- Plusnet subscription due for renewal - what to do?
- Posted by Peter on September 29th, 2003
My 12 month contract with Plusnet is up for renewal, I was paying the
£32.99 all inclusive start up package, modem, activation etc.
Now. Plusnet do ADSL Home Surf £18.99 which does not support file
sharing (peer-2-peer) software or binary newsgroup articles.
Can they actually stop you using say WinMX & Giganews etc if so, how?
They also offer ADSL Home £21.99 which is basically what I am already
on less the setup fees etc
The service has been good all round, but can I do better?
If I dump Plusnet and go elsewhere will I have to pay the fees all
over again! (activation etc)
Do Plusnet offer dynamic ip yet on ADSL?
Gracias.
- Posted by Sam Albrow on September 29th, 2003
"Peter" <#@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:5v3gnvo571hrfvfppihnbv4rdj3fv1hnol@4ax.com...
No, I am on and would recommend the 21.99 service which is still excellent
value.
I don't know but you'd be hard pushed to find better support, services and
cost balance I think from what other people get, usually for more money as
well.
Yes you will definatly. I would stay with plusnet.
each time. I don't see this as being a problem, you should have a firewall
as standard now days.
Sam
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- Posted by Brian McIlwrath on September 29th, 2003
Peter <#@hotmail.com> wrote:
: Can they actually stop you using say WinMX & Giganews etc if so, how?
Presumably, like any ISP, by blocking IP traffic on the specific ports
used by these services!
- Posted by PlusNet Support Team on September 29th, 2003
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:11:51 +0100, Peter <#@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hi Peter,
We stop the use of filesharing on the Home Surf account using a
combination of port blocking and packet shaping and when I have tested
this in the past I have not been able to get it working.
In a word, yes (although some ISP's may waive the activation fee and
include this in the monthly price). Any time you move to another ISP
(be it a migration or a cease and re-provide) the ISP is charged by BT
for the work that has been performed.
At the moment we still do not offer a dynamic IP address but due to
way in which people use ADSL (staying connected for long periods of
time) the value of a dynamic IP address is severely reduced - the best
thing to do is run a decent firewall.
We do not want to lose you as a customer and I would say that we are
still able to offer one of the cheapest ADSL accounts around for the
quality of service that we can offer, especially when you take into
account the additional features on the £21.99 account.
Regards
Josh
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- Posted by Sieue on September 29th, 2003
PlusNet Support Team wrote:
<snippy>
Does anyone else find this a wee bit disarming? I'm not sure why it is, but
to me this feels like being caught out by the teacher. Made me smile.
On the other hand, who better to get this information from but your own ISP.
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- Posted by Zane Wilson on September 29th, 2003
In article <5v3gnvo571hrfvfppihnbv4rdj3fv1hnol@4ax.com>,
Peter <#@hotmail.com> wrote:
If the service has been good, do you really want to risk moving just to
save £3/month? If you use the service quite seldom you may benefit from
Metronet's PayGo at £10/month if you download <5GB, but other than that
savings will not be great, and as you suspected you'd have to pay fees to
set up a new account - check how many £3's you'd need to save to offset
that!
Zane.
- Posted by Chris Jones on September 29th, 2003
Hehe yes; actually it was seeing plusnet staff posting in this newsgroup
while I was frustratedly trying to get a reply out of BTO on their own
newsgroups that lead me to try them out :-)
- Posted by Zapp Brannigan on September 29th, 2003
PlusNet Support Team enlightened the world by saying on 29/09/2003 18:44:
I doubt the original poster is goning to get anything better than the
PlusNet deal. For £21.99, and the package you get, it's a stunning
deal. I have been with them for a month now, and entered a few support
requested. I am impressed by the knowlegable staff, and prompt replies.
What more does he want? The moon on a stick????
Out of interest, why would anyone actually WANT a dynamic IP address? I
see no advantages, only disadvantages....
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- Posted by Major ChrisB on September 30th, 2003
"Zapp Brannigan" <mgbackup2003@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:YC2eb.3059$QH3.196@newsfep4-winn.server.ntli.net...
using stolen credit cards to sign up for kiddie porn sites would make you
near intracable as they couldn't trace you back with your IP address....
- Posted by Sunil Sood on September 30th, 2003
"Major ChrisB" <cgbrannigan@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:Nt4eb.3139$QH3.2188@newsfep4-winn.server.ntli.net...
If you think that I would like to see you try it (only joking!)
ISP's keep track of how has an IP address at any particular time.
Thus if asked they can tell which account was using a particular IP address
(dynamic or not) at any time
Regards
Sunil
- Posted by Major ChrisB on September 30th, 2003
"Sunil Sood" <news@soods.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:blamho$a0at4$1@ID-20959.news.uni-berlin.de...
fuck...glad I formatted my hard drive yesterday....
- Posted by Julian Knight on September 30th, 2003
Not really - it makes a lot of commercial sense for PlusNet to take part
in this news group.
As long as they are giving correct facts and help, I think it is a great
service to us & I wish a few more ISP's would do this too (I know a few
do lurk here), especially as some of us are long term followers of the
list without yet being able to have BB of our own <sniff> :-{
From Sieue:
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- Posted by Dan Wood on September 30th, 2003
but are you *sure* the head was aligned with exactly the same track layout
as before?
The 'big guys' can read data from your formatted drive...
Dan.
- Posted by Brett... on September 30th, 2003
Julian Knight wrote:
Quite, it was a major factor in helping me to decide on using them as my
ISP.
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