UKFSN info please ..?

jamjar

jamjar

jamjar

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Hi All i,m looking to change my isp ,and at present UKFSN is my choice,what i want to know is to do with when the speed drops at peak times .I read in a forum that when the speed does drop you can just reconnect to another central ,how is this done ? :confused: Quote from Forum thread :

'UKFSN certainly are reliable and have good speeds, but when peak times come speeds can drop quite low but a simple reconnect on a different central fixes it'. :confused:
 
Just by disconnecting the PPPOA session in your routers web settings or taking the power out. This doesn't help when all 3 (4 on the 21st) are orange/red and shaping is taking effect to stop packet loss.

You have a 2 in 3 chance of going on a different central.
 
Trifid said:
Just by disconnecting the PPPOA session in your routers web settings or taking the power out. This doesn't help when all 3 (4 on the 21st) are orange/red and shaping is taking effect to stop packet loss.

You have a 2 in 3 chance of going on a different central.
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right ,mind you i still think this is a fair way ,plus unlike other isp's there not throttleing ,just helping give everyone a fair crack of the whip ! ;)
 
Im with the 2 months now and i also seen the speed worries of some people on forums, but honesly its not as bad as people make out. BT says I can get 2.5 mb line and im currently downloading at 370kbs during peak hours, but on off peak hours i havent yet dropped below 280kbs, but then again my house is getting rewired due to the age of it so i hope to get a little boost then, lol.
But in all fairness, I moved from AOL whome i never had any/much bother with in the 5 years i was with them and the only reason i moved was due to throtteling and i have to say UKFSN is an even better service again.
In the 2 months im with them I may have had a total of 2 disconnections and thats including the training period and 1 of them was my fault for accidently unplugging the router out, lol.

Great ISP and there set to upgread again soon, But one of the main factors is that if you dont like the service its only a month contract at a time so you can always change if need be. ;)
 
cruisinbeatz said:
Im with the 2 months now and i also seen the speed worries of some people on forums, but honesly its not as bad as people make out. BT says I can get 2.5 mb line and im currently downloading at 370kbs during peak hours, but on off peak hours i havent yet dropped below 280kbs, but then again my house is getting rewired due to the age of it so i hope to get a little boost then, lol.
But in all fairness, I moved from AOL whome i never had any/much bother with in the 5 years i was with them and the only reason i moved was due to throtteling and i have to say UKFSN is an even better service again.
In the 2 months im with them I may have had a total of 2 disconnections and thats including the training period and 1 of them was my fault for accidently unplugging the router out, lol.

Great ISP and there set to upgread again soon, But one of the main factors is that if you dont like the service its only a month contract at a time so you can always change if need be. ;)
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thanks for the post ,and i agree with you ,what i want to know is apart from a better upload speed and less GiG on and off peak is the '45G office MAX service' any better ? :confused:
 
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jamjar said:
thanks for the post ,and i agree with you ,what i want to know is apart from a better upload speed and less GiG on and off peak is the '45G office MAX service' any better ? :confused:
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Sorry pushed the wrong button ! :eek:
 
jamjar said:
thanks for the post ,and i agree with you ,what i want to know is apart from a better upload speed and less GiG on and off peak is the '45G office MAX service' any better ? :confused:
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The peak/off peak hours are different for the Office products but be aware that they're priced as ex-VAT on the website.
 
rpstewart said:
The peak/off peak hours are different for the Office products but be aware that they're priced as ex-VAT on the website.
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yes i se that the price is £29.38 inc VAT which isn,t that bad for a office package .. :)
 
Im on the office 45 package and it works out 29.85 or there abouts with vat and have to say, its pretty good, I need it for the upload to my website, its deadly quick up and down. for me anyhow. And the best thing about office packages is you get priority over resadentual customers if the exchange seems to be taking a hammering i think it is.

Gets a good 9.5+ out of 10 for me, I deff cant complain, and Jason (the owner) has really quick replies to help subjects too.
 
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cruisinbeatz said:
Im on the office 45 package and it works out 29.85 or there abouts with vat and have to say, its pretty good, I need it for the upload to my website, its deadly quick up and down. for me anyhow. And the best thing about office packages is you get priority over resadentual customers if the exchange seems to be taking a hammering i think it is.

Gets a good 9.5+ out of 10 for me, I deff cant complain, and Jason (the owner) has really quick replies to help subjects too.
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sounds good ,and 45 GIG is more than enough for downloading on p2p in your opinion ? :confused:
 
The speed drop doesnt matter to me, it wont go below 2mb anyway, thats plenty, and it may not drop that far, thats the lowest it will go, it only goes down in increments of about 500k until the packet loss is stopped, then it goes back up, so as i said may not even go down to 2mb, could go down to 6mb/5mb/4mb etc..., im getting about 4.5mb at the mo which is plentyfull, i can only get 6mb anyway, and as said above you just go into your router settings and disconnect/reconnect to get on to another pipe. :)
 
LoadsaMoney said:
The speed drop doesnt matter to me, it wont go below 2mb anyway, thats plenty, and it may not drop that far, thats the lowest it will go, it only goes down in increments of about 500k until the packet loss is stopped, then it goes back up, so as i said may not even go down to 2mb, could go down to 6mb/5mb/4mb etc..., im getting about 4.5mb at the mo which is plentyfull, i can only get 6mb anyway, and as said above you just go into your router settings and disconnect/reconnect to get on to another pipe. :)
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sounds very good ,so you think that i,d get a better service than Nildram ? who are throttleing p2p and its slow , its going ***s up since Pipex took over ! :confused:
 
YES! I used to be on Pipex, who now own Nildram, its miles better. My lines interleaved and my pings are still almost as good as my old non-interleaved pipex ones, and my download and upload are night and day faster!

I live about 5-6 miles from the exchange, so quite a distance as far as high speed goes, but as UKFSN dont cap, I've still managed 400KB/sec on torrents before now, when my line signal was good for a few days and my sync went up :)
 
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