Roberto don't do torrents for anybody. I asked him before I move to PN. Lol
I think he has a torrent phobia.


Anyway why would roberto want to move onto unlimited fibre, when he only uses 12GB month? Bit pointless isn't it.

Edited by deleted (Sat 22-Dec-12 20:34:59)

Are you happy with the p2p speeds on Plusnet?

I would say I was reasonably happy with the P2P speeds on PN but I will see what happens. At least PN do state what restrictions and when on P2P. Unlike BT retail fibre.


Why not check out my post below and thread. Don't forget it is for Extra Fibre and not the new PN unlimited fibre. P2P could be worse on the new package or better.

http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/plusnet/t/4190440-r...

Edited by deleted (Sat 22-Dec-12 21:12:55)

In reply to a post by superspeed:

Why not check out my post below and thread. Don't forget it is for Extra Fibre and not the new PN unlimited fibre. P2P could be worse on the new package or better.

http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/plusnet/t/4190440-r...

They look ok. However some of the torrents you posted have more peers than seeds. Ideally for maximum speeds you should pick torrents with more seeds than peers. The Ubuntu torrents generally satisfy this.

Well they were well seeded most of the time and enough download bandwidth from the rest of them. Speeds were OK though, just PN could of been better.

My upload was at it's max, like wombat said, because my upload speed was being restricted, due to my profile at the time.

Check out some of the others that posted on as well, like acpsd775.

Why not start a new thread and ask other members who have moved onto the new unlimited fibre to do some tests for you. You will know then if you want to move to unlimited fibre.

Edited by deleted (Sat 22-Dec-12 23:26:06)

In reply to a post by superspeed:

Don't forget it is for Extra Fibre and not the new PN unlimited fibre. P2P could be worse on the new package or better.

How could it be worse?

On the individual line it has the throttling removed, and on the total platform the two are the same.

What I'm saying is that in the (in my opinion) unlikely event that torrent speeds degrade in the next 12 months, or even longer, both products would be affected in the same way on any particular line.

Actually I suspect the Unlimited would do better. Plusnet would rob capacity from P2P etc on the old products to keep the flagship product going as advertised.

I just don't think plusnet will be able to cope with unlimited, especially when the 24/7 torrent downloaders start abusing it. I will give it about a year and I think PN will either introduce caps, or scrap the unlimited fibre. (Just my opinion)

Remember what happend to 02? Had unlimited broadband to start with then scrapped them and introduced traffic management. That's why I am not going swap over, for now.

I'm sure I read that P2P on unlimited is in bronze or best effort. So still low priority all the time.

Edited by deleted (Sun 23-Dec-12 13:04:30)

If they did that, PN would be in breach of contract. They would have to keep to the terms of the old contract or product, or thats grounds for termination, for breach of contract.

Edited by deleted (Sun 23-Dec-12 13:02:39)

I'm sure that it's not caused by all these upgrades but my download speed has halved in the last week or so!

Edited by deleted (Sun 23-Dec-12 13:25:19)