Plusnet Discussion Thread

I’ll mainly be using my own Asus router on Plusnet because it gives me better features and performance. However, I still want to have a Plusnet Hub as a backup.

The reason is simple, if I ever have to contact support, they’ll usually ask me to connect their own router before they’ll do any proper troubleshooting. Without it, I’d just end up stuck.

So for me, the Plusnet router isn’t my main choice, but it’s handy to keep around as a backup just in case I need to deal with their support team.
 
bulldog147 said:
It's very annoying with old fashion PPPoE as I thought u don't need it anymore for Full Fibre as it always ON
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The ISP still needs something to authenticate through a radius server and provide an IP address, so PPPoE is essential for residentail broadband. Its only when dealing with leased lines do you get a range of static IP addresses, but then again you will need to configure a firewall/router with policy etc
 
$anch3z said:
The ISP still needs something to authenticate through a radius server and provide an IP address, so PPPoE is essential for residentail broadband. Its only when dealing with leased lines do you get a range of static IP addresses, but then again you will need to configure a firewall/router with policy etc
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It's not essential at all, Sky and TalkTalk manage perfectly fine with DHCP. The others are reluctant to switch over due to the cost and the fact 99% of residential customers wouldn't notice a blind bit of difference.
 
$anch3z said:
The ISP still needs something to authenticate through a radius server and provide an IP address, so PPPoE is essential for residentail broadband. Its only when dealing with leased lines do you get a range of static IP addresses, but then again you will need to configure a firewall/router with policy etc
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As ChrisD said, plenty of ISP's don't use PPPoE for residential and just use DHCP. My ISP, Airband is one of them.
 
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ChrisD. said:
It's not essential at all, Sky and TalkTalk manage perfectly fine with DHCP. The others are reluctant to switch over due to the cost and the fact 99% of residential customers wouldn't notice a blind bit of difference.
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To be fair though, what difference does it make?
 
Goose said:
To be fair though, what difference does it make?
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PPPoE doesn't work well on some 3rd party routers, being limited to single threads in some *nix OS's etc or poorly implemented (hardware offload as an example). People who want to move away from ISP routers may be limited on choice. Even with UniFi as an example, PPPoE performance has been hit and miss until maybe a year ago when significant improvements were made. It also eats ever so slightly into the available frame size which has some performance impact especially when higher bandwidth is available. DHCP is much more performanct on a wider range of hardware/software implementations.
 
Anyone here got a Netgear Orbi for Plus net Full Fibre please? As I am thinking of getting it over the Provided Plusnet Router as I want to get as high wifi speed as possible near the 900mb
 
A friend was considering signing up for 900Mbps package he was offered it for £33 per month with increases March £37 and final year £41 24 month deal.

Openreach ISP prices appear to be very high shows again what a failure ofcom are.
 
edGfaCTor said:
A friend was considering signing up for 900Mbps package he was offered it for £33 per month with increases March £37 and final year £41 24 month deal.

Openreach ISP prices appear to be very high shows again what a failure ofcom are.
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What gets me is some ISP put it up by £3 and others £4. Everyone is actually worse off since they implemented the rules as prices usually rose by like £2.50 max... now £4 regardless of what package you have.

That deal is pretty bad also. Tell them you get the same offer at topcashback but £68 cashback and £145 reward card thrown in.
 
GregI said:
What gets me is some ISP put it up by £3 and others £4. Everyone is actually worse off since they implemented the rules as prices usually rose by like £2.50 max... now £4 regardless of what package you have.

That deal is pretty bad also. Tell them you get the same offer at topcashback but £68 cashback and £145 reward card thrown in.
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Not sure how you think it's a bad deal it does include the 145 reward card already at the prices I mentioned and if you go through topcashback for the £68 which is not guaranteed the price increases monthly to around £37 - £41 - £45 that works out more expensive.

No place will reduce a price because of cashback sites.
 
I left plusnet over 3 years ago. This week out of the blue I got a cheque for £27.07. Apparently they charged too much termination fee.

The company I switched to paid plusnets termination charge :)
 
Part of what attracted me to brsk is no mid contract price hikes AND its only an 18 month contract.
Well that and it's a good price anyway, plus a 50 squid amazon voucher was the icing on the cake as I got a referral from a friend.

Plusnet just can't compete.
 
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mattyfez said:
Part of what attracted me to brsk is no mid contract price hikes AND its only an 18 month contract.
Well that and it's a good price anyway, plus a 50 squid amazon voucher was the icing on the cake as I got a referral from a friend.

Plusnet just can't compete.
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Plusnet compete by actually being available to anyone in the Openreach network, as far as I can tell BRSK is only available to a tiny fraction of the population.
 
Am paying £33 for 900Mbs with plusnet
As goose said location makes
A big difference what's available to you
I can't even get some of the major players here
Virgin for example
They stopped about 50 yards away from me
3 years ago and never came back
Let alone some of those small companies mentioned
 
After four years I will be leaving Plusnet next month and switching to Highland Broadband who are installing FTTP for our village. No in contract price increases (24m contract) and a decent connection at long last. Can't wait to get rid of this "up to 36mb" connection that rarely gets anywhere near that and constantly gives us buffering on Amazon Prime and Youtube. The downside is that I have been out of contract with Plusnet since the end of August and my monthly cost has doubled to £67 on average, still it's only for another month and will be well worth it.
 
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