Goodbye pipex! Hello Be ?

Yippee!! - My 12 month 'Max' contract with Pipex is now over, so now
it's time to jump that ship that has already sunk.

I was going to go with ADSL24, but there are so many reports of people
saying that it's getting slower and slower for them that I don't think
I'll take the risk.

With that in mind and having already checked my exchange details, I'm
now thinking of going with Be (http://www.bethere.co.uk)

Does anyone have any experience/thoughts/comments on this ISP ?

"Andy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Yippee!! - My 12 month 'Max' contract with Pipex is now over, so now it's
> time to jump that ship that has already sunk.
>
> I was going to go with ADSL24, but there are so many reports of people
> saying that it's getting slower and slower for them that I don't think
> I'll take the risk.
>
> With that in mind and having already checked my exchange details, I'm now
> thinking of going with Be (http://www.bethere.co.uk)
>
> Does anyone have any experience/thoughts/comments on this ISP ?

Others have said that it's fast - it uses ADSL2 - but if there's a problem,
they don't like flagging it to BT for resolution, 'cos it might cost them
money.

George

Andy wrote:

> Yippee!! - My 12 month 'Max' contract with Pipex is now over, so now
> it's time to jump that ship that has already sunk.
>
> I was going to go with ADSL24, but there are so many reports of people
> saying that it's getting slower and slower for them that I don't think
> I'll take the risk.
>
> With that in mind and having already checked my exchange details, I'm
> now thinking of going with Be (http://www.bethere.co.uk)
>
> Does anyone have any experience/thoughts/comments on this ISP ?

Yeah, works for me. Although we may find it decreases in speed as the hoi
polloi start to sign up!

--
<http://ale.cx/> (AIM:troffasky) ((E-Mail Removed))
18:01:24 up 11 days, 6:39, 2 users, load average: 0.22, 0.20, 0.18
50,000 watts of funking power

In message <(E-Mail Removed)>, Andy <(E-Mail Removed)>
writes
>Yippee!! - My 12 month 'Max' contract with Pipex is now over, so now
>it's time to jump that ship that has already sunk.
>
>I was going to go with ADSL24, but there are so many reports of people
>saying that it's getting slower and slower for them that I don't think
>I'll take the risk.
>
>With that in mind and having already checked my exchange details, I'm
>now thinking of going with Be (http://www.bethere.co.uk)
>
>Does anyone have any experience/thoughts/comments on this ISP ?

I had it installed in two homes a couple of months ago. Bebox was
delayed but everything else was fine. Speed has settled down to
~10.5Mbps which, for GBP18/month with fixed IP I'm very happy with.
Every other adsl ISP told me I'd get a max of 4Mbps at my distance from
the exchange.

Support is responsive both on the phone and via their online message
system.

--
dave @ stejonda

Andy wrote:
> Yippee!! - My 12 month 'Max' contract with Pipex is now over, so now
> it's time to jump that ship that has already sunk.
>
> I was going to go with ADSL24, but there are so many reports of people
> saying that it's getting slower and slower for them that I don't think
> I'll take the risk.
>
> With that in mind and having already checked my exchange details, I'm
> now thinking of going with Be (http://www.bethere.co.uk)
>
> Does anyone have any experience/thoughts/comments on this ISP ?


Thought Pipex had sunk a while ago, all started to go wrong when BT changed
the way they charged ISPs.


--
http://www.nhsconfidentiality.org
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/MetricNow
http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/dyna/r...rchives_en.cfm

{{{{{Welcome}}}}} wrote:
> Andy wrote:
>> Yippee!! - My 12 month 'Max' contract with Pipex is now over, so now
>> it's time to jump that ship that has already sunk.
>>
>> I was going to go with ADSL24, but there are so many reports of people
>> saying that it's getting slower and slower for them that I don't think
>> I'll take the risk.
>>
>> With that in mind and having already checked my exchange details, I'm
>> now thinking of going with Be (http://www.bethere.co.uk)
>>
>> Does anyone have any experience/thoughts/comments on this ISP ?
>
>
> Thought Pipex had sunk a while ago, all started to go wrong when BT
> changed the way they charged ISPs.
>
>
Well they sunk first time when Worldcom went bust..but I guess the dial
up customer base and the brand name got sold to someone else..

"Andy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Yippee!! - My 12 month 'Max' contract with Pipex is now over, so now it's
> time to jump that ship that has already sunk.
>
> I was going to go with ADSL24, but there are so many reports of people
> saying that it's getting slower and slower for them that I don't think
> I'll take the risk.
>
> With that in mind and having already checked my exchange details, I'm now
> thinking of going with Be (http://www.bethere.co.uk)
>
> Does anyone have any experience/thoughts/comments on this ISP ?

Very happy Be customer here after migrating from BT 18 months ago
There are issues between Be and BT Wholesale / Openreach, but I perceive
this to be more BT
Make sure your internal wiring is up to scratch whilst waiting to be
connected
http://www.smithit.co.uk/optimize.html

I'm sure you'll be more than happy. There is good support also from other
Be*ings on the official forums and http://www.beforum.co.uk

Remember to contact Pipex after you've been migrated to cancel billing ( and
try and get confirmation that billing has been cancelled by Pipex in
writing ) - it won't happen automatically

> Very happy Be customer here after migrating from BT 18 months ago
> There are issues between Be and BT Wholesale / Openreach, but I perceive
> this to be more BT
> Make sure your internal wiring is up to scratch whilst waiting to be
> connected
> http://www.smithit.co.uk/optimize.html
>
> I'm sure you'll be more than happy. There is good support also from other
> Be*ings on the official forums and http://www.beforum.co.uk
>
> Remember to contact Pipex after you've been migrated to cancel billing ( and
> try and get confirmation that billing has been cancelled by Pipex in
> writing ) - it won't happen automatically

Thanks for that. Think I've pretty much decided to go for it and give
them a shot. Certainly can't be any worse than Pipex.