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BE or O2?

Ok

After a lot of hassle from sky since end of December,i cancelled my services,am thinking of going to o2 all rounder,is this a wise choice as ive heard they throttle there connections,Would BE be a better choice(know they are a sister company)

Anybody

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  • kwikbreaks
    kwikbreaks Posts: 9,187 Forumite
    I'm pretty sure that O2 use shaping to speed limit P2P and possibly newsgroup downloads. So far as I'm aware they don't actually use any general throttling such as the traffic management used by VM cable.

    Be are reported to be completely unrestricted.

    So you choice depends on how important hookey downloads are to you.
  • phaze5
    phaze5 Posts: 83 Forumite
    kwikbreaks wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure that O2 use shaping to speed limit P2P and possibly newsgroup downloads. So far as I'm aware they don't actually use any general throttling such as the traffic management used by VM cable.

    Be are reported to be completely unrestricted.

    So you choice depends on how important hookey downloads are to you.

    Dont use P2P,torrents etc,mainly just browsing,so would O2 be ok for what i want too do?

    Thanks
  • boxst
    boxst Posts: 454 Forumite
    O2 will be fine. I personally like Be* as I've been with them for a few years and have had nothing but superb service.

    Steve
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