Karanbir Singh - Thinkability

Wake up sleepy-head, someone around you is thinking their way into the future....

06/Sep/2007 22:50 , Categories: Internet

After thinking about this for a fairly long time, the time has come to switch service providers. I have been with PlusNet now for 2 years and not really had any major problems[1]. However, given that Be/O2 now has a 2Meg uplink product, and that too within an affordable price bracket, its hard to resist. I just hope their network performance and services are as good as PlusNet or thereabouts..

Anyway, signed up for their service ( Be ) today and got an activation date within about 4 hrs. If all goes well, should be on faster broadband by the end of next week. Wasent quite sure how the MAC code stuff works, and how long that might take. But hats off to PlusNet, they had the MAC code and everything I ever wanted to know about changing adsl providers in about 2 hrs time!

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Karanbir Singh { http://www.karan.org/ }

[1] Just the one problem when my adsl modem would just keep dropping the connection randomly and just refuse to re-authenticate till it was physically powered down and up again. The issue turned out to be something at BT's end so cant really blame the ISP for that.

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Comment from: Karanbir Singh [Member]

· http://www.karan.org/

Interestingly, I got an email from bethere.co.uk on Monday morning saying they had dispatched the modem, however the status page they sent me the url for says they have only dispatched it on Tuesday afternoon.

Here is the relevant section from their email ( sent on Monday 13:30 ) :

We have now dispatched your Be Box modem. You can watch it approach your house at http://www.bbtrack.com/betracking/index.asp?ref=xxx. This link will only work once the modem has reached your local depot, please be patient.

hummmm

12/Sep/2007 @ 02:35

Comment from: Karanbir Singh [Member]

· http://www.karan.org/

So, about a day later than what they said would be my activation time, I am now on bethere.co.uk. Have not had the chance to stress the link much as yet, but the sync speeds look moderately ok - I have 8192/1300 downlink/uplink at the moment. And a few ideas on how I might be able to get a bit faster speeds :)

One thing is there, the 1300kb/sec uplink rate is sweet. That is one thing that in itself makes the move well worth it.

Now to see how well bethere.co.uk performs and how stable it turns out to be.

16/Sep/2007 @ 02:58

Comment from: dries [Visitor]

· http://dries.eu/

Still happy with the new connection or did you already had some downtime during those +/- 2 weeks? :-)

04/Oct/2007 @ 13:41

Comment from: Karanbir Singh [Member]

· http://www.karan.org/

Dries,

absolutely! its been quite good. I am getting about 11MB/sec downlink and 1.1MB/sec uplink on ADSL - and its about half the price of my previous provider. So all around, its been quite good.

I just wonder now why I didnt switch earlier.

Total downtime during the move was about 3 hrs when the link switched over.

20/Oct/2007 @ 20:22

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