Not only is this NOT a rumor, but a reality.
When we First migrated as "early adopters" we were perhaps one of 10 people in entire suburb. Data rates were amazingly fast. When I mean fast, I mean, 69mb/s+. With proud speedtest.net results all over our social media. Ping was perfect and consistent. We were not even at full signal strength
We moved a few months back, and right-off the bat we could tell we were in a Rain-congested area. WITH FULL SIGNAL STRENGTH And it has gotten progessively and extensively worse over the past 8 months. Eight months ago we were averaging 5-9mbps during the day and up to, but not including about 40mb/s in the evenings. 8 Months down the line and this has now dropped to a dismal 0.5-1.5 mbps during the sunlight hours and a wholly pathetic 10mbps at night. Around Midnight you can expect a boost to about 25mb/s however, that is unlikely. Rather expect 5-10mbps with ping-rates all over the map. It is now an embarrassment to have Wifi at home with Rain, we are back to worse-than-iBurst rates, and this is for prepaid, CAPPED subscriptions, not the unlimited plans. We had a record-router-reboot of 11 times this past Sunday, with us resorting to quitting Netflix (which is on it's lowest quality setting), and reverting to the DVD's, Blu-rays and Downloaded content on our external Hard Drives. These days our mobile devices add the little triangle to the WiFi logo as they literally are unsure if the Wifi has any internet access. A Skype call last night around 10pm, was interrupted 7 times do the bandwidth dropping out like a rusted dial-up connection. Yet signal strength to the tower is stellar and the Wifi router configured exactly as it was the day we received it.
It has now become the word most-often used with the f-word. "F*cking Rain" is now the favorite curse-word in our household. Used at least 3 times by 2 people over the course of an evening.
Rain must come clean with their network saturation issues. Get to grips with advising users wanting to join in already over-saturated areas that their performance will be below expectations and then some. And then some more. Just say it, Rain: "Sorry Mr Smith, we are oversubscribed in your area and cannot offer you a package that will meet with your expectations at this time." It the same as when ISP's say "We unfortunately do not provide fiber in your area at this time", when your neighbour next door has FIBER WITH THAT VERY SAME PROVIDER. It's no secret. Just say it.
We are now going Fibre, 50/50 uncapped, unshaped. So WHEN the ISP's throttle to 50%, we at least DO HAVE 25mbps. Although, having said that, as we have seen as well, the higher-priced packages are not nearly affected as much as the 10-25mbps subscriptions are.
Cheers Rain.
