Plusnet introducing idle Broadband disconnections

[Furr]

http://www.adslguide.org.uk/newsarchive.asp?item=2349

Im with force9 and not happy with the service, planning to transfer to Demon.net...

As has been said, isn't broadband described as an always on connection?

 

[TdC]

just set your poota up to ping something on the web every so often and you should be fine. unless I understand this wrong that is

 

[MKJ]

I am with Plusnet but I am on the higher rate - Premier - (I think) so this won't affect me. I have noticed a few things about Plusnet lately though which is a bit disconcerting. The worse thing is the webspace they supposedly allocate to you - 250 MBs or something. When you try to set anything up though it is a total nightmare as they use very strange settings. I gave up the last time I tried. It is as if they have purposely made it practically non-workable so less people actually use the webspace. Also there are now a lot of providers offering a faster speed and for less money. Think I will be looking around shortly myself. Overall though my service is very rarely if ever down or I am offline. Can't remember the last time I had any cause for concern so presumeably that is well in Plusnet's favour. I just hope they haven't now grown much larger (I have been with them a few years) and are starting to lose the fairly good customer care that I have seen evident uptil now.

 

[Sar]

The webspace is ok, I have my webby running off their CGI webspace, with MySQL & PHP active.

And this won't affect me either, as I'm a Premier customer too.

But to me it seems as though PN can't handle the traffic over their network if they're doing this.

 

[Chilly]

be wary of them for doing this, if they feel the need to kill idle connections, then they must be feeling the squeeze somewhere. Keep your eye for news, I'd say.

 

[MKJ]

One more thing in their favour. They must be reading Freddys . Just upped my connection to 2mbs. Downloading at around 220kb sec - hell. Now where did I see them dodgy films and games? .

 

[leggy]

Surely this won't matter if you have a dial-on-demand ADSL router.

 

[Trem]

One more thing in their favour. They must be reading Freddys . Just upped my connection to 2mbs. Downloading at around 220kb sec - hell. Now where did I see them dodgy films and games? .

Lucky you, I now get 10-15kbs download off Plusnet, oh what a short relationship this will be with them.

I have just requested my mac number off them and I am quite annoyed by the sudden shitness.

Freedom 2 Surf are meant to be the best ISP in the country at the moment and thats where I will be going.