Rain throttling everything except speedtest.net

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MarthinusBosman

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I just got a Rain fixed LTE sim and noticed heavy throttling on torrents. I looked into it and saw they do state that they prioritise "live" data and throttle things like downloads and torrents.

I looked into it a bit more and have found that that's BS. They definitely throttle youtube (stuck at fast.com speed), they even throttle fast.com's speedtest (for netflix servers), they throttle google's speedtest.

From what I can find, they throttle everything except speedtest.net and mybroadband's speedtest.

I can understand a fair use policy for the price I'm paying, but surely it's deliberate misrepresentation if they're specifically just whitelisting speedtest sites?

speedtest.net: Screenshot 2020-10-08 113722.png
Mybroadband speedtest: Screenshot 2020-10-08 113709.png
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"prioritising" traffic vs setting a completely different hard throttle speed on everything except feels like 2 different things. I've never had an internet connection that's showed such drastic differences between different speedtest sites.
 
MarthinusBosman said:
"prioritising" traffic vs setting a completely different hard throttle speed on everything except feels like 2 different things. I've never had an internet connection that's showed such drastic differences between different speedtest sites.
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I have never used Rain, there are too many complaints to even consider them.
What I have seen from posts on this forum is that pretty much everything other than normal browsing is throttled. Torrents are definitely a no-go unless its after midnight.
 
Rocket-Boy said:
I have never used Rain, there are too many complaints to even consider them.
What I have seen from posts on this forum is that pretty much everything other than normal browsing is throttled. Torrents are definitely a no-go unless its after midnight.
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Yeah, honestly I wouldn't mind if they would just throttle youtube to a point that I can at least watch 1080p. But now that I realise the full scope, it surely feels somewhat illegal?
 
Heya! Is this the 24/7 or 19/7 package you're on? If the former, yeah if you go to speedtest or speed.rain, despite the hard 10mbps cap, the speed does reach the full potential of the 19 hour package and is 10mbps everywhere else, which is hilarious. The 1mbps cap you see on fast.com, torrents and streaming services isn't anything new, it's just the way they enforce the 360p streaming disclaimer they advertise, of course all of this is bypassable with proxy and tunnel services so it's not much of an issue but only annoying.
 
Crumbl0x said:
Heya! Is this the 24/7 or 19/7 package you're on? If the former, yeah if you go to speedtest or speed.rain, despite the hard 10mbps cap, the speed does reach the full potential of the 19 hour package and is 10mbps everywhere else, which is hilarious. The 1mbps cap you see on fast.com, torrents and streaming services isn't anything new, it's just the way they enforce the 360p streaming disclaimer they advertise, of course all of this is bypassable with proxy and tunnel services so it's not much of an issue but only annoying.
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Could you advise how to bypass? I've tried using a VPN, but that doesn't seem to work.
 
MarthinusBosman said:
Could you advise how to bypass? I've tried using a VPN, but that doesn't seem to work.
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hmm, perhaps try another service? I've got CloudFlare over WireGuard and Nord over TCP solutions running without issues so far, but be aware it doesn't bypass the hard limit of 10mbps on the 24/7 package, that'd need spoofing of certificates and origin addresses which isn't the best idea, otherwise I'd be stumped with what's going on by your end
 
Crumbl0x said:
hmm, perhaps try another service? I've got CloudFlare over WireGuard and Nord over TCP solutions running without issues so far, but be aware it doesn't bypass the hard limit of 10mbps on the 24/7 package, that'd need spoofing of certificates and origin addresses which isn't the best idea, otherwise I'd be stumped with what's going on by your end
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Yeah, to me it did normalise all traffic, but to ~4mbps, which doesn't justify the cost of the VPN for me. If I got 10mbps it would be a different story. Will try some others.
 
Yep, trying to update my World of Tanks and their launcher is using a P2P network to deploy. So guess what speeds I'm getting. It's laughable.
 
Rain doesn't throttle anything in the sense we understand it.
They throttle by oversubscribing and relaying traffic through selected towers when their network is under pressure.
 
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