Rain slow because of loadshedding?

[charlieharper]

Is it possible that 4G / LTE could be slower specifically because of loadshedding in the country?
Like regardless whether your neighbourhood + tower got an outage or not... Like the internet still 'works', during and without loadshedding, but instead of 20-30mbps, it's like 1mbps.

Just asking, cause my contact at Rain mentioned it messes with the towers, and I'm just trying to understand why it would make it slower instead of just killing the connection altogether. Cheers.

 

[ghostbunny]

Certain towers go offline, and you connect to another one which is likely further away or more congested.

 

[charlieharper]

Certain towers go offline, and you connect to another one which is likely further away or more congested.

I literally only have 1 tower I can connect to... No other towers within range.

 

[BradleyKZN]

I literally only have 1 tower I can connect to... No other towers within range.

Even if the tower stays on, if say a Vodacom tower goes off, more users might end up switching to roaming on the rain tower, and then it would be heavily congested

 

[Polymathic]

Thanks to cable theft in my area, my part of town now is connected to a different grid to the rest of the town. As a result I now can get internet during load shedding.

 

[Impala]

Loadshedding does mess with towers as they are not made to be switched on and off 3 times a day. Here even after the power comes back the vodacom tower takes about 30 min to stabilize. Same with our Rain. Needs a reboot or 2.
Looks like the towers are like the people who need their coffee first if they wake up.

 

[ghostbunny]

I literally only have 1 tower I can connect to... No other towers within range.

Have you checked the cell id doesn't change when load shedding happens? We pick up towers kilometres away. We get like 5 different towers including when we switch bands and internal and external antenna. Those towers aren't even available to us when there is no load shedding, but they all of a sudden appear when load shedding happens.

All of our towers are roaming vodacom and iburst ones.

 

[charlieharper]

Have you checked the cell id doesn't change when load shedding happens? We pick up towers kilometres away. We get like 5 different towers including when we switch bands and internal and external antenna. Those towers aren't even available to us when there is no load shedding, but they all of a sudden appear when load shedding happens.

All of our towers are roaming vodacom and iburst ones.

Damn, interesting, will check next round.. All I know is, when there's loadshedding, internet is fast... around loadshedding it's much slower in my experience. I have an inverter to keep the wifi going.