Please do a MyBroadband speed test on Rain

A man said:
Do you work for rain? Im pretty sure this is fake. I've never had real internet with rain 5g.
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No I don't work at rain. Before being known as that disgruntled Mustek reseller, I was known as that disgruntled rain customer.

We upgraded from 4G to 5G and no longer had issues.


ISP: rain
Ping: 25ms
Download: 200.7Mbps
Upload: 34.56Mbps
 
A man said:
Do you work for rain? Im pretty sure this is fake. I've never had real internet with rain 5g.
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Biggest mistake Ive ever made is rain. I asked the agent whether there is coverage at my address and she said yes. I ordered rain and delivery was delayed because the order is on my husbands name but he has a hearing problem and cant hear the callers. I discussed this with the agent and we passed the phone between us for me to repeat the questions to hom so that he can answer. The courier co. called and point blank refused to speak to me to arrange for delivery. Long story but in the end rain arrived We have it for about 4 weeks now. Not a day goes by without us loosing signal. AND the signal is to weak for 5G and we must struggle with 2.4G. Stay away from rain. They make promises they cant keep.
 
AntiSuz said:
Biggest mistake Ive ever made is rain. I asked the agent whether there is coverage at my address and she said yes. I ordered rain and delivery was delayed because the order is on my husbands name but he has a hearing problem and cant hear the callers. I discussed this with the agent and we passed the phone between us for me to repeat the questions to hom so that he can answer. The courier co. called and point blank refused to speak to me to arrange for delivery. Long story but in the end rain arrived We have it for about 4 weeks now. Not a day goes by without us loosing signal. AND the signal is to weak for 5G and we must struggle with 2.4G. Stay away from rain. They make promises they cant keep.
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Hi @AntiSuz,
Please provide me with your email via PM | https://mybroadband.co.za/forum/conversations/add?to=rain_mobile
 
Am i missing something, i looked through a few pages, and the speedtests posted is like 12mbit down and 3mbit up. Those are not even close to what HSDPA speeds is suppose to be.

7-8years ago we had HSDPA which 9 out of 10 times was around the 15mbit to 30mbit range. Some areas if you had great signal you could get upto 50mbit easily.

Then with 4G and the MIMO (mulitple antenna's and signal it started creaping towards more stable end of 30mbit to 80mbit.

5G should definitely only be upwards of 100mbit.
 
Napalm said:
Now that looks like 5G speeds, anything over 100mbit to 150mbit or more. Then It seems worth it.

If you run this same speed test 10 random times during the week. what would the average be ?
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I'd say average thru the day would be arou d 280-300 Mbps.

Can drop lower or higher, fastest I done was around 620Mbps.

Morning are typically faster than afternoon. Can drop by as much as 200Mbps, between these periods.
 
My network is severely congested at night to the point that it is totally unusable. From around 20h00 till 23h30 speeds are around 3-5mbps.
 
Impimpi said:
My network is severely congested at night to the point that it is totally unusable. From around 20h00 till 23h30 speeds are around 3-5mbps.
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I am fortunate that even when some types go GAGGA on the tower I connect to, it seldom gets that bad.
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
I am fortunate that even when some types go GAGGA on the tower I connect to, it seldom gets that bad.
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Maybe just run a few tests at night. It seems its not the tower end of things. Seems to be more the backhaul transmission network is congested. Even Rain's Speedtest server last night was testing at 3-5mbps. Couldnt stream or do anything. Been happening a lot more often. Starting to consider other more reliable fibre options.
 
Impimpi said:
Maybe just run a few tests at night. It seems its not the tower end of things. Seems to be more the backhaul transmission network is congested. Even Rain's Speedtest server last night was testing at 3-5mbps. Couldnt stream or do anything. Been happening a lot more often. Starting to consider other more reliable fibre options.
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Fiber is more consistent, but it comes with other issues, like some idiot, pulling a backacter thru all infrustructure on the pavement and other outages. Then it takes a longish time to sort out, is my observation. We just got Frogfoot Fiber in our area, and I have what I consider to be a pretty good connection on 5G, so am not in that big a hurry, to jump to Fiber just yet.
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
Fiber is more consistent, but it comes with other issues, like some idiot, pulling a backacter thru all infrustructure on the pavement and other outages. Then it takes a longish time to sort out, is my observation. We just got Frogfoot Fiber in our area, and I have what I consider to be a pretty good connection on 5G, so am not in that big a hurry, to jump to Fiber just yet.
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Yea my area is serviced by Metrofibre and I share the same sentiment. Seems too many times fibre cuts affect the area. So I also depend on my Rain 5G premium service as its been stable and running for many years now.

Its only recently that the service degrades to the point of not being able to use it.

It feels like the days we used the R250 4G option they had when they started. Service was great for a while until it was over sold. Then the service just got pathetic.
 
Impimpi said:
Yea my area is serviced by Metrofibre and I share the same sentiment. Seems too many times fibre cuts affect the area. So I also depend on my Rain 5G premium service as its been stable and running for many years now.

Its only recently that the service degrades to the point of not being able to use it.

It feels like the days we used the R250 4G option they had when they started. Service was great for a while until it was over sold. Then the service just got pathetic.
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Well, before, I did not have any option other than RAIN, now that Fiber finally arrived, I have another, tho it remains an unkown entity.
 
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