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Has anyone else signed up to Be yet (24Mbps d/l, and 1Mbps upload)? I signed up yesterday, migrating away from Plusnet.
Product details here
Sign-ups before 18th, get September free and then £20pm for life after that. Also good referral scheme - referrer and new customer get one month free. After 24 referrals, your connection is free for life.
Is this available across a lot of exchanges in London or just the odd few? I'm on the LNSTF London Stratford exchange.
Product details here
Sign-ups before 18th, get September free and then £20pm for life after that. Also good referral scheme - referrer and new customer get one month free. After 24 referrals, your connection is free for life.
Is this available across a lot of exchanges in London or just the odd few? I'm on the LNSTF London Stratford exchange.
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No offence to India intended, but i don't think they can offer the same support service as a UK based centre. Knowledge is irrelevant if they can't understand your accent and you can't understand theirs.
I've had a quick leaf through the T&Cs, but the "Be Box" does not become your property. It's loaned to you, much like when you get cable - the modem is hired to you and you must return it if you leave.
The terms and conditions are a bit fuzzy though - they have a clause that says: -
They don't give a figure as to what is "excessive" usage is. I'd love to be able to get this but I seem to live out in the sticks as far as they're concerned. They don't seem to talk in detail about ports (if any) they block.
Bugger that.
No such thing as a free lunch, sounds like they are the +net of tomorrow. As I've said before if you want a truly unlimited service your going to have to pay for it, £20 will not cover it.
Yes, blocked ports, 12 month contract 'n all! Even on the lowly 512kbps service, which I would get if it were not for the port blocking and 12 month contract. :mad:
Fair enough - horses for courses IMO.
Broadband is a bit of a minefield these days - you can't get an 'unlimited' slow speed (i.e. 512kbps) connection - it's either low priced low capped 1/2Mbit connections or high priced uncapped/FUP'ed/capped 1/2Mbit connection with various other strings attached such as port blocks/contracts/other.
Didn't have any trouble when I called their call centre - both sales and support. Certainly not as bad as Sky's dodgy call centre!!
Well I was worried too and called their call centre three times and so far so good. I didn't have any problem to be understood and you could hear that they were well trained. Beside since it's a pilot I guess they will ask us some feedback about the service in general to rectify any issues that might arise.
The only thing I'm concerned about is to have my line activated and still waiting for the bebox modem...... :eek:
I shouldn't have any problems if it is late, as I'm sure my Speedtouch 580 supports ADSL2+. I've got it to be delivered to work anyway, so I don't miss the delivery.
How can this be when i am able to receive the full 2meg that bt offer and im only about 1.5 miles from my exchange probably even less.
Do you have line stats from your ADSL router? That may allow a guestimate of your max speed on ADSL2+.
Also, see this chart for a rough guide to the speed available against the distance from your Exchange.
If you want to get the straight line distance to your exchange, then use this checker.
I'm hoping for near max speed (been told previously that ADSL2+ should get up to 22-24Mbps on my line, which is only approx 400m). And its all coming free at the moment - Be giving September free, plus I have a few referrals which each give me a month free (and the friends I referred each get 1 month free).
Its a speedtouch 330
I'm planning on joining UKOnline. Do they use Port Throttling?!
They block p2p and stuff?
Do you know the specific port numbers (or range) blocked?
I'll be signing up with them. I'm going to wait as long as I can, to see if they are a legit company & they do send these routers out to people.
Alas I am 3.05 km from the exchange, so who knows what speed I'll get, but hopefully I will get a much improved upstream speed (which is what I'm after!).
Hopefully I'll be singing their praises (not bitching about them due to no net connection, no modem, etc etc). LOL
Well considering I'm paying £21.99 per month for 2Mbps, I'd say moving to £20 per month for up to 24Mbps is a wise move.
Besides, its not for web browsing that you'll see much benefit. More for file sharing, downloads, FTP's, and in particular uploads (4-fold increase to 1Mbps).
Actually, you can get attenuation and SNR figures from the speedtouch 330
Go to http://www.speedtouch.co.uk/330.asp and download "Dr SpeedTouch" from the tools section.
Install the program and run "Diagnostics".
Right Click the icon in your system tray >>
Advanced >>
"Write log to disk"
Now open the log file in IE (its in .xml format so you may have to set IE to open it).
You should now be able to see your line stats amongst a lot of other information.
The stats you are looking for are:-
ReceiveAttenuation_dB=
ReceiveMargin_dB=
SendAttenuation_dB=
SendMargin_dB=
I got this info from a fellow plusnet user, Kitz, just in case anyone thinks i stole it
Have you got a definitive answer on what they class as excessive useage ? No point jumping out of the frying pan into the fire.
I was wanting to leave PlusNet anyway (hence ordering Bulldog 8Mbps on a new line on 30/07/05). Seeing as Bulldog can't give me any idea when they plan to install, I saw Be as the next best option - especially considering I've got about 4-5 months free now through referrals.
I'm not an excessive downaloader myself - I just like to be able to get what I want, when I want - not wait an age to get in downloaded (or uploaded).