[Chester LUG] Good broadband

[Les Pritchard]

Hi Stuart,

I'm also on Plus.net and on the whole have been very pleased with
them. I was lucky enough to get an account back when they freely gave
out multiple IPs. The tech support used to be great, straight through
to a techie, but as they've expanded they don't have the same quality.
Several times when I've asked a technical question they've referred me
to the support forums to ask a question there! Thankfully some of the
customers appear to know a lot more about Plus than certain tech
support guys and you'll get an answer fast.

When you do get someone technical on support, they really are happy to help.

Plus do throttle some services during the day, but I believe it's to
known file sharing sites as I've never had any problems with my VPN
connections.

My deal is 120GB a month for peak on the FTTC connection (40meg). My
main usage is with Netflix / Sky and downloadings ISOs so I never get
anywhere near that. In fact when I had an old package with lower
allowance I created a script that runs at midnight until 8am and
downloads anything I pop in a text file. Not really needed now but I
find it's handy if I don't want to lose speed downloading say a DVD
iso if I don't need it straight away.

Les

On 6 February 2012 09:25, Sebastian Arcus <shop at open-t.co.uk> wrote:
> One more thing. Talking about VPN speeds - there is the possibility it is
> not VM's fault. I recall various discussions on the OpenVPN mailing list
> (and it might apply to other VPN's as well) about people trying to achieve
> theoretical speed limits even inside a LAN - and stumbling well short of the
> target, because of all sorts of reasons why they couldn't get there inside a
> VPN tunnel. The the reason might be elsewhere, not on the broadband link
> itself.
>
> Sebastian
>
>
> On 06/02/12 08:55, John wrote:
>>
>> Go with Plus net..they are really good. I use them.
>> John
>>
>> On 05/02/12 23:21, Stuart Burns wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>
>>> As per title. Virgin have just decided to increase my package by over
>>> 5% from the £65 a month I already pay (includes TV and phone!). The
>>> thing is, it's pretty crap anyhow. VPN - Your having a laugh! They
>>> advertise 120MBit broadband, but in reality, they won't let you get
>>> anywhere near that speed.
>>>
>>> Problems include, limiting speed to 64K/s as soon as there is a sniff
>>> of p2p traffic (Centos 6 anyone?). If you try and download more than
>>> about a gig, ie a vmware ISO, your speeds get capped again. Then the
>>> offshore technical support, who when you say "Mac" Metaphorically sh1t
>>> themselves as it's not in their script and you know it's not your
>>> issue as your modem isn't getting sync.
>>>
>>> I'm looking at Plus.net because as they say "Good honest broadband". I
>>> am not particularly big downloader, maybe 5 - 6 GB a week, sometimes
>>> more, sometimes less.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions welcome,
>>>
>>> Stu
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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