Thinking of moving to sky

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Hi Everyone, I'm thinking of moving over to Sky (Max Broadband)

I'm currently with Enta (UKFSN) and paying £40 per month for a 90/360 GB peak/offpeak service

However I only manage to use about 150gb per month of the bandwidth (across peak and offpeak) and I can no longer justify paying £40 per month when i can get unlimited for £10 on top of my Sky package.

As with most people I use my broadband for net/email use, online gaming, music and video downloading and i use rapidshare for various media files.

Overall i never really go over 150gb, i know sky has a "Truly unlimited usage allowance" but would 150gb be seen as excessive?

Please could i have some views please on this and also their service and relialibility.

Thanks
 
i moved from ADSL24 to Sky Max recently.

Easy move, no downtime, good speeds, excellent connection (not dropped yet) and £10 a month can't be sniffed at.

In terms of bandwidth/limits - never push as much as 150gb but reckon i am around 50-80gb a month and never had any issues. Was worried myself before the move but very happy and not looked back since. 2 months ago or so.
 
I was with Sky for a couple of years - very reliable service, good speeds - at least as far as the huge distance between my house and the exchange allowed. I would recommend to anyone. But when I changed house I went to Virgin cable, where that distance to exchange was irrelevant, I always get 9.5Mb from a possible 10Mb.
 
Sky is excellent - I have the Max package as well, and i get a sync at around 15MB. I also get good low pings for gaming, no throttling and it is unlimited now apparantly(no fup or so i read on skyuser)...for £10 a month i could not recommend anything else but Sky ;)
 
Hmmmm ive had it since the 24th of this month and the only thing what is annoying me is that you HAVE to use sky's truly pathetic **** netgear router, what's got a network range of about half a centimetre....

Im wanting to use my trust worthy long range speedtouch router!!!! But sky hide your real username/password away from you,from what i have read!!! ******'s!!!!
 
Rybo89 said:
Hmmmm ive had it since the 24th of this month and the only thing what is annoying me is that you HAVE to use sky's truly pathetic **** netgear router, what's got a network range of about half a centimetre....

Im wanting to use my trust worthy long range speedtouch router!!!! But sky hide your real username/password away from you,from what i have read!!! ******'s!!!!
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Take a look on Sky user, there is a guide which lets you extract this information so you can use your own router, although its not recommended by sky.

;)
 
gam3r said:
Take a look on Sky user, there is a guide which lets you extract this information so you can use your own router, although its not recommended by sky.

;)
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I have a vigor router and I'm not changing that, anyone know why it's not recommended by sky?
 
blackster said:
I have a vigor router and I'm not changing that, anyone know why it's not recommended by sky?
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They don't support any router except the one that they supply. I'd guess it is a support issue, makes tech support easier for them only dealing with one model of router
 
blackster said:
so you can obtain the sign in username and passwords for use with your own router then
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Yes, from what I've read. I never tried it myself, the supplied router did the job perfectly. Now sits in the box gathering dust, as I use the supplied Virgin router now for my cable connection ;)
 
When I've used other ISP in the past they have supplied usernames and passwords, you dont have to install all the sky crap and the sky netgear router to extract this information do you, surely they could just email it you or supply it with the router installation pack.
 
gam3r said:
Take a look on Sky user, there is a guide which lets you extract this information so you can use your own router, although its not recommended by sky.

;)
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Can you post the link mate for that or PM me it if it's not allowed etc.

I've been doing a little reading and read some stories about sky customers getting cut off due to using non sky supplied routers.

I've been on sky but cannot find anything about the router settings.

Thanks
 
Every ISP has a usage policy, saying things like they are allowed to disconnect you if you look at kiddie porn all day. When people refer to an FUP they mean regarding caps, e.g. there will be no vaguely worded clause meaning "if you go over a limit that we won't tell you then we might throttle you".
 
blackster said:
Overall i never really go over 150gb, i know sky has a "Truly unlimited usage allowance" but would 150gb be seen as excessive?

Thanks
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You never REALLY go over 150Gb per Month?!?!?! what the hell are you download which is putting you around that mark per month?!

I download Loads of stuff, movies, music etc, and my downloads per month prob wont reach 10Gb Per month.

ive never heard anything like it!!
 
Jamesdavid3 said:
You never REALLY go over 150Gb per Month?!?!?! what the hell are you download which is putting you around that mark per month?!

I download Loads of stuff, movies, music etc, and my downloads per month prob wont reach 10Gb Per month.

ive never heard anything like it!!
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DVD = 5gb x 10 = 50gb

Pretty easy to download more if your into HD stuff.
 
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