In reply to a post by professor973:

Get it into your head, they are DIFFERENT companies - They may be sister companies, but DIFFERENT companies. Do you call Plusnet B.T.?
Check their history. Whatever has gone before and whoever ran it, I joined Uno.

Plusnet and BT actually are separate companies, though - one owning the other. They run different IP networks, have separate staff, etc. Look up a Plusnet IP address and it will probably be owned by Plusnet, not by BT.

Not quite the same with Xilo and Uno - certainly when I was a customer I got billed by Xilo for my broadband service. Not that it really matters. Either way, there's no point being secretive about it, Uno aren't some tiny ISP that runs as a secret club that few people are allowed to know about.

Can we get back on topic now?

Edited by deleted (Wed 02-Mar-16 18:14:46)

Did not order Business, just that Talk & Surf which is resold TTB. Should be exactly the same as I was on with Pulse8, but for some reason latency is lower which is unexpected, and not sure why. I would have thought the product is resold as is relying on TTB available bandwidth, unless routing is different. Still using the same DNS servers that I was with Pulse8, so a mystery, but glad to not be continually sat out at online poker like I was, which isn't exactly high end gaming, but latency wise was beyond what I had. Had to downgrade from FTTC to ADSL2+ prior to changeover as I was on TT LLU, as TTB LLU is not up and running yet on Uno as far as I know, but was in the pipeline.

No, I think any comparison between uno soho (BTW) or uno TTB and Zen BTW is relevant to this thread.

BTW. I have Zen line rental only (xilo "pro" TTB BB) and have just been informed that off-peak call charges to landline numbers will be increased from 1.02 ppm to 4 ppm

In reply to a post by professor973:

Still using the same DNS servers that I was with Pulse8

Unless you're using ones you've set yourself, you shouldn't be

The IPs we give out in your welcome email (as well as automatically) for recursive DNS don't allow other people (not with us) to use them.

Matt

That's interesting - I've just done an availability check on uno business pro TTB from my landline number and apparently it is available. However I do seem to currently have a xilo "pro" TTB account (I log-in via the xilo site and can not log-in via the "sister" uno site.)

In reply to a post by sor:

Plusnet and BT actually are separate companies, though - one owning the other. They run different IP networks, have separate staff, etc. Look up a Plusnet IP address and it will probably be owned by Plusnet, not by BT.

Maybe in the past but not so much now.

RIPE block 81.140.128.0/19 down as BT-Infra but with PN and ARIN block 143.159.0.0/16, BT generic block (via their Infonet/BTGS side) with PN. Likely due to IP shortage on the PN side.

Also, BT Wholesale shunt off lots of connections to Plusnets side.

The lines between those two are very blurred now.

Matt

I missed FTTC from the above post by mistake. It should have read Unbundled FTTC not available, as they were doing FTTC via BTW. I think that is still the case with LLU FTTC not on stream yet, so on ADSL2+ for a while. As for your log in, that just shows as running as seperate companies I expect.

Edited by professor973 (Wed 02-Mar-16 19:08:00)

Yes Matt, servers I set myself to try and help latency Have not tried Uno servers from the welcome letter yet as things running well - not fixing what ain't broke as they say lol

Edited by professor973 (Wed 02-Mar-16 19:18:51)

They'll be open for all no doubt hence why they still work

Matt

Yes I get BTW also for FTTC from the uno site - also from the xilo site I'm re-directed to the uno site for BB packages.

BTW. 10.5 Mbps ADSL2+ throughput is more than adequate for my needs - also I have interleaving applied so that bumps up my latency to 30ms but that's OK