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dustmalik:
Yeah, I don't know what's going on.

Check the box. You will see the I.P u can enter to open the ODU interface.

It's usually 192.168.254.1 for that variant. But check.

Peterlove11:
That's Lte band lock ....it doesn't have LTE cell lock. If you want lte cell lock which is far better, read my previous review and use the guy cell lock script, it works. Since have locked unto a particular Lte tower cell in my environment, I have been having full speed and the best data experience.

I see

Rokynwastar:
Looks like the ZTE G5F + MF296A does not have 4G cell Lock option. If it does, please point it out 🙏

I posted it earlier. Go to system, developer options...put in password and you'll see it.

lungwun:
Hello everyone,

I have followed this thread for quite a bit and I'm popping in to ask what your general thoughts are on all-in-one systems.
Thinking of acquiring the Growatt or Huawei from Fouani, mostly for the expandability and neater installations.
Does anyone have an experience with any of these items?
It would be good to know what your thoughts are
handy images attached below?

I'll advise you go on YouTube and watch Fisayo's (Tech review guy) review on the Huawei all in one unit.

Bottom line is it's way too pricey for what it's offering and you can get a better deal in terms of battery capacity and inverter by going the other way.

No idea about the growatt.

dustmalik:
My Starlink is also active. I can't cancel because I won't be able to get back on it, as Abuja has reached capacity.

Starlink performance has been terrible in Abuja for the past few weeks, so I use the Airtel mainly for Streaming stuff that Starlink is unable to.

Ok. Grt.

dustmalik:
There's no Airtel base station anywhere near my estate, and from what I have read about the ZTE ODU, it has a better antenna than the ZLT. The only drawback is its IDU, which doesn't support WiFi 6.

I see. You also have a starlink, how are you shuttling both? Do you pay for subscription for both at same time?

I was looking to replace the Airtel with my Starlink but was forced to activate mine when Airtel was out for 1 week. I am currently using both, trying to decide if it's worth taking the risk with Airtel. How is your experience so far?

dustmalik:
Like I said before, once the registration is completed, wait until it starts working before you leave the office.

Earlier today, I registered for a new one. Thank God their manager, who is a more experienced staff was there.

So, I opted for the ZTE variant. After registration was completed, they weren't sure if it was successful or not, but they were saying it would go through eventually. Then they showed their manager, who was standing nearby. He told them that it would fail, and that they should swap the line with a physical sim. Once that was done, they said I should go, that it would work. I then insisted on testing it before leaving. So, the manager himself inserted the sim inside the device and asked me to connect to it. Once I made sure that it was browsing, I left.

Why did you go for a second one?

Hullabaloon:
Which band do you lock to for better performance?

I'm locked to all bands. If your performance is poor, you could turn your antenna to face a different direction. My initial signal on installation was -84db which was very poor, so I mounted on my dstv dish and turned it facing another direction now I have -67db which is way better.

Mind you, this won't save you from the regular downtime you get from Airtel(Happens like once in a month or two and you could be out for upnto 1 week). Actually nothing can save you when it's your turn to suffer 😬

Hullabaloon:
Is this not equivalent to 4G lock on the ZTE?

Go to device management, click on developer option and put in your password. You'll see the band locking option there.
System>developer options> input password and voila.

Gshems:
how much is starlink

Got a brand new Gen 2 for 418k on Konga.

@Trafford yes with 2m you can do just fine. I live in a 3 bedroom flat and here's my set up;

24v 4.2kva Haisic hybrid Inverter 340k, even lesser on Jumia.
24v 8.2kwh lithium battery from Mr. Reed 920k
6 530w Jinko Panels @ roughly 600k ish

My loads are the typical stuff you can find in a home and I use all of them, not at the same time though. They include;

3tvs all 55 inches
Water heater
Washing machine
Microwave oven
0.75hp submersible
3 ACS including 1 1.5hp
2 freezers e.t.c

My 24v system serves me perfectly and with 2m you can achieve almost everything, but if you plan on bigger upgrades tomorrow, it's best to go all out for a 48v system.

HeavenlyBang:
Yes?

What's special about the load? Four 43" TVs and a 65" aren't pulling more than 500w combined.

I have three TVs in my house, water heaters, freezer, fridge, two ACs, microwave, air fryer, oven and have never had any issues with an even inferior setup.

Anyone using solar will ultimately have to learn load shedding regardless. The setup I gave is possibly the best he can get with that budget, though maybe he'd be best served with eight 530w panels off the bat.

You are absolutely right. I also have about:
3 AC's including 1 1.5hp
0.75hp pump
3 55 inches TV
2 freezers
A microwave oven
Air Fryer
Washing machine
Water heater
Electric Jug e.t.c


I use 24v comfortably with a 4.2kva inverter and 8.2kwh lithium battery. I've never had any issues.

And yes with load management because all appliances are not on at same time.

While the Airtel ODU might be good for some, unfortunately it's not good enough for me as lack of network for 4 days & counting has resulted in me being unable to meet up with important work deadlines. At the end of the day I just went with Starlink.

Airtel, same old same old. I wish you guys the best. Adios !

Trafford:
Thank you. I have upgraded budget to 2.5m so as to include solar panel. I am being offered 5kva hybrid inverter and 5kwh battery. Both felicity, with 6 500w solar panel. Is that a good deal?

For battery I'd suggest you maybe read back a few pages or go on tiktok and search DIYWITHRAY, particularly his battery capacity test videos.

Most popular brands are notorious for malpractice in actual capacity. Please try and watch the videos. You'll understand what I am trying not to say 😂

Airtel is so unreliable. For about 2 days no network all through the day. Zero signal but I'm able to pick up some for very light browsing (unreliable)

Now even at midnight hours I'm not getting beyond 28Mbps. Terrible stuff. Might have to activate my Starlink finally. It's so sad that 9ja networks aren't reliable.

Hullabaloon:
This new ZTE ODU has an annoying habit of disconnecting from devices. And it happens multiple times a day. Today alone it happened more than 8 times.

And it's only the WiFi that disconnects cos the Ethernet powered devices still work.

Anyone got any solution?

I think I experienced this a few times too but only on one of my device.

How I solved it? Log into the IDU web ui(192.168.18.1), go to wifi settings and disable single SSID.

This totally fixed that for me. You can give it a try.

Mykcool:
The past 2 weeks has really been terrible, it takes forever to load pictures on my phone and some sites don’t even load pictures on my laptop. This ODU should definitely improve your speed.
I am weighing my options between FibreX and this at the end of the month.

If you have FiberX as an option please go with it. Airtel network is not very reliable in some areas and this has been affecting me even with the ODU for about 2 days now.

Of course it's better than X25 pro but most times there's a total loss of signal (On Airtel generally including phones and not peculiar to ODU)

From my experience, Airtel can fail you at anytime.

Rokynwastar:
Terrible Airtel network over here tonight.

Get max of 5Mbps on my x25 pro and my ODU is fluctuating between 16Mbps and 30Mbps

Indeed Airtel signal has been really bad tonight. But at the moment I'm also doing 16-18Mbps.

The only time I get up to 50Mbps is at night and in the morning. From afternoon it’s usually 16-30 Mbps, then 16-18 by evening. This is after elevating my antenna.

Noticing something with this ODU

With zero Airtel signal on my phone, I'm still able to capture about 2Mbps from the ODU.

I'd say impressive. On X25pro this equals to zero internet for me.

Mind you my place is very peculiar with terrible signals. So far so good, I think this is a great buy. Fingers crossed.

Raised my ODU up higher from the previous position and signal strength went up from -85dbm to -66dbm (Lesser the better)

So far I have been enjoying this stuff, only had network outage about twice. One during a heavy rain, the second one for like an hour on a random day.

Guys I'm barely getting a few Kbps right now. Started like 30 minutes ago all of a sudden.

dukeo:
How do you power them separately

It's easy.

Unplug the connecting cable of the IDU from the battery bank and the IDU itself to isolate it, then plug in the other buttery bank to the power port of the IDU and turn on.

Rokynwastar:
Yeah, the network is fair. I have the x25 pro as well. Reason I got the ODU is because I moved to a new house and I only get 12/15Mbps max on the x25 which is a headache when streaming. Now I'm streaming matches on FHD with no buffers at all.

Getting the ODU is the best decision for anyone struggling with network reception on the x25 pro.

Funny thing is, I removed the sim card from the ODU, used it on the x25 pro and got 13Mbps max.

The ODU is really great.

To extend your battery up time you can use the battery from the X25pro to power the indoor unit only while the other battery powers the ODU. This has almost doubled my uptime.

HeavenlyBang:
Voltage X current = power

You're using a 24v system, so about 28v charging current X 15 = 420w.

The pump runs on roughly 230v AC, so 230 X ~6.5 = 1500w or so.

I see. Thank you

Rokynwastar:
Mine was initially esim but the registration failed when the installer came to my place. I took it back to their office and had a physical sim configured during my 2nd registration.

I get 70/80mbps with it sitting in my room yet to be installed.

Good. You probably stay in a location with enough signal strength.

My signal strength is around -85db which is poor by normal standards but I still pull between 45-56Mbps. Used to do about 8-10 using X25pro at 4G+

morikee:
And Airtel claiming it's true unlimited with no FUP lol naso them want compete with MTN Fiber if no be day NCC dey sleep no be scam be this?

I think at the price it's fair.

There's a market that is being catered for. For people using above 1TB there are other options to consider.

mctfopt:
The maximum current draw of a typical 1HP submersible pump is between 6A to 6.5A that is around 1500W. So a correct 5000w AVR should be able to power that

How do you guys calculate this power draw?

For instance charging my battery at 15 amps is pulling about 400w using generator.

Please educate me.

My battery did 4hrs and still had about 2 bars left.

Also found out the 5v to 12v dc cable won't work with the battery bank as it's pin is bigger.

Using my X25 pro's battery bank to power indoor unit only. Hopefully this will greatly improve the follow come battery now powering the outdoor unit.

dazzy4real:
Please how do i access the dashboard of Airtel ODU. i want to see the data I've consumed so far but i can't with the ip number the installer gave me it doesn't have options for that.

192.168.254.1

pheranme9:
You can't delist from using code, you can only remove by calling the customer care or going to Airtel office for more assistance

I see. At the Airtel office I asked them to delist and they gave me that code to do it myself. Didn't really check it out sha.

MorataFC:
Thank you for your response.
However, my registration went smoothly until the final stage, where my NIN was rejected. The system claimed I’ve already used up the four Airtel slots linked to my NIN, and that I would need to provide another person’s NIN to proceed.
I’m not sure what else to do at this point.

If you have an Airtel sim, there's a code to dial to list the numbers linked to your NIN. From there you can unlink any numbers you wish to.

*996#

NSEstudent:
This is the latest one. I wonder why they ended up with this one. Maybe it's better than the previous ones. I read the specs of the first one and I like it. ZLT X17m PRO

Maybe to save cost.
No much specs on this one and the web interface is basic.

The most important thing is that it works and very well too.