BT, Talk Talk, or Sky?

I get my calls and broardband from BT, but my 12 month contact is about to expire. I've done some research and realised their prices are considerably higher than the other 2 operators on my line: Talk Talk and Sky. My exchange is

Sherburn Hill

My current BT BB package is for 40gb and i went over this for the first time last month. Talk Talk and Sky are both unlimited so that would be a bonus (I know BT also offer unlimited BB but the price is prohibitibvely high for me.)

My major concern is how a move to Sky or Talk Talk would effect my broardband speed. I'm 3300m from the exchange and I currently get around 2.5mps.

I phoned all 3 companies. Talk Talk said they could get me over 4mps, Sky said I would get between 0.3 and 1.5mps with them, and BT guaranteed I'd lose speed if I left them.

I don't know who to believe. I'm a Sky TV customer so it would make sense to choose them but I don't want speeds that low.

Also, how should having ADSL2+ installed on my Exchange by March 31st effect my decision?

Any help anyone can provide will be much appreciated.

In reply to a post by Anonymous:

I get my calls and broardband from BT, but my 12 month contact is about to expire. I've done some research and realised their prices are considerably higher than the other 2 operators on my line: Talk Talk and Sky. My exchange is

Sherburn Hill

My current BT BB package is for 40gb and i went over this for the first time last month. Talk Talk and Sky are both unlimited so that would be a bonus (I know BT also offer unlimited BB but the price is prohibitibvely high for me.)

Someone suggested using BT FON to avoid exceeding your usage limit.

Post your router stats.

In reply to a post by Anonymous:

Also, how should having ADSL2+ installed on my Exchange by March 31st effect my decision?

Probably no effect on your speed at all. Same goes for TT & Sky which are ADSL2+, but we can only tell from your current stats.

I recently moved from BT to TalkTalk.

TalkTalk tele sales people assured me I would get 9.6mbps on my line. They quoted this to me twice on the phone, also their website gave a similar figure and their paperwork said the same figure.

However tonight I see I am getting 3.3mbps.

My experience over the past month has been very variable for speeds from 3 to 10 mbps. But mostly 6 in the day and 3 in the evening. With BT I was far more consistent around the 6mbps mark.

You pays your money and you take your chance, at least I get free unlimited telephone calls 24/7 now instead of evening and weekends with BT

Dave H

It's all surmise until we see router stats.

My usage stats

Port Status TxPkts RxPkts Collisions Tx B/s Rx B/s Up Time
WAN PPPoA 384807 599607 0 460 8419 25:40:20
LAN 10M/100M 3775240 2496795 0 1868 795 103:49:54

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 3360 kbps 448 kbps
Line Attenuation 53 db 15 db
Noise Margin 3 db 18 db

I currently can't use BT FON, to cut down on usage, because i use my own Netgear router. But it's a good idea, if i stay with BT I'll set up the router they sent me and give it a go.

You should be getting about 1 Meg Sync faster now, but you won't benefit from ADSL2+.

What does this: http://speedtester.bt.com/ say?

BT speedtester results:

Download speedachieved during the test was - 2272 Kbps
For your connection, the acceptable range of speeds is 600-7150 Kbps.
Additional Information:
Your DSL Connection Rate :3360 Kbps(DOWN-STREAM), 448 Kbps(UP-STREAM)
IP Profile for your line is - 2500 Kbps

Hi, go with Orange for broadband, landline phone and line rental. It�s like being with BT but you pay Orange prices and if you already have Orange mobile phone contract you get £5 per month knocked off the broadband price.

http://shop.orange.co.uk/broadband/

http://help.orange.co.uk/orangeuk/support/personal/b...