Bethere broadband

[Jordan3606]

Well my mum and dad mentioned trying to cut the phone, gas and electric bills so I took the chance to try and persuade them to get Be broadband instead of BT. We're currently paying BT £24.99 a month for broadband alone, not including line rental and phone bills (so in reality, its about £40 a month roughly)

www.bethere.co.uk offer Be unlimited for £18, with faster speeds than what we have now and for £5 cheaper. Unmetered downloads etc., which is good, because we'd probably be suspended otherwise, lol. The BT home hub is absolute ****e too, so I'll be glad to get rid of it :rolleyes:

Anyway, is anybody else with Be and are they any good? I've read some reviews, some say its crap some say its absolutely brilliant, dunno what to trust so I need more opinions, hehe.

[N!ck]

It is absolutely brilliant if you live relatively close to your exchange (within about 2 miles or so) visit www.samknows.com to find about about your nearest exchange and work out howfar from it you are.

The free wireless router that you get doesn't have a very far range compared to something like the HomeHub, but it is a generally stable router (more stable than the HomeHub anyways). The downloads are truly unmetered.

[Flisker]

LOLOLOLOLOLOL I live like 30 foot away from my exchange
http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/NDKNO

but it has false info

[Dentafrice]

It is absolutely brilliant if you live relatively close to your exchange (within about 2 miles or so) visit www.samknows.com to find about about your nearest exchange and work out howfar from it you are.

The free wireless router that you get doesn't have a very far range compared to something like the HomeHub, but it is a generally stable router (more stable than the HomeHub anyways). The downloads are truly unmetered.

From what I know, the way it is in the US, you can always upgrade your router/modem, and/or install a separate wireless gateway from the one the telephone company gives you. Without being branded by all their crap.

Are most internet companies in the UK metered? Here in the USA almost all telephone companies are unmetered.

[N!ck]

From what I know, the way it is in the US, you can always upgrade your router/modem, and/or install a separate wireless gateway from the one the telephone company gives you. Without being branded by all their crap.

Are most internet companies in the UK metered? Here in the USA almost all telephone companies are unmetered.

Yes you can get your own router if you wish, it works the same as in the US. People generally tend to keep their "free" router though. A lot of companies in the UK subject you to a fair usage policy on their "unmetered" packages. Most include "excessive usage" in this which defeats the object of an unlimited connection.

[Dentafrice]

Yes you can get your own router if you wish, it works the same as in the US. People generally tend to keep their "free" router though. A lot of companies in the UK subject you to a fair usage policy on their "unmetered" packages. Most include "excessive usage" in this which defeats the object of an unlimited connection.

Well I can see there is probably some conditions in the fine print that can specify how much "excessive usage" is, but you never really hear the terms metered and unmetered when speaking of internet in the USA.

It usually all is, unless you get the cheap $9.00 dialup packages.

[N!ck]

Well I can see there is probably some conditions in the fine print that can specify how much "excessive usage" is, but you never really hear the terms metered and unmetered when speaking of internet in the USA.

It usually all is, unless you get the cheap $9.00 dialup packages.

The US is more advanced as far as telephony is concerned as Britain was one of the first places to have "the internet" so to speak, so the technology in the US is newer, so capable of handling more. The UK is slowly going through some upgrades though and one idea being put into play is installing optical fibers through the sewers. I bet once you start using several hundred GBs per month though in the US ISPs will start getting on your back anyway.

[Dentafrice]

The US is more advanced as far as telephony is concerned as Britain was one of the first places to have "the internet" so to speak, so the technology in the US is newer, so capable of handling more. The UK is slowly going through some upgrades though and one idea being put into play is installing optical fibers through the sewers. I bet once you start using several hundred GBs per month though in the US ISPs will start getting on your back anyway.

You're probably right.

They already have internet in sewer lines!

http://www.google.com/tisp/

[N!ck]

You're probably right.

They already have internet in sewer lines!

http://www.google.com/tisp/

That was an April fools joke.

[Dentafrice]

That was an April fools joke.

Yeah, just thought I would post it, didn't know if you had seen it

Verizon (which I believe has ties to Vodafone in the UK) has began a new nationwide Fiber-Optic installation to provide us with Fiber-Optic internet.

Verizion FiOS.