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Well, there's more to it than that Kevin, my download speed has been a pathetic 1.4Mbps of late, whereas it's usually about 3 - 5 Mbps, hardly Superfast I know but, it's enough for HD YouTube and the iPlayer.
I've had 2 Openreach engineer visits and ya know, one just gets a bit fed up with it all and (in my case) takes drastic action.
I'd still recommend PlusNet to anyone though and, who knows, I may go back to them one day 
I'm not sure why you think that changing ISP might help matters. The best they could probably do is call out the same species of Openreach engineer that you've already had.
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Well, there's more to it than that Kevin, my download speed has been a pathetic 1.4Mbps of late, whereas it's usually about 3 - 5 Mbps, hardly Superfast I know but, it's enough for HD YouTube and the iPlayer.
I've had 2 Openreach engineer visits and ya know, one just gets a bit fed up with it all and (in my case) takes drastic action.
I'd still recommend PlusNet to anyone though and, who knows, I may go back to them one day
I'm not sure why you think that changing ISP might help matters. The best they could probably do is call out the same species of Openreach engineer that you've already had.
Of course I know that my friend, but I just need to find out (the hard way) whether Plusnets traffic shaping, bottlenecks, and their fair usage policy affected my download speed in any way.
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What fair usage policy?
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Traffic Management?
1999: Freeserve 48K Dial-Up => 2005: Wanadoo 1 Meg BB => 2007: Orange 2 Meg BB => 2008: Orange 8 Meg LLU => 2010: Orange 16 Meg LLU => 2011: Orange 20 Meg WBC
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I expect the OP is on a legacy product with rate limiting and a usage cap. That's not an FUP, I know, but could be what he is meaning.
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Connection - Plusnet UnLim Fibre (FTTC). Sync ~ 55.8/14.5Mbps @ 600m. - BQM
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Eh, I thought I replied to Kelly Dorset's post yesterday?
Anyway, I'm no IT ex spurt, just a silver surfer who reads too much 'stuff' on the internet.
Such as: http://www.choose.net/media/guide/features/broadband...
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I think it's unfair for them to put us with EE and O2 on that list when both of them specifically slow down protocols specifically at peak (based on what it says on that article..)
Seems like they don't understand how we use traffic management.
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I think it's unfair for them to put us with EE and O2 on that list
Indeed, reading through the article I cannot see how Plusnet does not qualify as "very fair."
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Seems like they don't understand how we use traffic management.
Time for a new simpler explanation for the non-techies, especially those in the media? 
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We've tried, but it's tough. People just see "traffic management" and think 'Fair Usage policies' and 'throttling'.
Back to the drawing board eh?
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