Hiya are you still offering this deal ? im moving into a flat next week, i have a o2 mobile as part of a business contract which wont be registered to the flat im planning on living in as its my dads business contract, would this cause a problem ?
Any opinions on o2 broadband?
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Max, O2 mobile is not even necessary. You just need a mobile phone number (from any operator), so that they can send you text messages.
As far as I know, you also need a connected BT phone line (i.e., if you are moving into a flat which does not have a phone line yet, you will have to wait until the line is connected by BT). If you know your future BT number, you can check on the o2 broadband web-site, whether it is already in the database.
As far as I know, you also need a connected BT phone line (i.e., if you are moving into a flat which does not have a phone line yet, you will have to wait until the line is connected by BT). If you know your future BT number, you can check on the o2 broadband web-site, whether it is already in the database.
It has a bt line already in the flat, i just dont know the number for it yet, i know be/o2 is enabled on the exchange already as i phoned be up about it when i had just the postcode to check, will get the bt number today and get the ball rolling then
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Hurraaaaa!!! I am connected now! Got a bit tired of WCDMA internet access in the past few weeks 
Wicksta, MANY THANKS! It was very kind of you to help.
Wicksta, MANY THANKS! It was very kind of you to help.
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My line is apparently quite bad... I am only 1.55km from the exchange as the crow flies. But line attenuation is 55.5db!!! 
I've cut bell wiles, connected straight into test socket, but all this onbviuosly did not help too much. The router seems to be choosing the SNR margin now, is probably going to stabilize at 7.5dB. Which gives me 1.5mbit downlink. Not very exciting, is it.
On the positive side, the uplink is 1mbit! Which is brilliant!!! Kudos to O2 for this. In my previous flat, I had 7Mbit downlink, but only 380kbit uplink. Which is crazy, internet was supposed to be a level playing field, symmetric, etc, with no "consumers and providers".
Also network latency seems to be quite low (20ms ping to a maidenhead server). And I have almost forgot in the past few weeks of using WCDMA (=internet over a 3g mobile) how quickly web-pages should load))
What do you guys think about 55.5dB attenuantion, when I am so close to exchange? Is there anything realistic I can do about this (without moving flat or spending thousands)? Also I saw someone posted stats here, where they had 54dB attenuation, and downlink of 5.8Mbit (and that was without tweaking SNR margin). How was this possible?
I've cut bell wiles, connected straight into test socket, but all this onbviuosly did not help too much. The router seems to be choosing the SNR margin now, is probably going to stabilize at 7.5dB. Which gives me 1.5mbit downlink. Not very exciting, is it.On the positive side, the uplink is 1mbit! Which is brilliant!!! Kudos to O2 for this. In my previous flat, I had 7Mbit downlink, but only 380kbit uplink. Which is crazy, internet was supposed to be a level playing field, symmetric, etc, with no "consumers and providers".
Also network latency seems to be quite low (20ms ping to a maidenhead server). And I have almost forgot in the past few weeks of using WCDMA (=internet over a 3g mobile) how quickly web-pages should load
))What do you guys think about 55.5dB attenuantion, when I am so close to exchange? Is there anything realistic I can do about this (without moving flat or spending thousands)? Also I saw someone posted stats here, where they had 54dB attenuation, and downlink of 5.8Mbit (and that was without tweaking SNR margin). How was this possible?
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And regarding "no dialtone for a few days" problems, in case anyone has a similar problem in the future:
The next day after I ordered broadband from O2, dialtone in my phoneline disappeared. I waited couple of days for it to resolve itself, it didn't, then I logged a fault with BT. A BT engineer came today, checked the line, gave a call to his colleague, and an hour later my line was repaired (with both dialtone and DSL functioning now).
The next day after I ordered broadband from O2, dialtone in my phoneline disappeared. I waited couple of days for it to resolve itself, it didn't, then I logged a fault with BT. A BT engineer came today, checked the line, gave a call to his colleague, and an hour later my line was repaired (with both dialtone and DSL functioning now).
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Skull, do you know whether you really want an answer?
I'm connected now and the router tells me im connected at
Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]: 1,321 / 20,930
but speed test says I'm only getting around 10512 kb/s, any reason why this is?
Also how can I see if I'm on fastpath or interleaved as I'm getting fairly high (70) pings?
Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]: 1,321 / 20,930
but speed test says I'm only getting around 10512 kb/s, any reason why this is?
Also how can I see if I'm on fastpath or interleaved as I'm getting fairly high (70) pings?
Speed test sucks tbh, its hit or miss really.
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in my case, BT's database was updated early in the morning on the day of engineer's visit (even before his visit).
Just had our o2 broadband activated. Great setup and communication, order went in on Tuesday, box received on Thursday, service activated on Monday with updates via text and email.
Speeds are great so far, synced at 1,308 / 17,851 with 23db downstream attenuation, better than I was expecting considering we're roughly 2km from the exchange (didn't have any attenuation figures to play with as we haven't had ADSL previously).
The supplied Thompson router seems pretty naff, but I'll bridge it with my monowall box and switch off all the unnecessary services, so will see how well it performs doing that. Also Be's DNS servers already seem pretty flakey, so using OpenDNS for now until I decide on some decent ones to use.
All in all pretty chuffed with the move, and especially thankful for the friends and family deal being offered by a couple of members here. Compared to our 20mbps VM cable we're saving almost £30pm (we always had a BT phone line anyway) for what I think is a better service.
Thumbs up o2.
Speeds are great so far, synced at 1,308 / 17,851 with 23db downstream attenuation, better than I was expecting considering we're roughly 2km from the exchange (didn't have any attenuation figures to play with as we haven't had ADSL previously).
The supplied Thompson router seems pretty naff, but I'll bridge it with my monowall box and switch off all the unnecessary services, so will see how well it performs doing that. Also Be's DNS servers already seem pretty flakey, so using OpenDNS for now until I decide on some decent ones to use.
All in all pretty chuffed with the move, and especially thankful for the friends and family deal being offered by a couple of members here. Compared to our 20mbps VM cable we're saving almost £30pm (we always had a BT phone line anyway) for what I think is a better service.
Thumbs up o2.
Guys,
Currently sitting on a very, very slow gprs connection on my laptop at the girlfriends.
Without having to load all of the pages in this thread for info, please could someone detail the o2 F&F package?
I've been on the o2 website and can see the 7.50 deal for those with an o2 mobile (my brother has one so we can use that ! )... is this my best shot?
We just need very basic broadband for browsing the web... it's getting quite urgent now so would like to order asap !
If anyoine has any reccomendations they can use or any discount codes (?) please could you email them to me and i'd be forever greatful? Email is - steeveeh (AT) googlemail (DOT) com
Regards!
Currently sitting on a very, very slow gprs connection on my laptop at the girlfriends.
Without having to load all of the pages in this thread for info, please could someone detail the o2 F&F package?
I've been on the o2 website and can see the 7.50 deal for those with an o2 mobile (my brother has one so we can use that ! )... is this my best shot?
We just need very basic broadband for browsing the web... it's getting quite urgent now so would like to order asap !
If anyoine has any reccomendations they can use or any discount codes (?) please could you email them to me and i'd be forever greatful? Email is - steeveeh (AT) googlemail (DOT) com
Regards!
NiCkNaMe,
My email address is in my trust (not my msn one which I never checl), with my friends and family discount I can get you the top package available on your line for £7.50 a month, and no O2 mobile phone needed.
Send me your name, address, landline number, mobile number (doesn't have to be O2, just a mobile to send update texts to) and I can get that sorted for you.
My email address is in my trust (not my msn one which I never checl), with my friends and family discount I can get you the top package available on your line for £7.50 a month, and no O2 mobile phone needed.
Send me your name, address, landline number, mobile number (doesn't have to be O2, just a mobile to send update texts to) and I can get that sorted for you.
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