post exodus

section is boring now

Plusnet is also now dull as dishwater.

Is the "dull as" required?

I had no idea there had been an exodus of any kind to be honest lol

I know, no complaining about my own broadband has left me with no choice but to moan about others Broadband for them lol

That is a good thing, it means that Plusnet is working ok now. No problems here now apart from their router not doing what I want it to do.

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

section is boring now

Nothing to say here. The 'single threaded' issue is still a rare event and easily fixed for me. Everything else is working tickety boo. It's beginning to look like I won't need to change at Christmas after all. Only uncertainty is whether to go with another 12 month tie-in for line rental with BT.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Is the "dull as" required?

I'd take that as a complement. I don't want excitement from my ISP. I just want the service to work as it should day after day in a dull and boringly predictable fashion. At the moment that seems to be the case.

IPv6 might be nice but remains largely irrelevant to my daily use.

Same here Andrue. Nothing for me to complain about. My modem continues to sync a good 10Mbps above the BT 'clean' estimates so all good here

Edited by WelshWArrior (Tue 03-Nov-15 12:34:24)

You don't know what you've been missing

I must be part of the mass exodus because i left plusnet on october 23rd lol

In reply to a post by Andrue:

I'd take that as a complement. I don't want excitement from my ISP. I just want the service to work as it should day after day in a dull and boringly predictable fashion. At the moment that seems to be the case.

IPv6 might be nice but remains largely irrelevant to my daily use.

One thing about Plusnet is they do not bombard you emails or stuff through the door like BT, Sky or Talk Talk does offering other features you do not want.

I have been with plusnet now for 8 months and had only two emails about their TV service, i did have one phone call, but that was because I registered a interest by accident.
I know people with other services and they gets email every week and letters through the door and even phone calls.

Not sure what would the use of IPv6 be for most people, i know we all got to use it at some point, but as long as I can get the internet it do not bother me or millions of other people.

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I know people with other services and they gets email every week and letters through the door and even phone calls.

I get junk mail through the letter box regularly from ISPs that I have no dealings with, nor any interest in dealing with such ISPs.

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In reply to a post by zyborg47:

I know people with other services and they gets email every week and letters through the door and even phone calls.

I get junk mail through the letter box regularly from ISPs that I have no dealings with, nor any interest in dealing with such ISPs.

The door-to-door opt out should stop any unaddressed post, where I live Virgin Media are the worst offender.

http://www.royalmail.com/personal/help-and-support/h...

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In reply to a post by zyborg47:

I know people with other services and they gets email every week and letters through the door and even phone calls.

I get junk mail through the letter box regularly from ISPs that I have no dealings with, nor any interest in dealing with such ISPs.

Normally BT and Talk Talk, now and again I get something from Sky. But must months I will get something from Talk Talk.

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In reply to a post by cheshire_man:

The door-to-door opt out should stop any unaddressed post, where I live Virgin Media are the worst offender.

http://www.royalmail.com/personal/help-and-support/h...

Not being ins a Virgin area, we do not get anything from them, also the Royal mail opt out is a waste of time, I tried it three times and still have not made a difference, so it all goes in the bin.

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

Not being ins a Virgin area, we do not get anything from them, also the Royal mail opt out is a waste of time, I tried it three times and still have not made a difference, so it all goes in the bin.

You might need to raise it as a complaint or with your local delivery office.

Since registering with Mail Preference Service some years ago we haven't received any junk at all (well, maybe once). The change it made about a month after a registration was quite drastic, as far as I remember, and then it stopped altogether.

Unaddressed junk mail and leaflets may not be coming via Royal Mail but via some other carrier.

http://www.royalmail.com/personal/help-and-support/h... does say

Please be aware that Royal Mail delivers a minority of the total volume of unaddressed mail items in the United Kingdom. The opt out will not cover any other distributors, who will continue to deliver unaddressed mail items. Opting out of Royal Mail Door to Door deliveries will not necessarily reduce by a significant amount the number of items you will receive, as there are other carriers in the market place.

The Mail Preference Service should work well for junk mail addressed to you, provided you have not given the sender consent, which is all to easy to do.

In reply to a post by alext05:

You might need to raise it as a complaint or with your local delivery office.

Since registering with Mail Preference Service some years ago we haven't received any junk at all (well, maybe once). The change it made about a month after a registration was quite drastic, as far as I remember, and then it stopped altogether.

I really can't be bothered, it is easy enough to just pick it off the floor and chuck it right into the bin.

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

I really can't be bothered, it is easy enough to just pick it off the floor and chuck it right into the bin.

I hope you mean chuck it in the recycling

In reply to a post by ChrisAO:

I hope you mean chuck it in the recycling

Even worse when people say they will be chucking their routers in the bin as opposed to disposing it at an electrical equipment collection point...

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In reply to a post by ChrisAO:

I hope you mean chuck it in the recycling

Even worse when people say they will be chucking their routers in the bin as opposed to disposing it at an electrical equipment collection point...

What did the router say as it was thrown in the bin?
"WEEE"

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Even worse when people say they will be chucking their routers in the bin as opposed to disposing it at an electrical equipment collection point...

Not enforced for home users, corporates get serious fines for breaching WEEE regulations. Not enough councils have electrical recycling points that people know about. I see enough junked broken electronics in communal rubbish bins

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Not enough councils have electrical recycling points that people know about.

Agreed.

In reply to a post by awontroba:

Unaddressed junk mail and leaflets may not be coming via Royal Mail but via some other carrier.

http://www.royalmail.com/personal/help-and-support/h... does say

Please be aware that Royal Mail delivers a minority of the total volume of unaddressed mail items in the United Kingdom. The opt out will not cover any other distributors, who will continue to deliver unaddressed mail items. Opting out of Royal Mail Door to Door deliveries will not necessarily reduce by a significant amount the number of items you will receive, as there are other carriers in the market place.

The Mail Preference Service should work well for junk mail addressed to you, provided you have not given the sender consent, which is all to easy to do.

For unaddressed junk mail delivered by organisations other than Royal Mail, a (polite) sign on the door can work to an extent.

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In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Is the "dull as" required?

I'd take that as a complement. I don't want excitement from my ISP. I just want the service to work as it should day after day in a dull and boringly predictable fashion. At the moment that seems to be the case.

Absolutely - for an ISP, "dull as dishwater" is a good thing. It's a bit like an electricity supply - you don't want it to be "exciting", you want it to just work!

I sure want some electrons to be excited on my electricity supply!