A host of internet service providers are upping their top speeds to 20Mbit/s. ISPs Orange, Plusnet and Zen Internet have all announced they’re raising their respective bars over the past few days. In doing so, they’re making up ground on the likes of Virgin Media, BT, BE and O2, which all already offer “up to” 20Mbit/s services.
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Be rebrand gets down with the gamers – but gaming service put ‘on hold’
Be has rebranded its identity today in a bid to, it describes, get closer to its users by appearing less ‘corporate’.
The O2-owned company is centring its new identity around the theme of ‘Create The New’ through which it is promises its main priority will be to put its member community at the heart of its [...]
Be Broadband blocking BitTorrents – unintentionally
The Digital Britain report may have the aim of reducing UK online piracy by up to seventy per cent but one British ISP is having to deny it has jumped the gun and taken matters into its own hands. Meanwhile, experts in the US say weaker copyright protection is actually of benefit to society.
Be to combat congestion hotspots with network upgrade
Be customers are being promised a multi million pound network improvement scheme which should start easing congestion within a month to six weeks.
Be’s Managing Director, Felix Geyr, has revealed to SamKnows that he has just received funding to boost the company’s network to counter concernfrom some customers that Be and O2’s growth, on the same network [...]
Virgin 50Mb reaction: Be announces 48Mb trials and TalkTalk says minimum speed’s vital too
No sooner had the ink dried on the multiple column inches devoted to Virgin Media’s 50Mbps service launch, then Be announced results of a 48Mbps trial near Paddington, London.
Although the full results of the trial are not to be released until the start of next year, a statement from Be pointed out that managing director, [...]
Be offers line tweaking options to end users
Be, the O2-owned ISP, has begun allowing its users to customised their broadband connections to prioritise the line towards their favoured activities.
There are four settings on offer. Standard, for everyday broadband use; speed, for watching videos and iPlayer; reliability, recommended for surfing the web for information and VoIP and gaming, which ensures the quickest possible [...]
BBC iPlayer issues affected TalkTalk’s Huawei modems too
BBC engineers have used the lull after frenzied downloading and streaming of the Olympics to fix a bug with iPlayer that was causing BT Home Hubs and O2 and Be wireless routers to reset.
The annoying bug was believed to be a problem in the BBC’s encoding of the system that was affecting wireless routes using [...]