BeThere

[Robbie]

Hey,

I'm moving tomorrow and I'm gonna eventually need broadband. It's a non cable area so that rules out Virgin. Does anyone here use BeThere and have any speedtests or anything for it? Also if you'd like to reccomend me another ISP please do.

Thanks

[Recursion]

BeThere are the best out there IMO.

Fastest speeds and best customer service.

Just make sure its available in your area.

[Decode]

If you do a lot of torrents use sky. If not then BeThere is a good ISP. What ever you do don't get Tiscali.

[N!ck]

Whack your new postcode in there http://www.samknows.com/broadband/checker2.ph
If you can get Be and you live in a reasonable distance from the exchange then go for it.

[Minstrels]

Why you leaving Manchester behind? :(

And I'm using BT which is pretty sound.

[Robbie]

Still Manchester ;). Anyone got any experience with Sky LLU?

[N!ck]

Still Manchester ;). Anyone got any experience with Sky LLU?

Sky LLU is good. Get it if you can't get Be*.

[scottish]

That samknows sites messed up :P

Says i can only get Be, sky and virgin in my area? lol

I can get AOL, TalkTalk, Tiscali aswell but says i can't? lol

But yeh Be would be best to get :P

[edgates]

That samknows sites messed up :P

Says i can only get Be, sky and virgin in my area? lol

I can get AOL, TalkTalk, Tiscali aswell but says i can't? lol

But yeh Be would be best to get :P
I think that's because you can't get those LLU services, but can get them through BT Wholesale. I'm not sure, mine are all crosses. :P

[N!ck]

That samknows sites messed up :P

Says i can only get Be, sky and virgin in my area? lol

I can get AOL, TalkTalk, Tiscali aswell but says i can't? lol

But yeh Be would be best to get :P

Link to your exchange? AOL, Tiscalli etc. will probably be BT wholesale services. Samknows is usually very accurate.

[Robbie]

Thanks very much guys. Dad seems to want to wait and see if Virgin will cable the house up (every house but ours has it) and says hes in no rush for internet. ah well.

[Snex]

If you do a lot of torrents use sky. If not then BeThere is a good ISP. What ever you do don't get Tiscali.
Be are very good for torrents as they do no traffic shaping, I always get full speed for my torrents (700kb/s) only get 6mb due to line length and would recommend anyone to join them due to this.

[darkchicken101]

Be are great. I get about 1MB (8Mb) download and 130KB upload. My download speed is a third of what we are paying for (3MB or 24Mb) but it's plenty fast I find. Their customer service is good and they have a forum for tech support, service updates and stuff like that.

[cocaine]

im on o2, but they use BeThere, and its proper good.

[N!ck]

Be are great. I get about 1MB (8Mb) download and 130KB upload. My download speed is a third of what we are paying for (3MB or 24Mb) but it's plenty fast I find. Their customer service is good and they have a forum for tech support, service updates and stuff like that.

My experience of Be*'s tech support was a faint, distant, crackly phone lined Indian sounding man. I can't remember what it was for - i was ringing for a friend but it ended up sorted anyways. He's on the "Pro" package. His downstream gets 10-12Mbps and upload streams around 1.7-1.9Mbps so it's not too bad.

[L?KE]

Why not tiscali? :)

[Minstrels]

Why not tiscali? :)
Because it's ****? :P

[L?KE]

Fair enough :P.

[Kyle!]

I'm with Be* and i get 13MB Downstream with 1.1MB Upstream and i'm 2km away from exchange! Orange said the max i would ever get is 2MB Downstream... LOL.

[Robbie]

Bit of a bump but I ordered Be earlier this week and my modem is being delivered on Tuesday but nobody will be in, so it'll be Wednesday. And I get activated on Thursday ;) And I've also ordered an ADSL faceplate off ADSL Nation.

Til Thursday I'm using my Bluetooth dongle to use my phones 3G on my laptop. Amazingly fast speeds can be seen in my sig ;)

[Decode]

Why not tiscali? :)
Try downloading a torrent.

[Johno]

I download torrents all the time and i'm fine? lol

[blanky12!]

I download torrents all the time and i'm fine? lol
they stop you after 6 till 11 i think.. i don't know but tiscali are horrable.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/357522608.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

It ain't so bad at the mo, but it will be about 8 when it gets shockingly rubbish.

[Decode]

I download torrents all the time and i'm fine? lol
They seem to limit me to 10kb/s between 4 and 11pm. Port forwarding doesn't help because they don't actually forward even though it says they are on the router :S

http://www.tehupload.com/uploads/7102dc5fdec33a1Untitled.jpg

[N!ck]

Does forced protocol encryption help on Tiscali?

[Decode]

Does forced protocol encryption help on Tiscali?
I'm not sure :S I did look for that option but its changed place since Bittorrent 6.0.1 and I cant find it.

[N!ck]

in uTorrent it's Options > Preferences > BitTorrent > Change the outgoing protocol encryption to forced and make sure the allow incoming legacy connections box is ticked.

[Decode]

in uTorrent it's Options > Preferences > BitTorrent > Change the outgoing protocol encryption to forced and make sure the allow incoming legacy connections box is ticked.
Thanks :) I am getting around 60kb/s now :).

[Robbie]

The router (BeBox) and filters etc came today. Supposed to be activated Thursday, plugged it in, bang I'm on.

£18 p/m gets you:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/358089869.png

:)

[Johno]

Nice :) Better than my speeds but I am happy with what I get.