Wireless is a scam

My speeds on Rain have dropped slightly ever since schools were closed
 
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saor said:
"Core backbone fixed location solution". Serious words for what's basically just my home internet. Your distinction is kind of arbitrary. Data is data, transmission mediums evolve & especially at home I don't care how data is transmitted. I've had no downtime or installation costs with LTE so as a way of getting my internet it's perfectly fine for me.
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Fixed wireless will grow more and more, replacing fibre in some cases, as fixed wireless is the quickest way to expanding fibre,, strangely enough. They compliment each other your point is noted.
 
sherewarrior said:
You are blowing smoke and avoiding the topic. Commonly known as being a troll
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No, Claim to be a "radio engineer" then make sure your terminology is right. Otherwise, you just come off as someone with an overvaluation of your own importance.

The Rain network is nothing without a ubiquitous fibre backbone to support it. If that backbone is installed to be able to deploy sufficient 5G nodes then the serious question arises as to why not make available direct fibre access to fixed locations anyway and do away with the "radio" last mile link altogether?

Never mind, you will all get around to appreciate that simple fact in about 1000 years or so.
 
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I will decide when its important to use the correct terminology. Stop making excuses, blowing smoke get off your high horse. Who do think you are anyway?

Fibre is too expensive, will never cover more than say 20% of the addressable market. So ironically for you, the more fibre gets deployed means even more fixed wireless will take that fibre where its never been before. Read the market reports...
 
sherewarrior said:
I will decide when its important to use the correct terminology. Stop making excuses, blowing smoke get off your high horse. Who do think you are anyway?

Fibre is too expensive, will never cover more than say 20% of the addressable market. So ironically for you, the more fibre gets deployed means even more fixed wireless will take that fibre where its never been before. Read the market reports...
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Are you always such a prick?
 
"Speedtests" used to be a diagnostic tool. Now speedtests are just a marketing gimmick and marble polishing exercise, carefully orchestrated to prove what the network provider wants to prove to the gullible suckers willingly giving away their money every month.
 
ronald911 said:
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Anyone that ever tries to sell you a wireless / LTE as a Fibre replacement/alternative is bullpooping you.
It's not even 10am, I cannot even open Speedtest.com, so resorted to running it on my terminal.

Rain is struggling at 0.58mbps and MTN (Afrihost), which is premium is not even 0.20mbps faster than Rain.

Kill me.

I never thought I'd say this, but I'm missing my 10mbps ADSL line. Sadly it got discontinued due to cable theft, but when it was working, it was always solid... Other than the last few metres from your router to your devices, internet shouldn't be wireless. Utter dogcrap.

Fibre cannot come soon enough!
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I love this post!

Retrieving speedtest.net configurations ......... [ read finding the best way to BS the results positively]
Testing from rain ........ 197 . ........... [ read "Do we have a "special deal" with Rain that requires us to optimise packet flow for speedtests"?]
Retrieving speedtest.net server lists ....... [read find the preselected routing to honour our deal with Rain]
Selecting best server based on ping ........ [read confirm we have honoured our deal with Rain]

and then the crunch comes :

hosted by Liquidtelecom (johannesburg) 3.18 km 134.794 ms [This speedtest should have been aborted now because this line proves that the whole thing is orchestrated and the decision is NOT based on a ping result at all -- it is pre-determined.
The resulting outcome finds that server regardless even if it has to first go via the moon.

The right thing to do would have been to ABORT the test with a message to the user that " We have problem Euston"


An excellent post showing up the so-called test and the service provider for what they are
A bunch of scam artists.
 
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We have Telkom fixed LTE via Afrihost in the shop
55 Mbps down and 10 Mbps up
IP phone works from it 100% too

Yet friend in Fish Hoek also has it - 3 Mbps down, 0.5 Mbps up on a good day
Her ISP (Axxess) is disintersted
 
Geoff.D said:
I love this post!

Retrieving speedtest.net configurations ......... [ read finding the best way to BS the results positively]
Testing from rain ........ 197 . ........... [ read "Do we have a "special deal" with Rain that requires us to optimise packet flow for speedtests"?]
Retrieving speedtest.net server lists ....... [read find the preselected routing to honour our deal with Rain]
Selecting best server based on ping ........ [read confirm we have honoured our deal with Rain]

and then the crunch comes :

hosted by Liquidtelecom (johannesburg) 3.18 km 134.794 ms [This speedtest should have been aborted now because this line proves that the whole thing is orchestrated and the decision is NOT based on a ping result at all -- it is pre-determined.
The resulting outcome finds that server regardless even if it has to first go via the moon.

The right thing to do would have been to ABORT the test with a message to the user that " We have problem Euston"


An excellent post showing up the so-called test and the service provider for what they are
A bunch of scam artists.
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Well in my case, the Rain network is so firetrucked, they can't even BS the results positively. Sadly, I think it's a last mile issue, in which case, too many customers on a single tower, because, well, no other towers to choose from even if you decide to invest in those antennas.

It's a pity thought.. when we first got Rain it was great. Constant 20-30mbps. If only they managed to grow their network to keep up with the demand.
 
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adielk said:
I have Telkom fibre at 20mbps and LTE(R599 uncapped) and LTE is faster and more reliable.

Although recently no issues as in outages or slower with fibre.
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Interesting to note! Fibre is not everything..
 
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