Rain’s network speeds severely impacted by lockdown
To objectively assess the impact of the lockdown on Rain’s network, MyBroadband looked at the speed test results over the past five weeks.
For this investigation, MyBroadband used its mobile app Wi-Fi results between 13 March (before the lockdown started) and 16 April.
During this time, over 70,000 tests were performed on Rain’s network using MyBroadband’s Android speed test app.
It therefore provides a good overview of the average performance of the Rain network before and during the lockdown.
The data clearly shows a big decline in download speed since the national lockdown started.
In the week when the state of disaster was announced, the average download speed on Rain’s network was over 20Mbps.
After people started to work from home in the week before the lockdown, the average download speed dropped to around 13Mbps.
In the first week of the lockdown, when most people were at home, the speed further declined to just over 10Mbps.
The decline in the average download speed continued over the next three weeks during the lockdown period.
The same trend was seen in network latency. It increased from 68ms before the state of disaster to 97ms during week three of the lockdown.
To objectively assess the impact of the lockdown on Rain’s network, MyBroadband looked at the speed test results over the past five weeks.
For this investigation, MyBroadband used its mobile app Wi-Fi results between 13 March (before the lockdown started) and 16 April.
During this time, over 70,000 tests were performed on Rain’s network using MyBroadband’s Android speed test app.
It therefore provides a good overview of the average performance of the Rain network before and during the lockdown.
The data clearly shows a big decline in download speed since the national lockdown started.
In the week when the state of disaster was announced, the average download speed on Rain’s network was over 20Mbps.
After people started to work from home in the week before the lockdown, the average download speed dropped to around 13Mbps.
In the first week of the lockdown, when most people were at home, the speed further declined to just over 10Mbps.
The decline in the average download speed continued over the next three weeks during the lockdown period.
The same trend was seen in network latency. It increased from 68ms before the state of disaster to 97ms during week three of the lockdown.
