I get adult filtering enabled with either APN. Also, I actually see 10ms _slower_ ping times on 3internet compared to three.co.uk

In reply to a post by gary333:

Do you know if the Mkrotik 4g kit happens to support carrier aggregation?

It does not, it has their own R11e LTE card installed, but this can be swapped out with a number of Sierra and Huawei LTE cards with do support CA

I've tested both official APNs. I see no difference in latency, speed-test throughput, nor any change in blocking behaviour. I've not studied the routing used.

The only difference I've noticed is many more dropped pings using three.co.uk. I've not noticed any problems with packet-loss in normal use, so I guess this is an ICMP deprioritising setting somewhere.

I have tried both APN's and did get a 10ms better ping with 3internet in a B525.

I couldn't activate mine through the site so started a chat session to activate, they offered a free upgrade to unlimited data for 1 Month. This could be a standard offer, so well worth trying if looking for short-term data or doing loads of speed tests

Is the R11e-Lte card swap an easy to do thing and is there a guide to do that pleasE?

Virgin Mobile piggybacks EE, as for unlimited plans they are locked at 999 GB, called fair usage policy.

Edited by bigluap (Wed 05-Feb-20 15:39:39)

Unless you already have a SXT LTE 4G I would recommend just getting the SXT LTE6 kit which is newer and can do according to the specs 300/50Mbps with carrier aggregation. However it is still limited with a 100Mbps ethernet port. However as I said previously if you are having to resort to this for your internet connection, you are most likely to be chuffed to bits with a 100/50Mbps internet connection.

I would also note that Mikrotik now offer a R11e-LTE6 modem which is presumably what the SX LTE6 kit comes with and would likely turn a previous SXT into the latest version. I would suggest asking on the Mikrotik forums for advice.

Edited by jabuzzard (Wed 05-Feb-20 15:41:04)

In reply to a post by bigluap:

Virgin Mobile piggybacks EE, as for unlimited plans they are locked at 999 GB, called fair usage policy.

And VM have announced they are switching to Vodafone as their host network during 2020.

Thanks mate, the price point didnt make much difference, so I have ordered the sxt-lte6 kit. I fail to understand why not put a Gig ports in a device which has a 300M modem. I understand that the full speed is never achievable but, i can easily see 120M download on my mobile due to CA.