Plusnet fibre products launch today (19th April 2011) including new Pro Add-on
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Re: Plusnet fibre products launch today (19th April 2011)
19-04-2011 10:41 AM
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3Mb FTTC
https://portal.plus.net/my.html?action=data_transfer_speed
Re: Plusnet fibre products launch today (19th April 2011)
19-04-2011 10:56 AM
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Re: Plusnet fibre products launch today (19th April 2011)
19-04-2011 10:58 AM
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Good idea, but why is there no Link to find out how much this costs from the Fibre page (its only there at the bottom of the broadband page).
2mb Upload:
Why is the fact that Plusnet are limiting upload artificially to 2mb not more prominent on the site, 40mb download is plastered everywhere, but I have only found one line about the upload speed after searching for a good 15 minutes.
Speed Restrictions:
http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/speed_guide/download_speeds.shtml When comparing existing Extra to Fibre Extra the line speed period is shorter, Extra is 12am-6pm, Fibre Extra 1am - 7am then its rate limited.
So if you are lucky to have an ADSL2 connection running faster than 10mb you would be better off on Extra than moving to Fibre if you do most of your activity between 12am and 6pm.
Take Fibre Extra Download sites 12pm to 6pm 2Mb/s, on adsl extra its line speed.
Re: Plusnet fibre products launch today (19th April 2011)
19-04-2011 11:51 AM
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I note on your Website that Macclesfield and Wilmslow exchanges (in Cheshire) are enabled for fibre (was Wilmslow later? - can't remember). They are both within the 01625 code. I live in Bollington, which is also 01625 (numbers start 57----). There is no indication that Bollington is / will be enabled for fibre. However, walking around, I see Openreach vans, with engineers stuffing long tubes under the pavement. Is this co-incidence, or are we getting fibre eventually, and, if so, do you know when?
Re: Plusnet fibre products launch today (19th April 2011)
19-04-2011 12:05 PM
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Quote Pricing - Existing customers
Plusnet Value Fibre and Extra Fibre: Costs from £10 extra a month on top of your usual subscription charge.
the word from (my emphasis) in there seems to indicate that there are cases where it will cost more than an extra £10, is that the case if so when is it more and how much more?
Re: Plusnet fibre products launch today (19th April 2011)
19-04-2011 12:07 PM
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Quote from: ianh On the original fibre announcement.........
I note on your Website that Macclesfield and Wilmslow exchanges (in Cheshire) are enabled for fibre (was Wilmslow later? - can't remember). They are both within the 01625 code. I live in Bollington, which is also 01625 (numbers start 57----). There is no indication that Bollington is / will be enabled for fibre. However, walking around, I see Openreach vans, with engineers stuffing long tubes under the pavement. Is this co-incidence, or are we getting fibre eventually, and, if so, do you know when?
Put your phone number in to https://www.btwholesale.com/includes/adsl/main.html and you should find out all you want - if it is scheduled it will tell you.
jelv (a.k.a Spoon Whittler) Why I have left Plusnet (warning: long post!) Broadband: Andrews & Arnold Home::1 (FTTC 80/20) Line rental: Pulse 8 Home Line Rental (£14.40/month) Mobile: iD mobile (£4/month) |
Re: Plusnet fibre products launch today (19th April 2011)
19-04-2011 12:08 PM
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Quote from: godsell4 OK, lets get to an answer a slightly different way.
if a user has paid for the Pro Add-On, is all traffic at least Gold or better?
Yes.
Re: Plusnet fibre products launch today (19th April 2011)
19-04-2011 12:15 PM
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Quote from: Vip3r Pro Add-on:
Good idea, but why is there no Link to find out how much this costs from the Fibre page (its only there at the bottom of the broadband page).
It's just a case of not swamping the customer with info. It is shown in more detail within the actual signup.
Quote from: Vip3r 2mb Upload:
Why is the fact that Plusnet are limiting upload artificially to 2mb not more prominent on the site, 40mb download is plastered everywhere, but I have only found one line about the upload speed after searching for a good 15 minutes.
I'll check with marketing, but I'd assume it's because most customers only care about download speed. Before you shout at me, I said *most*
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Quote from: Vip3r Speed Restrictions:
http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/speed_guide/download_speeds.shtml When comparing existing Extra to Fibre Extra the line speed period is shorter, Extra is 12am-6pm, Fibre Extra 1am - 7am then its rate limited.
So if you are lucky to have an ADSL2 connection running faster than 10mb you would be better off on Extra than moving to Fibre if you do most of your activity between 12am and 6pm.
Take Fibre Extra Download sites 12pm to 6pm 2Mb/s, on adsl extra its line speed.
We've deliberately left rate limits in place 'til 1am on Fibre so that they don't impact the ADSL/ADSL2+ customers who schedule their downloads for midnight.
Yes, if you're a very lucky ADSL2+ customer you can potentially get better speeds than Fibre during quieter times on certain traffic, but this is offset by the fact that you get much better speeds in the evening on Fibre.
Re: Plusnet fibre products launch today (19th April 2011)
19-04-2011 12:17 PM
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Quote from: carrot63 Mand,
One of the pages you link to has browsing, email, streaming, p2p, downloads as "managed" with the Pro add-on:
http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/speed_guide/traffic_management.shtml
Another adds newsgroups to the list:
http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/speed_guide/broadband_experience.shtml
Managed is defined as:
"Traffic which will usually run at line speed, but may be limited in the busiest periods"
While another page has all protocols defined as "line speed", all the time.
http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/speed_guide/download_speeds.shtml
So which is correct? Line speed all the time or "managed"?
On the Pro add-on those things are line speed all the time (as there are no rate-limits in place at any time). But they are Managed simply because they're not Prioritised. Anything in Gold is classed as Managed by the definition.
Re: Plusnet fibre products launch today (19th April 2011)
19-04-2011 12:17 PM
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Quote from: godsell4 On http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/speed_guide/download_speeds.shtml, PN Value Fibre shows streaming is Line Speed 24/7. But on PN Extra Fibre, there are times when it is rate limited. Thats a typo right?
Yes, that will be fixed this afternoon. Correct rate limit during peak on Value Fibre is 5Mb.
Re: Plusnet fibre products launch today (19th April 2011)
19-04-2011 1:05 PM
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Also posted in FTTP trial forum here... http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,95270.0.html
Re: Plusnet fibre products launch today (19th April 2011)
19-04-2011 1:47 PM
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19-04-2011 1:53 PM
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I also work from home occasionally and VPN is restricted to 2Mbps, with pro add-on this would be at line speed too.
Re: Plusnet fibre products launch today (19th April 2011)
19-04-2011 2:47 PM
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Getting worried as I know there is not many fttc connections .vs. houses in my local box. I'll be very upset if I miss the boat because I had to wait until PlusNet to make their service live before I could apply.
Re: Plusnet fibre products launch today (19th April 2011)
19-04-2011 3:34 PM
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