I have a 60g account, with 2 teenagers and would like unlimited?
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I have a 60g account, with 2 teenagers and would like unlimited?
02-10-2011 9:17 AM
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would like to know as i may well have to change before my 14 day period is up.
matt
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02-10-2011 9:45 AM
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02-10-2011 10:22 AM
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To argue with someone who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead - Thomas Paine
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02-10-2011 10:42 AM
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02-10-2011 10:45 AM
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02-10-2011 10:48 AM
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02-10-2011 10:53 AM
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The definition of 'unlimited broadband' has been argued and discussed greatly on the web.
To argue with someone who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead - Thomas Paine
Re: I have a 60g account, with 2 teenagers and would like unlimited?
02-10-2011 11:16 AM
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Quote from: vapormatt would like to know as i may well have to change before my 14 day period is up.
Is the 14 days period you are referring to is the cooling off period? As far as I'm aware as soon as the service is provided the cooling off period ends
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02-10-2011 11:19 AM
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02-10-2011 11:34 AM
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Quote they can't go online past midnight as they will never be awake during the day
That is fair enough, but they could still leave downloads running overnight, or start downloading when they wake up - at say 07:00am while it's still free, and then use the downloaded files during the day.
For example, I can easily use 2GB per day using the 'Series Record' feature of BBC iPlayer, but I only have a 15GB account. So in the settings of the iPlayer desktop just configure "Series Record" for between "00:00 and 06:59"
You can configure your Windows computers to do updates at a specified time.
If you are using Linux you can configure 'apt-cache' to download updates overnight,
and many other types of download can be scheduled to happen overnight.
I have four people using my broadband account for many hours everyday and we just about reach our 15GB in the last days of each month, but our total usage of 'free' overnight download is many times the 15GB allowance - sometimes as much as 80GB or 90GB.
Re: I have a 60g account, with 2 teenagers and would like unlimited?
02-10-2011 11:49 AM
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Have a look at http://www.squid-cache.org/
Not only will it reduce the number of gigabytes each month you need to download, but it will speed up your broadband connection because a lot of fetches will come from the local cache, and any external fetches that are necessary will be faster because they are not fighting for bandwidth with all the stuff which is now cached.
I know this is a slightly extreme solution, but as they say "every little helps"
Re: I have a 60g account, with 2 teenagers and would like unlimited?
02-10-2011 11:50 AM
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I have spoken to plus net and we think we can resolve the issue, have to call back monday and hopefully everything will be ok and i can stay with plus net as i don't really want to have to move to another provider anyway. the customer service is very good indeed.
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02-10-2011 2:37 PM
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The PC is completely fanless, the only moving part is the laptop hard drive which is virtually silent, and the whole machine only consumes SIX WATTS, so leaving it switched on 24/7 in a silent room is not a problem
Re: I have a 60g account, with 2 teenagers and would like unlimited?
02-10-2011 4:27 PM
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Quote from: vapormatt I have spoken to plus net and we think we can resolve the issue, have to call back monday and hopefully everything will be ok and i can stay with plus net as i don't really want to have to move to another provider anyway. the customer service is very good indeed.
Wake the kids up at 6am !!
Plusnet may suggest you go onto a Business Tariff
http://www.plus.net/business/broadband/
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Re: I have a 60g account, with 2 teenagers and would like unlimited?
02-10-2011 4:32 PM
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Quote from: purleigh So in the settings of the iPlayer desktop just configure "Series Record" for between "00:00 and 06:59"
our total usage of 'free' overnight download is many times the 15GB allowance - sometimes as much as 80GB or 90GB.
This is what I do with my iMac and BBC iPlayer.
I access iPlayer website daytime to choose downloads, and bookmark pages.
Typically 8gb / month daytime, 40gb+ unlimited night-time
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