someone just gave me a good idea, signup to 40/10 get the free setup and tesco card, then upgrade to 80/20 second month.

Edited by Chrysalis (Thu 02-Jul-15 21:12:10)

I dunno.

I have been scouting around, as I saw no resolution coming from Plusnet, but either I struck lucky a week ago after being kicked off and landing on ptn-bng01, a few hours after I reverted to my normal account login instead of the IPv6 one (that always puts me on IPv4 anyway these days), or they/BTW have fixed something. My line has been steady as a rock. I keep wonderimg to ask if anyone else has noticed an improvement.

Plus yesterday this was scheduled for 6am. "We're performing maintenance on some of our gateway routers, including capacity increases."

I must do a speedtest tonight just to make sure. I've forgotten recently. Goes and turns on the wired machine.
...
Time to eat, then test. But the running experience here is good.

My speed and speedtests have been pretty good: e.g. this one taken just after 10:00pm. http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/button/14358...
I appear to be on ptw-bng01

1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.1.254
 2    11 ms    10 ms    10 ms  lo0.13.central13.ptw-bng01.plus.net [195.166.128.173]
 3    10 ms    10 ms    10 ms  irb.13.ptw-cr01.plus.net [84.93.249.49]
 4    11 ms    10 ms    10 ms  kingston-gw.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.239.6]
 5     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 6     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 7    10 ms    11 ms    10 ms  ae0.er01.telhc.bbc.co.uk [132.185.254.109]
 8    11 ms    11 ms    11 ms  132.185.255.149
 9    10 ms    10 ms    10 ms  fmt-vip71.telhc.bbc.co.uk [212.58.244.20]

if you have been on the gateway since sadly it doesnt mean much, I am also on a good endpoint, but there is probably a 90% chance if I hop the issues comes back. Especially that the steering favors the bgn's and those give me woeful performance.

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

I lose ipv6, but with BT enabling ipv6 imminently, then that will trigger sky to copy probably within a year.

Sky are currently updating firmware on routers for IPv6 and are IPv6 ready - I suspect they'll be before BT actually.

In reply to a post by therioman:

Sky are currently updating firmware on routers for IPv6 and are IPv6 ready - I suspect they'll be before BT actually.

Some BT customers are already being assigned IPv6 addresses: https://community.bt.com/t5/Other-Broadband-Discussi...

In reply to a post by Oliver341:

In reply to a post by therioman:

Sky are currently updating firmware on routers for IPv6 and are IPv6 ready - I suspect they'll be before BT actually.

Some BT customers are already being assigned IPv6 addresses: https://community.bt.com/t5/Other-Broadband-Discussi...

Alas I wish I could say more but suffice to say, that's not a situation unique to BT...

Is it possible to get a refund on annual line rent when moving away because of these price rises?

Alternatively what offers are available from other providers when keeping the existing Plusnet line till annual line rental contract expires?

East Linton exchange https://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/ESEAL

nope - it is non refundable
re other suppliers I have no idea

In reply to a post by 961a:

Is it possible to get a refund on annual line rent when moving away because of these price rises?

Alternatively what offers are available from other providers when keeping the existing Plusnet line till annual line rental contract expires?

East Linton exchange https://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/ESEAL

I don't think Plusnet will let you cancel your broadband "if in contract" and keep your phone line as the 30 day get out period is going to relate to line rental and other phone related price increase!