Dial up is faster than rain?

C_hristo

C_hristo

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So sick of always having to pay top dollar
For substandard snail pace speed
WwW access mafia reign supreme
Consumers just have to cough up!

Any chance we can go back to dial up?
The arrogance of these SPs is really annoying....
 
C_hristo said:
So sick of always having to pay top dollar
For substandard snail pace speed
WwW access mafia reign supreme
Consumers just have to cough up!

Any chance we can go back to dial up?
The arrogance of these SPs is really annoying....
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Hey buddy,blogspot offers free blogs where you can rhetorically lament
 
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That is the speeds I have to be happy with....
I called Mweb. They advised I need to reset the b 618
Which I did
Voila
Other subscribers experiencing similar issues. It’s been logged with rain
 
C_hristo said:
So sick of always having to pay top dollar
For substandard snail pace speed
WwW access mafia reign supreme
Consumers just have to cough up!

Any chance we can go back to dial up?
The arrogance of these SPs is really annoying....
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C_hristo said:
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That is the speeds I have to be happy with....
I called Mweb. They advised I need to reset the b 618
Which I did
Voila
Other subscribers experiencing similar issues. It’s been logged with rain
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Clearly you don't know what speed dial up was, your slowest speed is more or less 20 times faster then the fastest dial up available .
If you really want to go back to dial up their are still ISP's that offer this, and plenty of mybb members will swap their old dial up modems for your rain one.
 
isie said:
Clearly you don't know what speed dial up was, your slowest speed is more or less 20 times faster then the fastest dial up available .
If you really want to go back to dial up their are still ISP's that offer this, and plenty of mybb members will swap their old dial up modems for your rain one.
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Oh God, please, not dial up. Never again! Image almost finishes loading and then someone picks up the phone...
 
C_hristo said:
So sick of always having to pay top dollar
For substandard snail pace speed
WwW access mafia reign supreme
Consumers just have to cough up!

Any chance we can go back to dial up?
The arrogance of these SPs is really annoying....
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So sorry
Seems to me I pinched a few nerves
And bruised a few egos.

Peace out!
 
I get what Christo is saying. Rain is unusable during peak times (night time and weekends) where you can't even update Outlook or Connect to Whatsapp.

It is not so much the SP as they can't (wont) do shyte untill Rain creates a solution, and as far as I can tell that could be months. So if you are month to month subscriber, try CellC LTE or Telkom prepaid LTE and see which one works best in your area.
 
@C_hristo Change LTE bands you have a B618....
 
Hey Dudes and Dudettes,

I too was frustrated.. except I knew why my LTE was so slow.

I followed a pattern of running speed tests throughout the day.. from about 10am to 11pm my downloads were super slow.. (about 1Mb/s all the way down to 300Kbp/s), and my upload were super high.. (anything from 15Mb/s to 50Mb/s).. I know i'm close'ish to pretty much all the towers (best way to test that is using speedtest-cli under linux.. as it will give you an accurate distance based on ping and km)..

So.. anyway, there's two LTE Frequency Bands that Rain use. One is the 1800Mhz band and the other is the 2600Mhz band. If you have a Huawei B618, then your router is capable of both Bands at FDD and TDD (TDD only on 2600Mhz). See: http://www.electronicdesign.com/communications/what-s-difference-between-fdd-and-tdd

Most likely, you are running your router on 1800Mhz.. which is congested... I'll show you:

I set my Router to LTE-1800Mhz: http://www.speedtest.net/result/7155714306

Now.. changing it to LTE-2600Mhz TDD: http://www.speedtest.net/result/7155720526

By the way, this was 2 minutes apart. I used the same test server WiFiWave (PTY) LTD to show an unbiased result.

Try switching to the 2600Mhz TDD (TDD important). It will make the world of difference.

I hope this helps. If you need to know "how" to change it. EMail me.

Andreas
 
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