Broadband advice from BE
by admin on Sep.29, 2010, under Uncategorized
The helpful people at BE Broadband have produced a great series of videos giving advice and tips for getting the most out of your broadband connection. The lead character, Matt, clearly needs some help in optimising his connection!
Although somewhat strange, the videos do actually contain some useful advice, so if you’re wondering why your Internet is so slow and what you can do to improve things take a moment to watch these entertaining and rather surreal clips, they’re only about 2 minutes each.
In one of the clips it seems BE is having a bit of go at BT, but the main point is that switching providers won’t give you a faster connection – and that goes for any ISP. Distance from the exchange is the main factor, and changing to another service won’t affect that, so swap if you want to but do it because of the pricing or contract terms, not because a salesman has said you’ll get twice the connection speed!
There are also a couple of really important tips here that you might have missed while the guy dressed as a router was talking about pygmy porn. The first is to change your wireless channel. This setting is found within the router’s admin/control/management screen, and can solve lots of problems. So if your wireless won’t connect or is running slow, it’s a good idea to swap to another channel because a neighbour might have their router set to the same.
