Rain Routing/Throttling Issues

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kennedym

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Hi guys

I was with rain about 2 years back but cancelled. I cancelled because of their routing/throttling issues. I work as a software engineer and using them was about 4 times slower for my purposes, 4 times more hops than versus using telkom lte.
This is because I need to connect to servers around the world. A simpler test was using wildfly, starting it up on rain was 4 times slower than lte on Telkom. Another test is torrents, sure a speed test will show over 100mbps but these are useless tests on the Rain network when they throttle your usage on bittorents and who knows what else, bittorents was about 4mbps when a speedtest showed 100mbps. I
I have reported these along with traceroutes but rain support sucks bad.
I just emailed them as to whether these issues was resolved but the response I get does make me lose hair, dudes can't even read.

I have been made aware that they apparently have looked and addressed issues, I am trying to find out what exactly it is they changed since 2020, I am not keen to sign up, pay and go through that horrible process of getting a refund when it does not work as expected which I am pretty sure is going to happen.

Does anyone know if they have removed the routing/throttling issue that they had?
 
Torrents are still throttled. So is streaming. On LTE anyway. Latency is also not good.
 
I'm using a VPN that Rain does not throttle, AT ALL. Max torrent speeds any time of the day and 1080p streaming with no buffering on the 24/7 R479 deal. So it seems it's not a blanket "throttle all VPN's" setting they use but they have to add VPN's into their database or something.
 
Thanks for the replies everyone. I will not be using Rain, too much unknowns and complexities. Will probably stick with prepaid Telkom LTE, its faster and simpler than Rain for my required purposes.
 
HerZeLeiD said:
I'm using a VPN that Rain does not throttle, AT ALL. Max torrent speeds any time of the day and 1080p streaming with no buffering on the 24/7 R479 deal. So it seems it's not a blanket "throttle all VPN's" setting they use but they have to add VPN's into their database or something.
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Morning, which VPN are you using. I'm using Bitdefender and am pretty sure they throttling me. Tnx for the info
 
Suffice it to say , they throttle still. I travel all over pietermaritzburg and at most speeds i get is 1 mbs . And i aint downloading anything. AT ashburton the other day it dropped to 80kbps between 1900 ant 2300. Woke at 2 am, checke speed. 1.4 mbs. All responses i get from them is that i must restart my device. Any more restarting and my phone is going to stop wanting to be my phone. They sell uncapped. Notice they dont include the fact that they throttle.
 
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