Re: Is it just Plusnet?

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:02:43 -0000, "Gareth :-\\\) voom"
<iam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I have access to 3 Plusnet accounts. 2 Premiere and 1 business all which
>recently have been at dial-up speed for downloading. It is only downloads
>from P2P that I am talking about though to be fair web browsing is not too
>bad.
>
>These accounts are all in different locations too. I know you have to think
>about contention but it seems strange that all 3 accounts have dropped at
>the same time and it's just on P2P.
>
>Are Plusnet restricting access to this service? We moved to premiere
>accounts because we were told we would achieve better speeds for downloading
>which I think was misleading.
>

Better than what?

If you were told that the speeds for downloading would be better than
on dial up, then that is not misleading, because they are.

P2P is a special case, as opposed to "normal" (FTP) downloading. I
downloaded about 2GB of Oracle software over last night and today, at
39Kb/s - which is the limit I had set Flashget to use, so that I had
spare bandwidth for the other things I was doing. But this was not
using P2P, it was a direct FTP from the Oracle site.

Plusnet have three queues - Bronze, Silver and Gold, with different
priorities given to each. P2P is in the bronze queue, so at even
moderately busy times, will have limited bandwidth available.
--
Alex Heney, Global Villager
If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing
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