How far have you pushed your uncapped RAIN SIM?

[byronsn]

I hit about 900Gb the first month I had it. Torrents. I think the wife has been hitting around the 600-700Gb mark for the last few months. Using it for work purposes.

 

[backstreetboy]

100gb or so p/m on a Mifi device at home and about 10gb with the sim in my phone.

I hit about 900Gb the first month I had it. Torrents. I think the wife has been hitting around the 600-700Gb mark for the last few months. Using it for work purposes.

Hopefully they ban her since it's a bona fide mobile service.

 

[MavChat]

I do between 350 and 600GB a month. They do shape torrents from time to time but generally not.

You can see shaping when the torrents are slow but speedtest is high.

 

[RedhotNeo]

Thought to ask,

how far have you pushed your uncapped RAIN Sim card? before you get banned/throttled/disconnected?

myself, highest I dared was 800GB, but no further afraid of getting cut off,
a colleague of mine just said he did 1,7 TB, although I don't really believe that is possible,

i bought the 7 day unlimited sim for R51. managed to download 1469GB in those 7 days.. i average 90Mb on rain in my area.

Could have pushed more but got bored downloading.... attached image in just 4 days of downloads

and not throttling on the unlimited deal

This was purely just for testing purposes..

 

[cpu.]

I do between 350 and 600GB a month. They do shape torrents from time to time but generally not.

You can see shaping when the torrents are slow but speedtest is high.

That's not the only reason torrents are slow. Not enough seeders or slow seeders is another.

 

[ArtyLoop]

Hmmm, so some of you seem to be able to actually use this product.
I presume these are existing contracts?

 

[Mr Scratch]

I signed up for another Rain SIM not too long ago on the R250 off-peak service and pushed maybe 300GB through it when travelling (surprised at how good their coverage is) so very happy with their service and instant support. I still have the SIM and expect to use it when I travel in the future.

 

[MEIOT]

Reading the comments praising the offering I finally bit the bullet and signed up. This will complement my Telkom Uncapped LTE rather nicely considering I've been forced to watch content on 720p on the Telkom offering due to the data cap and being throttled halfway through most months.

Any specific router recommendations?

 

[airborne]

What do you guys download that uses up 500Gb - 2Tb a month?

Full uncompressed Blu-rays?

 

[dunkyd]

What do you guys download that uses up 500Gb - 2Tb a month?

Full uncompressed Blu-rays?

Often wonder what the thrill is downloading day and night....?
Boredom ?

 

[Mr Scratch]

Not on Rain, but our household's cumulative usage is in the region of 3-4TB on average, without any downloading. All streaming, games, updates and browsing. The TVs suck a lot of bandwidth using YouTube, Plex and Netflix.

 

[RedhotNeo]

Not on Rain, but our household's cumulative usage is in the region of 3-4TB on average, without any downloading. All streaming, games, updates and browsing. The TVs suck a lot of bandwidth using YouTube, Plex and Netflix.

Agree, the more devices you have connected the more data you use. Kids zap alot of data watching youtube.. and alot of youtube content is now available in 1080p60hz and that sucks data. not mention 4k on netflix..

 

[RedhotNeo]

Reading the comments praising the offering I finally bit the bullet and signed up. This will complement my Telkom Uncapped LTE rather nicely considering I've been forced to watch content on 720p on the Telkom offering due to the data cap and being throttled halfway through most months.

Any specific router recommendations?

I have also been considering this route.. i have 2 routers and will run 1 with rain and other with telkom.. just waiting to buy a good loadbalancer and will combine both connections.. hoping for around 150Mb speeds

 

[MEIOT]

I have also been considering this route.. i have 2 routers and will run 1 with rain and other with telkom.. just waiting to buy a good loadbalancer and will combine both connections.. hoping for around 150Mb speeds

Would be keen to know which kit you get to accomplish this.

 

[Mr Scratch]

Instead of a load balance, get two routers, configure them the same, and put those wall outlet timets on them so one turns off and the other turns on during switchover.

 

[SeaSickMama]

Instead of a load balance, get two routers, configure them the same, and put those wall outlet times on them so one turns off and the other turns on during switchover.

I have been able to get a nice good changeover by using a mikrotik. Got 2 scripts that will automatically alternate between the two connections. It takes some time to setup but once its working its amazing, capped starts at 5:59pm and then uncapped starts at 11:01pm etc
port 1,2,5+WLan are bridged and port 3 is uncapped and port 4 is capped. Port 3,4 get a IP from their respective routers

 

[SeaSickMama]

Would be keen to know which kit you get to accomplish this.

For loadbalancing the best router i have played around with is the EdgeRouter X. Rather cheap and got some power and easy autoconfig scripts

 

[MEIOT]

TL-R470T+

This seems a better option as you can set timers on the separate WAN connections, which my research, admittedly limited research, so far shows that the Edgerouter cant do.

 

[Speedster]

TL-R470T+

This seems a better option as you can set timers on the separate WAN connections, which my research, admittedly limited research, so far shows that the Edgerouter cant do.

The drawback with the r470s is that it doesn't have gigabit Ethernet ports.

Another option to consider is using a router running open-wrt.

 

[biometrics]

The drawback with the r470s is that it doesn't have gigabit Ethernet ports.

Another option to consider is using a router running open-wrt.

Which is only a problem if you can get more than 100 Mbps total load balancing or 100 Mbps per network when time switching (which is what I do). I’ve got Rain and Telkom and get 40/15 each. Load balancer is connected to a 16 port GbE switch which everything is connected to.