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Tover:
Na U b d real Badoo o, 30days non stoping, U get inverter I guess, the maximum my router has been on is 35hours that is from Saturday evening till the Monday morning, if I don't work on Sunday

Omo na Nepa light o this Band A ish the light been stable lately

I hope i won't get into any trouble living my ODU on for 3 days+ last time i left my MTN 5G Router on for 30 days naso as i reboot am e no on again it's still softbrick and can't fix it

Tover:
It seems Airtel network is bad this morning., who else noticed this. Abi na only me the experience am lol

I put on flight mode tire na now e dey work but very slow and funny thing with this thing network reception is 100% ok

Is there a data service outage?

Tover:
What is the speed

Full Speed around 40 to 60 ish usually stable at 50

Tover:
Na wa o, what about using another Sim card with it?

Currently using different sim seff i haven't sub the esim for like 2 months now 😅

NSEstudent:
You mean the other day way? 🤔

Even if na other way make hin just get the sim that can run ODU sub

Mariangeles:
Start by telling your mum to stop pressing OK to messages.

Why are they even sending those push notifications seff some elderly will always press ok even none elderly sometimes press ok in a rush

Gidah:
Actually notnsure if thats the reason but im convinced uts the start of the problem

Your problem has to do with Airtel aggressive throttling they do this to some people sometimes you have to get another ODU sim different from the one that comes with the device to break free from that speed throttling cus Airtel won't fix no matter how much you complain they will only do so at their own discretion

NSEstudent:
So when they said if no subscription they will take it back, what would they do if they come around and see that the reason it's not being subscribed is because the battery is dead and they don't have spare parts? They are not serious at all.

I already see people selling the routers in black markets for mere 40k and stuff.

This is why Starlink is thriving. Small issues they will change the entire package for you, free of charge.

Come to think of it i think they will never retrieve the device even if you failed to sub for 3 months cus that's what they said with that Nokia own then and there was no retrieval i still have the device seff but that one no get power bank

NSEstudent:
So when they said if no subscription they will take it back, what would they do if they come around and see that the reason it's not being subscribed is because the battery is dead and they don't have spare parts? They are not serious at all.

I already see people selling the routers in black markets for mere 40k and stuff.

This is why Starlink is thriving. Small issues they will change the entire package for you, free of charge.

I swear to God Starlink even allow me give out my old Gen2 as against their Policy

Chai i don dey approach 1TB again.

NSEstudent:
Call their customer care.

I don’t even think this device has a warranty. The other one I helped my friend buy came with a battery issue, and when I reported it to the Airtel office where it was bought, they said they don’t do repairs and don’t even have spare batteries. My friend is still using it without battery backup.

Tover:
Very good .. my reviews about it has been superb...the backup will last you for more than 5hours

That's better than the other ZLT in battery backup

Very dangerous precedent if left unchecked it might create a Bank Run

moremuch1:
This is the x17U, a downgrade of X17M , it has a lot of complaints from this thread, it's only selling point is the battery life which is way better than the X17M, if that's the only device available, he should get it , but if there's another model available, he shouldn't get this

Yeah they only have this type

Shey this type good na wetin them get for Kaduna office asking for a friend

Lol una never see anything 🤣

4litres:
So i have been following the thread for awhile now and i have learnt a lot from all of u. I also want to give a small update I just discovered. So i have this m30 mifi that has wan port and i decided to use it in place of the idu so as to reduce the bulk and battery consumption when moving it around. Lo and behold, it worked like a charm and the battery now lasts way over 12hrs since it's only the odu that's now connected to it. So basically, the idu was the main culprit on the power bank since it uses dc power. This also means, if u have any mifi that has a wan port on it, doesn't matter if it's mtn or airtel, it will work.

This won't work with ZLT

Tover:
The network was a little bad at first I restart my router and boom , the network good again, wen eva U are facing bad network, restart your router, the speed will increase

I restarted like 2x still same na why i say network dey bad but it's good now

enoch5553:
No oh. This problem has been since. Before I even got a physical SIM. It started on the 12th

Me swapping to Physical SIM was literally a last ditch effort when band locking, cell locking, moving it around didn't work. And Airtel themselves have proven unable to fix it for the past 10days now

In your own case you just need another ODU sim the problem is with your current sim it has some sort of throttling applied by Airtel

NSEstudent:
Barely pass 50mbs abi you mean 5mbs?

Na 45k own you subscribe?

I swear na typo i mean 5Mbps not 50Mbps

NSEstudent:
Maybe Airtel have finally done something about my constructive criticism of their nightly network issues in my area, because tonight has been fantastic. And this is usually the time the issue happens.

Abi is it generally tonight?

And it's terrible here barely pass 5mbps

Lately I'm getting very poor service from Airtel the network no stable at all

saint2ace:
Nice to hear the ZTE is back, but why do you consider it the younger brother? Secondly, which IDU is it paired with as i hear it supports wifi 7?

Wifi 7 ke i don't think Airtel will ever give Wifi 7 Enabled router on top 50mbps and 100mbps max subscriptions 802.11be routers are so expensive

enoch5553:
After 6 days?

Airtel can be so dubious sometimes

enoch5553:
Feedback on this😭😭
I've swapped it to physical SIM and I'm still getting the same speeds
1mbps

Guys I don't know what to do again

Then your sim has been throttled just wait till the sub expire and do another one

enoch5553:
I've done the swap.
The person told me to wait till 7, o'clock before I put it in but I wanted to ask how long it usually takes.
Also does switching to physical Sim deactivate the eSIM?

No it doesn't but the swap render the esim useless

enoch5553:
Yh thank you.
Must it be at an airtel office? Or can I go to like a kiosk and get it done?
Also will the current subscription carry over?

Yes you can do it anywhere and your subscription will carryover

enoch5553:
Yeah my normal SIM works well with fast speed

But what do I do now? I heard that I can swap the eSIM to a normal SIM do I need to go to an Airtel Office or can I do it Roadside and the plans and bundles would carry over?

Yes you can swap anywhere a friend did swapped yesterday and it was successful in less than an hour

enoch5553:
Ok will try that, thanks

But if the issue is the eSIM what can I do?

You will have to do a sim swap to physical

enoch5553:
Yeah it has a sim slot but there's no SIM inside. Should I put in one of mine?

Yes put on your normal Airtel sim with data test the ODU so that you can isolate if the fault is from the device