[BNM] Sick of be broadband

[Richard Grimwood]

Alastair James wrote:
> Ok, so nildram says hove is a very congested exchange, so I guess this
> may be the exchange rather than the ISP. So unless I move to Virgin
> cable, there is little that can be done?

Local Loop unbundled services such as 02/BE and Tiscali LLU can't be 
affected by BT reported congestion. The LLU ers have their own equipment 
in the exchange and also their own links to their networks rather than 
BT's old ATM network (or indeed BT's new 21st Century Network).

If you had a BT retail or BT wholesale provided service then the move to 
21CN will allow BT to share huge pipes into the exchange with their 
voice traffic and thus make an instantaneous upgrade to broadband 
capacity rather than adding dedicated links as they do now.

This is a red herring, for you, as far as I can see.
You need to specify the problem you have with pings / traceroutes time 
of day it happens and expample. If it is problem with your line get Be 
to fix it. In the end you may just help them demonstrate the problem is 
within your control (router, settings, wifi, cabling).

Be/O2 are cheap as chips, so if you are unhappy with the response you 
get then getting a better service will cost a significant % more from 
virtually anyone else and probably run slower albeit more consistently. 
I can't see moving to virgin as a step up  IMHO.