Carrier Aggregation on Airtel 4G LTE

[RummaanKhan]

That's the Strategy started by Jio but still it is lot better than paying 250Rs for 1GB data which we used for a month those days.

 

[Bruce_Wayne]

I feel like high speed LTE will be beneficial only when daily data limits give way to monthly FUP limits. Of course, by monthly limit, I refer to a sizeable amount, such as upwards of 10GB a month.

We can never see that in prepaid.

 

[pothi]

@RummaanKhan You sent an empty reply. Did you mean to say anything?

And where people are getting 50Mbps ? Only in few places where congestion is less are getting this much speeds.

I live in a village where I have direct line-of-sight with Airtel and Jio towers, with close proximity. Airtel's speed is upwards of 25mbps and at times (aka rarely) cross 50mbps using band 40+40 CA. On Airtel, I had to bring down the speed to single digit using USB tethering (via a Mikrotik router), in order to save bandwidth and thus FUP while watching tech videos.

In another village, my house is in the middle of 4 Airtel towers. And the connection (between mobile and 4g tower) jumps between all four towers for every minute (as an example). I hardly get 1mbps in that case. As a side-note, I am getting a BSNL fiber soon in that village. So, I no longer worry about jumping between 4g towers in that village.

Basically, the 50mbps speed is achievable on any 4g network with proper conditions (like direct line-of-sight, lack of congestion, bands available, CA, MIMO, QAM, etc).

 

[Bruce_Wayne]

Atleast i was able to enable band 3 + 1 CA for my phone.

 

[philip]

I wish to know which app u are using for knowing the LTE Band info ?

 

[Bruce_Wayne]

It's network signal guru app from play store

 

[Rehan Kumar]

Anyone who wants to try 100 Mbps+ on 4G+ can try doing speedtest in newer underground metro stations whenever they are travelling(one i have tried is magneta line)
Was able to get 100+ Mbps on 4-5 stations i tried on Airtel

 

[Rehan Kumar]

Not related to previous post but this is what I got at various locations in Delhi and Gurgaon on Airtel on my OnePlus 7 (mostly on carrier aggregation)
Pretty damm impressive IMO

 

[RummaanKhan]

Yesterday B1+B40 got Connected but speeds were not that good. BtW My Phone doesn't shows 4G+ for Airtel even if it's connected to CA.

 

[RummaanKhan]

100Mbps Underground? Does small cells supports CA and Mimo coz Jio's small cells doesn't support CA and uses only 2x2 Mimo and Max speeds were 70Mbps.

Anyone who wants to try 100 Mbps+ on 4G+ can try doing speedtest in newer underground stations whenever they are travelling(one i have tried is magneta line)
Was able to get 100+ Mbps on 4-5 stations i tried on Airtel