Rain Mobile Feedback Thread

Afrihost (possibly other ISPs) seem cheaper than the Rain R50/Gig offer. They are also not contract-based. And you get subsidised modems.

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Excalibur said:
Afrihost (possibly other ISPs) seem cheaper than the Rain R50/Gig offer. They are also not contract-based. And you get subsidised modems.

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The majority of people (me included) took this offer for the R250 / month for the uncapped portion which runs from 11pm to 6pm. I have no interest in any fixed packages whatsoever.
 
Excalibur said:
Afrihost (possibly other ISPs) seem cheaper than the Rain R50/Gig offer. They are also not contract-based. And you get subsidised modems.
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You're effectively locked into one if you decide to cancel within six months of taking out a package. There's a R999 cancellation fee for the "month-to-month" contract.
 
CataclysmZA said:
You're effectively locked into one if you decide to cancel within six months of taking out a package. There's a R999 cancellation fee for the "month-to-month" contract.
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You can buy your device outright to avoid that cancellation fee.
 
and youtube is speed limited again. visit youtube. search for a 4k video. click on 4k resolution
. right click anywhere.

click stats for nerds.

Speeds limited to below 6500kbps
 
Kosmik said:
you should get a email withing seconds/minutes of delivery.
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A friend of mine got this package. it wasnt activated in 15 minutes as promised, took 24 hours.. Rain support confirmed the 24 hours as well.. the 15 min is miss leading... but if you are fortunate to have it activated in the 15 min then you just lucky :)
 
Napalm said:
and youtube is speed limited again. visit youtube. search for a 4k video. click on 4k resolution
. right click anywhere.

click stats for nerds.

Speeds limited to below 6500kbps
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for R250 you cant really demand to much.. if you get FHD, thats awesome
 
Delivered
Already rica'd
Works in my Xiaomi

But not in Huawei mifi
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RedhotNeo said:
for R250 you cant really demand to much.. if you get FHD, thats awesome
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I suppose thats true.. but it's not like i'm gonna stream 4k video all the time. So if i watch a music video or maybe a game or product review i like to see how it will look in real life. <specially for game reviews>

yeah. it is what it is.
 
Napalm said:
yeah. it is what it is.
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You're an early adopter to a service that will eventually offer uncapped internet over LTE-A with 4K streaming. At this point I don't think they can afford to allow bandwidth to be consumed by those services so quickly. Cell towers would become even more overloaded if people were allowed to stream at 4K, and I'd be surprised if Netflix was at 4K during peak time as well.
 
Not sure if Rain is also going that route but 5G is going to be a game changer.. From what I read (and the rumours). 5G will be faster than 100mbit constantly. Even talks of over 300mbit true speed. Only time will tell
 
Napalm said:
Not sure if Rain is also going that route but 5G is going to be a game changer.. From what I read (and the rumours). 5G will be faster than 100mbit constantly. Even talks of over 300mbit true speed. Only time will tell
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Ah, but watch some of the South African mobile players milk the cost of data for 5G.
 
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