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mobily 09-01-2006 21:13
How much are you paying and what speed are you getting?
 
£14.99 for first 3 months then £17.99 thereafter.

Speed: 512kb

Rooked 10-01-2006 12:48
Re: How much are you paying and what speed are you getting?
 
£34.99 10 meg

and 17.99 2 meg unlimited at the girlfriends

deadite66 10-01-2006 14:40
Re: How much are you paying and what speed are you getting?
 
hehe someone who's paying a lower price might not want to reply here for fear of being found out.

mobily 10-01-2006 21:14
Re: How much are you paying and what speed are you getting?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by deadite66
hehe someone who's paying a lower price might not want to reply here for fear of being found out.
That is what I am interested in. I contacted Customer Services who told me Plymouth will not be upgraded until April! How ridiculous is that!!?? This means some people are paying the same as me and will have benefited from six months of more than triple the speed!

I don't think they have thought through their upgrade plan very thoroughly.

etccarmageddon 10-01-2006 22:36
Re: How much are you paying and what speed are you getting?
 
I'm paying £9.99 a month for 1meg and have been for the last 6 months and will be for the next 6 months.

jaspo25 11-01-2006 15:32
Re: How much are you paying and what speed are you getting?
 
Cheeky gets have been charging me £35 all along was on origional 2MB elite service and am still only getting 2MB service won't even upgrade me to 4MB say they can't do it till Doncaster area upgraded. Still waiting for that as well. :confused:

peterq2 11-01-2006 16:27
Re: How much are you paying and what speed are you getting?
 
£35 for 4Mb :( but fingers crossed i will be upgraded to the 10Mb by the end of the month.

danielf 11-01-2006 16:35
Re: How much are you paying and what speed are you getting?
 
£25 for 4MB. I was upgraded from 1MB today...

Thank you Blueyonder :D

v0id 11-01-2006 22:52
Re: How much are you paying and what speed are you getting?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by jaspo25
Cheeky gets have been charging me £35 all along was on origional 2MB elite service and am still only getting 2MB service won't even upgrade me to 4MB say they can't do it till Doncaster area upgraded. Still waiting for that as well. :confused:
so you missed the upgrade option that was in Selfcare through November then?


I'm paying £35 for 4Mb, soon (I use the term soon loosely) to be 10Mb

ginzeh 12-01-2006 02:50
Re: How much are you paying and what speed are you getting?
 
£35 for 10meg..

did pay £50! for 4meg before though...

They kept charging me £50 until i kicked up a fuss though

peterq2 12-01-2006 13:35
Re: How much are you paying and what speed are you getting?
 
Got upgraded this morning to 10Mb so £35 for 10Mb :)

senzer 13-01-2006 02:24
Re: How much are you paying and what speed are you getting?
 
35 for 10mb.. bad price if you ask me.

Paul 13-01-2006 04:14
Re: How much are you paying and what speed are you getting?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by senzer
35 for 10mb.. bad price if you ask me.
Why is that exactly ?

peterq2 13-01-2006 05:57
Re: How much are you paying and what speed are you getting?
 
This could be the reason https://www.bethere.co.uk/ Be is the first UK Broadband Internet service provider (ISP) to deliver the awesome power of up to 24 meg broadband. With download speeds up to a staggering 24 meg and upload speeds up to a record-breaking 1.3 meg all for £24 a month.

Clan 13-01-2006 10:37
Re: How much are you paying and what speed are you getting?
 
2002 £25 for 250 Kb :)
2003 £25 for 512 kb
2004 £25 for 1mb
2005 £25 for 4Mb
"006 downgraded to 2MB for £17.99

Clan

Ignition 13-01-2006 12:09
Re: How much are you paying and what speed are you getting?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by peterq2
This could be the reason https://www.bethere.co.uk/ Be is the first UK Broadband Internet service provider (ISP) to deliver the awesome power of up to 24 meg broadband. With download speeds up to a staggering 24 meg and upload speeds up to a record-breaking 1.3 meg all for £24 a month.
That's actually a bit dodgy. You will never ever see 24Mbit download even if you connect a modem directly into Be's kit as it's just not possible, you will never upload at 1.3.

Hope they don't advertise that elsewhere apart from their own website!

The real killer there is that they are talking about it like it is the kind of performance you might actually see. You won't even on an absolutely flawless line that's 1 inch long.

Chris 13-01-2006 12:56
Re: How much are you paying and what speed are you getting?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ignition
That's actually a bit dodgy. You will never ever see 24Mbit download even if you connect a modem directly into Be's kit as it's just not possible, you will never upload at 1.3.

Hope they don't advertise that elsewhere apart from their own website!

The real killer there is that they are talking about it like it is the kind of performance you might actually see. You won't even on an absolutely flawless line that's 1 inch long.
From their site:

Quote:
Our first connected customer averaged a record-breaking speed of 18.5 meg.
https://www.bethere.co.uk/companyinf...8A9ED5.tomcat2

Anyway, I didn't think there was anything dodgy about an ISP using the catch-all get-out-words 'up to'. ;)

EDIT

On that page though, look at the photomontage at the top, and then tell me how many different people you can see across all the photos. I suspect this ISP is not a big operation. Customer services could be interesting once they have more than a few dozen subs. :erm:

EDIT AGAIN

Ah, here's another page:

https://www.bethere.co.uk/team.do

Looks like there's eight of them. And seeing as that page proves they can't write web pages that render properly in FF, I resolve never to give them my business. Cowboys.

toom 14-01-2006 21:11
Re: How much are you paying and what speed are you getting?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Clan
2002 £25 for 250 Kb :)
2003 £25 for 512 kb
2004 £25 for 1mb
2005 £25 for 4Mb
"006 downgraded to 2MB for £17.99

Clan
skin flint lol

Ignition 14-01-2006 22:49
Re: How much are you paying and what speed are you getting?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris T
From their site:


https://www.bethere.co.uk/companyinf...8A9ED5.tomcat2

Anyway, I didn't think there was anything dodgy about an ISP using the catch-all get-out-words 'up to'. ;)

EDIT

On that page though, look at the photomontage at the top, and then tell me how many different people you can see across all the photos. I suspect this ISP is not a big operation. Customer services could be interesting once they have more than a few dozen subs. :erm:

EDIT AGAIN

Ah, here's another page:

https://www.bethere.co.uk/team.do

Looks like there's eight of them. And seeing as that page proves they can't write web pages that render properly in FF, I resolve never to give them my business. Cowboys.
Be's management team are top notch dude :p:

BTW yes there's nothing dodgy about saying 'up to' I just think it's dodgy when it's impossible to reach the 'up to' :p:


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