Sky Broadband anygood for Gamers?

I am currently in the process of moving house and will be looking for a new ISP in my new house. I will no doubt be getting Sky when I move in, so wondered if it would be in my interest to take Sky Broadband.

Is Sky Broadband LLU? Does it work in the same way as Be Broadband, where they can change your SNR Margin etc. on the fly so when you restart your router the changes are automatically in effect?

My exchange will be 600metres from my house, what speed could I expect? I'd probably go for Sky Max.

I am an avid gamer, so am predominently looking at good pings! Can anyone post some pings to http://www.bbc.co.uk and http://www.jolt.co.uk up for me please.

Or have people had bad experiences of Sky Broadband, and suggest I stay away and got for Be Broadband.

Thanks for your comments.

Nigel

Pinging www.bbc.net.uk

Reply from 212.58.251.202: bytes=32 time=37ms TTL=248
Reply from 212.58.251.202: bytes=32 time=39ms TTL=248
Reply from 212.58.251.202: bytes=32 time=38ms TTL=248
Reply from 212.58.251.202: bytes=32 time=38ms TTL=248





Pinging www.jolt.co.uk

Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=41ms TTL=57
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=41ms TTL=57
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=57
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=57



I use my 360 on Sky and have never had issues at all, I get 12 meg download and im about a mile from exchange.

Go for it !

Thanks for the reply, at present with Be Broadband I get pings of 14ms to both those sites on FASTPATH, are you on FASTPATH or is your line Interleaved?

Cheers!

All SKY broadband connections are interleaved which generally adds between 10 and 20ms to your ping.

Ping information is much more useful if you give your location.

play source and cod. i get ping of 28ms on sky Mid LLU, was 22ms with BT max my ping has been is 34ms when pinging jot or bbc.

you have to ask for your max delay to be set to 8 but then the ping is fine. source in game ping shows as 30-33ms on uk servers

Pinging jolt.co.uk [82.133.85.65] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=57
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=57
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=57
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=57

Ping statistics for 82.133.85.65:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 24ms, Maximum = 24ms, Average = 24ms


Pinging bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.131] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 212.58.224.131: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=120
Reply from 212.58.224.131: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=120
Reply from 212.58.224.131: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=120
Reply from 212.58.224.131: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=120

Ping statistics for 212.58.224.131:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 23ms, Maximum = 23ms, Average = 23ms


I am on Sky Max, i live in east London. I have asked to get my delay time reduced to 8. Before this i used to get between 33ms-45ms. All Sky packages are interleaved!

on Battlefield 2/2142 on good servers i always manage between 23ms-30ms.

Edited by zub (Fri 16-May-08 15:46:13)

PING www.jolt.co.uk (82.133.85.65) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from secure.jolt.co.uk (82.133.85.65): icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=29.7 ms
64 bytes from secure.jolt.co.uk (82.133.85.65): icmp_seq=2 ttl=57 time=29.2 ms
64 bytes from secure.jolt.co.uk (82.133.85.65): icmp_seq=3 ttl=57 time=28.8 ms
64 bytes from secure.jolt.co.uk (82.133.85.65): icmp_seq=4 ttl=57 time=29.2 ms
64 bytes from secure.jolt.co.uk (82.133.85.65): icmp_seq=5 ttl=57 time=28.9 ms

--- www.jolt.co.uk ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4000ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 28.865/29.230/29.796/0.371 ms

PING www.bbc.net.uk (212.58.253.67) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from www-vip.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk (212.58.253.67): icmp_seq=1 ttl=121 time=27.5 ms
64 bytes from www-vip.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk (212.58.253.67): icmp_seq=2 ttl=121 time=26.6 ms
64 bytes from www-vip.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk (212.58.253.67): icmp_seq=3 ttl=121 time=27.4 ms
64 bytes from www-vip.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk (212.58.253.67): icmp_seq=4 ttl=121 time=26.8 ms
64 bytes from www-vip.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk (212.58.253.67): icmp_seq=5 ttl=121 time=27.1 ms

--- www.bbc.net.uk ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 26.693/27.133/27.558/0.373 ms


This is my ping at the moment my 2 sons are playing World of Warcraft. My ingame pings for TrueCombat:Elite are a stable 50ms to a German server that I usually play on.