Plusnet Discussion Thread

bremen1874 · 29 Jan 2013 at 22:56

That FTP link gives me just over 3 MB/sec. The connection is capable of just over 8 MB/Sec.

Can't help with the other question.

Ice_Black · 29 Jan 2013 at 23:02

bremen1874 said:
That FTP link gives me just over 3 MB/sec. The connection is capable of just over 8 MB/Sec.

Can't help with the other question.

Is 3 MB/sec normal for you? or what speed do normally get from FTP

bremen1874 · 29 Jan 2013 at 23:13

Ice_Black said:
Is 3 MB/sec normal for you? or what speed do normally get from FTP

I honestly don't know. Large transfers via FTP isn't something I need to do very often.

KIA · 30 Jan 2013 at 12:47

Ice_Black said:
For those who are on 80/20 Fibre, what download speed are you getting from FTP?

Link: ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/18/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-18-x86_64-DVD.iso

I am only getting 120 KB/sec

Also what speed do you get when you download from SSH using WinSCP?

3.5MB/s. Max is 4.8MB/s.

SCP is line speed from my server in France.

greywolf · 3 Feb 2013 at 14:17

Tempted to switch, currently on Infinity, whilst the service is fine, have had some silly billing issues.

For 18 months total costs
BT £468
Plus: £415.81

Is the plusnet fibre service just as good as BT infinity? In Romford, Essex if makes any difference.

Fourstar · 3 Feb 2013 at 14:28

greywolf said:
Tempted to switch, currently on Infinity, whilst the service is fine, have had some silly billing issues.

For 18 months total costs
BT £468
Plus: £415.81

Quidco have a £90 cashback offer with plusnet if you sign up "for Fibre with call packages". It does however run out in 9 hours! Actually you might already have factored that in

I signed up yesterday and am waiting for it to track.

Joop · 3 Feb 2013 at 14:35

Fourstar said:
Quidco have a £90 cashback offer with plusnet if you sign up "for Fibre with call packages". It does however run out in 9 hours! Actually you might already have factored that in

I signed up yesterday and am waiting for it to track.

I signed up the other day and it hasnt tracked but i see on plusnet forums it happening a lot! i cant wait to get fibre with plusnet.

Been given 18th of feb for the install date, as the ones checked in my order were fully booked i was told

Fourstar · 3 Feb 2013 at 15:30

Joop said:
I signed up the other day and it hasnt tracked but i see on plusnet forums it happening a lot! i cant wait to get fibre with plusnet.

Been given 18th of feb for the install date, as the ones checked in my order were fully booked i was told

I'm looking forward to the change too. Will be nice to jump from ~6/0.8 to ~34/6 while paying less.

My install date is on hold until I can provide a MAC as ADSL24 only work Mon to Fri. They were offering 13th-15th Feb. Hopefully I'll get 18th-22nd.

Joop · 3 Feb 2013 at 16:31

Was the 13th-15th on the calendar wen booking? because mine said the same but when i rung to give mac code they said 18th! they offering me 67/19 @ better price than i can find

Fourstar · 3 Feb 2013 at 18:40

Joop said:
Was the 13th-15th on the calendar when booking?

Yep

Joop said:
they offering me 67/19 @ better price than i can find

Nice! Should see you through till fibre to the house appears.

Chronictank · 11 Feb 2013 at 14:42

Just got my Plusnet Unlimited installation put in today, the openreach engineer was very helpful and fixed some of my telephone wiring for nothing

(Splitters moved into the sockets)

The installation just finished so my line-speed is probably still stabalising

Plusnet speed test

Code:

Tracing route to www.google.co.uk [173.194.66.94]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    16 ms    99 ms    99 ms  <removed,lan traffic>
  2     7 ms     8 ms     6 ms  <removed>
  3     6 ms     6 ms     6 ms  link5-central10.ptw-gw01.plus.net [84.93.248.104] 
  4     6 ms     6 ms     6 ms  xe-10-0-0.ptw-cr01.plus.net [212.159.1.40] 
  5     6 ms     6 ms     6 ms  72.14.222.97 
  6     6 ms     6 ms     6 ms  209.85.240.61 
  7     7 ms     7 ms     7 ms  209.85.253.94 
  8    12 ms    12 ms    12 ms  72.14.232.134 
  9    12 ms    12 ms    12 ms  209.85.252.83 
 10     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 11    15 ms    15 ms    18 ms  we-in-f94.1e100.net [173.194.66.94] 

Trace complete.

Done from a NAS box:
Giganews (25 connections)
SSL on 563

Tweaknews (free trial, 8 connections)
SSL on 563

Torrents:

From my PC:
Steam Downloads:

MSDN:

bremen1874 · 11 Feb 2013 at 14:49

Chronictank said:
Just got my Plusnet Unlimited installation put in today, the openreach engineer was very helpful and fixed some of my telephone wiring for nothing
(Splitters moved into the sockets)

The installation just finished so my line-speed is probably still stabalising

Either you're a long way from your cabinet, or Plusnet are still putting people on 40/10 profiles by mistake.

Chronictank · 11 Feb 2013 at 15:14

bremen1874 said:
Either you're a long way from your cabinet, or Plusnet are still putting people on 40/10 profiles by mistake.

Hey Bremen,
Do you know how I would check this?

I was quoted 30mb so i thought i was doing pretty well lol
(even though the cabinet is literally down the road from me)

bremen1874 · 11 Feb 2013 at 15:24

If you were quoted 30 then it's probably fine.

They were sticking everyone on a 40/10 profile even when the line would support a lot more.

Chronictank · 11 Feb 2013 at 15:44

According to the support section 'Broadband Profile' I am on 78mbs :confused:

Telephone number:
<removed>
Phone exchange:
SLOUGH MAIN
Estimated line speed:
26Mb (Accurate to within +/- 1Mbit) - Checked on 2013-01-09 20:12:32
Current line speed:
78 Mb

Maybe i should ring them to see what the issue is

Chronictank · 11 Feb 2013 at 15:53

Just rang them up, they told me my line can only do 26-30mb hehe

never mind

f8lure test is up and running too now ^^

bobpullen · 11 Feb 2013 at 16:03

It does look a tad suspicious that your upload speed is < 10Mbps. What's the WBC FTTC upstream rate reported as here?

Best regards,

Chronictank · 11 Feb 2013 at 18:56

Thanks for the help

Everything seems to line up sadly

Ian_Eb · 11 Feb 2013 at 19:10

Finally after a month I got confirmation that they are maybe possibly considering our cabinet in Q2 2014

ConnorJoshua · 11 Feb 2013 at 19:26

Been capped like this for so long, 60GB just wasn't cutting it for us. Moving onto unlimited now. Using this speed is horrible