[Chester LUG] Good broadband

[Stuart Burns]

Hi everyone,

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.

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.

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!

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!

Regards

Stu


On 6 February 2012 10:13, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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