Anybody having feedback on O2 broadband@BT line?

Hi, am currently on Virgin Broadband@BT line and planning to switch to
O2 Broadband@BT line for GBP 7.50 per month(8MB speed, unlimited
downloads). Anybody having recent experience of O2 broadband please,
in terms of speed etc?

Thanks and Regards,
Sherkhanthegreat(shammi777)

On Feb 24, 9:13*am, "sherkhanthegr...@gmail.com"
<sherkhanthegr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, am currently on Virgin Broadband@BT line and planning to switch to
> O2 Broadband@BT line for GBP 7.50 per month(8MB speed, unlimited
> downloads). Anybody having recent experience of O2 broadband please,
> in terms of speed etc?
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Sherkhanthegreat(shammi777)

rapidly going down the pan due to an influx of people on cheap deals
with unlimited downloads

Capacity upgrades are scheduled though and should be in place in the next
few weeks
I'd rather have congestion for a few weeks than traffic management or
throttling

On Feb 25, 4:31*pm, "Nicola Redwood" <nicolaexternal-
newsgro...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Capacity upgrades are scheduled though and should be in place in the next
> few weeks
> I'd rather have congestion for a few weeks than traffic management or
> throttling

Or constant network outages or DNS lookup failures. Theres something
seriously wrong with them at the moment, the last weekend especially.
As a new subscriber I'd advise any new potential customers to read the
various broadband/ISP forums and wait until the current issues die
down before committing to a purchase(at least with teh Be* arm you
only risk 3 months, with the O2 contract you commit to 12). When it
works it's great, but I've had 4 outages (including 18 hours in total
over the weekend in 2 weeks as a customer, thats more than in my
previous 5 years with my last ISP)

"Woby Tide" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:d876224f-1e24-41c5-b812-(E-Mail Removed)...
On Feb 25, 4:31 pm, "Nicola Redwood" <nicolaexternal-
newsgro...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Capacity upgrades are scheduled though and should be in place in the next
> few weeks
> I'd rather have congestion for a few weeks than traffic management or
> throttling

Or constant network outages or DNS lookup failures. Theres something
seriously wrong with them at the moment, the last weekend especially.
As a new subscriber I'd advise any new potential customers to read the
various broadband/ISP forums and wait until the current issues die
down before committing to a purchase(at least with teh Be* arm you
only risk 3 months, with the O2 contract you commit to 12). When it
works it's great, but I've had 4 outages (including 18 hours in total
over the weekend in 2 weeks as a customer, thats more than in my
previous 5 years with my last ISP)

No problems thus far with them. Nothing showing on my router logs when I
just checked (which should spot any routing issues of more than two minutes
duration)

Could it be a local issue?

On 26 Feb, 19:22, "Herman" <whitehouse.madhousetakeme...@bigfoot.com>
wrote:
> "Woby Tide" <qaz_...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:d876224f-1e24-41c5-b812-(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Feb 25, 4:31 pm, "Nicola Redwood" <nicolaexternal-
>
> newsgro...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Capacity upgrades are scheduled though and should be in place in the next
> > few weeks
> > I'd rather have congestion for a few weeks than traffic management or
> > throttling
>
> Or constant network outages or DNS lookup failures. Theres something
> seriously wrong with them at the moment, the last weekend especially.
> As a new subscriber I'd advise any new potential customers to read the
> various broadband/ISP forums and wait until the current issues die
> down before committing to a purchase(at least with teh Be* arm you
> only risk 3 months, with the O2 contract you commit to 12). When it
> works it's great, but I've had 4 outages (including 18 hours in total
> over the weekend in 2 weeks as a customer, thats more than in my
> previous 5 years with my last ISP)
>
> No problems thus far with them. *Nothing showing on my router logs when I
> just checked (which should spot any routing issues of more than two minutes
> duration)
>
> Could it be a local issue?

Local National? The outage they admitted took out fair proportion of
the network overnight and Sunday morning?

https://www.bethere.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16400

http://bbs.adslguide.org.uk/showthre...b=5&o=0&fpart=

For the first week I was quite evangelical about them to others. These
issues have tainted it somewhat, all i'm suggesting is people to be
wary in the current climate, if they fix and come back out the other
side I'll wax lyrical again. I won't bury my head in the sand though
in the face of evidence of a number of users. if people are having a
faultless service thats fair enough, but a lot of people aren't and
the companies response to it is very poor to say the least.

On Feb 26, 9:56*pm, Woby Tide <qaz_...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 26 Feb, 19:22, "Herman" <whitehouse.madhousetakeme...@bigfoot.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > "Woby Tide" <qaz_...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>
> >news:d876224f-1e24-41c5-b812-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > On Feb 25, 4:31 pm, "Nicola Redwood" <nicolaexternal-
>
> > newsgro...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > Capacity upgrades are scheduled though and should be in place in the next
> > > few weeks
> > > I'd rather have congestion for a few weeks than traffic management or
> > > throttling
>
> > Or constant network outages or DNS lookup failures. Theres something
> > seriously wrong with them at the moment, the last weekend especially.
> > As a new subscriber I'd advise any new potential customers to read the
> > various broadband/ISP forums and wait until the current issues die
> > down before committing to a purchase(at least with teh Be* arm you
> > only risk 3 months, with the O2 contract you commit to 12). When it
> > works it's great, but I've had 4 outages (including 18 hours in total
> > over the weekend in 2 weeks as a customer, thats more than in my
> > previous 5 years with my last ISP)
>
> > No problems thus far with them. *Nothing showing on my router logs when I
> > just checked (which should spot any routing issues of more than two minutes
> > duration)
>
> > Could it be a local issue?
>
> Local National? The outage they admitted took out fair proportion of
> the network overnight and Sunday morning?
>
> https://www.bethere.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16400
>
> http://bbs.adslguide.org.uk/showthre...=beunlimited&N....
>
> For the first week I was quite evangelical about them to others. These
> issues have tainted it somewhat, all i'm suggesting is people to be
> wary in the current climate, if they fix and come back out the other
> side I'll wax lyrical again. I won't bury my head in the sand though
> in the face of evidence of a number of users. if people are having a
> faultless service thats fair enough, but a lot of people aren't and
> the companies response to it is very poor to say the least.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

By looking into above comments, it seems that O2 broadband is much
better than Virgin, as I myself have suffered from Virgin speeds.
Anyway, O2 says 100 days peace of mind, which should be OK before
tying yourself to 12 months contract.

Sherkhanthegreat(shammi777)

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:c25b37b1-b252-4c9f-b963-(E-Mail Removed)...
On Feb 26, 9:56 pm, Woby Tide <qaz_...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 26 Feb, 19:22, "Herman" <whitehouse.madhousetakeme...@bigfoot.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > "Woby Tide" <qaz_...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>
> >news:d876224f-1e24-41c5-b812-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > On Feb 25, 4:31 pm, "Nicola Redwood" <nicolaexternal-
>
> > newsgro...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > Capacity upgrades are scheduled though and should be in place in the
> > > next
> > > few weeks
> > > I'd rather have congestion for a few weeks than traffic management or
> > > throttling
>
> > Or constant network outages or DNS lookup failures. Theres something
> > seriously wrong with them at the moment, the last weekend especially.
> > As a new subscriber I'd advise any new potential customers to read the
> > various broadband/ISP forums and wait until the current issues die
> > down before committing to a purchase(at least with teh Be* arm you
> > only risk 3 months, with the O2 contract you commit to 12). When it
> > works it's great, but I've had 4 outages (including 18 hours in total
> > over the weekend in 2 weeks as a customer, thats more than in my
> > previous 5 years with my last ISP)
>
> > No problems thus far with them. Nothing showing on my router logs when I
> > just checked (which should spot any routing issues of more than two
> > minutes
> > duration)
>
> > Could it be a local issue?
>
> Local National? The outage they admitted took out fair proportion of
> the network overnight and Sunday morning?
>
> https://www.bethere.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16400
>
> http://bbs.adslguide.org.uk/showthre...=beunlimited&N...
>
> For the first week I was quite evangelical about them to others. These
> issues have tainted it somewhat, all i'm suggesting is people to be
> wary in the current climate, if they fix and come back out the other
> side I'll wax lyrical again. I won't bury my head in the sand though
> in the face of evidence of a number of users. if people are having a
> faultless service thats fair enough, but a lot of people aren't and
> the companies response to it is very poor to say the least.- Hide quoted
> text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

By looking into above comments, it seems that O2 broadband is much
better than Virgin, as I myself have suffered from Virgin speeds.
Anyway, O2 says 100 days peace of mind, which should be OK before
tying yourself to 12 months contract.

Sherkhanthegreat(shammi777)

BTW after my comments above, I had a one hour outage yesterday evening.

At the end of the day, I guess outages are to be expected whichever
provider.

On 29 Feb, 19:15, "Herman" <whitehouse.madhousetakeme...@bigfoot.com>
wrote:
> <sherkhanthegr...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:c25b37b1-b252-4c9f-b963-(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Feb 26, 9:56 pm, Woby Tide <qaz_...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On 26 Feb, 19:22, "Herman" <whitehouse.madhousetakeme...@bigfoot.com>
> > wrote:
>
> > > "Woby Tide" <qaz_...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>
> > >news:d876224f-1e24-41c5-b812-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > On Feb 25, 4:31 pm, "Nicola Redwood" <nicolaexternal-
>
> > > newsgro...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > Capacity upgrades are scheduled though and should be in place in the
> > > > next
> > > > few weeks
> > > > I'd rather have congestion for a few weeks than traffic management or
> > > > throttling
>
> > > Or constant network outages or DNS lookup failures. Theres something
> > > seriously wrong with them at the moment, the last weekend especially.
> > > As a new subscriber I'd advise any new potential customers to read the
> > > variousbroadband/ISP forums and wait until the current issues die
> > > down before committing to a purchase(at least with teh Be* arm you
> > > only risk 3 months, with theO2contract you commit to 12). When it
> > > works it's great, but I've had 4 outages (including 18 hours in total
> > > over the weekend in 2 weeks as a customer, thats more than in my
> > > previous 5 years with my last ISP)
>
> > > No problems thus far with them. Nothing showing on my router logs when I
> > > just checked (which should spot any routing issues of more than two
> > > minutes
> > > duration)
>
> > > Could it be a local issue?
>
> > Local National? The outage they admitted took out fair proportion of
> > the network overnight and Sunday morning?
>
> >https://www.bethere.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16400
>
> >http://bbs.adslguide.org.uk/showthre...=beunlimited&N...
>
> > For the first week I was quite evangelical about them to others. These
> > issues have tainted it somewhat, all i'm suggesting is people to be
> > wary in the current climate, if they fix and come back out the other
> > side I'll wax lyrical again. I won't bury my head in the sand though
> > in the face of evidence of a number of users. if people are having a
> > faultless service thats fair enough, but a lot of people aren't and
> > the companies response to it is very poor to say the least.- Hide quoted
> > text -
>
> > - Show quoted text -
>
> By looking into above comments, it seems thatO2broadbandis much
> better than Virgin, as I myself have suffered from Virgin speeds.
> Anyway,O2says 100 days peace of mind, which should be OK before
> tying yourself to 12 months contract.
>
> Sherkhanthegreat(shammi777)
>
> BTW after my comments above, I had a one hour outage yesterday evening.
>
> At the end of the day, I guess outages are to be expected whichever
> provider.

How is the service doing at the moment?

On Mar 13, 2:14*am, William56 <William.Norman...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29 Feb, 19:15, "Herman" <whitehouse.madhousetakeme...@bigfoot.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > <sherkhanthegr...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> >news:c25b37b1-b252-4c9f-b963-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > On Feb 26, 9:56 pm, Woby Tide <qaz_...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > On 26 Feb, 19:22, "Herman" <whitehouse.madhousetakeme...@bigfoot.com>
> > > wrote:
>
> > > > "Woby Tide" <qaz_...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>
> > > >news:d876224f-1e24-41c5-b812-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > > On Feb 25, 4:31 pm, "Nicola Redwood" <nicolaexternal-
>
> > > > newsgro...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > > Capacity upgrades are scheduled though and should be in place in the
> > > > > next
> > > > > few weeks
> > > > > I'd rather have congestion for a few weeks than traffic managementor
> > > > > throttling
>
> > > > Or constant network outages or DNS lookup failures. Theres something
> > > > seriously wrong with them at the moment, the last weekend especially..
> > > > As a new subscriber I'd advise any new potential customers to read the
> > > > variousbroadband/ISP forums and wait until the current issues die
> > > > down before committing to a purchase(at least with teh Be* arm you
> > > > only risk 3 months, with theO2contract you commit to 12). When it
> > > > works it's great, but I've had 4 outages (including 18 hours in total
> > > > over the weekend in 2 weeks as a customer, thats more than in my
> > > > previous 5 years with my last ISP)
>
> > > > No problems thus far with them. Nothing showing on my router logs when I
> > > > just checked (which should spot any routing issues of more than two
> > > > minutes
> > > > duration)
>
> > > > Could it be a local issue?
>
> > > Local National? The outage they admitted took out fair proportion of
> > > the network overnight and Sunday morning?
>
> > >https://www.bethere.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16400
>
> > >http://bbs.adslguide.org.uk/showthre...=beunlimited&N...
>
> > > For the first week I was quite evangelical about them to others. These
> > > issues have tainted it somewhat, all i'm suggesting is people to be
> > > wary in the current climate, if they fix and come back out the other
> > > side I'll wax lyrical again. I won't bury my head in the sand though
> > > in the face of evidence of a number of users. if people are having a
> > > faultless service thats fair enough, but a lot of people aren't and
> > > the companies response to it is very poor to say the least.- Hide quoted
> > > text -
>
> > > - Show quoted text -
>
> > By looking into above comments, it seems thatO2broadbandis much
> > better than Virgin, as I myself have suffered from Virgin speeds.
> > Anyway,O2says 100 days peace of mind, which should be OK *before
> > tying yourself to 12 months contract.
>
> >Sherkhanthegreat(shammi777)
>
> > BTW after my comments above, I had a one hour outage yesterday evening.
>
> > At the end of the day, I guess outages are to be expected whichever
> > provider.
>
> How is the service doing at the moment?- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Hi William, am absolutely delighted at the moment. Here goes the
comparison w.r.t. Virgin, who were sucking me for past one year:

1. No interuptions till today (Virgin was giving atleast 1-2 blank
pages each day)
2. Upload and download speed much faster than virgin, usual response
is just click an view, no waiting for most of the pages. (Now I can
see most of the movie clips without waiting to buffer, earlier it was
a pain).
3. They sent free Wireless router (Virgin sent a very poor quality USB
modem which could not be integrated to wireless)
4. Free helpline (both from landline and mobile) to call anytime
(Virgin was 50 pence a minute)
5. Not to mention, just 7.50 pounds as compared to 17 pounds I was
paying earlier.

No complaints as of now (apart from one that the DSL cable for
connecting box to telephone line was damaged, which they immediately
replaced. Anyway, I had a spare at home, so no interuptions).

Hope this helps.

Thanks and Regards,
Sherkhanthegreat (shammi777)