[access-uk] Re: Plusnet's Broadband Your Way
- From: "Andy Collins" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 16:09:32 +0100
Hi Adrian - I think that puts my mind at rest then; Will I need to do
anything to my router modem when changing packages? I've got my wireless
network working fine, and don't want to mess it up! -
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Higginbotham" <adrian.higginbotham@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 3:18 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Plusnet's Broadband Your Way
| Hi andy - don't really stream much but down load plenty of audible books
and tens of megs per day of podcasts all at decent speed, usually in the
evenings. Do have my nabaztag which streams short burst of audio, rss
headlines after they have been text to speech converted so it is connecting
and streaming minimum of 2 or 3 times an hour all be it relatively small
chunks of data.
|
| So yes generally good consistant connectivity and no spped issues.
|
|
| 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 14:12
| To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
| Subject: [access-uk] Re: Plusnet's Broadband Your Way
|
| 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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