No Fibre from Be this year

Yeah i,m with Be and have hold off for ages ,as i liked there service :) but guess if thats the news i will be jumping ship in the next few months ,as i,m now live for fibre :)
 
Been with Be for around 3 years now and have never had any major issues with my connection but was hoping they would make the change soon.
 
To date having switched from Be to infinity, dns servers work better, websites load faster, pings are lower, speed is 4 times higher for me, and 80mb should be available to me pretty soon on top of that.

Be WERE great, but have been steadily downhill for the past 18-24 months. DNS servers becoming a bit of a joke, more frequent disconnections and after my Netgear died I got a new Be router.... lol, to call it a router is generous, 3 later and they wouldn't stay connected, evenings being disconnected 20-30 times.

THey are doing this "upgrade" to their network which likely needed doing some time ago, but refusing to invest early enough to keep everything running smoothly and well, rather upgrading when forced to but to late. Shame really, well BT for 18 months now, will see what Be are doing in 18 months.
 
Be built the first 24meg network in the county from the ground up, investment wasn't an issue. Then they got bought by o2 and yeh...

Still, most isp dns servers are poor, not like changing them is difficult. Similarly pretty much all isp supplied routers are **** too. Thompsons actually have the same line holding abilities as the old dg834gts, but the firmware is crud. Homehubs looks nice etc but have plenty problems underneath the gloss. Honestly it's generally absurd to think you'll get the performance/stability of a £70 router from an isps cheap as chips "router" which is again normal.

The only thing abnormal with your post is 20-30 disconnections which would suggest a problem with your phone line. Unsurprising a rewire fixed it. Still, if you don't hit BTs caps it's the logical choice if it's available :)

Then again - the day you have to restore 2 different steam libraries you may regret that cap :P
 
Sad news for me, but I'm stuck with them for another year (10 months).

However I'm getting it for a cheap price :D

I agree when there are problems Be can be kind of slow to fix it (upgrading capacity of exchanges before they become congested) but when it's working it's great and the ping is low.
 
Sad that Be wont be rolling out fibre...i can get fibre with BT but checking online i get 40mb download and 2mb upload...with Be i get 18mb down and 1mb up so think im gonna hang fire and see what Be do...im in no real hurry plus BT charge a bit too much for their rental as it is. I also dont like the fact that p2p will be traffic shaped at peak times...for me thats a fail as Be dont do anything of the sort.
 
Spawn said:
Sad that Be wont be rolling out fibre...i can get fibre with BT but checking online i get 40mb download and 2mb upload...with Be i get 18mb down and 1mb up so think im gonna hang fire and see what Be do...im in no real hurry plus BT charge a bit too much for their rental as it is. I also dont like the fact that p2p will be traffic shaped at peak times...for me thats a fail as Be dont do anything of the sort.
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Was with BE for 7 years. The problems at the end, despite being on a really **** connection really tipped me over.

Your ok m8 at 18. I would have loved 18mb down. I've been paying £18.25 I think for over a year with 6mb down and 800kb up. I've been stuck with this since I moved homes. Before I was paying around £17.50 for 14mb down and 1.1mb up (I loved it).

Doesn't make sense tbh. With BT now paying 25£ a month for a steady 37.4 down and 8.2 up.
 
aln said:
Much more interested in this: https://hyperoptic.com/.
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Will be great once it takes off, but it took a couple years to really get BE off the ground - unlike their Swedish "dig your own ditch" solution which exploded in less than a year :D

Outside of London/Bournemouth/Dundee the closest most of us are going to get to fiber links are BT/Virgin sadly.

Really which the uni didn't cap students at 10meg too, staff get 350-400 :mad:
 
Ok my take on this....... it is sad that Be aint going fiber
I went from 15Mb down 1.2Mb up with Be (unlimited)
to
38Mb down 8Mb up with Fiber (aquiss monthly 45Gig 8am-8pm mon-fri rest unmetered)
I do like the extra speed but having to wait until 8pm to start large downloads sucks
I got so used to Be and just hit it when ever you want way .....
was paying 22 , now paying 36
So for those thinking of leaving Be ... it is pretty good what you already have.
For my business line I went Be as I need large amounts of bandwidth during the day.
 
lurkio said:
Ok my take on this....... it is sad that Be aint going fiber

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So for those thinking of leaving Be ... it is pretty good what you already have.
For my business line I went Be as I need large amounts of bandwidth during the day.
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They probably will, just not anytime soon.

But yeah they are great if you need bandwidth. At times I used to be using 400GB download and 40GB upload a month and no complaints from them, and that was just from my PC with two other computers and multiple other devices using the wifi.

If scheduled internet usage isn't a problem then you've got a lot of options :)
 
inSilica said:
Was with BE for 7 years. The problems at the end, despite being on a really **** connection really tipped me over.

Your ok m8 at 18. I would have loved 18mb down. I've been paying £18.25 I think for over a year with 6mb down and 800kb up. I've been stuck with this since I moved homes. Before I was paying around £17.50 for 14mb down and 1.1mb up (I loved it).

Doesn't make sense tbh. With BT now paying 25£ a month for a steady 37.4 down and 8.2 up.
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Im paying about £15 a month with my BE connection...as much as id like the better speeds, im just not keen on their traffic shaping policy. At the moment i can download a few 5 gig files and not have to worry about my speed getting cut down.

Problem is that as much as i want the better speeds, its going to be difficult to find a fibre provider that doesnt traffic shape your connection at peak times as im always downloading uploading 24-7.

I'll wait to see what BE do about fibre and then if they do release it, i want to see what sort of prices and policies they will have...if they keep the non traffic shaping policy then im definitely staying with them.
 
glad I jumped ship from Be* last year, I noticed a big downturn in performance once O2 came on board and there was talk of traffic shaping.
 
Spawn said:
Im paying about £15 a month with my BE connection...as much as id like the better speeds, im just not keen on their traffic shaping policy. At the moment i can download a few 5 gig files and not have to worry about my speed getting cut down.

Problem is that as much as i want the better speeds, its going to be difficult to find a fibre provider that doesnt traffic shape your connection at peak times as im always downloading uploading 24-7.

I'll wait to see what BE do about fibre and then if they do release it, i want to see what sort of prices and policies they will have...if they keep the non traffic shaping policy then im definitely staying with them.
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While I agree with what you are saying, given that I have a VPS which I have OpenVPN installed on, lets just say my traffic is never shaped since all traffic between me and the outside world is via my vps in a tunnel :D

But seriously if you heavy on torrents just schedule 12AM-7AM jobs... not sure on hours but I know BT don't shape outside peak, ... or so they say: Haven't tried so don't quote me on it as I'm always in a tunnel and to BT traffic shaping it's meh ... a secure tunnel to a server
 
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