Plusnet Discussion Thread

wsh said:
The router's ftp server is great too, if only Plusnet weren't throttling my upload on port 21 from 1600KB/s to 600 KB/s...
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Last time I asked in the main FTTC thread people were going on about Plusnet being truly unlimited & unshaped... obviously not the case!
Have you tried paying the £5 fee for the 'Pro' addon to remove traffic management?
 
Haven't personally noticed any shaping on my connection. Send them a ticket and ask what's going on, you shouldn't be shaped 24/7.
 
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KIA said:
FTP isn't shaped.
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I was under the impression that ftp was prioritised lower after reading around on the plusnet forum. I could see the upload throughput taking a dramatic hit after a few minutes at full speed in the Asus router's gui. This was while transferring 2x 1.5gb files separately to my brother on virgin 20mb fibre.
 
wsh said:
I was under the impression that ftp was prioritised lower after reading around on the plusnet forum. I could see the upload throughput taking a dramatic hit after a few minutes at full speed in the Asus router's gui. This was while transferring 2x 1.5gb files separately to my brother on virgin 20mb fibre.
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Was there other significant traffic on the line at the same time?
 
KIA said:
Was there other significant traffic on the line at the same time?
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No, not anything on either although I was doing some light browsing with Firefox at the time. Im the 7th line connected to the fttc box so it wouldn't have been congestion my end.
 
Vimes said:
username and password, along with connection type - as you can see above.

Also I had to make sure that I selected dynamic IP, even though Plusnet assign me a static one.

Settings....

http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/hardware/broadband-connection-settings.shtml

For me it is nice to have a dual Wi-Fi connection, and it seems a little stronger as well. The Gigabit LAN is very useful and, up to now, it has been very stable and responsive. For £25 it has been a worthy buy for me, considering that I was on the second Tecnicolor router. I have not needed to use Telnet either.
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Thanks that will come in very handy :)
 
so I finally took the plunge and moved to Plusnet... was getting 76Mbit with BT Infinity but changed as they were mucking me about. Plusnet said my estimated speed was the same but I'm barely hitting 10Mb/s :( Upload is faster than download speeds. It was only installed yesterday and I know it needs time to settle but I doubt I'm going to get above the speed I'm getting now :(
 
If you're only getting 10Mbps then something is broken, or your testing method is flawed.

Make sure it isn't anything at your end (dodgy wiring, a poor wireless connection, etc.) and then report the fault. Their user forums are a good place to start.
 
buckeejit said:
so I finally took the plunge and moved to Plusnet... was getting 76Mbit with BT Infinity but changed as they were mucking me about. Plusnet said my estimated speed was the same but I'm barely hitting 10Mb/s :( Upload is faster than download speeds. It was only installed yesterday and I know it needs time to settle but I doubt I'm going to get above the speed I'm getting now :(
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Run the BT speedtest and grab the IP profile information.
 
I'm interested in both the alternatives to the Plusnet router discussed in the last couple of pages. Namely the WD N750 and Asus RT 66U.

The variation in price between the WD N750 and the Asus RT 66U is quite remarkable however. And without reading every single spec I wonder what the general differences in layman's terms are between the two. Presumably the Asus has a lot more of something.

I'm on my second Plusnet router after only having fibre for 6 months; the thing is absolutely terrible. How it keeps passing QA i'll never know.
 
Even though my speedtests say that i get 76mb down and 18mb up, a few times i have seen my download speed hit 8.5mb/s on torrents which leads me to believe that my line is capable of hitting 80+mb down.

Still almost a month of having it and cant fault it one single bit, stupid fast downloading and browsing the internet.
 
Yas786 said:
Even though my speedtests say that i get 76mb down and 18mb up, a few times i have seen my download speed hit 8.5mb/s on torrents which leads me to believe that my line is capable of hitting 80+mb down.
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8.5MBps is 'only' 68Mbps, so you aren't even hitting the 76Mbps you're getting on the speed test.
 
ceemuk said:
I'm interested in both the alternatives to the Plusnet router discussed in the last couple of pages. Namely the WD N750 and Asus RT 66U.

The variation in price between the WD N750 and the Asus RT 66U is quite remarkable however. And without reading every single spec I wonder what the general differences in layman's terms are between the two. Presumably the Asus has a lot more of something.

I'm on my second Plusnet router after only having fibre for 6 months; the thing is absolutely terrible. How it keeps passing QA i'll never know.
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Interested in the same thing. I haven't had major issues with the Technicolor YET, but I'm going to be moving out in a few months, and my family will be left to fend off any issues with the router after I'm gone so I'd rather pre-empt that situation.

Normally I'd stick my Billion 7800N back in, but realistically it's overcomplicated for my family.

Can anyone give a good summary of the best routers at each price point right now (ei, budget sub-£40, £40-70, £70-150)? I'm a little out of this game since I bought the Billion and moving from ADSL!
 
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