Be There! Or be Square!, What Shall I do!.

[Incomplete]

Originally Posted by Sirpingalot

I was just 200 metres from my exchange before I moved, but due to my awful experience with Tiscali, I shall never be going back to any form of DSL.

Tiscali are a steaming pile of excrement and are in no way representative of ADSL as a whole.

They pretty much give it away for a reason. Pay peanuts...

[Safeman]

Originally Posted by Sirpingalot

Apparently, Be broadband is actually the same as Sky's 16mbit offering. They advertise it as 24mbit/s because it IS technically possible to achieve those speeds. Only realistically if you live RIGHT on TOP of the EXCHANGE!

there is people on bethere who do get 24mb m8

[PowerUser]

Originally Posted by Spitfire12

Customers Only (Im a be* Customer btw)

Hi Power User

If you go to http://www.samknows.com/broadband/checker2.php and tell me what Distance your away from the exchange..we could guess on what speed ud get...

The results say:

You are approximately 3.16km from the exchange (straight line distance).

Verdict?. I think Below 10mbit Unfortunatly!. dam.

[Safeman]

ya m8 i was 2.4k from the exchange 8 meg i got

Originally Posted by Safeman

there is people on bethere who do get 24mb m8

Yep 21mbit at my old house, and a full 2+mbit up, boy do i miss that... (800 metres from the exchange)

[Spitfire12]

Originally Posted by PowerUser

The results say:

You are approximately 3.16km from the exchange (straight line distance).

Verdict?. I think Below 10mbit Unfortunatly!. dam.

Hey Mate 3.61KM is a Rough from That Checker.. 3.61KM Times 1.4 = 4.424KM (Real Line Lengh) at a guess . My Real Line Lengh is 3KM and i get 6.7 - 8MB

Be* Do not Supply there service for anyone over 5KM so at a guess you would get 1MB-1.5MB

On The Subject Be* Do not Traffic Shape nor do they Impose a Cap..

[Safeman]

Originally Posted by TraxData

Yep 21mbit at my old house, and a full 2+mbit up, boy do i miss that... (800 metres from the exchange)

[PowerUser]

Originally Posted by Spitfire12

so at a guess you would get 1MB-1.5MB.

oh dear, not good, not good at all.

[Spitfire12]

Originally Posted by PowerUser

oh dear, not good, not good at all.

Are you on ADSL atm Mate??

Sorry About The Speed...Its Depends on the Things you have inside your house

The Be* Guys told me 4MB and i sync at 6.7MB

So all is Nice

[Sirpingalot]

Originally Posted by Spitfire12

...and i sync at 6.7MB

Wow, 6.7MByte/s, that's like 53.6mbit/s

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I must admit that, at 200 meters from the exchange, Be's services are very tempting indeed. Unfortunately, latency is my main problem with DSL. Fibre is the way forward in terms of speed...

[PowerUser]

Originally Posted by Spitfire12

Are you on ADSL atm Mate??.

No M8 I've always been on cable

[Sirpingalot]

Well, that broadband availablity checker is reliable. Apparently, I can't have cable XD Cable broadband availability
The following information details the availability of cable broadband in your area.

Virgin Media cable is not available in your area

[christopherw]

Originally Posted by Sirpingalot

Wow, 6.7MByte/s, that's like 53.6mbit/s

---------- Post added at 17:55 ---------- Previous post was at 17:53 ----------

I must admit that, at 200 meters from the exchange, Be's services are very tempting indeed. Unfortunately, latency is my main problem with DSL. Fibre is the way forward in terms of speed...

200metres is nothing - the line would (should) be great quality, and you get Be* to put you on fastpath - bam, you eliminate interleaving from the equation an the latency is halved. WICKED line for gaming or time-critical uses like VoIP.

[LiamTG]

I was on BE before I moved to VM. I was about 2km from my exchange and always got speeds of 14mb down and full 1.4bm up.

If your that fed up with VM then go for it. I went the other way to get the complete package.

LTG