In reply to a post by partial:

Interestingly, I went through the order journey at the Sky website and they advised they could not offer me anything more than 5meg adsl with no discount.

Then at peak times you can lower that by 80% or more to get throughput on their non-LLU.

Anyone know if Sky offer FTTC in none LLU areas as in my village they are not offering anything other than adsl?

I believe they do, if the village is supplied FTTC from a different exchange and Sky have that other exchange LLU'ed.

sky FTTC is LLU area only.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

In reply to a post by partial:

Interestingly, I went through the order journey at the Sky website and they advised they could not offer me anything more than 5meg adsl with no discount.

Then at peak times you can lower that by 80% or more to get throughput on their non-LLU.

Anyone know if Sky offer FTTC in none LLU areas as in my village they are not offering anything other than adsl?

I believe they do, if the village is supplied FTTC from a different exchange and Sky have that other exchange LLU'ed.

I can confirm that Sky do offer FTTC if the exchange is fed from another exchange that is LLU'd. The exchange in the village where my parents live is fed from the Rye exchange and Sky can offer FTTC but not ADSL2+.

Thanks.

Yes. it is curious.

Monster telco, Sky offer my village that has FTTC availability on all cabinets, ADSL only at high, none discounted prices.

In the neighbouring village which has FTTP only on 3 cabinets, monster telco, Sky, offers ADSL2+ only in those FTTP areas. Forcing Openreach to keep maintaining the copper.

BT Retail offers FTTP where available and standard FTTC at faster speeds than any other provider.

And Sky has the cheek to run to the government and the regulator saying Openreach is holding faster speeds back

Edited by deleted (Mon 18-Apr-16 21:36:13)

I think even if sky didnt offer services in those areas, the copper has to be maintained anyway "just in case" a competitor wants to sell in that area.

ofcom could be handling things so much better but sadly they remain largely inept.

More to the point, a large number of people still don't have or want broadband. But a phone line is an essential.

I note in My BT it now says this for my service:

"Unlimited Broadband with BT Infinity 1

Your current plan includes:

Unlimited usage

Unlimited usage
Up to 52Mb download speed. Up to 9.5Mb upload speed."

I've not contacted BT at all. And i'm not seeing that speed at the time of posting.

That suggests a re-boot of your modem during daylight hours might be interesting. Nothing can change while you maintain connection.

Interesting, my "My BT" also shows the 52MB reference, though it's possibile it's just an incorrect label....!

That being said I'm on a 35 Mbps connection and 40 Mbps is about the fastest I'd ever get so it's somewhat academic! TBH I'd prefer faster upload more (backup etc!)