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blunt said:
hmm - that's not good at all for a 4mb
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It never used to be this bad, but thankfully, when the clock chimes 5 times, all is well again. I'm not usually home during the day so it doesn't really affect me, and the times I was, worst case I would be getting 2mb speeds which is more than acceptable for a "home shaped" product, but I agree, this is not good at all.

Looking at the various graphs of JINX floating around the forums does display a huge spike in traffic from last week, almost double!

So, I am giving them the benefit of the doubt at the moment.
 
I am on 2MB account 73GB this month and 3 stars . Things are starting to look really bad watching YouTube is impossible . I'll give it another month a chance before deciding .
 
blunt said:
How bad is 3 stars?
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As of right now:
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but last night I went to bed after YouTube did not want to stream the lowest quality available on that video. It seems I can do 720p again now though.
 
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Seems okay on my side, and the reality is that no one else offers dual login on an uncapped account, which, now that I'm used to it, has become invaluable to me.

So I'll stick to scheduling bulk downloads to between 00h00 and 06h00 and manage it like that.
 
AfricanTech said:
Seems okay on my side, and the reality is that no one else offers dual login on an uncapped account, which, now that I'm used to it, has become invaluable to me.

So I'll stick to scheduling bulk downloads to between 00h00 and 06h00 and manage it like that.
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+1, although I don't make use of the concurrent option.
 
AfricanTech said:
Seems okay on my side, and the reality is that no one else offers dual login on an uncapped account, which, now that I'm used to it, has become invaluable to me.

So I'll stick to scheduling bulk downloads to between 00h00 and 06h00 and manage it like that.
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How does the dual connection work, speed split between the two?
 
blunt said:
How does the dual connection work, speed split between the two?
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The speed available is between the two concurrently. So each connection will "fight for the bandwidth" based of various conditions and deciding factors I would assume.

I use one for email, browsing and some very light downloading and then I'm the other main user, mostly Netflix and steam downloads.
 
4mb line 3 stars on a public holiday:

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EDIT: And yet, torrents going full speed?

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EDIT 2: Must be something wrong with the MyBB Int speedtest Server as I am getting full speed on HTTP too.

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Super slow browsing

Is anyone getting really ****ty browsing speeds?

Usenet is working fine, as is Facebook and torrents oddly enough (going full speed 4Mb).

However, everything else is slow to the point of being unusable. It takes about two minutes for the google search page to appear when doing a search. I had to refresh a couple of time to load this page.

I've already restarted my router, but it hasn't changed anything.

Any suggestions?

Edit: Can't even load speedtest.net :-/
 
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concentricpuddle said:
Is anyone getting really ****ty browsing speeds?

Usenet is working fine, as is Facebook and torrents oddly enough (going full speed 4Mb).

However, everything else is slow to the point of being unusable. It takes about two minutes for the google search page to appear when doing a search. I had to refresh a couple of time to load this page.

I've already restarted my router, but it hasn't changed anything.

Any suggestions?

Edit: Can't even load speedtest.net :-/
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When something similar has happened to me its always been a port thing, turning off the router for a few minutes has always sorted it out.
 
AfricanTech said:
Seems okay on my side, and the reality is that no one else offers dual login on an uncapped account, which, now that I'm used to it, has become invaluable to me.

So I'll stick to scheduling bulk downloads to between 00h00 and 06h00 and manage it like that.
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Well, I've moved to Afrihost, who claims to have only 1 concurrent connection, but I tested it running at both places, and it works exactly the same as with Plugg, 2 connections sharing 1Mbps.

I speak under correction, but I think Plugg is misusing the term 'concurrent connections' as a marketing ploy. Does anyone know whether different ISP's use different definitions for concurrent connections?
 
Ho3n3r said:
I speak under correction, but I think Plugg is misusing the term 'concurrent connections' as a marketing ploy.
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How would you define 'concurrent connection' ?

If you buy, say 4096 uncapped account, do you expect both connections to run at 4mb at the same time?

-- janitor@plugg
 
Ho3n3r said:
Well then it should only be called 'uncapped during the night', really.
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Its called home uncapped which is subject to shaping during the day.

Ho3n3r said:
Well, I've moved to Afrihost, who claims to have only 1 concurrent connection, but I tested it running at both places, and it works exactly the same as with Plugg, 2 connections sharing 1Mbps.

I speak under correction, but I think Plugg is misusing the term 'concurrent connections' as a marketing ploy. Does anyone know whether different ISP's use different definitions for concurrent connections?
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Pretty sure what you are doing there is against the rules.
 
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