software serial not working with my esp8266 - arduino

I am not able to use esp8266 wifi module on arduino uno using software serial, the problem is that i am not getting correct output. But i am able work with Arduino mega which has additional hardware serial tx-rx pairs. how to make it work on uno?
I used lm1117 voltage divider for esp8266, tried other voltage dividers(1k+2k), nothing seems to work on uno and nano.
Here is the output i am getting
AT+RST
OK
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load 0x40100000, len 1386, room 16
t`il 4
chkstm 0x89
load 0x3ffe8000, len 776, rtail 4
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Aj+CWMOBD=3
OK
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WIFI CONNECTED
WIFI GOT IP
OK
AT+CIPMUX=1
OK
AT+¨R5UIVER=1,<0
OK
Server Ready

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v614f7c32
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