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I read about this company in a thread a few weeks ago and filed the name away in case I ever wanted to swap provider. I'm currently with Tiscali and though their service has been ok, things are starting to annoy me:

1. I don't get close to 8Mbit download speed. I don't do much downloading but I'd like to get what I'm paying for.
2. They've had a few outages recently
3. I got a 'fair play' warning message today because I downloaded a load of Steam files this weekend. I am normally a low-level downloader

I've done some reading on Be, but am hoping people here can offer their personal opinions on the service - I'm specifically interested in how many outages you've experienced and how much downtime there was moving from your old provider to Be.
 
This talk of DNS issues and random disconnects doesn't fill me with a lot of confidence. With Tiscali I get maybe one disconnect a month (if that) when things are going normally. I play a lot of WoW and a single random disconnect in a 25 man raid can quite easily mean all 25 people doing a corpse run.
 
Well, I feel dirty but I renewed with Tiscali yesterday. I was paying £19 per month (they were pretty much all this price when I signed up) plus line rental. I've now got the same service for £15 per month including line rental. £15 a month cheaper in other words.

While a faster service would be nice, I'm not such a heavy downloader that I can afford to turn down 15 notes a month savings as well has having to pay £25 for Be setup and with the possibility of another £50-60 for a better router on top of the supplied one.

EDIT - but thanks for the comments and advice anyway :)
 
Aekeron said:
edit: Do find it kind of amusing that you've taken on board the comments of the one or two nay-sayers and mostly glossed over all the positive reviews.
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You've evidently not fully read the post where I've basically said it's all down to money :)

I could pay £15 all in for a modest service which has had maybe 4 outages in the last 15 or 16 months

Or I could pay £30 + network card + installation fee + maybe a better router for what is no doubt a faster download speed with probably better service (with the usual ymmv proviso)

I can't justify the extra outlay for the downloading I do. Worst case scenario is that it's £250 more expensive over the year for Be and it's money I'd rather spend elsewhere. It's nothing to do with ignoring opinions put forward here.
 
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