Chris is on the neighbouring exchange to me - they got as far as his exchange, here was due to be the following month - but they pulled out re the take-over.
Don't i know it. I saw it on Sam Knows and was waiting for it to happen and then all of a sudden BEtheres bank account lost the will to live
.
Sky seems ok - but most of the people round here seem to go for the 8Mb package with TV rather than pay extra for the 16Mb so no indication on that re the higher speeds either.
I applied for the 16MB one for my sister(last line still to move of Plus Net of 5) and they said that the exchange was not enabled so i stated that it was and gave them the "LCFLW" code and the man said, "Oh... Sorry sir the system is now showing that there are no more places left on our equipment. The only option you have is the full priced 8MB product". So... Still stuck with a legacy PN product that i get limited on for watching a Youtube video <definition of a joke>. I get told that 2GB is excessive usage but that another story LOL.
EDIT: I am currently
uploading at least 2GB day on my home MLPPP line
. As for downloads, about 80 GB a month and my ISP does not even bat an eyelid
. (currently seeding ubuntu 7.10 and CentOS while i am away so the upload will probably be alot lot lot more
)
Chris this may help you with BE and O2
http://www.dontbethere.co.uk/forum/default.aspx - this was where i learned that you can only
usually get 10000kbps from speedtest.net(london)
There was a massive agument on the Draytek forums about why Bethere use "non standard equipment" that goes against references. This could mean that some modems don't get the full potential(or even a connection) out of the line.
James