Rain Mobile Feedback Thread

[Kosmik]

Wow, super high latency today, 600ms

 

[chrisc]

The service varies so much

Best speed over 1 month is 3.7mbps down and 0.9 mbps up
On Friday it was 2.04 mbps down and 0.21 mbps up

RAIN blame it on too many users

Sounds like they want their cake and eat it

 

[Polymathic]

Yesterday was getting between 2 and 4mbs

 

[Speedster]

The service varies so much

Best speed over 1 month is 3.7mbps down and 0.9 mbps up
On Friday it was 2.04 mbps down and 0.21 mbps up

RAIN blame it on too many users

Sounds like they want their cake and eat it

I guess you get what you pay for. At R250 per month I'm happy with the roughly 5mbps I get. They are in the process of trenching for fibre in our area and the packages seem to start at around R600, so I have nothing to complain about. I guess if I wanted I could get an external antennae which should push the speed up a touch

 

[ld13]

I see that one can access internet banking for all the big banks while outside the uncapped/offline times.

 

[SeaSickMama]

Rain all of a sudden seems to be down Senderwood

Only if i use a IP direct VPN can i get to websites or the direct IP of a site. Some issue with their network even if i use a different DNS

 

[ripclaw]

Rain all of a sudden seems to be down Senderwood

Only if i use a IP direct VPN can i get to websites or the direct IP of a site. Some issue with their network even if i use a different DNS

Working for me. Maybe the problem has been rectified?

 

[IceQB]

Been using for a month now, speeds were OK 20-30mpbs up & down. But since last week 2-4mbps down 10mbps up. Don't use in Peak Times.

 

[kianm]

Thanks! Project for the weekend.

Did it all go well?

 

[lotus123]

Did it all go well?

Thanks for asking!

Didn't get to it, with "work" work to be done.

Just looked at the Open WRT website to see how to flash the TP-Link router, and it seems it has to be done with TFTP but I don't have a clue how that's done. So I'll be reading up on that first.

On the one hand this looks like lots of work, but I keep forgetting to switch these 2 routers over at night so it makes sense to do it.

Edit: another reason for doing this is to get some QoS/prioritising on one of the network devices. The PC running Sonarr/Radarr completely kills the network for everyone when it starts downloading. I've scheduled it to run mostly after hours, but sometimes it's still runs on in the day.

 

[Speedster]

Thanks for asking!

Didn't get to it, with "work" work to be done.

Just looked at the Open WRT website to see how to flash the TP-Link router, and it seems it has to be done with TFTP but I don't have a clue how that's done. So I'll be reading up on that first.

On the one hand this looks like lots of work, but I keep forgetting to switch these 2 routers over at night so it makes sense to do it.

Edit: another reason for doing this is to get some QoS/prioritising on one of the network devices. The PC running Sonarr/Radarr completely kills the network for everyone when it starts downloading. I've scheduled it to run mostly after hours, but sometimes it's still runs on in the day.

Flashing OpenWRT is super easy. All you need to do is download the right version to a USB stick and then select to install it from the router's interface. What TP-link model do you have?

 

[SeaSickMama]

Working for me. Maybe the problem has been rectified?

was fixed around 3:30am i think, was a DNS issue etc direct Ip address would work so used my VPN till it started working again

 

[lotus123]

Flashing OpenWRT is super easy. All you need to do is download the right version to a USB stick and then select to install it from the router's interface. What TP-link model do you have?

That's good to know! I wasn't too sure about that.

It's a TP-Link Archer C20 AC750 v4.

 

[Speedster]

That's good to know! I wasn't too sure about that.

It's a TP-Link Archer C20 AC750 v4.

Ah ok. I see you have to do tftp for that model - https://openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tp-link_archer_c20_v4

Edit: it seems openwrt doesn't play so nice with that router (apparently there are wireless issues). You might want to consider either getting a router that works better with openwrt or alternatively popping a dedicated device between the LTE routers and your wireless (eg tp-link tl-r470t or an edgerouter x)

 

[Flare]

The service varies so much

Best speed over 1 month is 3.7mbps down and 0.9 mbps up
On Friday it was 2.04 mbps down and 0.21 mbps up

RAIN blame it on too many users

Sounds like they want their cake and eat it

Already? I'm less than two years of operation they can't handle customers.

 

[dotcat]

Seems like rain is using wiocc - West Indian Ocean Cable Company for routing to Europe, Japan USA and Australia.

 

[Polymathic]

Not sure if it's Rain or the Morpheus App itself but can't seem to get any video to play

 

[Düber]

Not sure if it's Rain or the Morpheus App itself but can't seem to get any video to play

I thought it was just me, but the last few nights wanting to watch some Youtube video's, it was was very sluggish. The speed test's gave decent results though.

 

[lotus123]

Thanks! Project for the weekend.

I simply plugged the two routers into the lan ports and set up scheduled tasks (crontab) to switch the default gateway at the necessary times. Took me a bit to figure out, but now that I know what to do it shouldn't take more than 2 minutes to set up.

First thing to do though would be to get open-wrt on the tp link. Once that is done the rest is super easy.

Edit: I disabled dhcp on both LTE routers and set their ip to .0.2 and 0.3 respectively. Dhcp is enabled on the tp link with ip 192.168.0.1.

I have the 2 LTE routers working with the TP-Link router (Router1) that's running OpenWRT.

Configured just like yours, and it seems the Rain B315 router is performing better now that it's not doing the DHCP and wireless functions anymore. Speedtests look noticably better.

I can manually switch the default gateway on Router1 between the two LTE router addresses, and that tests fine. Problem I'm now facing is working out how to set up the Crontab and start it. The documentation online seems to assume a degree of Unix knowledge that I don't possess. Any pointers, please?

Edit: think I figured it out. Yours look like this too?
# Switch over default gateway at every day
# 18h00 from Rain to Telkom
0 18 * * * uci set network.lan.gateway=192.168.1.3 && /etc/init.d/network restart
# 23h00 from Telkom to Rain
0 23 * * * uci set network.lan.gateway=192.168.1.2 && /etc/init.d/network restart

 

[Speedster]

I have the 2 LTE routers working with the TP-Link router (Router1) that's running OpenWRT.

Configured just like yours, and it seems the Rain B315 router is performing better now that it's not doing the DHCP and wireless functions anymore. Speedtests look noticably better.

I can manually switch the default gateway on Router1 between the two LTE router addresses, and that tests fine. Problem I'm now facing is working out how to set up the Crontab and start it. The documentation online seems to assume a degree of Unix knowledge that I don't possess. Any pointers, please?

Edit: think I figured it out. Yours look like this too?
# Switch over default gateway at every day
# 18h00 from Rain to Telkom
0 18 * * * uci set network.lan.gateway=192.168.1.3 && /etc/init.d/network restart
# 23h00 from Telkom to Rain
0 23 * * * uci set network.lan.gateway=192.168.1.2 && /etc/init.d/network restart

You seem to be winning. Well done.

I'm not too familiar with all the options, so can't comment on the commands you're using. I simply switch gateway using the following, having given names to the routers (under network -> hostnames).

#Switch to MTN
59 17 * * * route delete default gw Rain.lan; route add default gw MTN.lan

#Switch to Rain
0 23 * * * route delete default gw MTN.lan; route add default gw Rain.lan


EDIT: If the commands work when entered manually, then they "should" work as scheduled jobs too. I set mine for 17:59 just to be doubly sure I don't have a potential disconnect while watching a live match, but 18:00 should work fine.