Plusnet Discussion Thread

Grahame said:
Anyway, before:
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After:
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Is that FTTP or FTTH
 
Had mine connected this afternoon, download is hovering around 48meg (estimated speed was 74 down,...member center reports line speed as 78) uploads ok tho.
Is there a settling in period for fiber,or should i give PN a bell tomorrow? :)
 
Grahame said:
All installed. Engineer was worked for Kelly Communications and even though he was nice, he wasn't willing to use my existing BT installed extension to get the data into the lounge, nor use the data extension kit as there was no clear route... Ended up getting him to leave me the data extension kit with everything by the front door :(

I then spoke to my BT engineer mate who told me how I could convert my existing extension myself. I did that - just 2 wires into the back of the faceplate. Took me 5 mins, and I lost no speed over it - no idea why he wouldn't do it, but ah well.

Anyway, before:
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After:
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Considering that the cabinet is on your street, your speeds seem drastically slow. Wondering if it's much faster when directly connected without the extension.
 
Sighn said:
Considering that the cabinet is on your street, your speeds seem drastically slow. Wondering if it's much faster when directly connected without the extension.
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For some reason he's changed it to display in kB/s rather than the default Mb/s everyone else uses. It's actually a 73Mb/s connection.
 
bremen1874 said:
For some reason he's changed it to display in kB/s rather than the default Mb/s everyone else uses. It's actually a 73Mb/s connection.
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Oops - just realised myself it is set as kB/s. I always had it set at that on my old connection which was only 3mbps as I liked to see my actual max download rate in kB/s as the browser shows as it downloads files. Now that I have the faster connection with no way of knowing what the modem is synced at, mbps it definitely more helpful :)

G.
 
FTTC

I'm thinking of leaving Coms FTTC 40/10 (ex ADSL24) to go to Plusnet due to Coms' introduction of throttling.

The thing is though that while I dislike the way Coms have gone about things, throttling aside my connection is stable and I reliably get around 37 down / 9 up, so after reading on here about congestion on plusnet I'm worried I may experience problems?

Or as I'll obviously be connected to the same cabinet can I assume if my connection is OK now it should remain the same on Plusnet?

Here's my live Coms graph -



and speedtest -

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ed79 said:
I'm thinking of leaving Coms FTTC 40/10 (ex ADSL24) to go to Plusnet due to Coms' introduction of throttling.
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I did the same thing about a month ago. Never looked back. My connection is just as good as it was with ADSL24. I've posted in this thread earlier if your interested. :)
 
Thanks guys, Zen were my first port of call but their prices for unlimited 80/20 mean I'd pay around £150 more over 12 months than I am with Coms. Plusnet actually work out about £20 cheaper per year than what I currently pay and I'd benefit from a predicted 58/20 connection speed plus I wouldn't have to wait until after 8pm to start streaming or heavy downloading.

Just not sure about committing to a 12 or 18 month contract where as with Coms it's just 1 month which is why I've stayed this long. But just tried downloading on Steam and it's only doing about 1 MB/sec instead of the 4-5 I should get so I wonder if Coms throttle steam as well as P2P.
 
One week in and speeds have been rock solid. I must have a decent connection to the box, even though it is 400m away from me. The DLM hasn't done anything at all (maybe a bit of interleaving, with a ping like that, but no loss of speed).

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G.
 
I got unlimited fibre installed on 17th march and after getting an Asus RT-AC56U was getting a steady 70-72Mb/s down. After being back from holiday (2 weeks) for a week, I've only seen 58-60Mb/s down. Knowing next to nothing about FTTC, is this something that happens (speeds fluctuations?) and I'm assuming at some point it should increase back to speeds I was seeing in the first month?

Fibre is pretty new in my area and i suppose i'm worried that uptake and contention (is this even an issue on fttc?) may keep my speeds limited or even worse, drop them even more.
 
I just got myself the Asus DSL r66u for my plusnet fibre. Oh man setup was a pain and the wifi signal is actually pretty weak compared to my technicolor 582n.What sort of vdsl modem/router do you guy use for the fibre.
 
So basically I just got my fibre installed today and set up my Asus RT-N66U and I've got from 2meg down to a whopping 44meg!!

And that's before it's even stabalised :p :p :p
 
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