Fast broadband

Hi

We are looking for fast broadband and currently considering BE
https://www.bethere.co.uk/homebroadband.do) who offer 24 megs download
and 1.3 megs upload. Has anyone have experience of BE, good or bad? Is
there another ISP which does something similar reliably?


Many Thanks


Regards

John wrote:
> Hi
>
> We are looking for fast broadband and currently considering BE
> https://www.bethere.co.uk/homebroadband.do) who offer 24 megs download
> and 1.3 megs upload. Has anyone have experience of BE, good or bad? Is
> there another ISP which does something similar reliably?
>
>
> Many Thanks
>
>
> Regards

We use them here at work. No complaints so far. They can only give us 8MB
due to the distance from the exchange, however everyone else could only
offer us 1MB, which isn't enough for 35 people.

Mike P

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:23:00 -0700 (PDT), John
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Hi
>
>We are looking for fast broadband and currently considering BE
>https://www.bethere.co.uk/homebroadband.do) who offer 24 megs download
>and 1.3 megs upload. Has anyone have experience of BE, good or bad? Is
>there another ISP which does something similar reliably?
>
>
>Many Thanks
>
>
>Regards

I was with PlusNet and got just under 6MB on Speedtests .I moved to
BEUnlimited at £18 a month and my exchange is about 980km as the crow
flies and I am consistently getting just under 8.5MB but I'm sure a
bit of tweaking would get more .

John wrote:
> Hi
>
> We are looking for fast broadband and currently considering BE
> https://www.bethere.co.uk/homebroadband.do) who offer 24 megs
> download and 1.3 megs upload. Has anyone have experience of BE, good
> or bad? Is there another ISP which does something similar reliably?
>

xCx posted here recently ....

> Really not impressed with Be to be honest.
>
> The router supplied is awful, gets incredibly hot, I don't like
> leaving it on when I'm not about so it gets switched off completely,
> I'm currently on my 2nd one. They block outgoing private smtp
> connections, they say this is unblocked if you have a static IP,
> which I do, but it makes no difference.
>
> The customer services is based in bulgaria, they sound like KJB
> agents.
>
> There's always something wrong, either their smtp is down or your
> line will disconnect, it's a constant circle of problems, when one
> thing is fixed something else goes wrong.
>
> I'm sure there are lots of people out there who like them, I'm just
> not one of them, I see them as a premium service compared to the
> bundled companies out there like sky, so if I'm going to get crap
> service I might as well sign up to sky and save myself £14 a month.

For me it works fine, but don't take their email service - go somewhere
else for that ....

--
Adrian C

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:23:00 -0700 (PDT), John
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>Hi
>>
>>We are looking for fast broadband and currently considering BE
>>https://www.bethere.co.uk/homebroadband.do) who offer 24 megs download
>>and 1.3 megs upload. Has anyone have experience of BE, good or bad? Is
>>there another ISP which does something similar reliably?
>>
>>
>>Many Thanks
>>
>>
>>Regards
>
> I was with PlusNet and got just under 6MB on Speedtests .I moved to
> BEUnlimited at £18 a month and my exchange is about 980km as the crow
> flies and I am consistently getting just under 8.5MB but I'm sure a
> bit of tweaking would get more .



Now that's what I call impressive!

Are BE aware that you live at the other end of the country?


--
Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:13:01 +0100, "Woody"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:(E-Mail Removed).. .
>> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:23:00 -0700 (PDT), John
>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>>Hi
>>>
>>>We are looking for fast broadband and currently considering BE
>>>https://www.bethere.co.uk/homebroadband.do) who offer 24 megs download
>>>and 1.3 megs upload. Has anyone have experience of BE, good or bad? Is
>>>there another ISP which does something similar reliably?
>>>
>>>
>>>Many Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>Regards
>>
>> I was with PlusNet and got just under 6MB on Speedtests .I moved to
>> BEUnlimited at £18 a month and my exchange is about 980km as the crow
>> flies and I am consistently getting just under 8.5MB but I'm sure a
>> bit of tweaking would get more .
>
>
>
> Now that's what I call impressive!
>
>Are BE aware that you live at the other end of the country?

Since I posted that I've done very hurried removal ..I'm now just 980
m from the exchange ..lol

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:13:01 +0100, "Woody"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:23:00 -0700 (PDT), John
>>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> We are looking for fast broadband and currently considering BE
>>>> https://www.bethere.co.uk/homebroadband.do) who offer 24 megs
>>>> download and 1.3 megs upload. Has anyone have experience of BE,
>>>> good or bad? Is there another ISP which does something similar
>>>> reliably?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Many Thanks
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>
>>> I was with PlusNet and got just under 6MB on Speedtests .I moved to
>>> BEUnlimited at £18 a month and my exchange is about 980km as the
>>> crow flies and I am consistently getting just under 8.5MB but I'm
>>> sure a bit of tweaking would get more .
>>
>>
>>
>> Now that's what I call impressive!
>>
>> Are BE aware that you live at the other end of the country?
>
> Since I posted that I've done very hurried removal ..I'm now just 980
> m from the exchange ..lol

I think we'd all guessed that.
--
Heard melodies are sweet, but those Unheard are sweeter
(E-Mail Removed) FN 2°°8 +, Mungo Brandybuck of Buckland

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:25:46 +0100, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:13:01 +0100, "Woody"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>news:(E-Mail Removed). ..
>>> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:23:00 -0700 (PDT), John
>>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi
>>>>
>>>>We are looking for fast broadband and currently considering BE
>>>>https://www.bethere.co.uk/homebroadband.do) who offer 24 megs download
>>>>and 1.3 megs upload. Has anyone have experience of BE, good or bad? Is
>>>>there another ISP which does something similar reliably?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Many Thanks
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Regards
>>>
>>> I was with PlusNet and got just under 6MB on Speedtests .I moved to
>>> BEUnlimited at £18 a month and my exchange is about 980km as the crow
>>> flies and I am consistently getting just under 8.5MB but I'm sure a
>>> bit of tweaking would get more .
>>
>>
>>
>> Now that's what I call impressive!
>>
>>Are BE aware that you live at the other end of the country?
>
> Since I posted that I've done very hurried removal ..I'm now just 980
> m from the exchange ..lol

so not a million miles away, then?
--
Peter.
You don't understand Newton's Third Law of Motion?
It's not rocket science, you know.

No complaints here, even with a very noisy line

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:24:56 +0100, "Nicola Redwood"
<nicolaexternal-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>No complaints here, even with a very noisy line
>

Can't you get the noise sorted by complaing it's affecting your voice
calls ....don't mention Broadband