Plusnet and downloads - driving me mad
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I stupidly moved from BT Infinity to PlusNet last August... to save a couple of quid
Anyway, can someone cleverer than me explain this..
Line can support c80 meg.
Speedtest usually reports about 70 downstream, 20 upstream, ping around 30m/s.
That said, downloads are VERY slow. Doesn't seem to matter what time of day, whenever I try and download from megashares / rapidgator etc, I'm doing well to get 300k/sec with frequent stalls. The BT infinity connection was always 2mb+ and v v stable.
Any thoughts? Not sure what could be up with it as I don't understand anything beyond the speedtest results.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Anyway, can someone cleverer than me explain this..
Line can support c80 meg.
Speedtest usually reports about 70 downstream, 20 upstream, ping around 30m/s.
That said, downloads are VERY slow. Doesn't seem to matter what time of day, whenever I try and download from megashares / rapidgator etc, I'm doing well to get 300k/sec with frequent stalls. The BT infinity connection was always 2mb+ and v v stable.
Any thoughts? Not sure what could be up with it as I don't understand anything beyond the speedtest results.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
This may help
http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/speed_guide/...
My Bandwidth is being throttled but I am not with plusnet
http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/speed_guide/...
My Bandwidth is being throttled but I am not with plusnet
Doctor Volt said:
This may help
http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/speed_guide/...
My Bandwidth is being throttled but I am not with plusnet
How can you tell?http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/speed_guide/...
My Bandwidth is being throttled but I am not with plusnet
We have just moved to Plusnet and seems ok, and thats with a fair bit of streaming.
RRH said:
I subscribe to both the file sharing sites referred to- only having probs since I moved to Plusnet.
Plusnet (ironically, owned by BT so you've just moved to the other side of the room) run traffic shaping on anything other than web browsing, sometimes thats good (voice gets priority) and sometimes that's bad - they know at a global level what wonky download sites traffic looks like, and give it like a 10 (1 being good) in it's weighting of how quickly to give it to you. They might not necessarily know that RRH is downloading Taken 3 from Megalolzsharing.nz, they could probably find out if they were that bothered though. If you want an ISP that doesnt run rate limiting there are some out there, whether they'll be OK with you doing shares is another thing
Alucidnation said:
How can you tell?
We have just moved to Plusnet and seems ok, and thats with a fair bit of streaming.
Do a bandwidth speed test at different times of the day is one way, obviously there is more throttling going on at weekends, school holidays and public holidays when things get busierWe have just moved to Plusnet and seems ok, and thats with a fair bit of streaming.
I can tell by the way one of the lights flickers on my router
Its important to read the small print about fair usage, the crazy thing about it is that if you had say 2Mb broadband and then you upgraded to 24Mb broadband you are going to hit the fair usage limits much quicker
Things are not what they seem
ok thanks.
Since we have only been with them for a couple of weeks, i have been doing fairly regular checks on the speedtest site (for comparison and continuity) and so far, we haven't noticed any slowing down at any particular time.
I guess it could be down to locality and amount of subscribers etc.
Since we have only been with them for a couple of weeks, i have been doing fairly regular checks on the speedtest site (for comparison and continuity) and so far, we haven't noticed any slowing down at any particular time.
I guess it could be down to locality and amount of subscribers etc.
Alucidnation said:
ok thanks.
Since we have only been with them for a couple of weeks, i have been doing fairly regular checks on the speedtest site (for comparison and continuity) and so far, we haven't noticed any slowing down at any particular time.
I guess it could be down to locality and amount of subscribers etc.
Yes I agree, the number of users must play a big part Since we have only been with them for a couple of weeks, i have been doing fairly regular checks on the speedtest site (for comparison and continuity) and so far, we haven't noticed any slowing down at any particular time.
I guess it could be down to locality and amount of subscribers etc.
never had any problems with plus net, including downloading during torrential rain. 80 meg down, 20 up all day long. The issue I did have was that the supplied router is garbage and won't feed you much beyond 50mbits on wifi. If you want the full 80, you have to go wired or get a proper router.
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