O2 Broadband

Hello,

I am considering switching to O2 Broadband after the coming demise of
UKONLINE. Any sort of technical setup info seems to be sadly lacking
at the O2 website. It says that ten email addresses are allowed on the
account...

Does anyone know how the extra email addresses are setup?
Do they use pop3 for incoming email, or is it a webmail service?
Anyone got an opinion on the O2 broadband , is it reliable?

Thanks in advance

"Sabby" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello,
>
> I am considering switching to O2 Broadband after the coming demise of
> UKONLINE. Any sort of technical setup info seems to be sadly lacking
> at the O2 website. It says that ten email addresses are allowed on the
> account...
>
> Does anyone know how the extra email addresses are setup?
> Do they use pop3 for incoming email, or is it a webmail service?
> Anyone got an opinion on the O2 broadband , is it reliable?
>
>
I'm with the Sister company Be they are fantastic.
Regards
David

On 08/12/2010 17:58, David wrote:
>
>
> "Sabby" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message

>> Do they use pop3 for incoming email, or is it a webmail service?
>> Anyone got an opinion on the O2 broadband , is it reliable?
>>
>>
> I'm with the Sister company Be they are fantastic.

Until O2 do exactly the same and decide to rebrand Be as their own ...

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Sabby <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I am considering switching to O2 Broadband after the coming demise of
>UKONLINE. Any sort of technical setup info seems to be sadly lacking
>at the O2 website. It says that ten email addresses are allowed on the
>account...
>
>Does anyone know how the extra email addresses are setup?
>Do they use pop3 for incoming email, or is it a webmail service?
>Anyone got an opinion on the O2 broadband , is it reliable?

O2 is generally very good although they recently introduced traffic
management and I think more aggressive (un)fair use policies make their LLU
offering less attractive than it was. Their Access offering where they
don't have LLU has been widely criticised for poor performance.

Their email setup is utter crap (yes you get pop3). You don't have an email
address you register with O2 and get an O2 account which includes an email
address, online calendar, contacts thing, and no doubt other drivel I
don't have the slightest interest it. Registration requires you to provide
personal information and a mobile phone number which will be verified by
requiring you to enter information from a text they send it.

If you want 10 email addresses you have to set up 9 new O2 accounts. I
don't know if you can use the same mobile phone number for them, there is a
button marked "I don't have a mobile" which immediately takes you to their
phone shop.

It all looked so onerous I never bothered trying to set up a second email
address.

That said I wouldn't advise anyone to rely on email services from their
ISP.

David <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
: >
: I'm with the Sister company Be they are fantastic.

I am also with Be - I would say they are "very good
but rather expensive".

Also their lack of things like email and netnews
may deter some people!

"David" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:idogu5$m0f$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>
> "Sabby" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am considering switching to O2 Broadband after the coming demise of
>> UKONLINE. Any sort of technical setup info seems to be sadly lacking
>> at the O2 website. It says that ten email addresses are allowed on the
>> account...
>>
>> Does anyone know how the extra email addresses are setup?
>> Do they use pop3 for incoming email, or is it a webmail service?
>> Anyone got an opinion on the O2 broadband , is it reliable?
>>
>>
> I'm with the Sister company Be they are fantastic.
> Regards
> David


I'll second that, I am close to the exchange so ADSL2+ is very worthwhile
I can also tweak noise margin and turn on/off interleave from the web portal.

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Graham.

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"nospam" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> O2 is generally very good although they recently introduced traffic
> management and I think more aggressive (un)fair use policies make their
> LLU
> offering less attractive than it was. Their Access offering where they
> don't have LLU has been widely criticised for poor performance.
>
> Their email setup is utter crap (yes you get pop3). You don't have an
> email
> address you register with O2 and get an O2 account which includes an email
> address, online calendar, contacts thing, and no doubt other drivel I
> don't have the slightest interest it. Registration requires you to provide
> personal information and a mobile phone number which will be verified by
> requiring you to enter information from a text they send it.
>
> If you want 10 email addresses you have to set up 9 new O2 accounts. I
> don't know if you can use the same mobile phone number for them, there is
> a
> button marked "I don't have a mobile" which immediately takes you to their
> phone shop.
>
> It all looked so onerous I never bothered trying to set up a second email
> address.
>
> That said I wouldn't advise anyone to rely on email services from their
> ISP.

With Sister Be I had no problem setting up the Broadband and recently
handing over the BT phone line to them too.
No Mobile Phone involvement.
Do not know about email addresses as I learnt, as you recommended, a long
time ago to have email address separate and I use Gmail.
My Be is LLU and stays steady speeds also Unlimited and they not mess me
about like previous ISP and BT
Regards
David

"Brian Mc" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:idoohh$h35$(E-Mail Removed)...
> David <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> : >
> : I'm with the Sister company Be they are fantastic.
>
> I am also with Be - I would say they are "very good
> but rather expensive".
>

Well I have Be Unlimited up to 24Mb Broadband
and Anytime phone inc. rental.
Latest bill was £31.38 for the month.

I'm not thinking that too expensive.

By the way their members forum is first rate for sharing problems or
question about almost anything. Their staff are very active on the forum too
and get things sorted straight away if you are in trouble with their
service.
Regards
David

"Sabby" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello,
> I am considering switching to O2 Broadband after the coming demise of
> UKONLINE. Any sort of technical setup info seems to be sadly lacking
> at the O2 website. It says that ten email addresses are allowed on the
> account...
>
> Does anyone know how the extra email addresses are setup?
> Do they use pop3 for incoming email, or is it a webmail service?
> Anyone got an opinion on the O2 broadband , is it reliable?
>
>
Why bother with O2 mail, use Google or Yahoo mail on pop3

Steve Terry
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"nospam" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Sabby <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>I am considering switching to O2 Broadband after the coming demise of
>>UKONLINE. Any sort of technical setup info seems to be sadly lacking
>>at the O2 website. It says that ten email addresses are allowed on the
>>account...
>>
>>Does anyone know how the extra email addresses are setup?
>>Do they use pop3 for incoming email, or is it a webmail service?
>>Anyone got an opinion on the O2 broadband , is it reliable?
>
> O2 is generally very good although they recently introduced traffic
> management and I think more aggressive (un)fair use policies make their LLU
> offering less attractive than it was. Their Access offering where they
> don't have LLU has been widely criticised for poor performance.
>
> Their email setup is utter crap (yes you get pop3). You don't have an email
> address you register with O2 and get an O2 account which includes an email
> address, online calendar, contacts thing, and no doubt other drivel I
> don't have the slightest interest it. Registration requires you to provide
> personal information and a mobile phone number which will be verified by
> requiring you to enter information from a text they send it.
>
> If you want 10 email addresses you have to set up 9 new O2 accounts. I
> don't know if you can use the same mobile phone number for them, there is a
> button marked "I don't have a mobile" which immediately takes you to their
> phone shop.
>
> It all looked so onerous I never bothered trying to set up a second email
> address.
>
> That said I wouldn't advise anyone to rely on email services from their
> ISP.
Certainly not a *broadband* ISP
My two main email addresses are each tied to a Freeserve/Wanadoo/Orange dial-up
account.
Nothing is guaranteed to last forever of course, but I've had them for over ten years now.

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Graham.

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