Well, installing the BeBox last night was simple.  The main problem was that my home network was hard-coded to 192.168.0.x IPs, and the Be modem defaults to 192.168.1.x.  Once that was all fixed, the Be instructions were fine (although they could have described the internal menus of the Speedtouch a little better).  The line was already activated, and I immediately synced at around 18/1.5.

I couldn’t wait to get onto Speedtest, and the outcome was:

Not too shabby!  Nowhere near the theoretical 24mb maximum, but still three times the average I used to get.

I then swapped back in my Linksys WAG54GX2 as I suggested in my earlier post.  This didn’t actually make any changes to the speeds at all, but at least it meant I didn’t have to set everything up again.

The real effect came when I decided to hit a couple of big torrents this morning, to see how the extra bandwidth would affect day-to-day use:

Wowsers.  I just showed those to a colleague who’s on 2mb cable, and his response was unprintable!

Dan

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