Outages happen with any ISP, the immediate effects are usually unpleasant but stuff gets fixed in a reasonable time.
Where PlusNet fall down is their poor crisis control procedures part of which should be a process whereby their clients are given useful information on the nature of the failure and when they can expect service to be resumed. That takes good management available 24 hours a day to protect the backs of the engineers who are trying to fix the problems.
Their recent ceasing of 24/7 support for residential clients was a loaded 12 gauge shotgun, with a hair trigger, aimed at their corporate foot.
Outages happen with any ISP, the immediate effects are usually unpleasant but stuff gets fixed in a reasonable time.
Where PlusNet fall down is their poor crisis control procedures part of which should be a process whereby their clients are given useful information on the nature of the failure and when they can expect service to be resumed. That takes good management available 24 hours a day to protect the backs of the engineers who are trying to fix the problems.
Their recent ceasing of 24/7 support for residential clients was a loaded 12 gauge shotgun, with a hair trigger, aimed at their corporate foot.
Plusnet have been falling down for a long time. I don't think it's all about the CS. Zen does not have 24/7 and they charge much more than PN so they should have it- but it works without
It sounds like there was a lot who lost the connection, there was a major outage according to the phone call. But they got it back up pretty quickly and in over 2 years with them I have only had 3 problems with them with were resolved quickly. My contract has ended and I am on a rolling one until I renew or change to a different one.