Just wondering

I just went to the official Sky website and it says that Sky Max is 10 pounds a month for 16mb connection, unlimited downloads and other stuff as you probably already know. I am just wondering if this is it? Is there a catch? because that is a great package and its like 500 percent better than the one I am on now.

Cheers, Mike.

you have to be a sky digital subscriber, but apart from that there's no catch, 12 month contract. you won't necessarily get 16MB - check here to see what the max is that your line can do: http://www.btwholesale.com/getbroadband

Yeah I am a Sky customer of course, and I checked my line and it is fine for 8 meg but duno about 16meg but I am fine with 8 meg as I am on now and its fast enough. Only reason I am asking is because it just seemed too good to be true. Also, I am tied into a contract at the moment with BT Broadband and was wondering if I could break it (probably not) or will I have to wait out until it finishes.

If you think you may only be able to get (or only need) up to 8meg have you considered the MID package at �5/month? It has a download limit of 40 Gb (!?!) but I don't think anyone has been contacted about going over................yet.

The only downside could be that the tech support isn't so hot. However, I've been with Sky for two weeks now, and it's as good if not better than other ISP's I've tried.

The BT line checker wont tell you what your line is capable of on ADSL2+ (neither will sky support half the time). Line stats will give a much better idea of expected speeds on the max product which is usually ADSL2+.

The catch is you cant tell any of your family or friends its good, as we don't want it to get oversubscribed

My line only coming up too 2MBs with the checker, and I am getting with supanet 3 to 4 MBs at the moment, so if I went with SKY MAX would I get 6 to 8 MBs?

No, you wouldn't. Sky will only put you on ADSL2+ if your line syncs at 8M on ADSL. Having said that, Sky LLU doesn't work in quite the same way as "plain vanilla" ADSL - you don't have a line profile as such, so you don't have to maintain high sync speeds for hours/days on end to actually see a speed increase. When I migrated from Zen to Sky Max a couple of weeks ago, the best sync speed I could get on Zen was about 5200kbps, which frequently dropped to around 4000, giving me a line profile of 3500 to 4000kbps. On Sky Max, my router syncs at about 6200kbps, and this is the throughput that I get (less the usual overheads). Also, you get an upload speed of 768kbps, which is higher than most ISP's will give you on a domestic ADSL service.

Edited by deleted (Thu 06-Sep-07 12:19:47)

>if I went with SKY MAX would I get 6 to 8 MBs

With 38.4dB attenuation you can get 6-8Mbs on ADSL or 8-10Mbs on ADSL2+