In reply to a post by tommy45:

So a bit like plusnet 80/20 then? unless you really want to keep on hopping from one gateway to another every week or 2

Sorry, I read people having issues, but I've yet to see a problem (see my discussion with RobertoS the other day).

So its the usual case of the people who post on forums having issues, and those that don't probably don't have issues. The real number of people posting regularly on this Plusnet forum is less than 50.

I know two people on TalkTalk retail products (one ADSL, one FTTC) and they get line speed during the day, and noticeable congestion in the evenings. For the price they pay they are happy to accept it, as the prices are very low.

Edited by jchamier (Sat 28-Feb-15 20:00:51)

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In reply to a post by jchamier:

Given the cheap price TT are good, but don't expect sync speed data rates in peak hours.

Total codswallop, i've always got line speeds 24/7 on ADSL2+ & now FTTC with TalkTalk for > 4 years. Perhaps i should leave them as it does get a big boring getting the same speeds ALL the time (ie nothing to moan about). Perhaps i should move to coms? LOL

The problem is TT used to naff and it stuck even if it is better. i did look at it before I went to plusnet, but I have had to go through their customer service a few times for different people and I would not want to go through it again.
Plusnet is so much better in that way, well at the moment.

The number of people posting about problems means very little, perhaps they or some have gotten fed up of reporting these peak time issues on forums with no proper solution, or they don't monitor how their connection is performing ,or they unknowingly thing that it's normal and accept it ,the majority of customers will have dynamic IP's which doesn't help with things like the ping monitor

Tonight just before my throughput dropped for no apparent reason, (Saturday night is allegedly their quitest night of the week)I hopped several gateways and eventually i found a less saturated endpoint that at the moment is providing near full throughput for my sync, which proves its plusnets side of things, my throughput currently restricted only by the older type of gateway that for some reason limit the max throughput where as the newer BNG provide a slightly higher max rate the opposite seems to be the case with base latency on older gateways the lowest i've seen is 13ms on the BNG's lowest is 11ms but via some endpoints, same gateway can be 16 ms or higher the highest latency i've come across whilst hopping is around 40

I too am through with plusnet

Edited by tommy45 (Sat 28-Feb-15 20:31:04)

In reply to a post by tommy45:

I too am through with plusnet

I always have what people on these forums call "high" pings, as my line is always interleaved. Unless we have 4 weeks of sunshine.

However I can see congestion tonight on the TBB speedtest x1 but not on the x6 or upload:
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results.html...

It doesn't actually affect me though. I'm in contract until December - pesky 18month contracts.

Oddly on the gateway i had been on since the 24/02/15 so 4 days at first the multi-threaded downstream and single threaded upstream throughput was affected the downstream mulithreaded had more variation than the single stream was more or less flat lining , and the upstream appeared to actually be pausing or fluctuating wildly, then a short time later the single threaded ds was impacted too,

The gateway was BNG PCL02 iirc, which currently has the highest number of customers connected, not that would have any impact alone on throughput, following hopping gateways throughput was restored to normal

As for their contract length i think ithe min term of 18mths is asking a bit too much for those who already have an active FTTC connection with another ISP who are looking to migrate in, as is them charging £50.00 for connection if they don't want plusnets line rental,

I have worked out that over a 12mth period Zen would work out at £11.24 per month more than plusnet , So a £134.80 Difference over 12mths , that's excluding any cash-backs or half price offers So like for like, including connection fees & broadband only

Edited by tommy45 (Sat 28-Feb-15 22:24:03)

Been hopping like the Easter bunny this evening, can't shake BT's routing/blocking.

Yes iv'e noticed bt's peering in place of what was Level 3 previously , maybe they have dropped level 3, to save money maybe

Or even to get away from the many complaints about Level 3 mucking up gaming lag - we can live in hope

Well if it improves it then fine, but it may make it worse

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