Has Rain gotten slower for you?

James946

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Hey there,

I have been using rain from 2018 and i haven't had too many issues with them, usually i just had speed issues during the day. At night i always had between 30-60mbps daily. As of late i have been getting terrible speeds during both day and night and i have no clue why.
It started when the new 24/7 deal was released so that might have something to do with it, below is a speedtest i just did.

 
charlieharper

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Yeah, been struggling since December 2019.
I'm still a capped Fixed Rain LTE user, paying R1350/m via Afrihost.

It really battles during daytime, like 1mbps if I'm lucky.... At night time it's still good though, 20-30mbps.
 
backstreetboy

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No working great here. 10Mbps on the 4g uncapped offering with full HD Youtube, Netflix and 720p Showmax. No complaints.
 
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ngoni615

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backstreetboy said:
No working great here. 10Mbps on the 4g uncapped offering with full HD Youtube, Netflix and 720p Showmax. No complaints.
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are you using vpn? i have decided to pay more for guaranteed speeds on fibre. 100/100. I will keep rain on the pay as you go tarriff as a backup option. Installation for my fibre will take at most two weeks. i already have fibre installed at my house so they just need to bring the router and configure their stuff
 
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ronald911 said:
Yeah, been struggling since December 2019.
I'm still a capped Fixed Rain LTE user, paying R1350/m via Afrihost.

It really battles during daytime, like 1mbps if I'm lucky.... At night time it's still good though, 20-30mbps.
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why not go fibre? i will be paying 1100 for 100/100mbps fibre. Would rather pay more for guaranteed service. rain is great when it works but this throttling and shaping is annoying.
 
charlieharper

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ngoni615 said:
why not go fibre? i will be paying 1100 for 100/100mbps fibre. Would rather pay more for guaranteed service. rain is great when it works but this throttling and shaping is annoying.
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Yeap.. I've petitioned Fibre companies with many interest form sign ups from the neighbourhood... But they still haven't deployed. I'd get a 100mbps line in a heartbeat if only we had FTTH in the hood.
 
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ronald911 said:
Yeap.. I've petitioned Fibre companies with many interest form sign ups from the neighbourhood... But they still haven't deployed. I'd get a 100mbps line in a heartbeat if only we had FTTH in the hood.
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my rain is very good and the speeds are very good, when it works but the inconsistency, throttling streaming and customer kak pushed me to fibre. I will keep the rain sim as backup and will change to the pay as you go plan and just keep 1gb there only.
 
backstreetboy

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ngoni615 said:
are you using vpn? i have decided to pay more for guaranteed speeds on fibre. 100/100. I will keep rain on the pay as you go tarriff as a backup option. Installation for my fibre will take at most two weeks. i already have fibre installed at my house so they just need to bring the router and configure their stuff
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No need for me. Everything streams fine without. Lucky you we're only getting fibre in April here so I still have time to test Rain and see if I'll stay.
 
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I have cancelled both RAIN Fixed LTE and RAIN mobile SIM with disgust after being a happy and loyal client for 2 years.
 
Polymathic

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Mostly because of signal strength, for whatever reason the signal has gotten worse. Yesterday I tested the router in various places there's places like the roof where I get over 10mb but anywhere inside I'm luck to get 1mb
 
Crumbl0x

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With external antennas I've never seen speeds decline, but in one of the two places I use rain it's not a city or highly contested area so that can def. play a factor. When in Uni before everyone returns for a semester, I could reach 60mbps day and night, but once everyone arrives it dies down to 1-2mbps and 30mbps in the night, then by which the antenna will get pointed to a tower far away from residences and speed is fully restored.
 
phly

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Yes Rain has gotten slower unfortunately. used to have decent speeds according to speedtests and hardly had any issues until recently. Infact I think it was from this month that I noticed a drastic change and drop in speeds. I was hoping they would be the difference maker but like someone said - it seems they don't have the capacity to handle the influx of new users that come through their aggressive pricing.
 
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I think it's also everyone working from home with this Corona virus and the 24/7 product they launched must messed up their network capacity.
 
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