Sky On Demand Speed

Hi,

Is Sky On Demand limited to a certain speed?

I have 80/20 but only getting about 12-13mbps while using Sky On Demand, It was on wireless but switched to homeplugs and got the same speed.

Anyone get faster?

Thanks

Do you mean the video streaming? If so, then it will go as fast as the stream needs to within the bandwidth and 12-13Mbps is I believe plenty to do HD. I think I remember seeing in the past that some of the HD channels on Sky only stream at about 5Mbps over satellite.

Sky satellite signal is generally in the 9 to 13 Mbps region

OK, I'm fairly sure some channels were heavily squeezed and caused a lot of complaints about HD quality.

However, the speeds you quote pretty much exactly match the on demand speeds of the OP in which case it seems that these are HD speeds and the On Demand is running as fast as it needs to for the content.

On Demand on the Sky+HD box I presume?

In which case the films don't stream they are downloaded to the box, but you can start to play once the first fraction is available. This is a different algorithm to NOW TV, Sky Go etc

To see a speed limit like that is no surprise, may sites offering large files and with films at 1 to 3 GB they count as large, limit the speed a single user can suck data at to avoid someone with a fast connection slowing down everyone else.

I had forgotten Sky downloads to the box separately but On Demand could be the PC app. Need to know what the OP is meaning by on demand as it covers a number of possibilities.

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Sky satellite signal is generally in the 9 to 13 Mbps region

But their On Demand stuff runs a lot lower. An hour's HD usually only occupies 1.5GB of disk space (so around 5Mb/s). From my experience it doesn't download at full speed either.

Have not tried the on demand since having a line that runs at 24 Meg. Don't have the spare time.

The Sky Go service can also download for later playback on tablets and phones.

Suspect they mean the Sky+HD box though, confirmation will help

Think mine downloads at about 8-10Mbps. But it doesn't matter, it only needs to download a little faster than needed to play.

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Have not tried the on demand since having a line that runs at 24 Meg. Don't have the spare time.

It's very good quality actually. From where I sit (2 metres from a 37" TV) it's indistinguishable from broadcast quality HD. The other catch-ups are pretty good but I genuinely can't tell the difference with Sky's service. I don't use it much because I prefer to just keep up with the EPG but mistakes happen

Actually if the Sky box could automatically choose On Demand as a backup source and/or allowed series links to be set I'd happily use that to avoid scheduling clashes these days.

Edited by Andrue (Wed 14-May-14 11:15:05)

I've noticed that too.

I'm on 80/20 FTTC, download at full speed on web sites etc and connect at 79999/19999 but the Sky box does not download a 2.5gb HD program as quick as it would a 2.5gb file off the net.

It's far quicker than my old ADSL connection mind.

Hi,

Yeah I meant Sky On Demand (the download version), does seems to be limited to 12-14mbps, still fast enough to play instantly, just thought its a tad weird hows its capped at that.