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Sep 10, 2008 | 01:11 PM

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BeThere are good ..

I'm still impressed over a year after signing up to Be*.

I'm just downloading a Torrent at 1.9mb/s. Astounding.

Steve

Sep 10, 2008 | 02:02 PM

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yeah pretty good unless you get a lot of other customers on at the exchange when things can slow down a bit

Sep 10, 2008 | 02:19 PM

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Yep very good - also a decent customer service and above all no caps or throttleing

Sep 10, 2008 | 02:34 PM

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I don't mean to sound a bit daft in the 'computer related' section...but what the hell is a torrent? Lol, I've been seeing that term alot lately. Need to make more of an effort to keep up with the times!

Sep 10, 2008 | 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by TerzoAlan

BitTorrent (protocol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Sep 10, 2008 | 02:51 PM

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This explains it far better than I could: BitTorrent (protocol) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And short version is a protocol to distribute mostly illegal content.

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Sep 10, 2008 | 02:51 PM

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BitTorrent (protocol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Quicker than me, but I tried to explain a few times and gave up and pointed towards the link

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Sep 10, 2008 | 03:09 PM

GlesgaKiss

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Ok thanks for that. So it is sort of like limewire?

I know how that works...it's only recently i've noticed the term 'torrent'.

Sep 10, 2008 | 03:45 PM

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Is there any advantage to going to LLU if you are 2 miles from the exchange and currently get a sync of 4mb and throughput of 3.5mb? I'm thinking there wont be any speed increase due to the distance.

Sep 10, 2008 | 05:17 PM

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The Be / O2 LLU are ADSL2+ and 2km from the exchange you'd get ~12Mb/s

Sep 10, 2008 | 09:25 PM

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Is there any advantage to going to LLU if you are 2 miles from the exchange and currently get a sync of 4mb and throughput of 3.5mb? I'm thinking there wont be any speed increase due to the distance.

Do you know the stats for your line? Like attenuation etc.

Sep 10, 2008 | 09:49 PM

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dont forget with be, the upload is faster too.

Sep 10, 2008 | 10:09 PM

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Do you know the stats for your line? Like attenuation etc.

Yep downstream the line attenuation is 45db and noise margin varies between 5db and 12db. I have called Be before and they said my speeds wouldn't necessarily increase from 3-4mb due to the 2 mile distance issue so I was surprised by their honesty and not giving me the hard sell.

Sep 12, 2008 | 03:19 PM

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My line has similar stats Bob. I'm just over 2km as the crow flies and get just over 10Mb/s with Be and over 1Mb/s upload. It did go up to about 12Mb/s when they put me on Fastpath and changed my profile but it was a bit unstable.

Sep 12, 2008 | 10:24 PM

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Cheers Dunk. I'm very tempted but was dubious after what Be told me and they even said the speed could be worse than standard adsl at 2 miles distance. I guess if it does prove to be no better and be unstable I can just go back to who i'm with now fairly quickly.

Sep 13, 2008 | 03:47 PM

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bethere told me I would get 5 at max - get 7 standard and with a bit of tweaking I get 8 ... the only problem is the customer service is getting harder to get hold of because they have more customers and when it comes to BT issues they dont seem to be able to influence BT

Sep 15, 2008 | 10:09 AM

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so Be or O2?

Sep 15, 2008 | 10:17 AM

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so Be or O2?

Although they are the same company, Be* are run as a seperate entity and as such have much better support.

I'm sure this will change, but for the time being I would pick Be*.

Steve

Sep 15, 2008 | 10:49 AM

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do we know if they have the same policy for torrents?

Sep 16, 2008 | 12:57 PM

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if you switch to adsl 2 your attenuation will also increase by about 3db so you would be looking at 48db

DSL ZoneUK - How fast can I get on ADSL2+?

that site says anywhere between 4 and 8 mbps, if you have an snr though of 12 you have some tweakage available there. I reckon you should be looking at about 6 to 7 mbps