Changing ISP o2 or Bethere?

Soldato
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ok guys i'm going to be changing my isp from Bt 8mb to o2 or bethere which do you guys think would be the better bet? i know o2 own bethere and the prices are fairly similar and from the early reviews i've found reports are fairly good but i've heard too many horror stories about phone companies setting up broadband and it being terrible (e.g. orange).

what are your thoughts?
 
well just got my connection up with Be now, and first reports are ok, according to the bebox i'm getting 14mb down and 1.29mb up, not massive issue would like more but hey i'm not too fussy, speedtest reports back at 11.5mb down and 1.12 up!

the thing that's annoyed me the most is my online ping i'm currently getting around 20-24ping on most uk servers in cs 1.6 now i know this is major or even high but bearing in mind i was getting 7-14ping constant on my old 8mb bt line i wouldn't have hoped for such a high increase?

i have just enabled fastpath on my line so hopefully this will cure some gremlins?
 
ok guys i changed from BT to Be and in my time with Be things haven't been exactly rosie!

1) innitially i had my online gaming ping go from 7-14 with BT (8mb) to 20-24 with Be, all be it nothing massive it's still unexpected that i got a increase. This problems has been near enough fixed now that i've enabled Fastpath and i'm pinging around 16-17.

2) after setting up my Be email accounts for my family i haven't once been able to access them.

3) Yesterday and today i've tried accessing many websites and it's producing error's such as this one which i've just received

"Server not found

Firefox can't find the server at uk.f863.mail.yahoo.com.
* Check the address for typing errors such as
ww.example.com instead of
www.example.com

* If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
connection.

* If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Firefox is permitted to access the Web."

so all in all not been particularly impressed with my connection and i hope it gets better from this, if anyone has any of the similar problems or has any resolutions please let me know!
 
i changed the dns now the websites are fine but i can't access bebox as it keeps forwarding to openDNS, will changeing my router fix this? was thinking about the DG834nGT i think it's called by netgear
 
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