Be Broadband

[Lee H]

Anyone else get an SMS from Bethere today

Nice ample warning of network maintenence and for once send in a way that I would read as I hardly read automated emails.

[Blitzen]

If anybody is after a router upgrade to use with BE, look on ebay for sky netgear routers, they tend to go for around £20, but are DG834GT. It took me less than 10 minutes to flash my one, am currently using one of the custom firmwares mentioned on the unnofficial BE forum. I had the odd disconnect with the BE box, and it felt quiet hot, but it was when I was doing some torrents, and had 2 other rigs connected, 1 wireless.

Ive got plenty of these routers if anyone is interested.

[MadduckUK]

Anyone else get an SMS from Bethere today

Nice ample warning of network maintenence and for once send in a way that I would read as I hardly read automated emails.

got an e-mail about it on saturday have texts turned off at the mo

[Bluecube]

OK all is now fitted and running, initially I was getting about 2000kps with BT (£25pm)
Be with BeBox to start with 4500Kps - which TBH i was not dissapointed with - However I did the ring wire thing and the results are :


So a big thank you to Madduck

I am pleased, and £6pm better off

Can you describe what the ring wire thing is cause I'd like to try it! That definitely looks like a huge improvement worth checking out!

[MadduckUK]

::. Kitz - Low SNR Margin & problems .:: - see the bottom of that page for the ring wire thingy. not sure if its been mentioned in this thread yet

that

[Syd]

Can you describe what the ring wire thing is cause I'd like to try it! That definitely looks like a huge improvement worth checking out!

I followed Madducks link and replicated the image at the bottom of the page on my master socket, just ensure you have filters on all of your sockets.

[Bluecube]

Wow. And I mean BIG wow! I removed the bell wire and am now seeing an increase of 100kb/s! Compared to some of the figures above this is nothing but considering I'm right on the edge of my exchange's reach and was only getting 270kb/s previously, this is pretty damn good!

[Lee H]

I'm gonna try it on Thursday.

any increase in my already stupidly fast connection is going to be a bonus

It means I'll have to listen to my mixes a lot quicker then.

[Sinizter]

My connection can probably benefit from this. Might have a good poke around later on in the week.

[Syd]

Well Done Madduck, look how many peaople you are making happy

[Sinizter]

Anyone tried it yet ?

[Bluecube]

Yup. Went from 2.7Mbit to 3.7Mbit. Not bad for taking out a bit of wire!

[muddyfox470]

since the downtime on tuesday morning the router is syncing at 16000 whereas it was around 12-14000 before

who's a happy bunny

Ian

[Sinizter]

Mine lost 300 kbps because I opened that plate and put it back in. Didnt do anything with the wires. Maybe the connection is loose or something. I will have to take it off and check everything and put it back in.

Mines got a split front plate - lower half comes off after removing 2 screws. Wires connected to bits on 2, 3 and 5. The "posts" are marked 2 to 5. Which one would need to be removed ?

[Bluecube]

The orange and white one if you've got the same setup as me which it does sound like.

[Sinizter]

The orange and white one if you've got the same setup as me which it does sound like.

Thanks. Will monkey around with that tomorrow.