RAIN unusable at night

So I find every night it shows way down. I do an eskom reset and I'm back up to great speeds after that. It's a pita, but at least it works.
 
pinball wizard said:
So I find every night it shows way down. I do an eskom reset and I'm back up to great speeds after that. It's a pita, but at least it works.
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Sometimes this works, sometimes it even worse after a hard reset.

I'm just really gatvol, its like its just impossible getting a proper fixed LTE solution which is stable
 
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Coverage in Sunninghill, JHB is really subpar too. On average I'm getting 9mbps down and 1mbps up.
 
Mine seems to be back to what it was, but I am on the top-end package. I wonder if these guys are able to affect whether your sim slows down depending on your data package or not?

I'm also very tempted to get the Cell C LTE deal from Axxess which looks fairly decent - just over half the price of the 330GB Rain deal, offering 200GB.
 
pinball wizard said:
So I find every night it shows way down. I do an eskom reset and I'm back up to great speeds after that. It's a pita, but at least it works.
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This is what seems to work for me.
It can’t be congestion. There is something happening with the connection that restores speed with a reset.
 
mattrudlles said:
Coverage in Sunninghill, JHB is really subpar too. On average I'm getting 9mbps down and 1mbps up.
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Lucky you. At night my download is < 1Mpbs and my upload is, well, nearly non-existent (speedtest.net errors out on the upload test).

I'm in the "planned" coverage area for fibre (supposedly 2 to 6 months). They can't get here quick enough for me!
 
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I don’t know what is happening today
 
Vuma guy came down road yesterday said aerial fibre should be installed in up to 6 weeks. So bye bye rain good riddance
 
Same story in Stellenbosch. used to get 40MBPS day and night, now I am lucky if I see 6MBps during the day... never get more than 1 mbps past 1930. Call up MWEB and they blame my location, despite it having worked excellent previously.

Cancelled today, and going back to my local WISP. 4MBPS, with a 1 TB cap.
 
Has anybody moved across to this new Cell C fixed LTE offering and is able to make a comparison? I'm getting annoyed with this erratic network now too. It's not cool anymore.
 
Pixual said:
Has anybody moved across to this new Cell C fixed LTE offering and is able to make a comparison? I'm getting annoyed with this erratic network now too. It's not cool anymore.
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I tried the the CELL C Sim with LTE A 2 days ago, Was pleasantly surpised with the results. 50/50 up / down during off peak. 30/30 Peak time.
20-50ms ping. Had strong signal whereas my RAIN has weak 1/5.

Long story short, Seems the RAIN network is flooded / congested at the moment and no one seems to care :)
 
Krunkz said:
I tried the the CELL C Sim with LTE A 2 days ago, Was pleasantly surpised with the results. 50/50 up / down during off peak. 30/30 Peak time.
20-50ms ping. Had strong signal whereas my RAIN has weak 1/5.

Long story short, Seems the RAIN network is flooded / congested at the moment and no one seems to care :)
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Thanks. I think I might give them a try, but I don't think 200GB is going to be enough for me. :(
 
Fast.com says I'm getting a whipping 250kbps now (Wynberg, Cape Town).

I was getting 7Mbps 2 hours ago.

I was getting 25Mbps when I first started with Rain a couple of months ago.
 
Also waiting for Fibre to come in the next few weeks.
Parklands North, Table View.

After 5pm rain is unusable.
Can hardly open a web site never mind stream some music.

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0.71 Download, 0.65 Upload with a nice 436ms ping. :sick:

DONT GO FOR RAIN or web africa. Logged a call on the 4th of December and they just dont give a crap.
 
I'm down to 15Kb/s. It'd be laughable if I could pry myself away from the frustration. All with local latency between 20 and 30ms
 
I have experienced a big improvement in the evenings (touching wood).


This is from a moment ago, but it has been good all week at all times of the day. Maybe a few people jumped over to other suppliers?
 
When I first got the rain package, latency was great (8-20ms) and speeds were awesome. (10-20mbps)

Been seeing really high latency at night (400-800ms) since November, along with low speeds. (1-2mbps)

Since February my latency at night has been as high as 20,000ms(!) with awful speeds of around 200-300Kbps.
This is just f%%%%ing ridiculous, I might as well have kept my MTN uncapped contract.

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I cant even post this from RAIN LTE because it just times out, latency at the moment of 56,000ms. Yay.
 
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