30-05-2004, 11:48
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Re: PlusNet Uncapped 2Mb ADSL for only £39.99
Hope you aren't a heavy user Mr Walton we'll be sharing the same pipe out of the exchange if you are anywhere near the Uni's Highfield campus :p
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30-05-2004, 11:58
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Re: PlusNet Uncapped 2Mb ADSL for only £39.99
hehe, im on the hamble exchange (which is hidden somewhere by langhorn road which is off burgess road) and have been since last july. Not really a heavy user, the connection is split 4 ways in the house so we needid the speed and could afford it. we might be switching to the £40 option though. Considering the high density of students in the area speeds on adsl are good. Though i am on a 20:1 contention thing.
Be on the lookout for wireless networks in the area theres lots of them and i dont know how secure they are.
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30-05-2004, 12:09
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Re: PlusNet Uncapped 2Mb ADSL for only £39.99
NTL's 1.5mb service is £38 a month - so for an extra £2 a month you get 25% more plus no cap?
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30-05-2004, 15:30
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Re: PlusNet Uncapped 2Mb ADSL for only £39.99
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Originally Posted by keithwalton
hehe, im on the hamble exchange (which is hidden somewhere by langhorn road which is off burgess road) and have been since last july. Not really a heavy user, the connection is split 4 ways in the house so we needid the speed and could afford it. we might be switching to the £40 option though. Considering the high density of students in the area speeds on adsl are good. Though i am on a 20:1 contention thing.
Be on the lookout for wireless networks in the area theres lots of them and i dont know how secure they are.
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Hamble's residential service was overstretched, BT had oversubscribed the exchange, fine now though afaik, and you being on the office package wouldn't have affected you.
That's no matter anyway, I'm on the Bassett exchange (just down the road from the uni) which by the looks of it serves Bassett + not a lot else and has always had loads of capacity free (I get full speed 24x7 and never ever anything below, the exchange has a phat 155Mbit pipe as it's part of the Southampton ring, and is well underutilised  )
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30-05-2004, 22:51
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Re: [merged] PlusNet Uncapped 2Mb ADSL for only £39.99
I could imagine how easily the hamble exchange would get oversubscribed, what with literally rows of student houses. although clever ones that live on the roads right next to the engineering / chemistry side of the campus would be able to get them selves onto the wireless network, of which if its anything like the halls network was last year should be good
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01-06-2004, 16:36
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Re: Anyone used 'PLUSNET' ?
Dragging up an oldun...
Anyone care to comment how good/bad Plusnet is recently?
(Oh go on Bifta, you know you want to).
Er indoors is letting me spend a wee bit more now so I can afford an activation fee & the extra's that you get with Plus-Net look attractive.
£21.99 PM does too, although I cannot find the page for the "Broadband Home Premier" package that lists all the extra's.
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01-06-2004, 16:38
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Re: Anyone used 'PLUSNET' ?
Plus net's 2 meg is a lot cheaper than Nildram's, I contacted them about the free migration and they seem to be ok, sales line was open on a Bank Holiday too, so I'm moving to them in a months time.
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02-06-2004, 08:45
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Re: Anyone used 'PLUSNET' ?
They changed thier packages on Friday, the home premier looks excellent now & the price is better than others even with the activation charge in.
Unfortunately the modem I ordered will take 14 days, but I'm in no hurry. (Dlink DSL-300T from Amazon). Cant be arsed to enter my details etc on another website, I'll give em a week & if its not arrived, cancel it..lol
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02-06-2004, 20:22
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:td: :td: :td:
I queried about changing over account type with plusnet online earlier, and they wanted to charge the activation cost again. Even though at present the two account types are identical (homeworker pro 2mbit and home 2000 premium) Although the latter with change to the bt home version when it becomes avaliable but thats not yet.
I dont see why we have to pay the activation charge again because they dont need to involve bt at all. I've asked them to explain why but i've found this page so i doubt there gonna change there mind on it http://portal.plus.net/support/faq/u...guide.shtml#q7
We we're only considering it as it would save us £26 a month. Though that would take us a couple of months to recover by which time we may have found the service to be a load of rubish and want to change back
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02-06-2004, 20:31
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Re: PlusNet Uncapped 2Mb ADSL for only £39.99
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Originally Posted by etccarmageddon
NTL's 1.5mb
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haven't see any 1.5mb yet have you?
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03-06-2004, 21:04
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Re: Anyone used 'PLUSNET' ?
Just a quick n00b question.
I am going to move to plusnet I think but do not really want to use usb for my modem. Ethernet is apparentl faster at transfering high amounts of data.
My question is how would I connect this?
My motherboard is an MSI 875PNEO and includes a gigabit ethernet LAN could I connect it here? Or is this just for connecting pc to pc??
If I cannot do it this way what do I need to connect?? And what modem should I buy?? Is a more expensive one better?? IE: better and transferring faster etc.....
Or after all that......Is USB as good as ethernet or is ethernet indeed better?
Tnx in advance.
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03-06-2004, 23:21
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Re: Anyone used 'PLUSNET' ?
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Originally Posted by Earwig
Just a quick n00b question.
I am going to move to plusnet I think but do not really want to use usb for my modem. Ethernet is apparentl faster at transfering high amounts of data.
My question is how would I connect this?
My motherboard is an MSI 875PNEO and includes a gigabit ethernet LAN could I connect it here? Or is this just for connecting pc to pc??
If I cannot do it this way what do I need to connect?? And what modem should I buy?? Is a more expensive one better?? IE: better and transferring faster etc.....
Or after all that......Is USB as good as ethernet or is ethernet indeed better?
Tnx in advance.
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If you buy an ethernet modem/router it'll probably come with an ethernet cable and full instructions on how to hook it up and configure it, normally it's very easy. Ethernet is better than USB as it doesn't use any CPU cycles (or at least anywhere near as many, unless you have one of the dodgy old 3 Com NICs)
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09-06-2004, 23:46
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Re: [merged] PlusNet
what appears to be an even better offer
http://www.freedom2surf.net/adsl/home.php
£14.99 for 1mb
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10-06-2004, 00:07
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Re: [merged] PlusNet
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Not bad. Although it has a 1 GB per month cap.
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10-06-2004, 08:06
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Re: [merged] PlusNet
Hmm, thats does look cheaper, but I wonder how good it actually is, how well the level of service etc compares?
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