Launch of new Plusnet Fibre Products - 80/20 and 250GB usage allowance

[#1]

Quote from: Bob

Quote from: Picnic Quote Also being a trialist on the 80/20 system your speed estimations are very optimistic. 61/20 estimated, I struggle at around 50/10. They're taken straight from here. Incidentally mine's pretty conservative.

I guessed you'd probably get the estimates from BT somehow. I'm over 750M from the cab so I'm doing all right but I wonder why BT think I'm closer.
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[#2]

Quote from: kdhuk

Ok -ordered the 80/20 product (transferred from 40/2) - system seems to want to charge me my monthly line rental again even though I'm only 8 months into my yearly prepayment..........hopefully this gets knocked off again later???

Already covered a few posts ago - should be fine.

[#3]

Quote from: kingkobra

Just one question. The line checker says I will get an estimated speed of 33.1 Mb/s. Does the 76 Mb speed require additional infrastructure changes to support it? Just wondering if that is the max speed, or if a change at the exchange will enable 76 Mb at some point in the future.

No. The estimate may be conservative but there is nothing magic about 80/20 that will speed up a sub-40Mbps connection.

[#4]

Quote from: walker23

Yep, 'fraid so.  I've got three weeks to go before I can attempt to 'fry the centrals'.  I hope 1/4 a TerraByte per month is enough!

Thanks.
Luckily my billing date is the 16th.

[#5]

The new fibre package looks very good, well done PN much more competitive  , shame my exchange is only 20CN, and looks set to remain that way for a long time
Will be interesting to see what the new ADSL packages will look like when they arrive, hopefully not to long away
Regards
Mike

[#6]

The speed estimate is very conservative for me, it quotes 64.7Meg, I actually get 75-77meg on every speed test I do. (Yes I have been on the trial for the last few months)

[#7]

If you've already been on the trial, you simply can't lose. 
UPGRADED!

[#8]

Quote from: fagin

you simply can't lose.

You can loose a little OFF YOUR BILL! 

[#9]

Quote from: Bob

If we increased Value usage then I'd imagine we'd see a decrease in the number of customers converting to Extra. There's only £3.50 in it and anyone wanting more usage is welcome to upgrade.

This is a smart marketing move by plusnet since many people's lines won't support speeds higher than 40Mbps: there's still a reason you might want the more expensive product even if you don't care about the higher speed.
Cynically one might say that the majority of users will not use anywhere near 250GB and it serves simply as a number much higher than 40GB to lure people to the more expensive product. The Value product with say 100GB (or even just 80GB) would look more reasonable --- then there would be a very clear 2:1 ratio of all of upload, download and usage between the two products, or just change 250GB to unlimited and offer the same products as BT. Is there some physcology going on here?

[#10]

done and upgraded!

[#11]

Quote from: walker23

Yep, 'fraid so.  I've got three weeks to go before I can attempt to 'fry the centrals'.

If only my billing date was like tomorrow instead of 4 days ago.
27 days of limiting myself and then time to go mental 

[#12]

I too have already signed up for the upgrade. I'd also like to say 'very well done' to Plusnet for designing a product that makes sense bearing in mind the feedback from the trial. It really does feel like participation in the trial benefited both the trialists and Plusnet.
For the first time in over a year I am no longer a participant in any of Plusnet's trials (IPv6, Technicolor 582n, 80/20)!

[#13]

Quote from: meh

Quote from: walker23 Yep, 'fraid so.  I've got three weeks to go before I can attempt to 'fry the centrals'.  If only my billing date was like tomorrow instead of 4 days ago. 27 days of limiting myself and then time to go mental

Unlucky guys, 18th of each month is our billing date 

[#14]

Great move Plusnet. Been on the 80/20 trial and faster speeds been great. Have upgraded but my billing date is the 14th! Whole month to wait for extra usage Never mind, worth the wait.
On another note, just spotted an odd error raised on my account since requesting the upgrade. Hope it goes through ok?
Question #58760258
[INTERNAL]
This account cannot be provisioned on 21CN as the BBEU number has not been set.
Please update the BBEU number on this account and complete the account change.

[#15]

It was a great surprise reading the email about the new package.
To echo other posters the increased usage allowance is great.  This means I don't need to get paranoid about peak usage and do downloads overnight.  Just for clarity I assume I can still have the pro add on on the new package?  I see that overnight usage is still free which is great.
A happy customer!

James