 220GB of nighttime data only in the first month as against R699 on contract (120+120GB monthly).

Webafrica.

Not even once.

 

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On Telkom I get about 100 Mbit/sec at 2am but during the day it hovers around 25 to 30 MBit/sec. But this is more than enough for my needs. And as was stated, the connection is portable.