No.

The BT Wholesale network capacity makes Sky's look tiny, though Sky's is immense. Plusnet ensure their feeds from BT Wholesale are big enough, with daily checks keeping it ahead of customer growth.

If you look at these graphs, the green is the minimum latency on those connections, sampled every second and calculated every 100 seconds. In other words each vertical line represents the average of 100 tests. Blue is the average latency in the 100 seconds, and yellow is the peak.

(21CN is in effect an old and slightly inaccurate term for ADSL2+).

The solid red means the router is switched off. The yellow and blue on the ones I see there just indicate heavy use by the customer - congestion shows as hills at the same time and place on all. We have seen those when they got their forecasts wrong, but they soon sorted it.

You don't need to worry with either Sky or PlusNet.

But PLEASE check your estimate using the address checker I gave you the link to. Best to copy and paste the result here, for opinions on what it says.

Edited by RobertoS (Tue 17-Dec-13 18:30:33)

Not necessarily! They both use ADSL2+ but PN & other WBC ISPs will allow the NM to go down to 3dB on stable lines.

Cutoffs, schmutoffs! 1 man's router discon is another's 'failed to load webpage'. What matters here is not why AOL was so bad, but that most LLU & WBC ISPs will be superior.

Nope - I'm not buying that.

Edited by RobertoS (Tue 17-Dec-13 18:51:00)

Who do you have your calls and land line rental with?

BT although not really happy with their planned price increase in January lol!

If you go to Sky for BB then you'll have to move your phone (call+line rental) to them as well i.e. full LLU or MPF (Metallic Path Facility)

If moving from MPF back to WBC:- http://www.kitz.co.uk/isp/migration.htm#LLU_migration

In reply to a post by Apprentice:

If you go to Sky for BB then you'll have to move your phone (call+line rental) to them as well i.e. full LLU or MPF (Metallic Path Facility)

If moving from MPF back to WBC:- http://www.kitz.co.uk/isp/migration.htm#LLU_migration

No they won't. Sky aren't forcing anyone to move their phone line unless they are already with either O2 or BE for their phone line rental too.

That's good, so does that mean if the OP decided to use Sky for the broadband connection and leave line rental/calls with BT the broadband service would be via Sky's LLU network?

Yes.