Any reason I shouldn't be with BE ?

As regulars here will know I've been very pleased with the service
provided by Idnet but a recent offer from BE for their 'value' service
has made me consider them.

It's a 8Mbps service, as I understand it still ADSL2+ but capped at
8Mbps. For a 12 month sign up at £6.75 p.c.m. ( half the normal price )
you get 'unlimited downloads' and a free 4 port router with wireless
802.11g too. Offer ends 30th of the month so I need to make up my mind
soon. And of course, if I want to upgrade to the full speed, I should
get about 15-16 Mbps at my location ( meaning that the 8Mbps should be
rock solid ).

Your thoughts ?

Graham

"Eeyore" <(E-Mail Removed) m> wrote in message
news:00e1babe$0$11973$(E-Mail Removed)...
> As regulars here will know I've been very pleased with the service
> provided by Idnet but a recent offer from BE for their 'value' service has
> made me consider them.
>
> It's a 8Mbps service, as I understand it still ADSL2+ but capped at 8Mbps.
> For a 12 month sign up at £6.75 p.c.m. ( half the normal price ) you get
> 'unlimited downloads' and a free 4 port router with wireless 802.11g too.
> Offer ends 30th of the month so I need to make up my mind soon. And of
> course, if I want to upgrade to the full speed, I should get about 15-16
> Mbps at my location ( meaning that the 8Mbps should be rock solid ).
>
> Your thoughts ?

There are already quite a few opinions in the thread "BE unlimited -
anygood", started on 29/10/09

George

George Weston wrote:
> "Eeyore" <(E-Mail Removed) m> wrote in message
> news:00e1babe$0$11973$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> As regulars here will know I've been very pleased with the service
>> provided by Idnet but a recent offer from BE for their 'value' service has
>> made me consider them.
>>
>> It's a 8Mbps service, as I understand it still ADSL2+ but capped at 8Mbps.
>> For a 12 month sign up at £6.75 p.c.m. ( half the normal price ) you get
>> 'unlimited downloads' and a free 4 port router with wireless 802.11g too.
>> Offer ends 30th of the month so I need to make up my mind soon. And of
>> course, if I want to upgrade to the full speed, I should get about 15-16
>> Mbps at my location ( meaning that the 8Mbps should be rock solid ).
>>
>> Your thoughts ?
>
> There are already quite a few opinions in the thread "BE unlimited -
> anygood", started on 29/10/09
>
> George

Been away for a while. Can you summarise the content ?

Graham

"Eeyore" <(E-Mail Removed) m> wrote in message
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> George Weston wrote:
>> "Eeyore" <(E-Mail Removed) m> wrote in
>> message news:00e1babe$0$11973$(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> As regulars here will know I've been very pleased with the service
>>> provided by Idnet but a recent offer from BE for their 'value' service
>>> has made me consider them.
>>>
>>> It's a 8Mbps service, as I understand it still ADSL2+ but capped at
>>> 8Mbps. For a 12 month sign up at £6.75 p.c.m. ( half the normal price )
>>> you get 'unlimited downloads' and a free 4 port router with wireless
>>> 802.11g too. Offer ends 30th of the month so I need to make up my mind
>>> soon. And of course, if I want to upgrade to the full speed, I should
>>> get about 15-16 Mbps at my location ( meaning that the 8Mbps should be
>>> rock solid ).
>>>
>>> Your thoughts ?
>>
>> There are already quite a few opinions in the thread "BE unlimited -
>> anygood", started on 29/10/09
>>
>> George
>
> Been away for a while. Can you summarise the content ?

Yes they are probably the best at up to 24Mb
Regards
David

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:03:05 +0000, Eeyore
<(E-Mail Removed) m> wrote:

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Yeah, fucking hell, what more do you want for £6.75 a month?
--
He who hath many friends hath none. Aristotle

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:03:05 +0000, Eeyore
> <(E-Mail Removed) m> wrote:
>
> <snip>
> Yeah, fucking hell, what more do you want for £6.75 a month?

It's not so much the money, It's quality of service I'm after, hence the
call for opinions.


Heck, Virgin / (NTL from hell) offered me 4 ? Mbps for £4.50 p.c.m. but
the service was so bad in the evenings that I dumped it. Luckily it was
a no cost trial (haha try telling that to the accounts dept !) so I kept
my Idnet connection over BT copper (I have 2 phone lines here), so
didn't suffer. In fact I have 2 complete NTL / Virgin cablemodems with
ancillaries here in very good nick.

Graham