I doubt very much I will go over 250GB. I only went over 100Gb once with my current isp.

I did look at Primus some time ago but a lot of bad reviews. http://www.reviewcentre.com/reviews145423.html

Like I was saying before, it's swing and roundabouts and by the time you have messed about switching, you haven't really saved anything. BT maybe rubbish but I know what to expect and don't use the phone enough to warrant moving and disadvantaging myself.

I don't think I can get that with PN if I use something like quidco. BTW you can get 70 quid off if you get fibre + phone with PN from quidco.

Edited by deleted (Wed 21-Nov-12 23:08:05)

Well I have now requested my MAC code and may use it in the next 30 days.

If I use it before christmas, I won't be telling anyone who I have switched to. It will be a secret until I am connected or I have any problems. I hope not but I will be the first to post about it on here.

I will also do some P2P tests so thats another reason for the secrecy. I wouldn't want either BT or PN to give me some artificial boost to make it look good would I now.

Another question.
If PN can make a crummy ADSL2+ router work on fibre, can I not make my speed touch 546 do the same thing? or with some modification or custom firmware?

Edited by deleted (Wed 21-Nov-12 23:22:18)

£25 from PN for broadband only.

And ditch that lopsided spoiler line .

Correct 25 quid is all I can get but that is still half price.

I need to keep you all in suspense.

In a modem/router we have a modem, a router, and ethernet switch, and possibly a wireless access point.

Modem >> router WAN connector >> routing firmware >> switch (connector) >> 'n' LAN ports. (Bi-directional).

A cable router has ethernet input from an external modem.

The Plusnet ADSL router cannot handle VDSL2 through its phone line connector. So a LAN port is (in effect) re-wired to the place of the WAN connector and ceases to be a logical part of the switch. To what extent firmware and hard wiring changes are mixed to achieve this, I have no idea. But that's why you can't do it with your 546. Without many thousands of pounds to spare, that is, or a sudden transfusion of electronics expertise .

In reply to a post by superspeed:

it's a crud router

Plusnet obviously got a good bulk deal!

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

a full-width line between your post and your sig?

I'm used to having to insert my own.

Changed now; thanks.

In reply to a post by hk11:

In reply to a post by superspeed:

it's a crud router

Plusnet obviously got a good bulk deal!

On a bran(ded) router.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

On a bran(ded) router.

braIn deAd?

In reply to a post by superspeed:

If I use it before christmas, I won't be telling anyone who I have switched to. It will be a secret until I am connected

That's presumably because both BT and Plusnet will have nothing better than to try to guess which of their new subscribers you are, and apply a special profile to you while you test (remember not to make it easy for them by using the same username over on their systems).

Then they'll monitor your testing, and be able to distinguish that testing from "normal" P2P behaviour. From that, they'll be able to tell when you've stopped eyeballing the results.

At that point they'll put you back on the normal (and presumably slower) service - in the absolute knowledge that you won't look at the new results and start bawling.

Maybe its just me, but I detect a hint of paranoia here...