Plusnet Unlimited for ADSL/ADSL2+/FTTC is a step forward ahead and sound very promise but what happen if there is 80% customers average of 150GB usage allowance per month while the rest of bad boys 20% did over 2TB a month - will Plusnet give out a warning letter to bad boys to cut down usage allowance or will be suspension ?
No warning letters, no suspension. We’re a
*long* way off 80% of customers downloading ~150GB/mnth though. The average across our network is ~18GB. In a month you’d be able to manage a *lot* more than 2TB with 76Mbps throughput
I don't want my ISP interfering with my traffic. They even charge £5 to disable the prioritisation!
So if you were using 100% of your bandwidth downloading over peer-to-peer and you went to stream a video over iPlayer, you'd want it not to work? That's exactly what would happen without prioritisation. With prioritisation, the video would be allowed to take priority over the torrent traffic.
The £5 Pro add-on is pretty pointless on the new Unlimited product TBH. When signing up for the product when it’s available people will notice we’ve actually removed the option from the signup journey (although it is still available on request).
I have personally been testing the profile for the new Unlimited product over recent months and not once have I noticed any slow down affecting any of my traffic unless the connection’s been at 100% utilisation or there's been some external factor at play.
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