Moving to Be Unlimited from BT

FrenchTart · 24 Jun 2008 at 11:49

Ah yes... I thought you could do that but haven't used the BeBox in some time so wasn't sure.

Si MPS · 24 Jun 2008 at 11:57

yeah, most of the thomson boxes are actually really configurable

manveruppd · 24 Jun 2008 at 12:54

marmalade said:
There is little prospect of dropping your speed by moving to o2. Don't forget to join www.quidco.com and click thru them for a bungback. Last time I looked o2 were cheaper than BE - it's all the same company - BE shows when using torrents and I'm o2.

You saying that O2 own Be? I've got a mobile contract with O2, had a look on their site and their prices for mobile customers are quite cheap, is there any way to get the reduced subscriber price AND the cashback from quidco?

FrenchTart · 24 Jun 2008 at 12:55

o2 bought out Be a while back.

I think you can get an o2 broadband contract and sign up through quidco in the same way and you'll get some money back. Less than with Be though.

Chasser · 24 Jun 2008 at 13:00

Si MPS said:
we get the data from BTs LLU Checker, so theres a good chance your line length is incorrect on there.

As the crow flies I am approx just over a kilometre from the exchange, however BT reckoned the line routing was well over 5 clicks.

With your 'insider' knowledge, would you say o2/Be should be able to match (or better) what BT provided, normally anything around 3 to 5 Mbs? I was steady at 5Mbs for ages but suffered quite a few drop-outs over a period of a month or so and then the lline seemed to settle at 3.5Mbs.

cheers

manveruppd · 24 Jun 2008 at 13:02

Aekeron said:
o2 bought out Be a while back.

I think you can get an o2 broadband contract and sign up through quidco in the same way and you'll get some money back. Less than with Be though.

Yeah, but the customer discount works outat about £5 a month so that make up the difference in cashback in the first 3 months.

FrenchTart · 24 Jun 2008 at 14:07

Indeed. I'd go for o2 over Be unless you really want fastpath on your line (I do, improves pings for gaming).

MarcLister · 24 Jun 2008 at 14:49

Fastpath? Is this similar to Upload Plus?

To get the £15 a moth for up to 20Meg on O2 you have to be an O2 mobile customer. Does it matter if it is PAYG or contract? And how do you prove it? Give them your O2 mobile number?

tolien · 24 Jun 2008 at 14:52

No, it means no interleaving.

FrenchTart · 24 Jun 2008 at 15:01

PAYG is fine - they text you an activation code or something I think.

manjuice · 24 Jun 2008 at 16:10

MarcLister said:
Fastpath? Is this similar to Upload Plus?

To get the £15 a moth for up to 20Meg on O2 you have to be an O2 mobile customer. Does it matter if it is PAYG or contract? And how do you prove it? Give them your O2 mobile number?

If you're on PAYG you give you your o2 number and they check if you have topped-up in the past 3 months. If you haven't, you don't get a discount. You have to top-up every 3 months to get your discount.

MarcLister · 24 Jun 2008 at 16:35

I think I'd manage a top-up every three months.

And if you are on contract they just leave it as they know you pay every month?

manjuice · 24 Jun 2008 at 16:44

MarcLister said:
I think I'd manage a top-up every three months.

And if you are on contract they just leave it as they know you pay every month?

If you’re an O2 Pay Monthly customer and your O2 Pay Monthly contract is terminated for any reason or if you port to another mobile provider, you are no
longer eligible for the Home Broadband discount and will automatically be charged the standard price for your O2 Home Broadband Package from the date of termination of your O2 Pay Monthly contract or porting to another mobile provider.

Si MPS · 24 Jun 2008 at 16:46

we can do fastpath on O2 now, did a few modifications to our CS interfaces to bring them in line with Be's.

With regards to getting the same speed you'd get on BT, we are ADSL2+ by default, but we don't have a BRAS setup like BT or a DLM setup like Be*.

Si MPS · 24 Jun 2008 at 16:47

So it trial and error with upping noise profiles to get stability, but everyone is well trained

FrenchTart · 24 Jun 2008 at 16:51

Si MPS said:
we can do fastpath on O2 now, did a few modifications to our CS interfaces to bring them in line with Be's.

With regards to getting the same speed you'd get on BT, we are ADSL2+ by default, but we don't have a BRAS setup like BT or a DLM setup like Be*.

Oh, rocking.

I'm quite tempted by the 'friends and family' reduction for the ultimate package then. £7.50/month for 20mbit would be nice

MarcLister · 24 Jun 2008 at 17:41

Cheers.

Si MPS · 25 Jun 2008 at 12:31

Aekeron said:
Oh, rocking.

I'm quite tempted by the 'friends and family' reduction for the ultimate package then. £7.50/month for 20mbit would be nice

we could do it anyway but it wasnt built into the CS interfaces for the CS agents.

you know someone internally?

i'm trying to get rid of some of my £7.50 friends and family discounts

FrenchTart · 25 Jun 2008 at 13:58

I've contacted someone but I know a lot of people on Be (I used to be a member mod on the beforums - FrenchTart) so if the same can be done with them to switch to o2 I can definitely throw some names your way.

harris1986 · 25 Jun 2008 at 14:39

sorry had to be done, now i've either dreamt it or seen it somewhere that people have changed from Bethere to o2 broadband and had good results from this, can anyone clarify?