Virgin --> Be

meghatronic

meghatronic

meghatronic

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I'm thinking of switching from Virign to Be.

Would I expect much of a speed/ping increase? Some people have said yes as Be is LLU and Virgin isn't, others say no as the line and exchange distnace (2km) limits me.

I get 5.6mb with Virign.
 
depends on your line

im about 3km from my exchange and sync at 11mbs. But with Bethere, that 11mbs is completely uncapped, and un traffic shaped.

I regularly download at 1MB/s and torrents easily get 500kB/s depending on number of seeds.

the pings are nice and low, they arent as low as they were on NTL. With NTL cable i was getting 10ms pings, with Bethere im getting 20/30 but its still very low and i cant actually tell the difference. its just a number.
 
I get 900 pings peak time (shaping) with Virgin which is now interfering with my work as the limiting factor is my connection with my work machine.

Even though I sync at ~5mb ish at the moment, would I expect more on LLU?
 
can you get your line attenuation and SNR from your existing router ?

there are calculators out there that tell you what to expect.
 
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Your downstream attenuation is a little on the high side. The lines near my house arent the best, with Be i sync at 11mb and if the servers are good, like rapidshare i get 1.2mb download every time. With my downstream attenuation of 34.5 i should be getting around 14-15mb but thats down to poor line quality. Btw Be are top quality, my connection hasnt dropped once in the past month and their customer service is excellent.

Edit: Ps. have you tried attaching to the test socket of your master bt socket? My speed went up 1mb from 10 to 11.
 
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The wiring of our hosue is dodgy... I'm going to have the Be box on the mast socket I think... although will I notice a poor response (ping wise) with wifi vs. wired?
 
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