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Why is free usage only 12-8am?

CuBz
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Why is free usage only 12-8am?

Just out of curiosity, why is the free usage between 12-8am? Is it because it is not used as much at these times? As some ISP's and T-Mobile lead me to believe that the times used very few are 12am-4pm with the most popular times being around 6pm
Sorry I was just curious  Roll_eyes
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pierre_pierre
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Re: Why is free usage only 12-8am?

it used to be midnight to 4 pm, and still is for those on heritage products, and indeed the accepted busy time starts at about 4 pm.
I suppose that PN thought they would clamp down during the normal working day, never seen a printed reason for the logic
CuBz
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Re: Why is free usage only 12-8am?

Ah ok Thanks
I can't help but think how better it would be if it was still at those times  Sad
If there was an extra price per month for that option, I would definitely choose it
hadden
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Re: Why is free usage only 12-8am?

The Plusnet usage statistics are here.
HairyMcbiker
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Re: Why is free usage only 12-8am?

Looks like it is quiet till 12pm (12am-12pm is about the same) so they could set it to 12pm instead of 8am, however I am on unlimited and it starts slowing at 12pm  Cry
CuBz
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Re: Why is free usage only 12-8am?

Quote from: Hairy
Looks like it is quiet till 12pm (12am-12pm is about the same) so they could set it to 12pm instead of 8am, however I am on unlimited and it starts slowing at 12pm  Cry

I would be happy with that too
adamwalker
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Re: Why is free usage only 12-8am?

TBH guys, I can't see this changing very quickly as it would necessitate a lot of system reconfiguration and changes to the content displayed on our site. However I like to consider myself (and my team mates) as the internal voice of the customer here at Plusnet so these considerations will discussed.
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CuBz
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Re: Why is free usage only 12-8am?

Thanks adam
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adamwalker
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Re: Why is free usage only 12-8am?

No problem,
TBH I don't think we'd open up the off peak hours in line with the entire average times of when the network is at its least busiest but someone may want to start a poll to get an idea of just for examples sake when people would be most happy about being able to use an 8 hour window of off peak usage between 12AM and 12PM.
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jelv
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Re: Why is free usage only 12-8am?

I'd like to see it moved back to 1am to 9am. At the moment I can't see a lot of extra activity early on before 8am, instead there is a massive peak at midnight as most people kick off their downloads at that time. If the off-peak finished at 9am I think it would spread the load as more people would make the effort to download early morning.
What would be ideal however is something I suspect you couldn't do, allow each person to designate their own 8 hour off-peak period between midnight and midday. They would only be able to change it monthly on billing day.
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CuBz
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Re: Why is free usage only 12-8am?

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What would be ideal however is something I suspect you couldn't do, allow each person to designate their own 8 hour off-peak period between midnight and midday. They would only be able to change it monthly on billing day.

Fantastic idea! i love it! That would be awesome
adamwalker
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Re: Why is free usage only 12-8am?

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What would be ideal however is something I suspect you couldn't do,

I'm not going to elude either way but again I will mention this idea.
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