Post your night time speed guys.

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Assasin_Zer0

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ronald911 said:
Likewise.. been paying R1350 for Rain Fixed LTE via Afrihost since August 2018... It served really well for 16 months, but around January it deteriorated heavily and haven't really recovered... I work remotely full time (software developer) for an American firm, so I really depend on having a decent internet connection. Thankfully all communication is done via Instant Messaging / Email so, I can get away with not having to Skype/Zoom/whatever.

But this year, I've probably spent R2000-3000 just on additional data for my iPhone so I can tether MTN 4G, as Rain constantly dies on me when I have to work.
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I Feel your pain , I'm a Snr Citrix Engineer , So i do support for quite a few clients, So to me being and staying connected is Critical . I need to do a lot of remote sessions onto infrastructure to do either maintenance or troubleshooting ,A lot of them have 2FA Enabled , So image having to re-authenticate every 15 - 20 min on 3 or 4 clients, To put it nicely "Jy kan n eier in my gat kook soms" especially if your busy with installations and all the sudden the link drops . The best is sitting in a "War Room " and your skype \ zoom \ teams session drops, People dont really like that a lot .
 
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ngoni615 said:
damn man. i should be grateful. what do you use rain for though? streaming or just browsing.
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Been a few days since I last updated...
Due to me needing to be available after work hours, I sort of had to "upgrade" to the 24/7 Unlimited, after my mobile data got depleted. ADSL is looking to be an option for me now though.
Initially speed took a dip, but it has since increased and somewhat stabilised. I have forced the B315-936 I'm using to use B38/41 using the huawei band tool, so the upload speed is more than a bit shite.

I mainly use Rain for gaming, mainly Warframe. Ping was absolutely horrendous at first, but has since improved, and has even returned to the same levels it was when I was with Telkom LTE. Some browsing and a wee bit of streaming. Twitch struggles a bit in the beginning, but then stabilises. Youtube is ok, bit of buffering in the beginning. I was able to stream the president's speech last night without issue.

Screenshot below is from early this morning. Haven't tested yet without the band tool, or with my E5186.
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Speed does fall off a bit during the day, due to congestion, but it remains in a usable state. The kids have even been able to stream some online lessons without issue.

Might be as a result of the recent additional spectrum allocation.
 
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I think dudes using Vodacom midnight killing rain at night I noticed speeds increase at around 6am till 9am and by increase I mean at best 3MBPS but stable then after that unusable .

So rain is only "usable" between 6am-9am on the tower I'm on
 
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