RE: Surftime

["Henderson, Darren" <Darren.Henderson@xxxxxxx>]

I concur, I was thrown off Freeserve at the same time as Mark (Many's a
phone call with him at the time !!)

We moved to PlusNet and as Mark says, they have had the odd problem with
email slowing down, but generally keep the users informed via their
newgroups. The free .co.uk is nice and the DNS entries for your account is
in your control, So I can have homeseer.shmern.co.uk pointing to my
Homemachine and www.shmern.co.uk pointing to their web server etc....

And as Mark says it rarely disconnects, I have seen it connected for many
days at a go. One restriction, altho I don't know what they would do about
it, is they have a 250Mb limit in traffic per day. Now unless your doing
some serious downloading you generally don't have to worry. And it's
certainly not automatic, as in the first days I downloaded LOTS of stuff,
Game Demos/SMTP server things etc... and went quite a bit over the 250Mb,
but nothing ever happened. I guess if your consistantly going over it they
would do something.

God I ramble on a bit don't I .....

Darren


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark McCall [mailto:mark@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 09 January 2001 14:16
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Surftime
>
>
> I have been on plus net's 24/7 package since being kicked off
> Freeserve last
> year (don't start me!).
>
> It was recommended to me by Andy from Comfort and so far it has been
> excellent!  They have had the odd email problem now and then
> but in general
> it has been good service.
>
> My connection is up 24 a day every day.  I have fixed IP too.
>  Comes with
> free .co.uk domain name as well.
>
> M.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <REB.Barnett@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 2:03 PM
> Subject: [ukha_d] Surftime
>
>
> > I know that Freeserve recently kicked people off for
> 'abusing' their 24x7
> > service. Do people have experience with Surftime in terms of what
is
> > considered acceptable use?
> >
> > I've just been looking at http://www.plus.net offering,
> which looks quite
> > nice. However their T&Cs talk about reserving the right to
> suspend service
> > after 2 hours use or 20mins inactivity. Is this as
> draconian as it sounds,
> > and is it specific to the ISP or Surftime in general?
> >
> > Given they're offering a fixed IP address, we were hoping
> to be able to
> keep
> > the line up between 8am and 6pm...
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Ray Barnett
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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