[BNM] Sick of be broadband

[Alastair James]

>If you do have a problem on the copper pair that provides your phone and
>hence your ADSL it matters little which provider you select. Until it is
>rectified it will still be unreliable.

No thats fine, otherwise I would not get good data rates at the 'good times'.

> It is hard to see how £19.00 is a premium if the service works normally
> at the speeds you expected. For most ISPs (not the LLUers) BT central
> pipes costs hundred of pound per Mbps of capacity per month. So the
> average usage at peak time per users needs to be less than 100Kbps for
> them not to lose money. ADSL2+ users eat bandwidth which is why not many
> ISPs are offering it yet. Also lower ADSL prices usually correspond to
> lower speeds and 12 or 18 month contracts with the advertised price
> being only  an introductory rate for the 1st 6-12 months + bonus of a
> call centre in India.

Well Be is a LLU, thats how they can offer ADSL2+ and why I chose them
in the first place (also its not a fixed contact)... I guess we have
different levels of expectations for home broadband! I expect a
package thats probably double the price of most home broadband
packages to be able to offer what it says on the tin and not to have
periods of 0.2mbps real transfer when 12mbps is the norm for my
connection!

Al


2009/3/2 Richard Grimwood <richard.grimwood at moving-edge.net>:
>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Would that suggest that a move to a BT based ISP would be a good idea
>> after 21CN is installed?
>
>
> Not really ... Most llu providers would claim to be running the
> equivalent of their own 21CN networks already. No ATM links. I think
> both sky/easynet and Tiscali wholesale describe their network with the
> words 21cn
>
> If you do have a problem on the copper pair that provides your phone and
> hence your ADSL it matters little which provider you select. Until it is
> rectified it will still be unreliable.
>
> It is hard to see how £19.00 is a premium if the service works normally
> at the speeds you expected. For most ISPs (not the LLUers) BT central
> pipes costs hundred of pound per Mbps of capacity per month. So the
> average usage at peak time per users needs to be less than 100Kbps for
> them not to lose money. ADSL2+ users eat bandwidth which is why not many
> ISPs are offering it yet. Also lower ADSL prices usually correspond to
> lower speeds and 12 or 18 month contracts with the advertised price
> being only  an introductory rate for the 1st 6-12 months + bonus of a
> call centre in India.
>
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