Re: PlusNet Speed results

Beck wrote:

I am on the £14.99 a month package (not the pay and go one).
I hear they throttle the P2P but I do not use those anyway so 
> its not an issue for me.

I've not used peer-to-peer in the (several years) online on ADSL
but did sometimes want to download from binaries newsgroups (the
majority of files were under 10 MB - jazz tracks as MP3s) though
the speed of that has been especially disappointing on Broadband
Plus - it was slow from the time I started on the account around
six months ago, at 15 kB/s daytime and perhaps double that until
October, but then went down to being practically unusable.  When
I enquired, Plus.Net's reply was that access to binaries was not
guaranteed but 'possible' (whereas when I signed up, they had no
mention of Usenet and still, as far as I know, have mostly given
restrictions only about 'heavy downloading' without mentioning a
thing about access to newsgroups only being usable if you happen
to use a text-only news service (and their 'at a glance' servers
page still doesn't mention  text.usenet.plus.net  which you will
need to use for a reasonable response, else you'll think that it
is a dead server if you have to wait 15 seconds for each body to
be downloaded once you've chosen to view it... or if you d/l all
bodies, you'd best go cook a three-course dinner to give it time
to catch up with the bodies!)....  Oh yes, here's the text for a
BB Plus account - see how it (fails to) say Usenet is 'calmed':

"With Broadband Plus you get a great-value broadband experience
 that's perfect for web surfing and email.  Broadband Plus is not
 suitable for data-intensive applications such as file-sharing and
 large downloads."

Straight off the product page.   As you might have guessed, Beck,
I've been seeing it getting slower and slower.  I wish you well,
and so long as you never come into the category of 'heavy user'
all should be well.  I've downloaded about 1.5 GB in the past
10 days, but now finding speeds so low that streaming fails,
and my update to MS Windows Media Player stalled part way into
the second file of 8 that had to be downloaded.  I have been one
of the heavier users in the last quarter of 2005, but soon I will
be off to pastures new, maybe Clara's off-peak service... Peter M.

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