Well honestly rains 5g is worth it if you ask me and those people would agree it only becomes a problem if the towers gives problems but other than that it’s worth more than a fibre line …
I am sure it depends on the situation, and what you use it for.
Also if you need support or not.
Originally I was also of the opinion that RAIN 5G was more than I even needed, and I stuck with them for over 2 years - so its not just a opinion, I experienced it first hand.
But as they kept over selling the product - speeds dropped and they started doing all sorts of shaping and throttling behind the scenes to cope with the traffic - not going to get into an argument of what is throttled and what not - and we talking premium package.
In my case it was not a tower issue - was checked multiple times - tower was fine, installation was fine - signal was excellent, line of sight to tower 800m away.
There is many reasons that it stopped being viable to me.
Biggest reason is that they throttle VPN - this is a BIG issue as both me and my wife works from home - so both VPN into work networks - and that setup got throttled to death - having a teams meeting was almost impossible...
And it is not just the VPN connection that is throttled - if there is an active VPN connection - the whole 5G connection is throttled.
Some interesting shaping happening behind the scenes - I would get a speedtest of over 400Mbps and still youtube would buffer watching 1080 stream.
Unexplained speed drops - some times stuck to sub 10Mbps for weeks.
Gaming - semi useless - if you just semi competitive in any online game where ping is important - you are doomed - with ping spikes between 500 and 1500ms.
My list does on - but I'm just rehashing.
Then support - basically non-existent - that is why most people run here and complain and look for help.
Try phoning them and get help - most of the time unreachable.
Online ticket logging - tickets either gets closed with no solution, or just lies un attended.
You just have to look at their ISP ratings and do a bit of a search on the web, maybe have a look at hello peter, and see what is the real status of things.
As for it being worth more than a fiber line - I'm not so sure - maybe if you compare against worst fiber ISP, but if you have a half decent ISP - it out perform it in any way you look at it. Uncapped, unshaped, low latency, reliable.
But hey - if it works for you - I am happy for you.
Everybody makes their own decisions
