Plusnet allowance increasing

Just had an email to say the Plusnet premier account allowance is going up
to 20Gb a month.
Just thought I would pass this on in case anyone is interested.

"Beck" <beck@none> wrote:

>Plusnet premier account allowance is going up to 20Gb a month.

I take it you mean the "peak hours" allowance - do they include
web browsing in that limit?

I know some people don't like their handling of various matters,
but 100 GB/month for 21.99 seems a reasonable deal.

"NoNeedToKnow" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Beck" <beck@none> wrote:
>
>>Plusnet premier account allowance is going up to 20Gb a month.
>
> I take it you mean the "peak hours" allowance - do they include
> web browsing in that limit?
>
> I know some people don't like their handling of various matters,
> but 100 GB/month for 21.99 seems a reasonable deal.

Its £21.99 for 20Gb a month. These are peak limits. Off peak (00:00 -
16:00) there is no limit but I think they shout if you consistently go in
the high figures.
I assume web browsing is included, as is all traffic, but browsing takes up
very little bandwidth.

29 Jul 2006 20:33 "Beck" <beck@none> wrote:

>> "Beck" <beck@none> wrote:

>>>Plusnet premier account allowance is going up to 20Gb a month.

>> I take it you mean the "peak hours" allowance - do they include
>> web browsing in that limit?

>Its £21.99 for 20Gb a month. These are peak limits.

>I assume web browsing is included, as is all traffic, but browsing takes
>up very little bandwidth.

Mostly... I suspect a number of streaming services might show up as
being of HTTP and be counted. Try a fast webcam for 20 minutes and
see what it is reported as ?


> Off peak (00:00 - 16:00) there is no limit but I think they shout if you
> consistently go in the high figures.

Hmmm. With Eclipse there's a "fair use policy" which appeared not to state
an upper limit (or I missed it, a while ago). In theory, on the Evolution,
level 1, package, I'm meant to be lowest priority (with a peak hours limit
of 20 GB/month between 1800 and 0000). I've not had any problems so
I guess the heaviest users have buggered off to some other ISP as some
joker (on Evo level 4 at 29.99 with 50 GB allowance) wrote ( DSLzoneUK)
that they were "unusable". Minor niggle is no usage reports so cannot
even check if I was "close" to getting to 20 GB.

"NoNeedToKnow" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> 29 Jul 2006 20:33 "Beck" <beck@none> wrote:
>
>>> "Beck" <beck@none> wrote:
>
>>>>Plusnet premier account allowance is going up to 20Gb a month.
>
>>> I take it you mean the "peak hours" allowance - do they include
>>> web browsing in that limit?
>
>>Its £21.99 for 20Gb a month. These are peak limits.
>
>>I assume web browsing is included, as is all traffic, but browsing takes
>>up very little bandwidth.
>
> Mostly... I suspect a number of streaming services might show up as
> being of HTTP and be counted. Try a fast webcam for 20 minutes and
> see what it is reported as ?
>
>
>> Off peak (00:00 - 16:00) there is no limit but I think they shout if you
>> consistently go in the high figures.
>
> Hmmm. With Eclipse there's a "fair use policy" which appeared not to
> state
> an upper limit (or I missed it, a while ago). In theory, on the
> Evolution,
> level 1, package, I'm meant to be lowest priority (with a peak hours limit
> of 20 GB/month between 1800 and 0000). I've not had any problems so
> I guess the heaviest users have buggered off to some other ISP as some
> joker (on Evo level 4 at 29.99 with 50 GB allowance) wrote ( DSLzoneUK)
> that they were "unusable". Minor niggle is no usage reports so cannot
> even check if I was "close" to getting to 20 GB.

Thats the thing, if a company cannot give you a traffic meter then how can
they possibly expect people to stay within limits?
Plusnet do have usage meters (although they messed it up once and lost some
traffic, to my benefit) and I have got used to my usage and I don't really
check it anymore. My average usage is between 3-6Gb per month depending on
how many xbox 360 demos have been downloaded. Thats the bulk of my traffic.

"Beck" <beck@none> wrote:

>Thats the thing, if a company cannot give you a traffic meter then how
>can they possibly expect people to stay within limits?

Well, it does seem dumb, but the limits are quite generous and the
lowest one was about double what I expect to use most months!

The worst they can do (for me, at least) is to ask me to move to the
next account up, at 18.99, with 30 GB allowance. I doubt I'll get to
transfer more than 20 GB most months, and it isn't automatic, from
what I've read, about upgrading, and nor is there any noticeable
traffic "management" - they allow some level of contention to do
that, I suppose.

>My average usage is between 3-6Gb per month depending on how
>many xbox 360 demos have been downloaded.

Not worth switching to a PAYG as they probably still charge for
changes to your account (when going to a cheaper one), so
you would perhaps not "break even" anyway.