{"id":40,"date":"2007-05-15T14:36:46","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T13:36:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-05-15T14:36:46","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T13:36:46","slug":"a-new-isp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"A New ISP"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last time I changed broadband suppliers was nearly 4 years ago and as I recall I was without any service for at least 24 hours. 10 days ago I made the decision to go for a new, superfast, 24MB connection from www.bethere.co.uk<\/a> They are an LLU provider which means they have their own equipment in the BT exchange; non LLU suppliers are simply reselling BT supplied broadband. BT has no faster broadband than 8MB. So, not only was I changing providers I was also being removed from the BT equipment and connected to the private equipment in the exchange, I therefore expected delays and maybe problems.<\/p>\n

Yesterday was the day it was scheduled to happen and by 7:30pm I was still connected to my old provider. I called bethere and they said it was scheduled for that day and it could happen anytime before 9:00pm, so I continued to browse the web and listen to streamed music. Then suddenly the music stopped and the web didn’t work! I went into my router settings and changed them to those supplied by bethere and clicked save. Within a couple of minutes a connection was reported, the music came back on and the web woke up!<\/p>\n

This morning I decided to see how it long it would take to download a 750MB length film, something I’ve always set for overnight in the past. Went and had breakfast and a shower and returned to the PC after 90 minutes – it had already finished! Quite how long it took I don’t know except to say it was less than 90 minutes.<\/p>\n

bethere provide a ‘free’ wireless router but I didn’t want it, I tried to negotiate something else in its place but with no success. My existing wireless router is a Fritz!Box and I wouldn’t give it up for anything. The bethere router is a Speedtouch 780, full details here http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/22vagv<\/a> I may be open to offers for this brand new, unused, wireless router with two voip ports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The last time I changed broadband suppliers was nearly 4 years ago and as I recall I was without any service for at least 24 hours. 10 days ago I made the decision to go for a new, superfast, 24MB connection from www.bethere.co.uk They are an LLU provider which means they have their own equipment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}