CataclysmZA
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Right, so, I'm in a Rain coverage area. I'm fairly sure that I want to migrate to using Rain instead of Telkom. However, there's a snag.
Snag one: The standard Rain network offers per-MB pricing, and a R250 add-on for uncapped in off-peak hours. I calculated what my average Netflix use would be if I had to limit the playback quality, and I'd be spending about R1000 a month to cover the five hours of Netflix time. Given other users, though, this probably isn't going to cut it. Overall, I'd be spending more than my ADSL connection's currently worth.
Snag two: Rain's partners offer capped products with high limits. This is nice. However, despite their relative per-GB cheapness I don't think 120GB is going to see me through the month under any circumstances.
In my mind, the way around this is to simply have two SIM cards and swap between them. Have the normal one registered with Rain that's on the per-MB pricing with the R250 bolt-on, while I also have a 55GB capped account with Afrihost to use during the peak hours. I just switch them more or less at 6PM and again at 11PM (because LTE routers with two SIMs are crazy levels of expensive). This way, I should be covered for both Netflix time and anything above that, whilst during the day on Rain's network I'm on an uncapped connection for work purposes and Skype.
And I would only be paying... around R850-R900 for speeds that are about 2-4x as high, and I'm not reliant on Telkom. Of course then I'm at the mercy of Rain's customer support, so there's the catch-22.
Does this make sense? How do others plan to handle the peak data usage?
Snag one: The standard Rain network offers per-MB pricing, and a R250 add-on for uncapped in off-peak hours. I calculated what my average Netflix use would be if I had to limit the playback quality, and I'd be spending about R1000 a month to cover the five hours of Netflix time. Given other users, though, this probably isn't going to cut it. Overall, I'd be spending more than my ADSL connection's currently worth.
Snag two: Rain's partners offer capped products with high limits. This is nice. However, despite their relative per-GB cheapness I don't think 120GB is going to see me through the month under any circumstances.
In my mind, the way around this is to simply have two SIM cards and swap between them. Have the normal one registered with Rain that's on the per-MB pricing with the R250 bolt-on, while I also have a 55GB capped account with Afrihost to use during the peak hours. I just switch them more or less at 6PM and again at 11PM (because LTE routers with two SIMs are crazy levels of expensive). This way, I should be covered for both Netflix time and anything above that, whilst during the day on Rain's network I'm on an uncapped connection for work purposes and Skype.
And I would only be paying... around R850-R900 for speeds that are about 2-4x as high, and I'm not reliant on Telkom. Of course then I'm at the mercy of Rain's customer support, so there's the catch-22.
Does this make sense? How do others plan to handle the peak data usage?
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