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Usenet access very slow
23-01-2010 8:45 PM
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I'm a recent convert to Plus.Net based on the competitive pricing and decent reviews. It's only been a few days so far but it's been fine barring a couple of router reboots which I'm attributing to the first 10 days of the connection etc.
However - I've just tried to download something from usenet and the speeds are dreadful. Are there issues with throttling of certain services at different times of the day? I'm aware some ISPs do it, but after coming from Zen and getting 500K+ on a usenet download to getting 15k on Plus I think I'll be looking for my money back as that is not "broadband" by anyones definition.
However - I've just tried to download something from usenet and the speeds are dreadful. Are there issues with throttling of certain services at different times of the day? I'm aware some ISPs do it, but after coming from Zen and getting 500K+ on a usenet download to getting 15k on Plus I think I'll be looking for my money back as that is not "broadband" by anyones definition.
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23-01-2010 9:01 PM
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I think welcome to the forums, but yes PN dont like binary usenet, the actual caps are on here http://www.kitz.co.uk/isp/plusnet_shaping.htm note these are the max figures and at busy times can be a lot less
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23-01-2010 9:07 PM
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if you look at pro, that is not capped at all, but you dont get as much bandwidth in peak times
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23-01-2010 11:37 PM
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I doubt if you could get your money back as it's displayed on the front page in the adverts under read more and there is a section there for usenet speeds
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24-01-2010 9:45 PM
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There's traffic shaping and then there's taking the link:censored. I had read the speed guides but was very surprised at how harshly implemented it was as I was getting below what that paged had said.
I'm happy to restrict my own downloading - which is fairly infrequent - to the non-restricted hours anyway but I wasn't happy with the poor information about it.
adie:red avoidance of swear filter removed as per link:rules
I'm happy to restrict my own downloading - which is fairly infrequent - to the non-restricted hours anyway but I wasn't happy with the poor information about it.
adie:red avoidance of swear filter removed as per link:rules
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24-01-2010 9:55 PM
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24-01-2010 11:20 PM
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Perhaps that info should go on the same page as the list of features and in a more friendly graphical format.
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24-01-2010 11:21 PM
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The speeds are quoted in Kb not KB as your client will no doubt display, so you'd need to divide those figures by 8
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