[Chester LUG] Good broadband

Mon Feb 6 22:34:22 UTC 2012

Please contact plus net and quote ....skodabloke...as your referral. 
Free router as well brilliant
John greenwood

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On 6 Feb 2012, at 11:01, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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