Carrier Aggregation on Airtel 4G LTE

[Lolita_Magnum]

It's probably more of an automatic channel bandwidth management than capping. Since by default your device would lock to the highest bandwidth possible, most customers latch on to the same Band, hence reducing the amount of total frequency per customer.
Our lovely government sadly gives quite a miniscule amount of channel space to each telecom compared to the our huge population, so these things are uncommon.

 

[RK21]

Yeah Airtel have 200Mbps DL 25Mbps UL Cap

 

[minuteman]

Meanwhile I sit with no upload speed on my Airtel connection

 

[Lolita_Magnum]

Yeah Airtel have 200Mbps DL 25Mbps UL Cap

I get higher then that in terms of upload speeds tho.

 

[pillaicha]

I think my tower isn’t fiberised so upload speeds are being capped at 10Mbps. My location/prepaid plan has never shown CA. So the speeds I’ve written about before are all non-CA speeds. Unsure about band 3 or band 40 while testing.

 

[wheatbread]

Airtel doesn't have fiber in this town either, this is the best I've seen on a LTE modem. They do have fiber 22 kms away so I guess not that far.

Edit: atm
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[Gaurav_add]

It's probably more of an automatic channel bandwidth management than capping. Since by default your device would lock to the highest bandwidth possible, most customers latch on to the same Band, hence reducing the amount of total frequency per customer.
Our lovely government sadly gives quite a miniscule amount of channel space to each telecom compared to the our huge population, so these things are uncommon.

Airtel also pushes users onto band 40 just like how jio does. But the bandwidth of band 40 in my area is around 20Mhz and it is highest than any other band so it means that I will be automatically connected on band 40(tdd band) and no other fdd bands(band 1 and band 3) even if band 40 is congested then also?

 

[pillaicha]

Is it Band 40?

I tnink it was. Because I doubt if 5Mhz of Band 3 would give me 90Mbps.

 

[Lolita_Magnum]

Airtel also pushes users onto band 40 just like how jio does. But the bandwidth of band 40 in my area is around 20Mhz and it is highest than any other band so it means that I will be automatically connected on band 40(tdd band) and no other fdd bands(band 1 and band 3) even if band 40 is congested then also?

Yes, if you have a mediatek device you can manually lock on to any band you want, or if it's Qualcomm you will need to root your device. They do work, and I have seen improvement compared to being on the congested Band 40.

 

[ijsa]

if you have a mediatek device you can manually lock on to any band you want

How to do that?

 

[Tejas01]

Engineering mode...
I think there is an app in play store for this.

MTK Engineering Mode - Apps on Google Play

open SERVICE MODE!

play.google.com

P.S. If you plan to do some changes, please get some feedback from members here if it is safe to do.

 

[Lolita_Magnum]

It is safe, I have used the app itself for many years. You use it once, setting it to the band you want, disabling other bands and forget about it .

 

[Gaurav_add]

Yes, if you have a mediatek device you can manually lock on to any band you want, or if it's Qualcomm you will need to root your device. They do work, and I have seen improvement compared to being on the congested Band 40.

To be honest nowadays you can't even lock bands in mediatek devices mtk app was last updated on 2016 so it you can't set bands as the app doesn't support newer android versions and realme ui has disabled the ##3646633## a code with which we could change bands on mediatek devices. I don't know about other brands. If anybody is able to lock bands on mediatek devices please share the method.

 

[RK21]

There's some new method available using which people are locking bands on new Nord 2 and Reno 6 like devices

 

[Gaurav_add]

@RK21 com.oplus.engineernetwork.BandMode
This is for OnePlus phones only, it does not support realme. Realme has engineering mode*#899# but it does not have an option to change bands.