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    Plusnet introducing idle timeouts on 8th November

    I just got an e-mail through from Plusnet saying they will be introducing idle timeouts from 08 November 2005. If your internet connection is inactive for 30 minutes they will disconnect you from the internet. I'm on their £14.99 2Mb service but it's a secondary line so i'm not that bothered but it's still annoying.

    How will this affect ADSL routers? Will the router throw a spaz and force me to log into it or power cycle it in order to reconnect?

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    most routers will reconnect a disconnected connection - making this rather pointless

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    Yeh I've used 4 different routers and all 4 had the option to reconnect if the line was dropped.
    And it's not like the majority of people with the USB modems are gonna leave it idle for 30mins anyway...

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    Its a stupid idear. As soon as they put hat on the Premiere account I'm off. If your not on a yearly contract I sugest you do the same.

    Just look at all the threads on the plusnet forum...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Trippledence
    Its a stupid idear. As soon as they put hat on the Premiere account I'm off. If your not on a yearly contract I sugest you do the same.

    Just look at all the threads on the plusnet forum...
    I'm on the monthly £14.99 tariff. My main line is with Nildram and the Plusnet line is just used for e-mail and Web browsing. However, if these idle timeouts start cauing problems then I will be off.

    The problem is that virtually every ISP is clamping down on line/bandwidth usage at that price point.

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    Hi

    Surely this is false advertising, the package is an "ALWAYS ON CONNECTION" , its a shame the way plusnet is going, as they used to be really good, and now they are forgive my french but .... ****, but i dont have to put up for it for much longer as im getting ADSL2 in december 24Meg here i come ...

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    Remember the packages this are being applied to are the 'low use' packages for normal people who dont spend many hours a day online.

    If you want a good connection from plusnet, get a Premier (unlimited download limit) account.

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    But it isnt an UNLIMITED service, there is caps on every package that i know of.

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    Yeah 100gb cap now, only 30 of which can be withich can be within 4pm and 12pm. Still beats the like of BT Yahoo who will charge £27,99 for a 40gb cap.

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    My other provider, Nildram, is fairly good. They have a monthly cap of 50GB but this only applies from 8.00am to midnight. Unused GB are rolled over to the next month. Usage is not metered between midnight and 8.00am so if you've got a fair chunk to download then you can schedule downloads overnight and it won't eat up your GB allowance.

    All of this reminds me of the early days of mobile phones. We had providers like One-2-One (now T-Mobile) offering totally unlimited phone calls for ridiculously low monthly fees. People at the time were wondering how long that would last and it was only a couple of years before 'reasonable use' clauses were introduced into those 'unlimited minutes' contracts. This was essentially capping the usage.

    ADSL seems to going down exactly the same path.

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    Heh, I don't mind paying a bit more for Pipex seeing as they haven't introduced any caps or traffic shaping, disconnects etc.

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    I use PLus.Net premier, recently things seem to have gone down hill, poor connection speeds, im getting nowhere near the 2Mb mark. So far no emails regarding usage or idling but im waiting for an excuse to change ISP, maybe in december Telewest will be in my area as promised and Ill get me 4Mb

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trippledence
    Yeah 100gb cap now, only 30 of which can be withich can be within 4pm and 12pm. Still beats the like of BT Yahoo who will charge £27,99 for a 40gb cap.
    I was on BT three years ago and 512K @ 29.99 and there was no cap at all. I used the line at 600Kbps averaged and there was never a complain from BT. Now, the market changed

    While everyone's internet cost is going down, very few of us going up. I went from 29.99 -> 34.99 and now 38.75 Probably will continue to increase down the road.

    My friend in Hong Kong was sending a few TB down his 1000Mbps pipe every month for free (His ISP picked random customers and offer free 1000Mbps for 6 Months as a promotion, and that ISP even go as far as giving out free 100Mbps connection to new users. Don't think it will ever happen in UK)
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    I'm with PlusNet.

    Rubbish ISP for moderate / techy users, fine for your average home user.

    Disconnects will only, disconnect, if your line is idle... My line rarely is idle, and even if it was, my router takes about 2 seconds to connect... So i'm hoping this won't bother me much.

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    Im with pipex and am happy with their service - no caps.

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