O2 and BE Broadbands buck trend with decreasing speeds:

O2 and Be Broadband customers suffered a slowdown in the last year,
against the market trend of improving speeds, it has been found.

Downstream for the two home broadband providers, who use the same
network, dropped on average by 13 per cent to 5.1Mbit/s, according to web-
based speed tests.

... full spill ....>

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/04/o2_be_speeds/


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"Al Bowlly" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:4b42e852$0$2531$(E-Mail Removed)...
> O2 and Be Broadband customers suffered a slowdown in the last year,
> against the market trend of improving speeds, it has been found.
>
> Downstream for the two home broadband providers, who use the same
> network, dropped on average by 13 per cent to 5.1Mbit/s, according to web-
> based speed tests.
>
> .. full spill ....>
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/04/o2_be_speeds/

"Despite the drop, it should be emphasised that O2 and Be jointly offered second highest average speeds, according to the survey."

So if you exclude VMs non-DSL connections, that still makes Be/O2 top of the pops according to this.

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"Al Bowlly" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:4b42e852$0$2531$(E-Mail Removed)...
> O2 and Be Broadband customers suffered a slowdown in the last year,
> against the market trend of improving speeds, it has been found.
>
> Downstream for the two home broadband providers, who use the same
> network, dropped on average by 13 per cent to 5.1Mbit/s, according to web-
> based speed tests.
>
> .. full spill ....>
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/04/o2_be_speeds/
>
>
> --
> Midnight, the stars a n d you.........

Not a 13% drop here, would have noticed that.



Regards
David

"David" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:hhv2qq$pgl$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>
> "Al Bowlly" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:4b42e852$0$2531$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> O2 and Be Broadband customers suffered a slowdown in the last year,
>> against the market trend of improving speeds, it has been found.
>>
>> Downstream for the two home broadband providers, who use the same
>> network, dropped on average by 13 per cent to 5.1Mbit/s, according to web-
>> based speed tests.
>>
>> .. full spill ....>
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/04/o2_be_speeds/
>>
>>
>> --
>> Midnight, the stars a n d you.........
>
> Not a 13% drop here, would have noticed that.
>

Beat ya -
http://www.speedtest.net/result/672405759.png

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%Profound_observation%

>>> O2 and Be Broadband customers suffered a slowdown in the last year,
>>> against the market trend of improving speeds, it has been found.
>>>
>>> Downstream for the two home broadband providers, who use the same
>>> network, dropped on average by 13 per cent to 5.1Mbit/s, according to
>>> web-
>>> based speed tests.
>>> .. full spill ....>
>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/04/o2_be_speeds/
>>>
>> Not a 13% drop here, would have noticed that.
>>
>
> Beat ya -
> http://www.speedtest.net/result/672405759.png

Well, if we're all unzipping our flies...

http://www.speedtest.net/result/653248307.png

"Trent SC" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:hhvga8$das$(E-Mail Removed)...
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> http://www.speedtest.net/result/653248307.png
>
You must live in the Exchange!

I do not understand how the OP's survey got them on so low an average.
My summaries from our Speed Tester says
My Be average is 12.18Mb/s
My Be best 12.90
My area Be Avg 8.50
My area avg. 5.52
UK Be Avg. 9.30
Uk Avg. 5.56

Regards
David

>> http://www.speedtest.net/result/653248307.png
>>
> You must live in the Exchange!

My line length is around 1.4km, but fibre to the cabinet was recently
installed, so I'm a v happy bunny.

"Trent SC" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:hhvug7$cc3$(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> http://www.speedtest.net/result/653248307.png
>>>
>> You must live in the Exchange!
>
> My line length is around 1.4km, but fibre to the cabinet was recently
> installed, so I'm a v happy bunny.
>
So you should be, think I'm about that distance, so if I get fibre then
might be in that speed region, do not know if I have a cabinet everything is
underground, only TV cable has cabinets.
Anyone know the roll out by BT of fibre any web check sites? ( Eg. like
the Sam Knows)
Regards
David

That article isn't clear as to whether O2 Access stats are included as
well - O2 Access being O2's IPStream service which has been suffering from
some time from severe congestion

I've not noticed any slowdowns

Al Bowlly wrote:

> O2 and Be Broadband customers suffered a slowdown in the last year,
> against the market trend of improving speeds, it has been found.
>
> Downstream for the two home broadband providers, who use the same
> network, dropped on average by 13 per cent to 5.1Mbit/s, according to web-
> based speed tests.
>
> .. full spill ....>
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/04/o2_be_speeds/

Bear in mind that El Reg loves horror stories.

I moved to BE on the 15th of December using the halfprice offer on their
'Value' product.

For £6.75 p.c.m. I get this ...... "Download Speed: 7066 kbps (883.3 KB/sec
) Upload Speed: 1038 kbps (129.8 KB/sec )".

http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/res...1278&v=8867400

Graham

p.s the actual halfprice offer is over but the price still isn't much
different. I see they put a 40GB cap on it though.
https://www.bethere.co.uk/web/beportal/halfprice

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