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Anyone able to give an appraisal of these services?
Is the Unlimited package truly unlimited?
I've been happy with O2 but considering switching to take advantage of Anytime+
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I went from O2 Home Broadband Premium to Sky Broadband Unlimited 8 months ago. To be honest I notice very little difference in quality between the two, both very good services. Sky Broadband Unlimited is completely unlimited, it doesn't even have a FUP. You have to use their router though, unless you investigate alternative methods which technically do breach the T&C.
Oliver.
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I moved from O2 to Sky back in March, my d/load speed did drop from 1.5mb to 1.2 mb, but considering I am paying less than half of what I was for my internet, I am a happy bunny.
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Yep it's absolutely perfect provided you're on LLU
I'm very happy with it
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ill confirm the other posts sky broadband is a good LLU truly unlimited pings can be a tad high but a phone to CS will sort that out there the only LLU besides BE i no who is unlimited no quibbles but a fraction of the price go for it 
Ash
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2004: Blueyonder 256k/512k => 2006: Blueyonder 2Meg => 2009 Virgin Media 10Meg => 2009/10 Virgin Media 50Meg => 21/04/2011 sky Unlimited 11167 kbps D / 910kbps U
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the only LLU besides BE i no who is unlimited no quibbles but a fraction of the price go for it
Talktalk has unlimited usage too. It does have traffic management though which may or may affect users depending what they're in to.
Oliver.
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the only LLU besides BE i no who is unlimited no quibbles but a fraction of the price go for it
Talktalk has unlimited usage too.
But not Sky Anytime+.
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Well yes i suppose but that's why i put no quibbles meaning truly unlimited wont slow ya down dont care how much you download and so on.
As another poster says no any time + with out sky BB although owning anytime+ im going to say its not that good TBH ive had it about 5 month now and ive used it about 8 times i used to have virgin TV and although skys TV is better for more chanels + HD virgins on demand its 10000x better than anytime+.
Ash
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2004: Blueyonder 256k/512k => 2006: Blueyonder 2Meg => 2009 Virgin Media 10Meg => 2009/10 Virgin Media 50Meg => 21/04/2011 sky Unlimited 11167 kbps D / 910kbps U
Desktop 1 Intel Core i5 2500 4gig DDr3 1333 64GB SSD 250gig sata 3 HDD 1TB sata 2 HDD Blu-ray RW Nvidia 8800GTS Win 7 Pro, Ubuntu 11.04, Backtrack 4
Desktop 2 Intel Atom 330 2gig DDR2 677 250gig sata 2 HDD DVD-RW Win XP (VPN File Sharing Server Server)
Netbook Intel Atom N455 1gig DDR3 1066 250gig sata2 HDD Windows XP Pro Ubuntu 10.10
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I was initially excited about Anytime+, but my 7km lines limits my unlimited service to 1.5Mbps and makes Anytime+ far too frustrating for me to use.
BT just installed a FTTC cabinet adjacent to my PCP, set to go live in a couple of weeks. Whilst I would love to stick with Sky and get a connection fast enough to use Anytime+, they've not announced any plans to launch a fibre-based service. As a result I'm planning to swap my 1.5Mbps connection for 40Mbps and accept that I'll lose Anytime+.
I'm sure Anytime+ is great for anyone getting 4Mbps+
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DougM
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There was talk (although there's often 'talk' from the likes of Sky and BE, which never results in actual products) of Sky starting Anytime+ only for those on Sky broadband products, but later releasing it to anyone with a fast enough connection.
Wish I could find the link 
I hope they do this as Anytime+ should be great over a 40Mbps FTTC connection.
Ade
ADSL2+ with BE
DL Sync around 4.8Mbps
UL Sync 1088kbps
DG834GT with DGTeam firmware
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download what you want overnight  , but I know what you mean about it being no good on your connection for real time viewing. The Anytime+ on my connection takes 3.5M while downloading, so I guess a line needs to be about 4-5M in order not to see anything being effected by the anytime download.
IanD
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sky unlimited is great their forums are helpfull, and as long as you manage you calls to their level 1 support or by pass it by using the forums you can get your line configed how you like it
also truely unlimited should exclude traffic managment, if it has it then it may be unlimited downloads but should not really call it self truely unlimited
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Anyone able to give an appraisal of these services?
Is the Unlimited package truly unlimited?
I've been happy with O2 but considering switching to take advantage of Anytime+
Just to add another voice. I moved from Be to Sky Unlimited about 6 months ago. Not quite as quick as Be (mainly down to I had a 3dB noise profile on Be so 7dB slows it a bit) but it has always worked fine, not seen any slow downs.
Got it for Anytime+. Used it a lot in the first few months but haven't in a while as I have seen the movies I want to and the series stuff is too limited (part of a series pops up and then disappears after a few weeks making it difficult to sit down and watch a whole series).
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if you go LLU, then Be/O2 and sky give proper unlimited usage - and a good/stable connection too. was with O2 at my old place
any of these on LLU and you're golden
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1st ISP - Demon - Dialup
2nd ISP - Pipex 512K, then 1Mb
3rd ISP - PlusNet 2Mb, kicked off after being placed on the bad boy pipe
4th ISP - Zen 2Mb. no probs at all.
5th ISP - Bulldog 4Mb then 8Mb, now 18Mb
6th ISP - O2. 18-20MB
7th ISP - O2 access. 8meg limited
8th ISP - Sky. too soon to tell
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if you go LLU, then Be/O2 and sky give proper unlimited usage
O2 is no longer unlimited.
Oliver.
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if you go LLU, then Be/O2 and sky give proper unlimited usage
O2 is no longer unlimited.
even LLU? since when? that sucks
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1st ISP - Demon - Dialup
2nd ISP - Pipex 512K, then 1Mb
3rd ISP - PlusNet 2Mb, kicked off after being placed on the bad boy pipe
4th ISP - Zen 2Mb. no probs at all.
5th ISP - Bulldog 4Mb then 8Mb, now 18Mb
6th ISP - O2. 18-20MB
7th ISP - O2 access. 8meg limited
8th ISP - Sky. too soon to tell
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even LLU? since when? that sucks
Yes, it's been that way since the new packages came out, which is some time ago now.
Oliver.
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A few months ago.
Was Eclipse Home Option 1 & VM 2Mb
Now O2 standard
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The new packages were introduced in September 2010, almost a year ago now.
Oliver.
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