Date has changed for availability@

I checked the Infinity Site and it now says available from 23rd Feb!!

So hopefully by next Wednesday I will be able to order it!

Or should I wait to see what Plus net (current provider) offers?

In reply to a post by ConorMK:

Or should I wait to see what Plus net (current provider) offers?

Don't wait - contact them now to see what they will offer you.

PlusNet are currently in a 2nd phase of their FTTC trial.

That currently means, to get FTTC, you need to pay £12pm on top of their standard charge - which depends on the package & the market# of your exchange. You will be subject to the standard traffic management of the package, and the standard usage allowance.

Standard package prices (without FTTC) are:
- "Value" has a 10GB usage, and costs £6.50 - £13pm
- "Extra" has a 60GB usage, and costs £11.50 - £18pm
- "Pro" has a 20GB usage, and costs £16.50 - £23pm

They haven't yet announced their *real* FTTC packages. Evidence suggests they will come out in April.

Details on their Trials Wizard

Edited by deleted (Sat 19-Feb-11 12:01:30)

Do you download a lot?

not a great deal but we are using iPlayer, Sky player and ITV player more these days than before. Im Still on the unlimited package they had a couple of years back.

This is my total usagde for the last three months:

Billing Period 	Peak usage 	Off-peak usage 	Total usage
27 Oct - 26 Nov 	34.53GB 	5.09GB 	        39.62GB
27 Nov - 26 Dec 	15.76GB 	125.85MB 	15.89GB
27 Dec - 26 Jan 	32.37GB 	3.17GB 	        35.54GB

Edited by ConorMK (Sat 19-Feb-11 14:28:33)

That does look a bit like Infinity would be the best option - 300GB FUP.

I'm a light user so the cheapest IDNet FTTC got me . Xilo and xilo/uno do good packages as well, though you won't find the xilo one on the website yet.

Called Plusnet and they only have the trial FTTC/FTTP. And given that there is no support for this during the trial and if it goes down it may be down for days, I think I am swayed more towards Infinity than the trial.

Anyone know how long the Plus Net trial might run for?

In reply to a post by ConorMK:

...Anyone know how long the Plus Net trial might run for?

As previously suggested by WWWombat;

In reply to a post by WWWombat:

...They haven't yet announced their *real* FTTC packages. Evidence suggests they will come out in April.

Details on their Trials Wizard

And here's a comment by someone who may have inside knowledge!

It's not a case of *no* support, but it will depend on how well the internal roll-out is going within PN's support teams. Certainly they *are* working on it.

PN haven't specifically said that they will roll out FTTC in April, but there have been clues in statements made that relate to when existing triallists must make their package decisions by. Another post (on the page linked by the poster above) suggests the beta trial will be over by the 31st March too.

Right now, I think its better to think of it as "pre-live" rather than a trial.

But note that the FTTP stuff *is* still a trial.

Thanks, Not sure i want to wait that long!!

WIll see what happens Wednesday and what BT say about getting infinity.

Spoke to Plusnet and they can get us on the FTTC trial for 22.44 a month with 60Gig included and also on a monthly contract.

Is this any good?

In reply to a post by ConorMK:

Spoke to Plusnet and they can get us on the FTTC trial for 22.44 a month with 60Gig included and also on a monthly contract.

Is this any good?

If that's with a 10Mb/s upload, it's very good. But ultimately, it's your choice. Only you can decide if the Plusnet offer fullfills your unstated requirements.

At that price, BT is the main competitor.

Requirements include the ability to watch some iPlayer, 4OD etc. Gaming, email browsing and downloads though not P2P.

As stated above my max usage in the last 3 months has been 35Gig, so I get the feeling 60 a month should be enough.

The trouble with the BT packages is that I would have to agree to an 18 month contract and with some of the things my wife and I are planning we many need to be able to get out of a contract easily and a rolling monthly contract would suit perfectly.

I doubt if the Plusnet contract will be monthly, at least for the proper packages when they arrive. Is the trial monthly?

PlusNet don't go out of their way to tell you what the speed of the uplink is. However, all the PlusNet triallists so far seem to report uplink speeds of 10 Mbit/s. But, as no-one can see the actual sync speeds, you have to infer this from reports of speed-tester results - where upload speeds are generally around 8Mbps (and downstream in the mid-30s).

So, so long as you make use of that uplink speed, then I think its a reasonable price.

As for the contract terms... Bob Pullen reported here that they aren't imposing any annual contracts as yet. Whether this stays in place once the real packages arrive is anyone's guess...

In reply to a post by ConorMK:

Requirements include the ability to watch some iPlayer, 4OD etc. Gaming, email browsing and downloads though not P2P.

As stated above my max usage in the last 3 months has been 35Gig, so I get the feeling 60 a month should be enough.

Don't forget that 60GB is a peak-hour limit.

We've topped out at around 30GB for the last few months - but that's the total usage. Peak hours have been around 13GB, but that's PlusNet's *old* peak hours of 16:00-00:00. The newer packages extend the peak hours from 8AM-Midnight.