Plusnet to Be?

I'm a happy PN customer though I thought about leaving during the troubles - I just made sure my domains and email are done elsewhere. I'm still on the old Premier account though I suppose I ought to go to BBYW3.

I've just looked at Be.

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"Unlimited", whatever that means this year

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It means exactly what it says. I'm not a heavy user though (I've only used around 80GB or so in the last 30 days). If you post your line stats in the Be* section someone could give an estimate of what you could expect.
Some areas are suffering a bit of congestion ATM but Be* are actually in the process of doing something about it.

Edited by TheHorseman (Mon 04-Feb-08 14:56:06)

Is Be in your exchange as the higher speeds are only available on Be's LLU connection? If not moving to Be will be no different to your current set-up as you will still be on BT's IPStream network, not Be's, with the same speed offering as PN does.

Be* is LLU only ie. you can only get Be* if they have unbundled your exchange. I don't think that they provide IPStream at all.

Thanks for the advice.

I put my number into the Be checker and they said I could get the service. My exchange is 020 8343 if that helps.

My usage is well below 80GB/month, in fact it rarely goes above 10GB/month. I'm unlkely to be bothered by anyone's definition of "unlimited" at the moment but if I start doing more internet TV etc then that could change. I do sometimes FTP some fairly hefty amounts of data. The odd 1GB download isn't too bad at 8Mb/s but Be would make a big difference for even a modest upload.

Does Be do any significant traffic shaping? I've not had a problem with PN but then I don't do any siginificant amount of P2P and I don't use Usenet.

They don't do any P2P "management" at all. The only port that is blocked is 25 to prevent email spamming (even this is unblocked if you have a static ip which is a free option on the unlimited package).

I'm thinking of doing exactly the same thing.

To keep your referal just reduce your account down to a pay as you go account and you'll jsut get the referal money each money (or two months if you don't earn a lot) with no monthly payments to make. Easy