Woo!! liking the new catagories on the boards folks.

Being without internet at home is doing my head in, so thankfully today! or rather this evening... I placed an order with plusnet. Up to 8mb with the 15gb peaktime cap (im in work from 4.30 - 10:30 at night pretty much, and I dont tend to faff on the net with major stuff until after midnight, so the cap wont affect me too much).

So yeah... Day 1 of the long wait for the new internet stuffs! yay!!!!

Brilliant stuffs. Cant wait.

i have an impressive Wang.


You should all see it

I have. it was a mighty wang.

There have been loads of people complaining about delays for getting connected to some suppliers, talk talk broadband has a 3 month delay ATM and some are claiming the service isnt good.

Ah well hopefully its not going to be that much of an issue with plusnet

Already zipped through the first few stages and the website is saying an engineer will activate my broadband on the 24th June 2006 after 12pm.

My router may be holding me back however, line tests (noise/atten tests) say I can get 6.2MB but the router is currently showing syncing at 4.5mbit speeds, im hoping thatll improve but even so WOO! Cant wait!

Quote from: SeriousThere have been loads of people complaining about delays for getting connected to some suppliers, talk talk broadband has a 3 month delay ATM and some are claiming the service isnt good.

its free, people get the service they are paying for :\

Quote from: Beaker

Quote from: SeriousThere have been loads of people complaining about delays for getting connected to some suppliers, talk talk broadband has a 3 month delay ATM and some are claiming the service isnt good.

its free, people get the service they are paying for :\

Not quite free, its a lossleader they are using to increase market share.

Quote from: M3ta7h3ad15gb peaktime cap

Usage  ///  Speed of P2P, Usenet, file transfer applications  ///  Speed of other Internet activites

Up to 10GB  ///  Up to line speed*  ///  Up to line speed*
10 - 12.5GB ///  Up to 256Kbps  ///  Up to 2Mbps
12.5 - 15GB /// Up to 128Kbps ///  Up to 1Mbps
15GB+  ///  Blocked /// Up to 512Kbps

aye, but I doubt Ill hit 10gb. Im not around between 6 and midnight

My internet should theoretically be accessible from sometime after midday today! yay!!!

Woo apparantly its already up and running did a quick speed test. Not impressed as apparantly plusnet now require you to "opt-in" to get 8mbit due to the halting of automatic upgrades to it.

So I am currently running at 2731.2kbps Still blindingly fast in comparison to the old 512k I had

sorted dude

mines about the same but im on cable

actually mine is:
Downstream   3,801.9 Kbps   ( = 3.7 Mbps )  
Upstream 334.2 Kbps ( = 0.3 Mbps )

Quote from: M3ta7h3adWoo apparantly its already up and running did a quick speed test. Not impressed as apparantly plusnet now require you to "opt-in" to get 8mbit due to the halting of automatic upgrades to it.

So I am currently running at 2731.2kbps Still blindingly fast in comparison to the old 512k I had

Thats your whack Im afraid. All new Plusnet signups (and presumably all others too) are provisioned onto ADSL Max straight away without having to opt in or anything.
What you see is typical anyway - you wont get "8MBit" unless you live in a cupboard in the exchange with a gold phone wire with silk gossamer sheathing.
What youll also find is that as its rate adaptive it will vary quite a bit, esp over the next fortnight while the BT systems work out the sustainability of your speed. I get on average something between 2-3 mbit, with drops to 400k or up to 3.5 Mb occasionally.

Quote from: Ceathreamhnan

Quote from: M3ta7h3adWoo apparantly its already up and running did a quick speed test. Not impressed as apparantly plusnet now require you to "opt-in" to get 8mbit due to the halting of automatic upgrades to it.

So I am currently running at 2731.2kbps Still blindingly fast in comparison to the old 512k I had

Thats your whack Im afraid. All new Plusnet signups (and presumably all others too) are provisioned onto ADSL Max straight away without having to opt in or anything.
What you see is typical anyway - you wont get "8MBit" unless you live in a cupboard in the exchange with a gold phone wire with silk gossamer sheathing.
What youll also find is that as its rate adaptive it will vary quite a bit, esp over the next fortnight while the BT systems work out the sustainability of your speed. I get on average something between 2-3 mbit, with drops to 400k or up to 3.5 Mb occasionally.

Ahhhh that explains the thing!

Had a call from my dad about 10 mins ago saying "that number you said to have a look at its now 4572kbps" along with exclamations of "we should have done this ages ago! your mum and me cant click things fast enough" lol.

Cool hopefully Ill get 3.5mb stable hopefully. my router shows an SnR of 17db at the moment which is quite high imo

Quote from: Serious

Quote from: Beaker

Quote from: SeriousThere have been loads of people complaining about delays for getting connected to some suppliers, talk talk broadband has a 3 month delay ATM and some are claiming the service isnt good.

its free, people get the service they are paying for :\

Not quite free, its a lossleader they are using to increase market share.

yes, but its still free to the user provided they take a phone line as well.  Thier Tech support center is about 300 yards from my house and i know that most of their 1st line are ex Littlewoods call center staff.  Littelwoods had the place previously.  You cant convert a load of middle aged women who are used to typing in catalogue numbers and repeating special offers into tech support, its not possible.