What did PlusNet do last night?

Dear PlusNet,

STOP! LEAVE IT! It's finally working!

Any other PlusNet people noticed anything?

Last few weeks I was down to around 600 kbps, with very high ping times
and a fair bit of packet loss. Even 'slow' streaming media was
unwatchable, websites were slow to load and I was starting to look
around, having been with PN for about 6 years.

They must have scanned my thoughts as this morning I'm getting solid
stable downloads at around 3 Meg, on a huge range of protocols

I wonder what changed? I'd not raised any tickets about anything...

Yes, I'm a rare breed but at the moment I'm a happy PN customer!

"Dan Wood" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:4571339b$0$8733$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Dear PlusNet,
>
> STOP! LEAVE IT! It's finally working!
>
> Any other PlusNet people noticed anything?
>
> Last few weeks I was down to around 600 kbps, with very high ping times
> and a fair bit of packet loss. Even 'slow' streaming media was
> unwatchable, websites were slow to load and I was starting to look around,
> having been with PN for about 6 years.
>
> They must have scanned my thoughts as this morning I'm getting solid
> stable downloads at around 3 Meg, on a huge range of protocols
>
> I wonder what changed? I'd not raised any tickets about anything...
>
> Yes, I'm a rare breed but at the moment I'm a happy PN customer!

I've had the same experience as Dan. It had become so annoying I was
considering migrating.

I have noticed that speeds were faster at about 8 am and slowed to a crawl
in the evening - maybe contention - but that's not acceptable and still
cause for concern.

In article <45716330$0$8721$(E-Mail Removed)>, Dave
Boomhauer <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>"Dan Wood" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:4571339b$0$8733$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Dear PlusNet,
>>
>> STOP! LEAVE IT! It's finally working!
>>
>> Any other PlusNet people noticed anything?
>>
>> Last few weeks I was down to around 600 kbps, with very high ping times
>> and a fair bit of packet loss. Even 'slow' streaming media was
>> unwatchable, websites were slow to load and I was starting to look around,
>> having been with PN for about 6 years.
>>
>> They must have scanned my thoughts as this morning I'm getting solid
>> stable downloads at around 3 Meg, on a huge range of protocols
>>
>> I wonder what changed? I'd not raised any tickets about anything...
>>
>> Yes, I'm a rare breed but at the moment I'm a happy PN customer!
>
>I've had the same experience as Dan. It had become so annoying I was
>considering migrating.
>
>I have noticed that speeds were faster at about 8 am and slowed to a crawl
>in the evening - maybe contention - but that's not acceptable and still
>cause for concern.

I suspect that for every winner there's a loser. Wouldn't put it past
PN to vary the throttling regime from one customer group to another so
that a different group reports improvement every other week or so. If
no-one pipes up to complain that they have suddenly inherited your old
strangulated connection then I may have to think again.

Simon

"Dan Wood" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:4571339b$0$8733$(E-Mail Removed)...
: Dear PlusNet,
:
: STOP! LEAVE IT! It's finally working!
:
: Any other PlusNet people noticed anything?
:
: Last few weeks I was down to around 600 kbps, with very high ping times
: and a fair bit of packet loss. Even 'slow' streaming media was
: unwatchable, websites were slow to load and I was starting to look
: around, having been with PN for about 6 years.
:
: They must have scanned my thoughts as this morning I'm getting solid
: stable downloads at around 3 Meg, on a huge range of protocols
:
: I wonder what changed? I'd not raised any tickets about anything...
:
: Yes, I'm a rare breed but at the moment I'm a happy PN customer!

To late have left and could not be happier

Chris

Superb hosting & domain name deals http://host.kick-butt.co.uk

Stan The Man wrote:
<SNIP>>>> Yes, I'm a rare breed but at the moment I'm a happy PN customer!
>>
>> I've had the same experience as Dan. It had become so annoying I was
>> considering migrating.
>>
>> I have noticed that speeds were faster at about 8 am and slowed to a
>> crawl in the evening - maybe contention - but that's not acceptable
>> and still cause for concern.
>
> I suspect that for every winner there's a loser. Wouldn't put it past
> PN to vary the throttling regime from one customer group to another so
> that a different group reports improvement every other week or so. If
> no-one pipes up to complain that they have suddenly inherited your old
> strangulated connection then I may have to think again.
>

Yep - I'm still a loser. No P2p/torrent or external news.
Had a small blip on Thursday night but was gone by the morning. Nothing last
night.

Slatts

(E-Mail Removed) declared for all the world
to hear...
> Dear PlusNet,
>
> STOP! LEAVE IT! It's finally working!
>
> Any other PlusNet people noticed anything?
>
> Last few weeks I was down to around 600 kbps, with very high ping times
> and a fair bit of packet loss. Even 'slow' streaming media was
> unwatchable, websites were slow to load and I was starting to look
> around, having been with PN for about 6 years.
>
> They must have scanned my thoughts as this morning I'm getting solid
> stable downloads at around 3 Meg, on a huge range of protocols
>
> I wonder what changed? I'd not raised any tickets about anything...

There was an announcement in plusnet.service.customer feedback yesterday
about it.
--
Regards
Jon

On 02/12/2006 at 14:50:46 Sla#s wrote :
> Yep - I'm still a loser. No P2p/torrent or external news.

OK here goes!
So why are you still paying them for a shit service?

--
P~K
It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny
day
that you realise how often they burst into flames.
- Harry Hill

[ entanet/UKFSN - Office Max 45 ]

Pun Krocker wrote:
> On 02/12/2006 at 14:50:46 Sla#s wrote :
>> Yep - I'm still a loser. No P2p/torrent or external news.
>
> OK here goes!
> So why are you still paying them for a shit service?

Well it's like this...

I was with wanadoo. Service was OK but they dropped news - I like news.
Yes OK I could have paid for Giganews and right now that's what I wish I'd
done.
But Plusnet had (had) a good name so I asked for my MAC two tries later I
got one that actually worked and across I went to Plusnet. Now for three
months it worked great. OK I kept bumping the limit but I didn't mind if
they didn't. So long as off peak p2p worked. But then the cold winds of
November started to blow through the halls of Plusnet towers and someone
knocked a switch somewhere and the service for me at least turned to shit.
So it's only been bad for a month - that is as long as I spent complaining
to Wanadoo about them dropping news.
I'm a patient man, I'll give them a bit longer to sort it before moving on -
again - again :-(

Slatts

On 02/12/2006 at 19:34:23 Sla#s wrote :
> I'm a patient man, I'll give them a bit longer to sort it before moving on -
> again - again :-(

> Slatts

You must be, good luck.

PS: Give one of the entanet resellers a look, good rates and Usenet
(text only).

cheers

--
P~K
It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny
day
that you realise how often they burst into flames.
- Harry Hill

[ entanet/UKFSN - Office Max 45 ]

In article <(E-Mail Removed) >,
(E-Mail Removed) says...

> There was an announcement in plusnet.service.customer feedback yesterday
> about it.

Which was? Or can anyone access the PusPot groups?