Re: Surftime

["Shmern" <shmern@xxxxxxx>]

No I don't think so, it's on daily traffic, not including the downloads
from
their batch FTP service.

I'll re-read the regs nd post the relevant section. But Im 99% sure it's
daily traffic

Darren
----- Original Message -----
From: "steve" <steve@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: 09 January 2001 17:11
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Surftime


> 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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