absolotely diabolical ,2nd line help always busy .a shambles
dont go near them ,they blame BT but never fix the problems .

xis2xis@googlemail.com wrote:
Correct. Not recommended. It should be kept for the select original Be
happy few to preverve their lighting fast service.

For I am one, and will tell fibs to protect what's rightfully mine :-)

na na nah na na...

:-p

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Adrian C

On 18 Apr, 16:45, xis2...@googlemail.com wrote:
I used O2.. It's dirt cheap and f**king fast. Also tech support is
free!

Broadband cuts out about 5 times a day for a couple of seconds each
time. Free tech support is good to average. I'm in Central London. If
you want really fast internet and you're broke, recommended.

bornfree wrote:
I'm in Harrow outside London, Be/O2 is fast* here (matches predictions
of speed vs. distance from exchange) - but do get their router
restarting at random periods from 2 days to 2 weeks. Some of the wiring
around here must be back to the 1970's...

* fast, as means BBC iPlayer downloads works pretty much up to the
capacity of my 11Mbps synched connection.

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Adrian C

On 19 Apr, 10:04, Adrian C <em...@here.invalid> wrote:
Well I pay much less than you at just £7.50/ month provided I top up
my O2 pay as you go mobile every 3 months. £12.50/ month if I forget.
Either is an absolute BARGAIN in my book seeing as I get 5+megabits
unlimited use!! (Around 667 KiloBytes/ sec)

Interesting also that O2 have the FASTEST average real world speed!*

*According to Broadband Expert

See article on trusted reviews:
http://www.trustedreviews.com/networ...tised-Speed/p1

The router restarting must be the Be / O2 network, not the wiring,
because with Eclipse it almost never happened. It doesn't happen to me
very often though and I am very happy with O2 overall.

On 19 Apr, 10:04, Adrian C <em...@here.invalid> wrote:
Adrian - what exchange are you on? Here on the Bayswater (code WEWBAY)
exchange the max speed according to www.samknows.com is estimated (as
I understand it) at 5 megabits.. which is exactly what I get.

bornfree wrote:
I'm on the Kingsbury (LWKIN) exchange, about 1.2KM minimum of telephone
cable and normally water flooded BT manholes away from it. SamKnows is
quoting a performance of 5.5Mbps for BT's ADSL Max service, but I'm on
ADSL2+ so do get more (in fact double) that.

Look at <http://www2.farina1.com/adsl/> and stick your router figures in
there.

My internal phone wiring is admittedly messy, mixed alongside mains
wiring, and I have a lot of things connected to it (all running through
one microfilter). If I did a proper tidy up in theory (and pulled the
ring wire) I should be able to get it up to 16MBps? I'll probably get
around to doing that some time I'm not running about trying to save the
world from the impending doom of..... (can't tell ya.. sorry)

:-)

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Adrian C

On 19 Apr, 17:12, Adrian C <em...@here.invalid> wrote:
Sync speed: 6256Kbps
Attenuation: 44 dB
Noise margin: 4 dB

What's yours?

Also.. my exchange:

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/WEWBAY

Does that mean I can get over 8MB ?

bornfree wrote:
Hmm, How far does SamKnows say you are from the exchange?

You could in theory get that, but this is the reason for the "up to"
marketing stance taken when advertising. You can fiddle around with
internal wiring to a point (fixing known issues like the ring wire), but
given that most of it is outside your door and in central London
squeezed in and bundled with God knows how many other cables and
services, I think 6Mbps for whatever you are paying O2 is stormin'. ;-)

Have a look through Be's forums if you wanna try and optimise it.

Also here <http://www.beforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=8152>

OK, My figures on my SpeedTouch 780 are

ADSL2+ Sync speed: 10,505 (Ouch, it's gone down this morning - wet outside!)
Attenuation: 28
Noise Margin: 9.5

Distance: 1.2KM
Uptime: 12 days :-)

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Adrian C

On 20 Apr, 10:26, Adrian C <em...@here.invalid> wrote:
Hi.
Thanks. Not worth it. I am syncing on the dotted line!

bornfree wrote:
:-)

BTW What did SamKnows say your distance from the exchange was?

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Adrian C

On 22 Apr, 19:29, Adrian C <em...@here.invalid> wrote:
I have forgotton. How do you check?

On 22 Apr, 19:29, Adrian C <em...@here.invalid> wrote:
Oh here

"You are approximately 1.48km from the exchange. Note that this is the
straight line distance - the actual cable length will be longer!"

bornfree wrote:
I think your cable might be quite a bit longer!!!

Here looking forward to the day we get a decent bit of fibre optics to
the doorstep, but by then I'll be quite bored of the internet....

..... having probably downloaded most of it through Be :-)

cheers

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Adrian C

On 25 Apr, 19:35, Adrian C <em...@here.invalid> wrote:
I think so. For anyone in the city.

Don't forget new content movies etc.