Is it me...or is RAIN support less than worthless ???

Malcolmt

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I'm in Parys, Free State, and have been battling for a week with my RAIN connection.

12-Nov-2020 14.25pm
Ping: 709ms
Download: 0.17Mbps

Upload: 0.05Mbps

This is typical of the last week.
I've don't like calling these people and waiting forever for an "agent" to become available.
A quick look on their site and I didn't see a spot for reporting issues.
After digging a little deeper I find an [email protected], so I write a nice email.
It bounces back, that address no longer exists.
A little later I find [email protected], I get an auto reply telling me that address is no longer monitored !!!
So why have it on the website.

So now I'm a little hacked off and dig down into the support area of the website.
Its all about accounting stuff, virtually zero on tech support.
Could this be because nothing ever goes wrong ?
Or maybe they're inundated with problems so they hide the links and hope everyone goes away ?
Or maybe they don't give a damm and just want to rake in the income ??

Eventually I find a spot to send a request but keep getting kicked out. presumably because the connection is so poor.
By this time my blood is boiling. And after a dozen attempts or so, the request is sent.

I get an email back from some dude asking or more info, miracles never cease.
I reply and get another mail with a link to some support db.

I'm logged into rains site but the link requests me to log in again.
I use my Rain user name and pwd, its not good enough, their website says its incorrect. WTF.
So I request a new password, maybe I forgot it in the five minutes since I last used it.
No email comes back with the link to reset it.
There's a link in a pop up to sign up for Rain CeC ( WTF...don't you just love acronym's that leave you guessing what they)
So I try to sign up for Rain CeC, (whatever it is), I get a polite message telling me my email address is already in use and to use my regular login !!!!! Which takes me back to where I was half an hour ago.

The only time I've experienced "support" of this caliber is at home affairs, or the local municipality.
Its less than worthless.


So, now my rant is finished, can anyone tell me if this is typical of Rain"s support.
And hopefully hand out some tips to get help, preferably without using their worthless website.

Cheers,
Let me go get a cold beer
Malcolm T
 
I'm in Parys, Free State, and have been battling for a week with my RAIN connection.

12-Nov-2020 14.25pm
Ping: 709ms
Download: 0.17Mbps

Upload: 0.05Mbps

This is typical of the last week.
I've don't like calling these people and waiting forever for an "agent" to become available.
A quick look on their site and I didn't see a spot for reporting issues.
After digging a little deeper I find an [email protected], so I write a nice email.
It bounces back, that address no longer exists.
A little later I find [email protected], I get an auto reply telling me that address is no longer monitored !!!
So why have it on the website.

So now I'm a little hacked off and dig down into the support area of the website.
Its all about accounting stuff, virtually zero on tech support.
Could this be because nothing ever goes wrong ?
Or maybe they're inundated with problems so they hide the links and hope everyone goes away ?
Or maybe they don't give a damm and just want to rake in the income ??

Eventually I find a spot to send a request but keep getting kicked out. presumably because the connection is so poor.
By this time my blood is boiling. And after a dozen attempts or so, the request is sent.

I get an email back from some dude asking or more info, miracles never cease.
I reply and get another mail with a link to some support db.

I'm logged into rains site but the link requests me to log in again.
I use my Rain user name and pwd, its not good enough, their website says its incorrect. WTF.
So I request a new password, maybe I forgot it in the five minutes since I last used it.
No email comes back with the link to reset it.
There's a link in a pop up to sign up for Rain CeC ( WTF...don't you just love acronym's that leave you guessing what they)
So I try to sign up for Rain CeC, (whatever it is), I get a polite message telling me my email address is already in use and to use my regular login !!!!! Which takes me back to where I was half an hour ago.

The only time I've experienced "support" of this caliber is at home affairs, or the local municipality.
Its less than worthless.


So, now my rant is finished, can anyone tell me if this is typical of Rain"s support.
And hopefully hand out some tips to get help, preferably without using their worthless website.

Cheers,
Let me go get a cold beer
Malcolm T
PM @rain_mobile on here. There's sweet blue buggerall we can do for you.
 
Join the club Malcolmt! Even if you do get hold of a consultant to help you, there is sweet f-all they can do. All they will do is tell you to point your router in different directions and move it around the house, and that's all they know, if that fails to solve the problem then they stumped and have no clue as to what to do next.
I've been getting calls from different support consultants for over week and not one of them could pin point the problem or come up with a solution. Trust me when I say this... Rain support is absolutely useless.

I'm glad fibre will be out soon in my area and then it's BYE BYE RAIN... they will never see another cent from me ever again.
 
Well, I eventually got a response from Rain.
They confirmed what I suspected, the tower in Parys is overloaded with no date for when the setup will be upgraded, I'm on a limited pension so my options are limited.

I could sell up and move to an area where RAIN works :-)
I could change ISP's and get a fraction of the theoretical Rain could provide.
Or I can keep paying Rain and hope they pull their fingers out their bums and solve the problem promptly.

What I do now is RAIN is actually an acronym for Ridiculously Awful Internet Network.

Let go get another cold one.
Cheers
MalcolmT
 
Speed Test 10am today

Ping: 254ms
Download: 0.01Mbps
Upload: 0.02Mbps


How the hell can this company offer a product with performance like this ????
 
Speed Test 10am today

Ping: 254ms
Download: 0.01Mbps
Upload: 0.02Mbps


How the hell can this company offer a product with performance like this ????

Profits boet. Milk the consumer for as much as they can.
 
Here's the performance of RAIN in my little dorpie. Parys
I used a freebie app to periodically log the download speed.
Then a bit of VBA to massage the data and get it into Excel.
And eventually into trend.

Most of the time the speed is BELOW 1Mbps
I regularly measure 5Mbps using Telkom on my 3G phone.
RAIN uses the Telkom tower.
Hell....it would be sooooo nice if rain could give us 3G performance.

RAIN = RUDDY AWFUL INTERNET NETWORK.


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