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yupiteru

Depositor's Decisions

By Alfonso García

£1.20 • £6.84/hr

10 mins

0 places

In this study you are invited to take some decisions that resemble a banking situation. You will be paid a fixed amount for your participation plus an extra money depending on your decisions and the decisions of the rest of participants.

I almost returned this one when I reached the 4 comprehension questions after the instructions, as it was very early in the morning and figures are my weak point, so my head was spinning a bit.

But if you get to this point persevere, as you appear to get an unlimited number of attempts to get the answers correct, unlike with some I have attempted recently.

I doubt if I will be a bonus winner but It was paid immediately

MollyR

yupiteru said:

I have been getting this more regularly since I changed from EE to Vofafone.  I have to do multiple resets of my router to generate an IP address that Prolific 'likes'.

Yesterday took 6 or more attempts and is very frustrating.

The way around this is to find a range which is acceptable to Prolific, and contact your ISP to obtain a fixed (static) IP address in that range.  I went through this when my Plusnet IP addresses tended to resolve to France;  I spoke to their techies and got a fixed IP in the Midlands (doesn't matter where in the UK it actually is) and have had no such problems since then.  It cost a fiver, one-off.

yupiteru

MollyR said:

yupiteru said:

I have been getting this more regularly since I changed from EE to Vofafone.  I have to do multiple resets of my router to generate an IP address that Prolific 'likes'.

Yesterday took 6 or more attempts and is very frustrating.

The way around this is to find a range which is acceptable to Prolific, and contact your ISP to obtain a fixed (static) IP address in that range.  I went through this when my Plusnet IP addresses tended to resolve to France;  I spoke to their techies and got a fixed IP in the Midlands (doesn't matter where in the UK it actually is) and have had no such problems since then.  It cost a fiver, one-off.

 I have a very cheap deal off Vodafone at present, £22 a month, unlimited data and being a cheapskate I went for it.

Fair to say you chose the sensible approach and something I will have to consider for the future.

MollyR

https://forum.vodafone.co.uk/t5/Pay-monthly/Home-Broadband-Static-IP-address/td-p/2546798/page/2 recounts how people (not just on business broadband) have succeeded in getting static IPs from Vodafone.

serena9

I took part in a study this morning that had the criteria of having over a 95% rating on prolific, I didn't even know that participants had a rating, does anyone know any more about this and how we can find out what ours is?

Value

I thought your rating was how many studies you'd completed versus any rejected. So if you'd had 1 rejected and 49 accepted it would be a rating of 98%. If it's that then you could calculate it yourself from your submissions.

MollyR

Is anybody using Zen Internet for Prolific?  I have been thinking of switching to them, but e-mailed Prolific to check that Zen (being one of the smaller ISPs) is on their "approved list" - and got a very unhelpful reply!

"I'm afraid I can't guarantee anything here, as this can change. Sadly I can't divulge the allowlist details. A mobile hotspot is always a solid workaround if you do have any issues."

How ridiculous!  But if anybody here is using Zen, then I can be sure it will be OK.

Lummoxley

MollyR said:

Is anybody using Zen Internet for Prolific?  I have been thinking of switching to them, but e-mailed Prolific to check that Zen (being one of the smaller ISPs) is on their "approved list" - and got a very unhelpful reply!

"I'm afraid I can't guarantee anything here, as this can change. Sadly I can't divulge the allowlist details. A mobile hotspot is always a solid workaround if you do have any issues."

How ridiculous!  But if anybody here is using Zen, then I can be sure it will be OK.

Me, and it works fine for me with Prolific.

MollyR

Thanks for that!  Now, why on earth could Prolific not have told me that themselves?!

Martico

Just to add balance - my Prolific experience has been pretty much stable for the last month or so - several surveys when I've found the time, no problems at all, mostly decent per hour rates