be*

[N00bie]

Im with them atm there fantastic, would deffo recommend to anybody

 

[cmndr_andi]

Tripnologist thanks for the tip, I sent a ticket to enable fastpath. Hopefully see max speed soon.

@Sudden: I've got BE unlimited (23.6Mbps now)

I use around 150GB per month, not had any problem from BE and have been with them since September 2008.

 

[gurusan]

I am with Be, download about 4-8GB per day and upload 3-4GB per day. Not ever been contacted about using too much bandwidth

 

[Sudden]

Ah sounds great I rarely go over 50 and when I do, never above 65. So seems like I shouldn't have a problem

 

[CowboyTony]

Be* and O2 are the same company and use the same infrastucture etc. If you have an O2 moblie phone you get a cheaper rate with them rather than Be* I'm with O2 and get 13.5Mbps. Its a great, consistant service. I download about 1GB/day on average. Used to get about 4Mbps with Orange/Wanadoo before switching.

 

[biron_w]

I may try them then.You can 3 months free at the moment and I get £50 cashback through quidco

 

[Berserker]

I don't know how much I download a day, and the beauty is, I neither need to know nor need to care.

It's probably about 1GB/day though (peaking at 5-10GB when I'm streaming lots of video or transferring files between servers).

PS - I wouldn't mind knowing actually, but don't think my router (Draytek) supports that sort of thing.

 

[Linx]

With Sky on ADSL2+ i get an upload speed of 0.9mb and DL of 9MB i live 800m from exchange. Looking at peoples opinions here though it seems Be is definitley the better choice, go with be

 

[iMacMart]

Who were you with before and what speed did you get before?I'm maybe just under 2km from the exchange so wondering if i'd actually get more than 4meg if I went with them.

Was with ADSL24 and got 8meg

 

[Axil]

Been with BE for just over a year - over than the odd issue with pings which now appeared to be fixed the service has been extremely reliable. I'm on the 8Mb service as I'm about 4 Km from local exchange but get 4.5Mb so pretty happy with that.

Have only been e-mailed once by Be about excessive downloading and then when I wotked it out I'd downloaded about 150Gb

 

[Sudden]

Been with BE for just over a year - over than the odd issue with pings which now appeared to be fixed the service has been extremely reliable. I'm on the 8Mb service as I'm about 4 Km from local exchange but get 4.5Mb so pretty happy with that.

Have only been e-mailed once by Be about excessive downloading and then when I wotked it out I'd downloaded about 150Gb

It's over double of my usual monthly thing, but still, that is worrying...I was under the impression that they have never invoked their fair usage policy?

 

[biron_w]

I've tested my line for ADSL2+ and it says I will get between 8&13meg.Whereas i'll only get up to 6 with normal ADSL.

 

[.Griff.]

I was under the impression that they have never invoked their fair usage policy?

From the Be forum -

Hi guys

For legal reasons we have to disclose a fair usage policy, however, it will only be applied if a member's usage is negatively affecting other's usage. To date we have never applied this fair usage policy, so that's what it means when it says 'a rather fair usage policy' Very Happy

Kind regards
_________________
Louise Kirlew
Head of Member Services

 

[.Griff.]

I've tested my line for ADSL2+ and it says I will get between 8&13meg.Whereas i'll only get up to 6 with normal ADSL.

"It" is simply an estimate, a rough one at that, of attainable speed based on details about your line supplied by BT. Don't be surprised if the physical speed you achieve after the service goes live is completely different.

For example all the "LLU checkers" tell me I'll be lucky to achieve more than 5mbps on my line yet here I am a Be customer of two years with a 17mbps connection. Be acknowledge the information BT hold about my line is incorrect but BT are loathed to correct it.

 

[ca9phoenix]

i've been with them for 2 years, called them and said i wanted to move to o2 (who owns them) and they reduced my monthly cost to £12 instead of £17.50.... and that's a permanent price fix!

i won't be leaving them in a hurry as on bt i was getting 2Mbps and on be* i'm getting just over 6!

 

[Axil]

It's over double of my usual monthly thing, but still, that is worrying...I was under the impression that they have never invoked their fair usage policy?

It's only happened once and that was when there were some serious network issues on Be*(since been fixed) . The e-mail didn't threaten or anything, it was a polite request (which I thought was quite fair) so I was quite happy with it. Since then I've gone over 150Gb a few times with no problems

 

[obilvion82]

150GB THATS A LOT OF PORN. LOL

IM WITH O2 THEY OWN BE AND TRY TO OFFER THE SAME SERVICE WHICH IS OK BUT FROM MY UNDERSTANDING BE OFFER MULTIPLE STATIC IP'S WHERE O2 ONLY PROVIDE 1.

 

[Psypher5]

Theres a key called Caps lock, hit it.

If anyone wants to join be give me a shout and il ldo the reffer a friend thing

 

[biron_w]

I've gone with o2 as opposed to be*.
Decided as I get £70 cashback from quidco and for £1.18 more a month you get the mid package from o2 compared to the bottom one from be*.

 

[The Deuce]

Been with BE for just over a year - over than the odd issue with pings which now appeared to be fixed the service has been extremely reliable. I'm on the 8Mb service as I'm about 4 Km from local exchange but get 4.5Mb so pretty happy with that.

Have only been e-mailed once by Be about excessive downloading and then when I wotked it out I'd downloaded about 150Gb

Strange... I download AT LEAST 400gig a month and have NEVER had anything from Be*.

Be* pride themselves on NOT dishing out letters or capping one's service.