Re: PlusNet Sustainable Usage Guide - Real Maximum Speeds

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:29:18 +0100, "Gareth :-\\\) voom"
<iam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>"Shevek" <DrShevek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:1127990288.349454.178660@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> OK, Plusnet have now published the guidelines:
>>
>> http://www.plus.net/support/features/sustainable_usage_guide.shtml
>>
>> I thought I'd do a little calculation to work out how to throttle
>> Azureus during peak hours and this is what I got:
>>
>> Peak Time - 30 Gb per month between 4 and 12
>>
>> 30 Gb per month = 0.99 Gb per day (based on 12 months / 365 days)
>> so maxed out over the 8 hours gives you just 36 Kbps to play with.
>>
>> So I thought I'd see what the remaining 70 Gb per month over the
>> remaining 16 hours per day works out at - 42 Kbps not much more!
>>
>> And 100 Gb over 24 hours a day works out at 40 Kbps
>>
>> This stinks! PlusNet users are basically limited to less than 1/7 of
>> our connection speed.
>>
>> Damn, I jumped the Pipex boat at the wrong time to the wrong island.
>>
>> Hmmm. How much do PlusNet charge to migrate out in the first 12
>> months...?
>>
>> --
>>
>> Shevek
>>
>>
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>> http://www.itunesregistry.com/ reports/reports.php?showuser=2 011
>>
>>
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>>
>>
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>>
>
>Are Plus.net saying you can't download over 30GB of peak traffic during a
>month?
>

Basically yes - if you do more than that a few times in a few months
you'll get bandwidth limits on p2p and Usenet
--

Shevek

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