Thanks Plusnet for excellent service

I have to give plusnet 5 stars for a great service and great support. Before on ADSL I get 6.5Meg and now getting 12.4Meg on ADSL2+ as it rock solid all day for a week now and a low ping too. Quite happy overall, better than rubbish virgin media (went downtime 9 times in a year and very high ping and throttling speed down to 2.4Meg with cable, glad I have left virgin media and join BT ADSL2+ with Plusnet. Also Plusnet is an excellent value money too.

Thanks Plusnet for a great service

Edited by adslmax (Fri 26-Aug-11 14:05:48)

In reply to a post by adslmax:

I have to give plusnet 5 stars for a great service and great support. Before on ADSL I get 6.5Meg and now getting 12.4Meg on ADSL2+ as it rock solid all day for a week now and a low ping too. Quite happy overall, better than rubbish virgin media (went downtime 9 times in a year and very high ping and throttling speed down to 2.4Meg with cable, glad I have left virgin media and join BT ADSL2+ with Plusnet. Also Plusnet is an excellent value money too.

Thanks Plusnet for a great service

I give it a week before you are slating them and migrating.

Who are you and what have you done to adslmax???

In reply to a post by kasg:

Who are you and what have you done to adslmax???

He's been kidnapped by girl from Singapore

I will second that. I switched from the Post Office 2 days ago. Now very low ping. My 6.3MB Post Office speed upped to 7.5MB on the first day with Plusnet. 9.4Mb yesterday and over 10MB today. Wonderful, but I don't think I will manage on the 60GB, and I am not happy that the changeover has hooked my phone to another persons number. Still waiting for a fix :-[

Edited by deleted (Sat 27-Aug-11 12:26:31)

In reply to a post by m0aur:

Wonderful, but I don't think I will manage on the 60GB

Do you actually know how much you were using before? I went from Extra with 60GB to Value Fibre with 40GB and still haven't managed to exceed 21GB (metered) in one month! (Remember it's unmetered between midnight and 8am.)

Edited by kasg (Sat 27-Aug-11 14:19:01)

In reply to a post by kasg:

In reply to a post by m0aur:

Wonderful, but I don't think I will manage on the 60GB

Do you actually know how much you were using before? I went from Extra with 60GB to Value Fibre with 40GB and still haven't managed to exceed 21GB (metered) in one month! (Remember it's unmetered between midnight and 8am.)

Well in the last two days, we have used nearly 1GB per day out of our daytime metered allowance. This is just for browsing and email. Our Wi-Fi internet radios were just running overnight, and we have watched no iPlayer or online tv. I certainly would not sit up after midnight to do so, so cannot see how on earth 60GB is enough in these days of the iPlayer etc. Even my new Freeview HD box is network linked and will soon offer hundreds of web channels and on demand. A couple of years ago with BT, it was all too easy to exceed their then 100GB �Unlimited� limit.

Edited by deleted (Sat 27-Aug-11 21:30:57)

In reply to a post by m0aur:

Well in the last two days, we have used nearly 1GB per day out of our daytime metered allowance. This is just for browsing and email.

1GB a day just for browsing and email? That is incredible, unless you have a radically different definition of "browsing" from me (or have some humongous email attachments).

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In reply to a post by m0aur:

Well in the last two days, we have used nearly 1GB per day out of our daytime metered allowance. This is just for browsing and email.

1GB a day just for browsing and email? That is incredible, unless you have a radically different definition of "browsing" from me (or have some humongous email attachments).

No attachments that I can think of. We were not switched on till 11.00am Thursday & we used 692.75 from our allowance that day. The iMac starts itself up at 7.00 am each day and the browser has about 40 tabs open all day with several forum posts during the day, but no video watched as yet. We like to watch online tv such as free Sky sport on livescorehonter and free films on Blinkbox, so it is good that there is no BB tie-in.

Edited by deleted (Sat 27-Aug-11 15:04:27)

In reply to a post by m0aur:

We were not switched on till 11.00am Thursday & we used 692.75 from our allowance that day.

Something very odd going on if that did not include any video or downloads.

In reply to a post by kasg:

In reply to a post by m0aur:

We were not switched on till 11.00am Thursday & we used 692.75 from our allowance that day.

Something very odd going on if that did not include any video or downloads.

Exactly 3 days since switch on. Not a single minute of video or online TV watched yet. Just browsing, email and a few speed tests. So far 2.85GB used peak and Internet radios overnight have used 1.47MB off peak. Nearly 1GB a day and nearly 1.5GB all in. I really cannot see 60GB as a realistic allowance, when a 128kbps radio stream will use 40GB a month.

Daft question, but are you sure the internet radios stop streaming when switched off? Where is the streaming s/w running?

Certainly at one time iPlayer would continue to stream even when nothing was being watched on the PC.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Daft question, but are you sure the internet radios stop streaming when switched off? Where is the streaming s/w running?

Certainly at one time iPlayer would continue to stream even when nothing was being watched on the PC.

Wi-Fi radios hook straight to the streaming URL, no servers or PC needed. Like most things in this silly green world, they don't even keep network connection in standby and in any case have been in Band 2 FM mode during the day since switchover. All of which is insignificant compared to the usage when we get back to watching online sport or movies.
The station we have streaming overnight is a 128kbps stream which will use 50MB per hour, which would equate to 800MB over the 16 daily peak hours if it was streaming continuously. This has been about out total peak use, which would mean everything else has used virtually nothing.

Edited by deleted (Mon 29-Aug-11 16:25:19)

Sorry, I didn't put the question very well.

If the server is streaming to you, (perhaps a higher bandwidth channel), and you ignore the data - ie by turning the radio(s) off without sending a "Stop" message - then Plusnet routers will count the traffic.

Re the rest using virtually nothing, you can have two PCs browsing, plus email and a few speed tests in less than 3GB per month.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Sorry, I didn't put the question very well.

If the server is streaming to you, (perhaps a higher bandwidth channel), and you ignore the data - ie by turning the radio(s) off without sending a "Stop" message - then Plusnet routers will count the traffic.

I have had my Belkin N1 Vision router in place for a while over the last couple of days. That shows download and upload speed and usage over the last 24 hours or whatever for every network device. Are you saying Plusnet will continue to count traffic even when it is not being used? After many years of using Wi-Fi radios on many portals, I have never found one where you were able to send a stop message, just like a PC, shut them off and they stop streaming.

Edited by deleted (Mon 29-Aug-11 17:54:26)

Still happy with this speed overall: http://www.speedtest.net/result/1456050153.png from 14000K ip profile rate.

Out of my depth at this point I'm afraid.

The nearest I can get to what can happen was on Newnet, where if you just unplugged a router, so it didn't send a "dying gasp" signal which it should when switched off, then the PPP session was not closed. As a result any things like hackers probing for open ports and suchlike generated traffic through the Newnet routers to at least the exchange DSLAM. Many of us found a very small amount of traffic being recorded, in the order of 0.01-0.09Mbps per hour.

So I was extrapolating from that to wonder if Internet Radio may do the same, but in significant volumes.

I don't think anyone's asked yet, but are you sure your wireless is secure? As RobertoS said, you should barely be using that much in a month, let alone three days.

In reply to a post by kasg:

I don't think anyone's asked yet, but are you sure your wireless is secure? As RobertoS said, you should barely be using that much in a month, let alone three days.

I don't think I will answer that. Usage has slowed down this evening, but as the changeover to PN BB last Thursday was a major Cock-up, which has left me hooked to someone Else's phone number, I can't really be sure what is going on or what is being metered till I get back on my number, but unfortunately whoever your supplier, many of us are still at the mercy of Openreach.

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blimey 4 years ago old thread!

It's a dodgy post and link... stay away!

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I bet it's a hidden affiliate link. It doesn't go direct to Plusnet.

link is smartblogger.c0.uk/plusnet....

went to smartblogger.c0.uk and looks a bit dodgy!

I know. I said so.

An affiliate link would be Plusnet domain though surely....

Still not safe regardless!

In reply to a post by mlmclaren:

An affiliate link would be Plusnet domain though surely....

Probably sets a cookie and redirects, it does go to the correct site though, earning him £100 or something for a sign-up I guess.

Just a redirect.

Status: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.45
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=5686ba8ba842a1510842e5a68a60cfe2; path=/
Set-Cookie: prli_click_2=plusnet; expires=Sat, 05-Dec-2015 00:47:47 GMT; path=/
Location: http://www.plus.net/myreferrals/new.html?intReferrer...

Matt

Oh ok, thanks for checking and clearing that up Matt, good to see your still about 😀

This is why I will never open this direct link!

In reply to a post by adslmax:

I have to give plusnet 5 stars for a great service and great support. Before on ADSL I get 6.5Meg and now getting 12.4Meg on ADSL2+ as it rock solid all day for a week now and a low ping too. Quite happy overall, better than rubbish virgin media (went downtime 9 times in a year and very high ping and throttling speed down to 2.4Meg with cable, glad I have left virgin media and join BT ADSL2+ with Plusnet. Also Plusnet is an excellent value money too.

Thanks Plusnet for a great service

Funny, because I thought you had FTTC with PlusNet. And were going to leave them. And had Virgin. and BT Infinity. And...

Check out the dates,

http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/plusnet/t/4445726-t...


http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/plusnet/t/4037418-t...

In reply to a post by Apprentice:

Check out the dates,

http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/plusnet/t/4445726-t...


http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/plusnet/t/4037418-t...

So easily done, like automatic reply and then when someone points out the dates, you think oh no or words to that effect.

Almost no need - read the post and saw the same myself while doing the morning rounds

Deleted your post as it held a copy of the URL

Edited by MrSaffron (Thu 05-Nov-15 09:44:13)

A smart person reads a sites rules before posting and digests the bit about commercial advertising.

Nothing that the original poster did but a spammer surfaced an old post for no good reason and thus putting thread to bed.