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Broadband Related => ISPs => Topic started by: jelv on July 30, 2018, 10:26:18 AM

Title: Response time to issue (ticket) raised by email
Post by: jelv on July 30, 2018, 10:26:18 AM
08:59:14 Email sent to support@aa.net.uk raising an issue

08:59:43 Acknowledgement received giving job number

10:00:28 Response giving advice with two alternative methods of resolving issue (both of which I know will work)

Now could someone remind me why I moved from Plusnet?
Title: Re: Response time to issue (ticket) raised by email
Post by: chenks on July 30, 2018, 12:11:44 PM
this is in no way support plusnet, but one wonders if AA would have the same level of support if they had the same number of customers.

it is easy to have good quick CS when customer numbers are relatively low. become a big player and you have to scale everything up and you know what happens at that point.
Title: Re: Response time to issue (ticket) raised by email
Post by: Ixel on July 30, 2018, 12:45:52 PM
Thankfully, as far as I'm aware, AAISP aren't in the market to be a 'quantity' based ISP instead of a 'quality' based ISP. You pay a higher price but I feel it's worth every penny in regards to the support I've had and the support I've generally heard others get (from a customer's forum comment or review).
Title: Re: Response time to issue (ticket) raised by email
Post by: j0hn on July 30, 2018, 01:07:34 PM
I emailed Uno a couple weeks back at 23:37 and expected a response sometime the next working day.

They responded to me at 23:40 fully answering my question. I'm not even a customer!

AAISP is just too pricey for what I need/use the internet for.
Title: Re: Response time to issue (ticket) raised by email
Post by: chenks on July 30, 2018, 02:10:14 PM
AAISP is just too pricey for what I need/use the internet for.

indeed, same for me.
price too high and capped downloads.
Title: Re: Response time to issue (ticket) raised by email
Post by: jelv on July 30, 2018, 02:55:33 PM
I don't hold back on my usage in any way and find their allowance more than adequate for my needs. With a day and a half left this month I still have 268GB of my 200GB allowance remaining!
Title: Re: Response time to issue (ticket) raised by email
Post by: Weaver on July 30, 2018, 03:13:25 PM
I am an AA user and have no caps on downloads at all. They do in fact do truly unlimited deals but some info is really, really hard to find - for some reason stuff seems to be missing from their web server.

I can download a literally unlimited amount of stuff, within pragmatic limits: the limits of my line rate times the limited number of hours in the day, and the limited amount of money I have in my bank account. Anyway, I will not get cut off or capped or throttled, I just get charged for what I use in the case of DSL. I pre-purchase a certain amount every month which makes it slightly cheaper per MB download, but due to my utter stupidity I always get it wrong and buy too much so I usually end up wasting a fiver or so.

On AA 3G I can set it up to take certain actions at a quota limit that I choose, so that is slightly different. There I do not pre-purchase anything, I just get charged for what I use.
Title: Re: Response time to issue (ticket) raised by email
Post by: chenks on July 30, 2018, 04:02:57 PM
I don't hold back on my usage in any way and find their allowance more than adequate for my needs. With a day and a half left this month I still have 268GB of my 200GB allowance remaining!

you have 268 out of 200 left ???

i could easily use 200GB in one day.
Title: Re: Response time to issue (ticket) raised by email
Post by: chenks on July 30, 2018, 04:06:16 PM
I am an AA user and have no caps on downloads at all. They do in fact do truly unlimited deals but some info is really, really hard to find - for some reason stuff seems to be missing from their web server.

I can download a literally unlimited amount of stuff, within pragmatic limits: the limits of my line rate times the limited number of hours in the day, and the limited amount of money I have in my bank account. Anyway, I will not get cut off or capped or throttled, I just get charged for what I use in the case of DSL. I pre-purchase a certain amount every month which makes it slightly cheaper per MB download, but due to my utter stupidity I always get it wrong and buy too much so I usually end up wasting a fiver or so.

On AA 3G I can set it up to take certain actions at a quota limit that I choose, so that is slightly different. There I do not pre-purchase anything, I just get charged for what I use.

the home and soho packages have a 200GB/month limit.
if you have to pay for any extra over that limit then that isn't "unlimited", is it...
Title: Re: Response time to issue (ticket) raised by email
Post by: jelv on July 30, 2018, 04:14:17 PM
you have 268 out of 200 left ???

Correct. Monthly allowance is 200GB plus quota bonus - see https://aa.net.uk/broadband-quota.html (https://aa.net.uk/broadband-quota.html)

Is your average usage more than 2TB per month? If not there is a home::1 package for you!
Title: Re: Response time to issue (ticket) raised by email
Post by: chenks on July 30, 2018, 04:28:31 PM
average? who knows.
but i could easily rip thru 2TB in less than a month sometimes.
plus i also serve content out, so any "limit" is no good for me.

besides, it's not just their bandwidth capping/throttling that don't interest me, it's their high prices.
i don't value quick tech support that highly :)
Title: Re: Response time to issue (ticket) raised by email
Post by: Ixel on July 30, 2018, 05:02:39 PM
You will when most other ISP's won't fight Openreach if Openreach get sticky, or when most other ISP's won't dispute unfair charges :P. But yeah, I understand :).
Title: Re: Response time to issue (ticket) raised by email
Post by: chenks on July 30, 2018, 05:35:34 PM
You will when most other ISP's won't fight Openreach if Openreach get sticky, or when most other ISP's won't dispute unfair charges :P. But yeah, I understand :).

you'd be surprised.
Title: Re: Response time to issue (ticket) raised by email
Post by: jelv on July 30, 2018, 05:53:04 PM
plus i also serve content out, so any "limit" is no good for me.

I'm confused! Why is that relevant when AAISP only count downloads? Surely the extra download used when serving up unlimited upload is negligible!
Title: Re: Response time to issue (ticket) raised by email
Post by: chenks on July 30, 2018, 06:04:57 PM
I'm confused! Why is that relevant when AAISP only count downloads? Surely the extra download used when serving up unlimited upload is negligible!

it was just an also to my useage case.
i could easily eat thru 2TB down on half a month depending on what i was doing.

last month was 1.2TB and that was a quiet month (1TB during peak, the rest off-peak).
Title: Re: Response time to issue (ticket) raised by email
Post by: St3 on July 30, 2018, 08:16:55 PM
AAISP would be awesome if they did a phone package too... eg unlimited landline calls like most other isp`s.
Title: Re: Response time to issue (ticket) raised by email
Post by: jelv on July 30, 2018, 08:34:17 PM
Have you ever worked out how many phone calls you'd have to make to cover the cost difference between the unlimited calls package and one of the providers such as Pulse8 who don't cross subsidise their broadband with extortionate line rental or rip-off call charges?
Title: Re: Response time to issue (ticket) raised by email
Post by: St3 on July 30, 2018, 10:00:11 PM
I did think about using pusle8 but i hear they have no control panel to manage phone details etc ?
Title: Re: Response time to issue (ticket) raised by email
Post by: jelv on July 30, 2018, 11:42:19 PM
I did think about using pusle8 but i hear they have no control panel to manage phone details etc ?

True. It's very basic, you sign up, they send you itemised bills and take the money via DD. No portal etc.

But then keeping it very simple is one way to keep the costs down.
Title: Re: Response time to issue (ticket) raised by email
Post by: Weaver on July 31, 2018, 03:29:42 AM
@ST3 I think AA are intending everyone to move over to VoIP. I use their phone service but I have not had much luck getting actual VoIP to work over my DSL, possibly because I have three lines or because they are slow, or because I have too much latency, or have not reserved enough bandwidth for VoIP. But I have also had problems getting the hardware to work and am too ill and exhausted to debug it. Anyway, it doesn't matter as it turns out, because AA’s phone system can redirect calls to any other number so I have just got inbound calls redirected to Janet’s mobile phone and we make outgoing calls using mobile phone exclusively anyway. So the landline is heading for being obsolete with us, and also landline charges are just a waste of money.