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Checking in. I can do tests probably only after 6pm tonight but drop me a pm.
Well good for you mate! I am only getting an average of 10Mbps. The most I get is 30Mbps. I for one am not impressed.
I suggest you test for yourself. Some of the guys in this thread are getting amazing speeds and they have good coverage, which might not be the case for you.
AlphaJohn
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107GB down so far (From about 8am today) and still going strong... 
phly
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107GB down so far (From about 8am today) and still going strong...
What device are you using? Average speeds? Or are you one of the consultants posting under a rain tower?
Yuu
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As with any new promotion or network, caution is advised. Most if not all are using this as a supplementary service. For R120 it is a good way to try it out i reckon. Don't switch until they have more people using the service.
/do PM [MENTION=41956]cavedog[/MENTION] though
107GB down so far (From about 8am today) and still going strong...
Do you have a fiber connection as well?
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As with any new promotion or network, caution is advised. Most if not all are using this as a supplementary service. For R120 it is a good way to try it out i reckon. Don't switch until they have more people using the service.
/do PM [MENTION=41956]cavedog[/MENTION] though
Yea I still have fixed LTE which is not bad - I am just testing things out but not about to make life changing decisions based on these tests.
PS I already dropped [MENTION=41956]cavedog[/MENTION] a PM
AlphaJohn
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Huawei B618, 6MB/s, At home other side of Krugersdorp, and hell no not working for them, in fact Rain sucks in the evenings in my area Cell C waaay better. Coverage map places the RAIN tower about 6 blocks away from my house.
Nope LTE only, no Fiber in my area.
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Damn. Same here. Wish I was getting your LTE speeds though. When Telkom was running their 500Gig deal I was getting 15 megs per second download speed. It was a dream come true.
gotaway
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21st here as well. Activated yesterday
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Ah ohk - I think I am getting similar speeds - same router - my earlier test went up to 50Mbps which about 6.25 Mbps but average is in the 40's.
StoneCold
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Which is to be expected, I'd say. They can't have everything running on full taps all the time. Some of the protocols will probably he shaped/throttled till after 11pm. Keen to see what I can get once I get my sim tomorrow. If I can get at least between 24-40mb I'd be more than happy than my current 12mb ADSL.
AlphaJohn
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Which is exactly why I am running a http download test instead of P2P.
Sidenote: Good thing Vodacom is not running this service, can you just imagine OOB shark if they did. Then again I must not speak to soon, as soon as my normal RAIN is active (21st June) would love to see how/If their blocking work in a controlled environment. Me no like surprises.
Kosmik
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6pm you will see the throttle kick in. They shape hard though as it caused some lost packets on downloads so rather schedule anything heavy after the window. Youtube and the rest work great though anytime.
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The Rain rep on Twitter told me that they do have a OOB protection thingy in place so that clients don't get bitten by using too much data at R50 per GB. Their priority is also real-time services. Streaming and browsing is also high up on their list, but streaming takes second place in the hierarchy.