It's been common knowledge for a while now that if you want heavy P2P or Usenet, then don't use Plusnet.

I agree with that statement except for the use of the word 'heavy'. I was using on average 3-5 GB/month on Premier and even so never received a good speed on P2P or my 'clean-to' allowance (as it was then known).

There are 3 or 4 threads which I contributed to at the time without resolution. It was apparent to me the reasons for the slow speeds but it took me almost two weeks to figure out what was going on because it was denied then and in many ways still being denied now. Perhaps 'denied now' is not the correct description but the explanations given do not discuss the traffic shaping effects in conjunction with the limited bandwidth PN have. People are being told that the new Ecolaya (SP?) signatures will remove the issues, without admission that it will not become better until PN invest in more bandwidth.

Anyway, the only reason I posted to the two threads today in relation to technical issues that don't affect me directly is only to post contradictory information that I knew to be true for a lot of people and not to undermine posts by other current users or even in some way attack PN. I like to normally stay out of these type of threads for obvious reasons and I will try to stay away from these type of threads if I am misunderstood in my reasons for posting to them.

edit: double negative deleted

Edited by rsharma (Fri 29-Sep-06 10:14:42)

i totally agree too got similar speeds 1-5k so i've migrated away to ukfsn and noticed a marked improvement.

Darren

Some pipes are differently loaded than others. Some are horiffically overloaded and some quiet. As for the other statement, that's just claptrap. There is no reason that BT would be any slower (or faster) than yours for anything else than config issues.

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Some pipes are differently loaded than others. Some are horiffically overloaded and some quiet. As for the other statement, that's just claptrap. There is no reason that BT would be any slower (or faster) than yours for anything else than config issues.

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Actually there is - it's "likely" [In the PlusNet sense of the word obviously] that the LLU exchanges provide speed over 8Mb before BT release a higher speed wholesale product ... which is probably what is being referred to here ...

When I was with PN - it was impossible to become a heavy user of P2P - it was a struggle to download anything at all!

Michael