IT Week and Be

IT Week have done a review of Be broadband in this weeks IT Week (page 44 if anyone gets it). I can't link to it as the online version is subscription only.

The interesting part of the review is that it states "uncontended, uncapped broadband" for "

In theory, Be is contended, but they have assured that they will ensure that contention is kept to an absolute minimum and I can confirm that this is true. I certainly haven't experienced much and there as far as I know there are at least 4 other users connected to the same exchange as me, Highams Park. We'll have to see what happens when O2 lauch their broadband packages and we see more users coming on board. Nothing has changed at the moment, but is very likely to in the future, but hoping this will apply mostly to new customers joining via O2.

I'm currently syncing at 9100 kbps down and did a speed test with MySpeed last night which came out at around 7600 kbps down which is about right when you take into account that you lose about 13% throughput with overheads

The Office package may be totally uncontended - Be give very little away, so it's difficult to tell these things.

The review was extremely basic and didn't appear to show that very much had been tested, but I was going on the view that the review was for the overall connection / migration process rather than the service itself.
Took me a few minutes to get my MAC from BT and I was connected in about 10 days including a weekend and bank holiday when my exchange was enabled on 26th May.

I don't have a subscription to IT Week and can access the article fine
http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/software/2164454/tested-24kbit-broadband

Nicola

Thanks for posting the link, had read it in the magazine so hadn't looked at the website itself.

Just wasn't impressed with the review as I felt the writer knew very little about broadband.

The link itself is interesting. As the link is to 24kbit-broadband. So the link is downgrading the service by 1000 times...

All in all not the best review I've ever seen in IT Week and just seemed to be lacking in any real research. Had it of been done as a personal opinion piece it would have been ok but as a review it's not so good.

Have to agree that as a review it was pretty useless
They only had to ask me and I would have been happy to help :-)