Re: Surftime

["steve" <steve@xxxxxxx>]

Isn't that a bandwidth restriction on website access rather than a d/l
limit
?

Steve.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henderson, Darren" <Darren.Henderson@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 2:23 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Surftime


> 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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