Rightio.... I shall comment

I had the 40mbps product but rang up and got upgraded to the 80mbps product no problems.

Consistent: it's ALWAYS full sync speed. It never slows down not even during peak hours. I sync at 80 down.
Torrents are great too.

The router. The wifi is actually very good. It has a max rate of 144 down on wifi not 300mbps... This in real practice gets me 75mbps via wifi so it's fine.

Compared to the superhub the sky router reaches rooms the superhub couldn't even manage a connection. & in these rooms I see 20 mbps via wifi. There's around 5 walls between the router and those rooms and the walls have the metal foil style insulation. So very very good there. I was expecting to get absolutely nothing.

The router also has been left turned on behind a fridge for around 7 months constantly. It never once needed a reboot or anything.

Gaming. I don't do gaming on sky but the pings are very good on their FTTC.

When the router signals good I see 75 mbps wifi no issues.

Edited by ukhardy07 (Tue 10-Jul-12 17:57:54)

Will i be paying more in the short term on Sky than on a virgin 18 month contract?

Not really sure.

Sky's 80mbps is £30 a month + rental

40mbps is £20 plus line rental.

Any more info you lot could give me on some other ISP that compete with Sky for price and upload traffic management, usage. Possibly some London only ISP that cover the greater area also?

Thanks

The sky FTTC product is as far as i know just the same as the BT retail offerings, resold by sky , as it is subject to the antiquated BT profiling and DLM which does not always work well on some lines , although any reduction in sync & throughput is beneficial to BTW /Openwound

In reply to a post by tommy45:

The sky FTTC product is as far as i know just the same as the BT retail offerings, resold by sky , as it is subject to the antiquated BT profiling and DLM which does not always work well on some lines , although any reduction in sync & throughput is beneficial to BTW /Openwound

No!

FTTC is subject to a totally different DLM that IPStream ADSL was in the "old days".

SKY "Resells" GEA in the same way that SKY "Resells" the copper pair from the exchange to the house.

What will matter is whether SKY, TT or BT Wholesale has the right level of backhaul for their customer base.

Since users of P2P will, in general, stay away from BT (a generalisation, I know, there are ways round it) then SKY will generally have to provide more backhaul per customer than BT wholesale.

Obviously it bepends on whether BT Retail are prepared to invest in sufficient backhaul - the current pricing of the 80 / 20 Infinity product doesnt leave much scope for this!

Sky has been adding 10GigE to some LLU exchanges and with its own core network can shift this data around the UK much cheaper than the BT Wholesale WBC network does.

So for Tommy45 to say Sky FTTC is same as BT Retail is just a lot of misinformation

Finally made up my mind and i am going to sign up to Sky's Fibre Unlimited with Sky landline. It's a couple of quid more than what i was paying for BeThere (was on 8meg out of 16 )with BT landline but i get a pretty decent service by the looks of things.

If anyone has anything else to add before i take the plunge please say it ASAP.

Good choice.

im on vm 100mb and if i could get sky fiber i would jump ship asap, goes down to 50mb if ya use the connected on steam and stuff, the pings and online gaming can be a prob but head line speed good but its really a 50mb service, the network is old and needs alot of work, i think the fttc network is alot more future proof and when ya can get fiber on demand it will be even better, alot of congestion too.


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