Rain 5G speed tests in Cape Town – These are the results

[Bradley Prior]

Rain 5G speed tests in Cape Town – These are the results

Tests conducted by MyBroadband across Rain’s 5G network in Cape Town have produced impressive results.

 

[TelkomUseless]

Good. But I do believe that 600 Mbs will drop quickly as soon as people start getting on Rain.

The Max I can get is 300 Mbs which is still fine...

 

[Apogee]

Very nice speeds.

Wonder what the uptake in Cape Town is like?

How much will it lower once the capacity is under stress?

 

[jem]

No chance it will stay that way. I have sub 60db signal and the tower is LOS 500m away. I max out at 250-300 Used to get around 550.

My area is also very un-congested. And at the moment in fact, a lot of the time I'm hovering around 100 and get packet loss and latency spikes way way way too often

 

[McGuywer]

This:

Tests conducted by MyBroadband across Rain’s 5G network in Cape Town have produced impressive results.

should be:

Tests conducted by MyBroadband across Rain’s 5G network in Cape Town have produced massive results.

Okay, jokes aside, any news on the 5G core versus NSA change happening?

 

[Bobbin]

I wouldn't trust. We all know RAIN's after sales technical support as well as what a short span of increasing user count/congestion has been like in the past.

Use only if there's no other choice.

 

[cavedog]

Cape Town is all SA. Gauteng is all NSA

 

[Gekco]

Do they have a FUP on unlimited accounts?

 

[McGuywer]

Do they have a FUP on unlimited accounts?

Not that I know of.
I have used in excess of 1TB per month and I think some people use way more than that.

 

[Gekco]

Thanks

 

[Sapphiron]

I am of the opinion that all wireless products should be sold at fixed speed with a contention ratio like all other bandwidth products. This uncapped, best effort (read ever decreasing effort) model is simply bad practice

 

[PAYBACK]

Cape Town is all SA. Gauteng is all NSA

29th (tomorrow) certain parts of Gauteng switch over to SA. Lets see.

 

[Genisys]

29th (tomorrow) certain parts of Gauteng switch over to SA. Lets see.

Where did you get this info from?

 

[Ipwn 4]

Cape Town is all SA. Gauteng is all NSA

Can I get an ELI5 please? Rain reports my nearest tower at 0m, it's actually 15m away with direct line of sight and best I've ever done is 584Mbps

 

[powermzii]

Can I get an ELI5 please? Rain reports my nearest tower at 0m, it's actually 15m away with direct line of sight and best I've ever done is 584Mbps

That's pretty decent speed ttheere

NSA is non-standalone 5G where usually the upload is handled by the 4G network. They built the 5g network on top of the 4g
SA is standalone - the 5G network was built up from scratch and both upload and download use the 5G network

 

[access]

I am of the opinion that all wireless products should be sold at fixed speed with a contention ratio like all other bandwidth products. This uncapped, best effort (read ever decreasing effort) model is simply bad practice

you cant guarantee a fixed speed on mobile throughput though, so it too will be best effort. also, mobile data products are contended.

or is your problem specifically with uncapped products.

 

[Budza]

That's pretty decent speed ttheere

NSA is non-standalone 5G where usually the upload is handled by the 4G network. They built the 5g network on top of the 4g
SA is standalone - the 5G network was built up from scratch and both upload and download use the 5G network

What are the potential speed differences?

Assume SA is faster overall and with much better upload?

 

[McGuywer]

I am still on NSA.
Will do a restart later tonight if I remember to do it.
I see you can choose SA explicitly.

 

[nad_isa]

Was good while i had it in CPT. Was getting 400 down and 100 up consistently with very few issues (1km away from tower).

My opinion is i was in a non congested area. The rain 5g product became available at the same time a verry well priced fibre product was rolling out so majority of people have opted for that.

Non the less the service i experienced in cpt was generally very good.

Will be interesting to see how rain handles the proliferation of 5g mobile devices on their network over the next few years.

 

[ShaunSA]

Good for Cape Town. I battled to get YT to play at 140p on Rain. Thank **** fibre installation is due soon. In the meantime it was a pleasure to cancel Rain