<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Please contact plus net and quote ....skodabloke...as your referral. </div><div>Free router as well brilliant</div><div>John greenwood<br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On 6 Feb 2012, at 11:01, Stuart Burns <<a href="mailto:stuart.james.burns@gmail.com">stuart.james.burns@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi everyone,<br><br>Looks like Plus is the way forward. I can understand a bit of throttling for sure. However with Virgin when it gets to the point that you have to think "can I download this one gig file today, as i have to work from home tomorrow and if throttling kicks in and the connection may be really really poor, can I risk it!" something is seriously wrong. <br>
<br>Plus reckon I can get 7 MBit atm, which should be ok'ish. Just wish I was in their fibre area. Problem is, where I am, Virgin have a virtual monopoly on the telco provisioning. I would ring up and moan at them, but it gets you nowhere fast.<br>
<br>I am going to give Virgin notice anyhow, as they really aren't that good a value for money in the first place. They will prolly turn round and offer me the 120 Mbit service, which you would never be able to stretch its legs anyhow!<br>
<br>I'll let you all know how I fair with plus. If anyone has any refer a friend codes they have, im open to that!<br><br>Regards<br><br>Stu<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 February 2012 10:13, Les Pritchard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:les.pritchard@gmail.com">les.pritchard@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Stuart,<br>
<br>
I'm also on <a href="http://Plus.net">Plus.net</a> and on the whole have been very pleased with<br>
them. I was lucky enough to get an account back when they freely gave<br>
out multiple IPs. The tech support used to be great, straight through<br>
to a techie, but as they've expanded they don't have the same quality.<br>
Several times when I've asked a technical question they've referred me<br>
to the support forums to ask a question there! Thankfully some of the<br>
customers appear to know a lot more about Plus than certain tech<br>
support guys and you'll get an answer fast.<br>
<br>
When you do get someone technical on support, they really are happy to help.<br>
<br>
Plus do throttle some services during the day, but I believe it's to<br>
known file sharing sites as I've never had any problems with my VPN<br>
connections.<br>
<br>
My deal is 120GB a month for peak on the FTTC connection (40meg). My<br>
main usage is with Netflix / Sky and downloadings ISOs so I never get<br>
anywhere near that. In fact when I had an old package with lower<br>
allowance I created a script that runs at midnight until 8am and<br>
downloads anything I pop in a text file. Not really needed now but I<br>
find it's handy if I don't want to lose speed downloading say a DVD<br>
iso if I don't need it straight away.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Les<br>
</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
On 6 February 2012 09:25, Sebastian Arcus <<a href="mailto:shop@open-t.co.uk">shop@open-t.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
> One more thing. Talking about VPN speeds - there is the possibility it is<br>
> not VM's fault. I recall various discussions on the OpenVPN mailing list<br>
> (and it might apply to other VPN's as well) about people trying to achieve<br>
> theoretical speed limits even inside a LAN - and stumbling well short of the<br>
> target, because of all sorts of reasons why they couldn't get there inside a<br>
> VPN tunnel. The the reason might be elsewhere, not on the broadband link<br>
> itself.<br>
><br>
> Sebastian<br>
><br>
><br>
> On 06/02/12 08:55, John wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Go with Plus net..they are really good. I use them.<br>
>> John<br>
>><br>
>> On 05/02/12 23:21, Stuart Burns wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> Hi Everyone,<br>
>>><br>
>>> As per title. Virgin have just decided to increase my package by over<br>
>>> 5% from the £65 a month I already pay (includes TV and phone!). The<br>
>>> thing is, it's pretty crap anyhow. VPN - Your having a laugh! They<br>
>>> advertise 120MBit broadband, but in reality, they won't let you get<br>
>>> anywhere near that speed.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Problems include, limiting speed to 64K/s as soon as there is a sniff<br>
>>> of p2p traffic (Centos 6 anyone?). If you try and download more than<br>
>>> about a gig, ie a vmware ISO, your speeds get capped again. Then the<br>
>>> offshore technical support, who when you say "Mac" Metaphorically sh1t<br>
>>> themselves as it's not in their script and you know it's not your<br>
>>> issue as your modem isn't getting sync.<br>
>>><br>
>>> I'm looking at <a href="http://Plus.net">Plus.net</a> because as they say "Good honest broadband". I<br>
>>> am not particularly big downloader, maybe 5 - 6 GB a week, sometimes<br>
>>> more, sometimes less.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Any suggestions welcome,<br>
>>><br>
>>> Stu<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
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