is sky max unlimited.. unlimited ?
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You're on Sky Broadband Connect. Unlucky! That's provided over BT equipment. Oh, and the grass won't be greener with BT, they'll just replace that 40GB cap with 'traffic management' - which basically means you'll be seeing more of that 35kb speed you've been getting.
I shunned Sky because I want my own router and static IP (so I can use remote access). I may need to review that.
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137GB ....in one month....!
I'd be suprised if I did 15-20GB a month. I use the web daily with youtube HD/online gaming etc
As above, I do that a day quite often. Web usage and gaming are low bandwidth applications so it's hardly surprising you're not using much.
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I'm in this boat exactly as well. my OH works part time for Sky which means we get everything for free from them. I'd still be quite happy to migrate from them to a truly "unlimited" broadband service as soon as my local exchange gets LLU!
I'm sure there's still plenty others like yourself that are ignoring Sky due to the fact that they can only provide a dynamic IP address.
If you get the LLU from sky then it is unlimited. If they imply a FUP or throttle you then it's because you're on the connect package
I'm on the Sky max package and I've downloaded about 300gb in one month in the past with no problems. Only at half that this month though.
If you have sky LLU unlimted then there is no throttling & it is completely unlimted, if you don't have LLU then you will be on the connect package which isn't unlimted & gets throttled to hell.
I do around 500gb a month & never have anything said to me, been with them over a year as well.
I do around 500gb a month & never have anything said to me, been with them over a year as well.
I'm on sky llu and connect at 20mbit and get around 2MB/sec download and 100KB upload with a good ping too.
The most I've downloaded in a month is 300GB and usually goes around 100GB. I'm not quite sure how some folk manage to get by with a 40GB allowance these days with all this hi-def content and iplayer etc sucking bandwidth.
The most I've downloaded in a month is 300GB and usually goes around 100GB. I'm not quite sure how some folk manage to get by with a 40GB allowance these days with all this hi-def content and iplayer etc sucking bandwidth.
Maybe not, but the limit with Sky seems to be so high that i've not heard of anyone reaching it.
Whether it's truly unlimited is a bit of a moot point. If you get 20Mbps, you could theoretically download over 5,000GB in a month - they might have something to say about you doing that repeatedly. But you can download as much as you'd ever want to. It seems to be well established that 300-500GB is fine.
That's a crazy amount of downloading, though. IMO 500GB on a regular basis is borderline abuse of the service. If too many people do that, the unlimited service will be unsustainable and Sky will institute traffic management like everyone else has.
That's a crazy amount of downloading, though. IMO 500GB on a regular basis is borderline abuse of the service. If too many people do that, the unlimited service will be unsustainable and Sky will institute traffic management like everyone else has.
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137Gb in one month...
I've done that this week....
thats a lot of linux distros'