{"id":220,"date":"2007-12-12T13:00:56","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/12\/moved-isps-to-betherecouk-dec2007\/"},"modified":"2007-12-16T12:18:45","modified_gmt":"2007-12-16T11:18:45","slug":"moved-isps-to-betherecouk-dec2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/12\/moved-isps-to-betherecouk-dec2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Moved ISPs to bethere.co.uk (Dec\/2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<a class=\"no_icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bethere.co.uk\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The bethere broadband logo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/bethereBroadband.jpg?w=620&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"center\">\nWe Changed ISPs from &#8220;Freedom2surf&#8221; to &#8220;Be&#8221; because it is a faster and cheaper connection.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The connection details that Be supply are minimal to say the least. This is because they expect you to use their pre-configured &#8220;BeBox&#8221; that they send you for free. We didn&#8217;t like the way the BeBox looked and we didn&#8217;t like it&#8217;s web interface and we didn&#8217;t want to have to re-configure our whole network and firewall &#8211; so we messed around with our existing <a href=\"index.php\/2006\/08\/netgear-dg834g-modem-wireless-router-17th-august-2006-ebay-purchase-36\/\">Netgear DG834G<\/a> until we got a working connection. These are the settings you need to enter:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Basic Settings\n<ul>\n<li>Does Your Internet Connection Require A Login? <b>No<\/b> (then leave &#8220;Account Name&#8221; and &#8220;Domain Name&#8221; empty)<\/li>\n<li>Internet IP Address: tick <b>Use Static IP Address<\/b>, then enter the numbers supplied to you in the intro letter from Be. For me, they were as follows: IP Address: <em>78.86.193.198<\/em>, IP Subnet Mask: <em>255.255.240.0<\/em>, Gateway IP Address: <em>78.86.192.1<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Domain Name Server (DNS) Address: tick <b>Use These DNS Servers<\/b> (then enter<em>87.194.0.51<\/em> and <em>87.194.0.52<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>NAT (Network Address Translation): leave <b>Enable<\/b> ticked.<\/li>\n<li>Router MAC Address: leave <b>Use Default Address<\/b> ticked.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>ADSL Settings\n<ul>\n<li>Multiplexing Method: Select <b>LLC-BASED<\/b><\/li>\n<li>VPI: <strong>0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>VCI: <strong>101<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>DSL Mode: Select <b>ADSL2+<\/b> (but this option was only available after I upgraded the netgear firmwhere to &#8220;V4.01.28&#8221; &#8211; It worked before without this option)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With these router ADSL settings, you won&#8217;t need to change anything on your machines (Ubuntu or Windows). What&#8217;s Be&#8217;s speed like? Disappointing considering it&#8217;s supposed to be 24MBits! (although it&#8217;s better than before).<\/p>\n<p><center><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"screenshot of our connection speed, 12MB down and 1MB up\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/speedTest_15Dec07.jpg?w=620&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We started messing around with the Netgears firmwhere and the MTU and RWIN size but didn&#8217;t have any better results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Changed ISPs from &#8220;Freedom2surf&#8221; to &#8220;Be&#8221; because it is a faster and cheaper connection. The connection details that Be supply are minimal to say the least. This is because they expect you to use their pre-configured &#8220;BeBox&#8221; that they send you for free. We didn&#8217;t like the way the BeBox looked and we didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techjournal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}