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Indy500 · 11 Oct 2007 at 22:16

A company called Cerberus Networks is offering identical services...

Uncleiven · 11 Oct 2007 at 22:24

who????

Indy500 · 11 Oct 2007 at 22:26

Uncleiven said:
who????

http://www.cerberusnetworks.co.uk/int_adsl2.html

Uncleiven · 11 Oct 2007 at 22:28

cool cheers

Wicksta · 11 Oct 2007 at 22:54

sr4470 said:
http://www.cerberusnetworks.co.uk/int_adsl2.html

Who's equipment are they using?

Indy500 · 11 Oct 2007 at 23:00

Wicksta said:
Who's equipment are they using?

Cisco is listed as a partner.

Locky · 12 Oct 2007 at 00:13

Wicksta said:
No it doesn't help at all, it fact the complete opposite. Every modern browser (even those on a mobile phone) can word wrap, however the two extra carraige returns you put into each line of your post will mean that two unnecessary lines of display will be used up on a device with a smaller screen.

ok i get the point no need to post it 3 times already

Wicksta · 12 Oct 2007 at 08:38

sr4470 said:
Cisco is listed as a partner.

No I mean in whos equipment in the exchanges (ie. Easynet, Be, BT) or in other words who's ADSL service are they reselling?

Si MPS · 12 Oct 2007 at 09:30

Yeah, if they're their own 'LLU', i predict you'll be able to get it in what, 2-3 exchanges?

NeilF · 12 Oct 2007 at 10:45

Liquid_Entity said:
What about the DG834GT ?

Note: When I compared my DG834GT to the BeBox, the BeBox gave better pings. The Netgear was about 35ms to clarity.jolt.co.uk, and the BeBox was about 29ms...

My main reason for returning to the BeBox was that's it's wireless was far far better than my Netgears, which was probably going bad TBH!

csmager · 12 Oct 2007 at 10:52

Si MPS said:
Yeah, if they're their own 'LLU', i predict you'll be able to get it in what, 2-3 exchanges?

They're using Be's services. Hence the identical service plans, and identical service plan names. Only difference would be Ceberus would do their own tech support.

DarkShadow · 12 Oct 2007 at 11:52

I'm tempted to leave Nildram, I hope their CS is decent

Indy500 · 12 Oct 2007 at 12:31

Wicksta said:
No I mean in whos equipment in the exchanges (ie. Easynet, Be, BT) or in other words who's ADSL service are they reselling?

Seems like Be to me, but its interesting they bill it as zero contention.

chaosophy · 12 Oct 2007 at 14:00

Yep, got the email as well and think this is good news. Saving £6 a month.

Tempted to go Pro and get the higher upload for £2 less than I'm paying now but want to see more people with similar stats to try and gage how much d/l speed I would lose. The extra upload would be handy for work.

Modulation: G.992.5 Annex A
Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]: 1,105 / 13,923
Data Transferred (Sent/Received) [MB/GB]: 322.71 / 7.61
Output Power (Up/Down) [dBm]: 12.0 / 19.0
Line Attenuation (Up/Down) [dB]: 11.5 / 25.0
SN Margin (Up/Down) [dB]: 13.0 / 12.0
Vendor ID (Local/Remote): TMMB / BDCM

Any one here use DMT tool for messing with their SNR?

Also BE's DNS servers are a bit flaky atm so I've pointed my box to use openDNS' servers and general web browsing is a lot snappier now.

MarkLP · 12 Oct 2007 at 14:05

Would it be worth switching over from Plus.net?

I can't recieve Cable only ADSL if it makes a difference?

Sp00n · 12 Oct 2007 at 16:06

[DW]Muffin;10255349 said:

Wow thats a pretty noisy line!

Hopefully i should be able to get more than that but many thanks for posting it up

Si MPS · 13 Oct 2007 at 17:33

csmager said:
They're using Be's services. Hence the identical service plans, and identical service plan names. Only difference would be Ceberus would do their own tech support.

Are they? Are you sure about that?

Si MPS · 13 Oct 2007 at 17:37

sr4470 said:
Seems like Be to me, but its interesting they bill it as zero contention.

Be has Zero Contention, there is nothing in our network that'll allow us to contend lines.

csmager · 13 Oct 2007 at 17:39

Si MPS said:
Are they? Are you sure about that?

Not 100% sure, but they have said they use the LLU services of a 3rd party, and it's a little convenient they call their 3 plans 'Value', 'Unlimited' and 'Pro' and each offer exactly the same as the 3 plans Be offer called 'Value', 'Unlimited' and 'Pro'.

I doubt it's a coincidence.

EDIT: Checked a phone number on an exchange that only had one ADSL2+ provider (Be to see if it was do-able there and Cerberus say 'yes'.

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange.php?ecode=SWCJ

Afaik, CPW & AOL don't do ADSL2+, so it's got to be Be.

OzZie · 13 Oct 2007 at 17:47

Anyone logged into the portal and viewed if they are on the Pro package yet? Mine says that i am, but havent seen any change in upload or download speed.