Is value a good option?

Hi all,

I have a friend who is on a Market 1 exchange (THHW) currently on Sky Connect but really frustrated at how performance can vary from 6meg to <100kbps and completely randomly. His usage is 5gb/month, peaking at 8gb in one case in a 12month period.

His line is 17db attenuation, and has 8128 sync from BT, and a nice 7150kbps profile and has uptime over 500+ hours on his Sky provided router.

After looking, PlusNet Value (at £12/m after first 3 months) seems to be a "no brainer". He does no downloading, no newsgroups, no P2P. Mostly email and web browsing, with video clips on Sky Sports.com and perhaps a bit of iPlayer and/or SkyPlayer - and an iPod touch on wireless.

Can anyone see any reason not to go with Value for this user?

many thanks for your opinion,
James

With a 10 day notice period it is worth a shot - he can always go somewhere else if it doesn't suit
You are describing my type of usage and I don't have any problems with Value - peak usage was just under 10GB but I also scheduled my iPlayer downloads for the free period - another 2GB

In reply to a post by Oldjim:

With a 10 day notice period it is worth a shot - he can always go somewhere else if it doesn't suit
You are describing my type of usage and I don't have any problems with Value - peak usage was just under 10GB but I also scheduled my iPlayer downloads for the free period - another 2GB

Overall is PN better value than Madasafish considering there is network management with Madasafish, maybe that's why sadly MAAF packages appear to be more expensive compared to PN.

I would maybe shift to PN if speeds aren't throttled as there is no 10GB product with MAAF

Edited by Apprentice (Sat 03-Oct-09 22:38:05)

In reply to a post by Oldjim:

With a 10 day notice period it is worth a shot - he can always go somewhere else if it doesn't suit
You are describing my type of usage and I don't have any problems with Value - peak usage was just under 10GB but I also scheduled my iPlayer downloads for the free period - another 2GB

Thanks, that's very useful. In my friends case his iPlayer usage is on the web site only, and not even monthly.

Now to try and get a MAC code out of Sky..!