In reply to a post by BatBoy:

Remember the free static IP address though.

Okay, that helps with some of the big ISPs (not Plusnet though!).

In reply to a post by jchamier:

At £30/m (without phone) the Sky Fibre Pro service seems a tad more expensive than the competition for the same speeds. The standard service is a lot better priced.

Really??

BT is £30!

Maybe they believe in selling it at a suitable price in order to support it properly!

In reply to a post by mlmclaren:

Really??

BT is £30!

Maybe they believe in selling it at a suitable price in order to support it properly!

Was £26 when I was with them. That's gone up quick.

Well they must have good reasoning to put the prices up.... maybe to fulfil our lust for speed!

In reply to a post by _Resonance_:

Maybe they don't want to attract the really heavy users that are likely to go for 80/20? It's the only reason I can think of.

I'm wondering what would be considered 'heavy' these days given that these products are sold as unlimited plus, with all the on demand and live stream viewing etc....these sort of services must surely gobble up lots of bandwidth?

80/20 speeds I would personally consider the 'starter pack' these days! As we all consume more and more of our media and other stuff on line, the demand for ever faster speeds will only increase.

I know some of my family members are finding that with the average household, including a couple of kids + mum/dad, watching live streaming on their big TV's while little johny hammers his Xbox games and little judy streaming her boy band videos in HD from YouTube, normally brings their 40/10 package to it's knees

Bring on the gigabit pipes A.S.A.P please?

HD on a small screen is of no use as most people will not see any difference from SD therefore not so much bandwidth required.

I can't even order sky fibre at all despite having 80mb fibre a week ago. All other providers can offer me fibre but sky say it's unavailable.

In reply to a post by broadband66:

HD on a small screen is of no use as most people will not see any difference from SD therefore not so much bandwidth required.

I remember the long discussions years ago in the forums about people being considered 'bandwidth hogs' because they were 'heavy' users (having the cheek to actually use the bandwidth they were paying for! ).

I'm not at all sure the same arguments apply these days when lots of us are switching to viewing media streamed from the net and the ever increasing demand for (super)fast broadband and NO download limits or quotas is the norm?

Throw into the mix the likes of Netflix and others offering 4k (8k next?) content and in a few years time we'll all be laughing at the really slow Fibre broadband speeds we had in 2015

I'll reiterate, a teenager on an iPad or similar doesn't require 4K or HD to watch a film.

Nothing to do with hogging bandwidth.

We have unlimited evening and weekend calls but only use it once a week. It's not compulsory to use what you pay for!

In reply to a post by broadband66:

I'll reiterate, a teenager on an iPad or similar doesn't require 4K or HD to watch a film.

Nothing to do with hogging bandwidth.

We have unlimited evening and weekend calls but only use it once a week. It's not compulsory to use what you pay for!

Can't argue with anything you are saying with regards teenagers who may be using an iPad to watch a film.... but then again, I wasn't trying to make a point about that

If you'd have looked at the forum message I originally responded to, it was to do with someone suggesting they thought that someone who might want to subscribe to the 80/20 Fibre Broadband package, that they might be 'heavy' users.

I wondered - "what might be considered a 'heavy' user these days?" given the increasing demand a lot of people are now making of their broadband packages and that lots of us are now choosing to stream and view on demand services, and how that inevitably leads to 'heavy' bandwidth usage.... something that was debated in the forums just a few years ago just about every day.

I personally believe that the 80/20 Fibre Broadband package is the starter pack these days and regardless if you are a teenager using a fondle-slab or an adult viewing on a 50 inch UHD TV, there's going to be an increasing demand for faster and faster broadband and discussions about 'heavy' users in relationship to the way we consume stuff from the net these days seems irrelevant?