Thinking of moving to Be*, is my modem/router up to it?

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OK, I'm currently with Freeola (Enta) and I'm currently playing £25 a month for an 8MB 30GB Peak, 300GB off peak service.

Be* have an unlimited (and a beleive this is a true unlimited, right?) service for £18 a month for a 20MB service. I live, according to sam knows, 200 metres from our exchange (straight line) so we have a good chance of getting a very good speed and it will save me a little bit of money too. all in all, a very attractive offer.

I currently have a Netgear DG834G v3 (NOT GT) Modem/Router. I don't use the wireless at the moment and it's connected directly to the master socket and the PC is damned close to it and the other other device I use is my 360. Will this router suffice? I do want to upgrade to a newer router in the futurue however at the moment this is just a cost cutting exercise.

Also, I live on the damned internet like many others. How much downtime can I expect? Has anyone experienced migration with Freeola/Enta providers to a service such as Be/O2? This will be my first ever migration so it's all new to me at this stage. Also, do Be utilise traffic shaping as I do use torrents now and again.

 

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Excellent. Be seem to have a big following with unofficial forums and IRC! This is pretty much a no-brainer then. Thanks for the prompt and useful responces guys. Im pretty chuffed now, to give it a try. Got to fill a form out and post it to Freeola to recieve my MAC code.

Be* IRC seems friendly too.

/me gets excited.

 

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Quick bump.

These are my current (Enta/Freeola) line stats from the router:

Downstream
Connection Speed: 8128 kbps
Line Attenuation: 8 db
Noise Margin: 11 db

Upstream
Connection Speed: 448 kbps
Line Attenuation: 1.5 db
Noise Margin: 29 db

Is this good/bad, I'm not too wise about what I'm looking at so far.

 

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Well, I signed up yesterday, scheduled to be activated next Thursday

One quick question. What is the benefit of a static IP and should I get one? I have a static IP with my current provider. I don't run any servers or anything like that.

 

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IF those figures are actually accurate and not errored in some way, you'll surely get max speed from your ADSL2+ connection.

That's the stats screen. Looks good to me

Dynamic IP it is. Can't wait to get connected now

A lot of v3's use the AR7 chipset rather than the better broadcom one, these require a special setting and just aren't as good.

Oh

I will have to see. I don't use the wireless so I can use the Be Box if I have any probs till I get a decent router.As long as im not left without a connection at all in the time being!

 

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The line comes straight to the wall down to the window and to the socket. I had to get the line put in when I moved in. The router is plugged straight in to that via a filter.

Thanks for the info MT-. Once I'm connected I'll use the BeBox till the line settles then I will see whats what with the routers etc

 

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Woohoo! Connected!

Just plugged in the BeBox (Thomson 585v7) and away I go.

It's taken me 15 mins to get used to the interface, not as intuitive as my Netgear but so far so good. Forwarded my uTorrent port and ran it. Had a torrent running at <20kbps for weeks, now it's running at 200+. Excellent start.

Here are the line stats:

Uptime: 0 days, 0:27:12
DSL Type: G.992.5 annex A
Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]: 1,291 / 21,484
Data Transferred (Sent/Received) [kB/kB]: 0.00 / 0.00
Output Power (Up/Down) [dBm]: 12.0 / 19.0
Line Attenuation (Up/Down) [dB]: 4.5 / 11.0
SN Margin (Up/Down) [dB]: 7.0 / 7.5
Vendor ID (Local/Remote): TMMB / BDCM
Loss of Framing (Local/Remote): 12 / 0
Loss of Signal (Local/Remote): 1 / 0
Loss of Power (Local/Remote): 0 / 0
Loss of Link (Remote): 0
Error Seconds (Local/Remote): 1 / 0
FEC Errors (Up/Down): 0 / 29,760
CRC Errors (Up/Down): 0 / 0
HEC Errors (Up/Down): 116 / 0

Not quite sure what all this means, esp the errors at the bottom but I'm sure the connection needs time to settle?