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[IceQB]

 

[Kiemo]

Damn you going hard

 

[Jono_jt]

IceQB,
So I've been a rain fanatic from the start of the fixed wireless LTE!
Then when rain came out with the 19h uncapped 250 packages, I signed up as soon as I could!

The speeds where mind bending for little money!
In the 7 days free unlimited data that they had back then, I UPLOADED 478gb worth of data.

Last year Jan after I got retrenched, I could not afford to pay it, until last week. Popped my sim card into a Huawei b315 and got all excited for nothing, I've been getting at the highest DL speed 1.18mbps and 0.4mbps UL!!!
Borrowed a friend's portable LTE router drove around testing speeds throughout my area of Melville, Brixton and Crosby which I've always gotten excellent speeds.

Then I stupidly upgraded to the uncapped 24/7 without reading the fine print! They cap the speed to 10mbps, and I've never gotten close to it!!!!

 

[Romito]

IceQB,
So I've been a rain fanatic from the start of the fixed wireless LTE!
Then when rain came out with the 19h uncapped 250 packages, I signed up as soon as I could!

The speeds where mind bending for little money!
In the 7 days free unlimited data that they had back then, I UPLOADED 478gb worth of data.

Last year Jan after I got retrenched, I could not afford to pay it, until last week. Popped my sim card into a Huawei b315 and got all excited for nothing, I've been getting at the highest DL speed 1.18mbps and 0.4mbps UL!!!
Borrowed a friend's portable LTE router drove around testing speeds throughout my area of Melville, Brixton and Crosby which I've always gotten excellent speeds.

Then I stupidly upgraded to the uncapped 24/7 without reading the fine print! They cap the speed to 10mbps, and I've never gotten close to it!!!!

The general consensus amongst rain users is that sticking to the 19hrs uncapped is the best for right now. As for poor speeds, we've been in drought season long before the lockdown.

 

[Jono_jt]

The general consensus amongst rain users is that sticking to the 19hrs uncapped is the best for right now. As for poor speeds, we've been in drought season long before the lockdown.

That's very true, just hope the big shots decide to splash some cash to make it less congested! Always liked and spoke highly about Rain!

 

[The Free Radical]

RAIN is getting my cancellation this week.
Speeds have been restricted to web browsing only.
You can't stream decently or download any file over 20mb over 100kps.
I'm not even a bandwidth hog using less than 10 gig a month.
Turned into a junk product. Stay away!

 

[IceQB]

It's reminiscent to my ISDN days.
At least give a useable speed, but marketing it as 4G is down right false advertising.

 

[Scorpion101]

Guys, I have been with Rain from the very start. Initially my speeds were in the average of 30mb download. The speeds gradually deteriorated as more people took up the offer. In fairness to Rain they did acknowledge that their 4G offering was under strain ( Congestion ). This brings me to the lack of spectrum and I hate to make this political you can thank the ANC for the congestion all the Networks are experiencing. Moving on I decided to take up their 5G offering as my area does not have Fibre or any other offering ( Line of Site etc ). I must say it is phenomenal my DL -450mb UPL 60mb. I kept the R250 package just to use in my phone I have noticed that congestion or priority protocols might be the reason to why one offering performs better than the other.

 

[IceQB]

Then they should have stopped offering the product when they saw the network was becoming congested. Now they overselling like some of these WISPS are doing.
But hey, they were one as well way back...
Employing the same strategies

 

[IceQB]

April 11 still no reply to complaint submitted