Unlocked the 5G connection today

[TheSentinel]

Ohh my word my torrents are flying tonight

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spraypainter's internet connection. Just imagine if you were a CTO at some big company. what would your connection be like?

 

[cavedog]

 

[cavedog]

 

[Ipwn 4]

 

[cavedog]

I'm really keen to see how long a Rain 5G tower stays on battery life during load shedding or other outages. My fibre never goes down during power outages so this will be interesting to see. I have my 5G router on my backup power now.

 

[Ipwn 4]

I'm really keen to see how long a Rain 5G tower stays on battery life during load shedding or other outages. My fibre never goes down during power outages so this will be interesting to see. I have my 5G router on my backup power now.

Will be area dependent, some locations benifit from landlords having generators. Others are operated by companies who will supply generators during extended outages.

Our corporate office park has a portable mast in place which draws from our UPS and generator circuit, it shouldn't ever go down due to power.

 

[cavedog]

Will be area dependent, some locations benifit from landlords having generators. Others are operated by companies who will supply generators during extended outages.

Our corporate office park has a portable mast in place which draws from our UPS and generator circuit, it shouldn't ever go down due to power.

Sadly the tower I use is on a school property in the front. Took a look does not seem to have a generator so will see how long the batteries last when we have loadshedding again.

Openserve fibre runs to to the exchange building next to the school and happens to be where I get my fibre from and that building has a very big generator so never goes down.

 

[mister]

I'm really keen to see how long a Rain 5G tower stays on battery life during load shedding or other outages. My fibre never goes down during power outages so this will be interesting to see. I have my 5G router on my backup power now.

I'm interested too... I read some reports that the 5G base station can have up to 10X the power requirements of previous versions due to all the antennae elements

 

[Kopseer]

So now that most of Gauteng is experiencing some rainfall, anyone able too say how badly the connection was affected?

 

[cavedog]

So now that most of Gauteng is experiencing some rainfall, anyone able too say how badly the connection was affected?

With the massive storm outside rain and wind I did not notice any speed difference at all. I saw the signal stats very a bit because I'm 1KM from the tower with no Line of sight and a lot of trees so I'm guessing the trees did affect the signal a bit but did not see any speed slowdowns is latency issues if that is what you are asking.

I think the further you go from the tower the worse it might get because obviously signal gets weaker but in most cases it will not be affected at all. If you have an external unit it will be much better.

 

[cavedog]

My usage

I'm a bandwidth hog

 

[SeaSickMama]

So now that most of Gauteng is experiencing some rainfall, anyone able too say how badly the connection was affected?

i on the other hand noticed a good 100mbps reduction in speed from the rain a few times now but not sure if thats due to someone else hogging the tower etc.

 

[Dan C]

My usage

I'm a bandwidth hog

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That's a lot of speedtests.

 

[PAYBACK]

That's a lot of speedtests.

Adds up. I’ve used 25GB and almost 3/4 of that is from speedtests. Haven’t been able to get on internet at times. Hopefully that ends today.

 

[Kopseer]

Just got mine today, 150-230 Mb/s which I'm perfectly happy with, haven't done extreme testing for better than 3 bar signal. Might consider getting an antenna of some sorts

 

[Raven007140]

Just got mine today, 150-230 Mb/s which I'm perfectly happy with, haven't done extreme testing for better than 3 bar signal. Might consider getting an antenna of some sorts

As far as I can tell there are no external antennas available for the router Rain supplies. 5G requires 4x4 mimo and the Rain router only supports 2x2 antennas. I might be mistaken, but that's what I've seen on the forums.

 

[Leno]

Yeah dont get an external antenna it wont work due to the MIMO mentioned above

Only thing that would help is an external router

 

[Kopseer]

Yeah no antennas yet, if they do pop up will check pricing and decide. Until then getting great speeds nonetheless, even in this pouring rain

 

[cavedog]

Storm and lightning took my tower down.... No 4G or 5G from that tower. Seems like a power outage because the red light is even dead on top.

Connecting to a second tower now moving from 5 bars to 2 bars. Getting 120Mbps. Not ideal but at least it still works. Nice to know that I'm covered by at least 2 towers.

 

[cavedog]

Just called Rain 5G support. My tower is down suspected lightning hit. Technicians are attending no ETA yet. One of 25 towers that are down due to the adverse weather. They are logging a billing query to credit me for 3 days even though I'm connected to another tower.

Rain 5G support seem to have some really decent tools their side. The 5G sim keeps logs of all the towers you connect too. He told me as soon as a tower goes down network ops gets notified immediately and technicians get dispatched to attend.