[access-uk] Re: Plusnet's Broadband Your Way
- From: "Andy Collins" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 14:12:04 +0100
Hi Adrian -
Thanks for this, sounds quite encouraging then; I have always found Plusnet
very good, and their customer support to be very responsive.
Can I ask, do you download audio books and/or music? If so, have you noticed
any obvious slow down in download times? and how about streeming radio, any
drop outs more than on the old package?
Thanks -
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Higginbotham" <adrian.higginbotham@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 12:50 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Plusnet's Broadband Your Way
| Hi andy - I'm on that package, and infact switched from the package you
are currently on in january this year. all seemed fine initially but I
didn't experience some connectivity issues in the early evening for a couple
of weeks where-by at typicly busy times, EG between approx 5 pm and 9 PM
connectivity seemed to drop sometimes as often as every tne minutes.
sometimes I was able to reconnect immediately, other times not for several
minutes or even the rest of the evening. I was experiencing some other
networks issues at the time, namely an IP conflict between a couple of
devices one of which was my router so this may have contributed to the
problem but that wouldn't account the the issue mainly occuring at this
particular time of day.
|
| happily all seems to have been fine for the last month or so, no dropped
connections at all. plus.net do seem to go through the occasional rough
patch from time to time but overall I'm as happy with the broadband your way
package as I have been with their other packages for the last 5 or 6 years
and sticking with one ISP for that long says a lot if reading around the Web
on ISP satisfaction generally is anything to go by.
|
| note though that the useage cap went up from 8 gb to 15 gb just this week
making it a pretty attractive package so there might be a spert of high
demand on the network so your initial experience might reflect this but
improve later.
|
| advantage of plus.net is you can manage your account online so you can
just change packages yourself, no need to ring a call centre that said line
quality to sheffield seems to be significantly better than to asia and it's
often worth phoning just to see what cool 80's tunes they've got on the hold
music. fave Squeeze track anyone?
|
| Adrian Higginbotham
| Project manager: Learning services
| Becta
| Tel: Direct dial 024 7679 7333 - Becta switchboard 02476-416994.
| Email: Adrian.Higginbotham@xxxxxxxxxxxx
| Web: http://www.becta.org.uk/
| BECTA, Millburn Hill Road, Science Park, Coventry, CV4 7JJ
|
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Andy Collins
| Sent: 02 May 2008 11:03
| To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
| Subject: [access-uk] Plusnet's Broadband Your Way
|
| Hi all -
|
| I currently have what Plusnet called a pay as you go 2GB download per
month account. For the same monthly charge, I can opt for what they call
'Broadband Your Way' with a 15GB download monthly allowance! This sounds
good on the face of it, but I'm wondering if it will mean slower speeds.
| I've had a look at and tried to make sense of the expected down stream and
upstream speeds for different times of the day, and I'm not sure if I'll
notice a difference between them, and what I currently experience. Firstly,
I'm not sure how to check what current down stream and up stream speeds I
get, but in the new package, they talk of download streams of between 256
and 320, at the busier times of the day, but these numbers are also affected
by what is being downloaded; the upstream speed is generally 128.
|
| Is anybody on this list using Broadband Your Way, and able to share their
experience of it with us? Or in a general way, can anybody say if the above
speeds are adequate for larger downloads of music and audio books?
|
| Thanks for any input -
|
| Andy
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