If you're going to try to measure throughput then Plusnet isn't the way as everything passes though the traffic shapers and hence depends on total load. No way for you to tell that.
Having said that it remains to be seen how badly Sky's "Broadband Shield" screws up the network.
well plusnet claim the prioritisation shouldnt slow anyone down, only kicks in if they have competing traffic on their own connection.
I will be signing up to pro as well so in theory nothing should slow down unless of course plusnet are saturating their capacity or have peering issues.
sky's broadband shield as far as I know is just a url blocker so shouldnt affect throughput speeds. It could in theory slow down initial requests as every lookup gets routed via a server that does the filtering. Plus if its done dns side then using a 3rd party dns will bypass it.
found a thread kitz made here.
http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,120303.16.htmlscary.
kitz issues I think looked like plusnet congestion.
another guy posted he had good speeds on ftp but then in the same post said usually he gets worse speeds on ftp.
