how do you choose the band? hmanager?

then what do you mean it didn't want to connect to both?

also check first if your area is covered by Digi 4G+, i'm using B618 but i dont get any 4G+ in my area

"Purchasing anything more than a CAT 4 LTE-A certified device/modem is a waste of money at the moment."

This is true but you are very out of context here, the same thing i could say purchasing any GSM based device/modem is a waste of money in this fiber broadband era, why would you want to pay RM150 per month before tax (digi i150) and pay more for modem (up to RM500+ for a B618) for a speed depending on your location/signal/congestion and all the BS that comes with it when you can just pay RM99 per month for 100/100mbps or RM139 for 500mbps with the best ping and consistency from TIME without the need to spend more for devices like modem/router??

first is availability issue, i dont think i need to explain more, it should be easy where i'm going from here, should be so obvious how out of context my statement is.

the same thing with your statement, you should first understand why they buy B618 (a device that is more than a CAT4 LTE-A) in the first place, this Digi signal coverage is pretty bad for many of them, there are 2 things that have been proven to help:

first is the ability to lock band (this is basic, where even phones can do with some 3rd party app), some cheaper huawei modem can do it too, whats not basic is the ability to lock and use multiple band together (CA - Carrier Aggregation) which huawei B618 can do

second is b618 awesome internal antenna, which is just simply outmatch every other modem in the same price range.

i didn't know all of these 2 months ago, but if you've spent much time digging information in many forums or groups about this specific problem, you would know how famous this B618 is now in MY, at first i was reluctant to type like this, because in one of that group recently got flooded by big wave of people joining because they started to hear about it, and i know for a fact things about networking especially like this, the more people use, the "dangerous" it will get, you wouldnt want more people using digi i150 spamming 150mbps down speed, things like congestion or even digi changing their mind is on the table


"45Mbps is inaccurate. Effectively the full max you can go is 80% of 50Mbps with overheads involved with packets."

oh man, you are going to bring something from networking class back in college? you wouldn't meet as you and her speak a different "language", what she refer and most if not all people here when they talk about the speed they get is simply the result from speedtest.net

again, i think context is so necessary

i think nothing is wrong, its just that it will never connect since it's different context, he/she speaks technical things, when the rest here dont, its just that

it might just mean your area is not covered by their 4G+, just like mine, i can get b3, b7 and b8, and can connect to both b3+7 and b3+b8 just fine (modem capable CA feature), but it will never be as fast as those people connected in 4G+ mode. I've seen ss of other ppl on the same band with about the same reading as mine, they get like 169mbps and i got only around 101mbps

dont mistaken CA and 4G+, CA is one of the key component of 4G+, CA is not necessary a 4G+ as it is also being used in other tech, you can read more about this from so many sources on internet

for example here: http://www.telecomabc.com/c/carrier-aggregation.html

my speedtest result of B3+B7 and also B3+B8 in a non 4G+ area during the same period of time are not similar to any of the B3, B7, B8 speedtest result

"Thanks for your kind compassion but it's really true statement out of heart. Real world speed performance during peak hours (8pm-12am daily), download speeds are just slow due to the mobile carrier having to conserve for its LTE network."

i sincerely want to help but only if you want to be helped, i kinda suspect what is this you are referring as 10-30mbps during peak hours (8pm-12am daily), do let me know if you are even willing to try

"Speedtests results are just superficial, try streaming a 720p or higher reso video from some Europe/US server and tell me your experience.
This is where fixed line cable networks prevail with their low ping times."

it is superficial, but not far from accurate, if you compare the "auto" speedtest run that would choose the nearest/lowest ping server with your inter connection to like you said EU/US server, then we both know where the problem lies, you know you can change the server to test in speedtest.net right?




i just ran this before i type all of this only to show you, it's torrent btw, i hope it is real world application enough

and yes i agree routing for international connection is much better in celcom than digi

if i remember correctly you need to activate it using MY DIGI app, ppl say by default it should be activated, but it didnt in my first i150, but it did automatically activated on my newest i150 sim card, on the very first time i inserted the sim card to my phone, i received the SMS saying "Successfully Activated - Vo-LTE."

i finally started to see Digi 4G+ in my area, but only on my B618, its never appear even once on my 4G+ capable phones

but because of this there is a new complication, during peak hours, the 4G+ seems to be congested, whenever its at 4G speed is decent, once its switched to 4G+ speed is really bad

at other times, 4G is really not usable while 4G+ is decent or even good, but as we all know already it wont stay at 4G+ all the time, unless there is a heavy load in our bandwidth, so in this situation what i did was to open those 8 hours long videos on youtube and set it to the lowest quality, just enough to keep the line "locked" to 4G+

i mean i've been using B618 for more than a month now, but only 2 days ago i see its connected to 4G+ in my area

tried in 3 phones, but the one that i expected the most should at least get 4G+ is the iphone X

if its not working out with your seller, let me know and i will check with my seller, my device seems to be not affected with those "force" update things like we've seen so many cases in FB group, but the firmware is outdated, like you cant change/lock band in its web UI, but not a problem still can use hmanager

oh M1 indoor antenna is better? i've been reading some people wanted to top up to exchange their b618 to M1 during my search before i bought my B618, but i thought its expensive because its more portable and more fancy because of the LCD, and its portability is something that i dont need, and i was doubting it would last for heavy user, due to its smaller size, might get really hot during heavy use

This post has been edited by moshpit21: Jun 3 2019, 11:38 PM

did you refer to my post for no.1?

if yes, its so easy to see from both either for B618 web UI or hmanager

if you refer to his/her previous post where i commented about it, you would see how he/she still dont understand the thought process of majority of people who similarly found out B618 to be their saviour

completely missing the point if many people collectively came into conclusion for whatever what using B618 can offer (above average indoor antenna, and capability of locking band and CA)

rather he/she would just see it as a waste because B618 offers ONE technology that he/she would deem it as wasted as it will be underutilized

you can easily see when the rest of the people here talk about keywords such as indoor antenna, band, band locking etc

he/she talks CAT

i think this is pretty much covered everything you are asking

https://www.4gltemall.com/blog/huawei-b612-vs-huawei-b618/

it does support 4G+
it doesn't share the same chipset
its rocking 4x4 MIMO

and i'm interested to know too if Hmanager would be able to change/lock band for B612, but i remember hmanager wasnt made specifically for B618, and read before if some other models were able to change/lock band using hmanager as well, so it is more than possible for B612 to take advantage of Hmanager too


yeah, especially if indoor signal AND/OR auto chosen band congestion isnt the problem in the first place, there is no need to waste money for modem, just like i can use my phone to run 100mbps+ download speed on Celcom in my area

This post has been edited by moshpit21: Jun 4 2019, 12:29 PM

i just refer from that link i posted



and it seems there are 2 variants also, might want to make sure to get those with b3, b7, b8 if want to use for Digi infinite

This post has been edited by moshpit21: Jun 4 2019, 12:35 PM

care to share the source?

because even in huawei forum B612 said to have HiSilicon LTE Cat6 Chipset

here: https://forum.huawei.com/enterprise/en/Huaw...read/472785-863

just like mentioned in both 4GLTEmall web and also here https://www.5g-cell.com/huawei-b612-vs-huawei-b310/

it seems like Balong 750 is one of the high end chipset, one of many reason B618 retail price is expensive

i see, i really hope it is true and b612 can pull the same performance here locally as good as b618 and have cheaper price tag, so we as customers would have more options

https://www.thestar.com.my/business/busines...telenor-merger/

the chairman will be from Axiata

and this

https://www.thestar.com.my/business/busines...uawei/#cxrecs_s

huawei

This post has been edited by moshpit21: Jun 4 2019, 04:05 PM