In reply to a post by kasg:

Plusnet seem to treat lots of things as orders or requests even when they have been raised internally. Yes, I got all that and it did eventually happen, although I don't think I received any active notification, I just happened to notice it playing up one day then checked the tickets and saw that information about an activation date had been added. Anyway it settled down after an hour or so and I had clearly been upgraded as my protocol had changed to G.DMT2+ Annex A and my attenuation had gone from over 54dB to over 60db! In general it's been a slight improvement and I have been syncing at over 4 meg for most of the time (slightly more often than I did before), until a couple of days ago when it dropped to 3 Meg but I expect it will be back up again. I didn't expect much improvement on my long line and it's only a stepping stone to FTTC, which is now actually available to me (31.2Mb estimate) according to the BT Wholesale checker, but I've no idea where my cabinet is!

Thanks for the heads-up, Kevin. I now know what to expect if the switchover takes place.

Glad to hear that, at the very least, you managed to obtain some improvement.
I'm also looking forward to FTTC - if and when it eventually happens !!

Wagstaff

Hi there,

We place batches of orders, which is why the email doesn't have an activation date.

Because of the way the ordering system works, and our notification process on the other side, it would take significant dev time to set the system to ignore order notifications just for batch orders we send, which we felt could be better spent elsewhere.

In reply to a post by mand_beckett:

Because of the way the ordering system works, and our notification process on the other side.....

Are you talking about the "spirit world" now, Mand !!!

That didn't make a lot of sense to me - but I guess it does to the OP, who's clearly not complaining about the good fortune of a faster transmission rate.

Wagstaff

Update to my original post.

After 2 weeks of the very fast speeds, things have changed.
For the last fortnight my speeds have decreased to about:
Downstream - 9500 Kbps
Upstream - 600 Kbps
(I use data from a morning thinkbroadband speed test.)

I am however still very happy.
This is still the fastest speeds I have ever had, at the lowest cost
with the most reliable connection, in the last 10 years from 4 ISPs.

Edited by deleted (Tue 12-Apr-11 10:42:49)

In reply to a post by ash76:

I am however still very happy.
This is still the fastest speeds I have ever had, at the lowest cost
with the most reliable connection, in the last 10 years from 4 ISPs.

Which of the four ISPs you've used over the past 10 years do you consider the worst ?

Wagstaff

"Which of the four ISPs you've used over the past 10 years do you consider the worst ?
- Wagstaff "

I would not put any into a "worst" category. They were all mostly good experiences for a
newcomer like me to Internet technology.

AOL was the most disappointing because I really wanted to stay with them.
I became a beta tester for them by luck, when I first used broadband about a decade ago.
They had BT set up a special connection box for me free, which I still use.
But AOL tried to force through a router upgrade, which was not designed for the router - one they had supplied me. Although I and many other users tried to tell them this they refused to listen.
When I read on their site reports of crashes caused by the upgrade, divorce followed
before it happened to me.

Only PlusNet would go into the "Best" category. But I write this after being with them for just 6 months. So it might still be the "Honeymoon" period.