Thread: *ALL* Speed Upgrade Discussion In Here Please (Part 2)
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Old 22-02-2005, 00:18   #142
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Re: *ALL* Speed Upgrade Discussion In Here Please (Part 2)
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Originally Posted by ian@huth
Sorry to dig up a slightly older post but I haven't been online much the past couple of days.

There have been quite a number of posts about not wanting to have to monitor internet usage and not wanting to have to watch what the kids are doing on their PCs. How would those people fare with the Plusnet offering? Suppose you move to Plusnet when the 8Mb speeds are available and you live close enough to the exchange to get the 8Mb.

Plusnet gets activated on your line and away you go. First job is to do a speed check. Yippee, you're getting the full 8Mb. Right, lets get to work. What can I download overnight? Yep, got it all worked out, a few linux distros and all those massive game demos, but I will have to stay up till 1 am to start the downloads off so I don't use up my peak hours.

A couple of days later you decide to check your usage. What!!!!!!!, I have less than 1Gb left of my peak hours and there are still 28 days to go this month. What's gone wrong? Check usage logs. Drat, the overnight downloads were only coming through at 1 Mb not 8 Mb for some reason and most of them were completed in peak time. B***** kids, they've been maxing out the connection during peak time as well, will ahve to have words with them and keep an eye on what they're doing. Who said this b***** Plusnet was a good deal with hundreds of gigs a month for so little? Only time I can use it now is during the night. F****** ****** ****** *******!!!!
Surely, what plusnet are doing is going to cause more speed problems because they are now telling everyone to download within the same time period which is going to flood the network and people won't be able to max their connections My understanding of the term 'peak time' is when most are using their broadband connection. Aren't they just moving the peak time from 6pm to 10pm to 12am to 6am

Also, what happens when people don't use up their quota. Are plusnet going to carry it forward to the next month or perhaps give people a refund seeing as it is a usage-based charge and they haven't used their quota I don't think so. Use it or lose it
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