FTTP with either Sky or Vodafone

SixTwoSix

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UPDATE: For anyone who doesn't want to read the whole thread, ditched BT for Vodafone, identical performance (taking speed differences into account) at a much lower price.

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Looking for general performance feedback for anyone here using either Sky or Vodafone fibre/ultrafast. I'm looking for feedback more around the ping/latency and the upload speeds, both services offer download guarantee but nothing in terms of upload. A lot of feedback i've read point to folks having a bad time around upload speeds with both providers.

As posted in the BT thread, they want almost £80/month from June for a 900/110 connection, so i'm dropping a tier to a 500/60-70 connection - BT can only offer me the price of £49.99 for this. A new customer can get the same connection for £39.99 but they won't budge.

Vodafone offer 500/68 at £29 and Sky offer 470-515/58-60 at £45 - both offer at least £90 cashback with TCB which covers my early penalty charge for breaking contract with BT.

I've previously been with Vodafone for FTTC for 12 months and their customer support was excellent on the single occasion I had an issue, I haven't dealt with Sky support for over 10 years.

EE is also an option, they do 900 at £55 and 500 at £45 with £190/160 cashback offers.
 
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Hi @SixTwoSix.

We've recently gone with SKY ultra. Using Wifi on a desktop (upstairs, front of house, router downstairs, rear of house) I was getting 8 ping, 251 d/l and 69 u/l. Just finished wiring ethernet to the desktop today! - 10 ping, 477 d/l, and 72 u/l. That's the first test (about 10 mins ago) - not sure how much it will vary over time.
 
SixTwoSix said:
Looking for general performance feedback for anyone here using either Sky or Vodafone fibre/ultrafast. I'm looking for feedback more around the ping/latency and the upload speeds, both services offer download guarantee but nothing in terms of upload. A lot of feedback i've read point to folks having a bad time around upload speeds with both providers.

As posted in the BT thread, they want almost £80/month from June for a 900/110 connection, so i'm dropping a tier to a 500/60-70 connection - BT can only offer me the price of £49.99 for this. A new customer can get the same connection for £39.99 but they won't budge.

Vodafone offer 500/68 at £29 and Sky offer 470-515/58-60 at £45 - both offer at least £90 cashback with TCB which covers my early penalty charge for breaking contract with BT.

I've previously been with Vodafone for FTTC for 12 months and their customer support was excellent on the single occasion I had an issue, I haven't dealt with Sky support for over 10 years.

EE is also an option, they do 900 at £55 and 500 at £45 with £190/160 cashback offers.
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Send me a trust or start a conversation and I can offer a discount code for Sky broadband?
 
While looking I found the general consensus on the Vodafone FTTP was pretty poor. I went with Sky and I am very pleased with it. Speed tests on desktop are always >500 and latency is solid. Have had no issues whatsoever so far so can fully recommend it.
 
Richie's Room said:
Hi @SixTwoSix.

We've recently gone with SKY ultra. Using Wifi on a desktop (upstairs, front of house, router downstairs, rear of house) I was getting 8 ping, 251 d/l and 69 u/l. Just finished wiring ethernet to the desktop today! - 10 ping, 477 d/l, and 72 u/l. That's the first test (about 10 mins ago) - not sure how much it will vary over time.
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andy_mk3 said:
While looking I found the general consensus on the Vodafone FTTP was pretty poor. I went with Sky and I am very pleased with it. Speed tests on desktop are always >500 and latency is solid. Have had no issues whatsoever so far so can fully recommend it.
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Good to hear, from both, thankyou.

I've gone down a bit of a rabbit hole on reviews, so I decided to check reviews from my current BT service, of which it's been flawless - it has the same amount of disgruntled and complaining customers. I think it's that whole thing of folks only review when something is utterly terrible or absolutely brilliant.
 
Getting 2ms with Vodafone. Been with them for the past 2yrs, never drops, and always consistent latency. Recently renewed my contract for another 2yrs.

It is CityFibre, not Openreach for me, backends obviously going to be all VF's still.
If you have issues with Vodafone expect a bit of a headache if you use the live chat. Calling is probably the better option.
Luckily it's been rare that I've had to contact them aside from rectifying a change in billing.

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SixTwoSix said:
Looking for general performance feedback for anyone here using either Sky or Vodafone fibre/ultrafast. I'm looking for feedback more around the ping/latency and the upload speeds, both services offer download guarantee but nothing in terms of upload. A lot of feedback i've read point to folks having a bad time around upload speeds with both providers.

As posted in the BT thread, they want almost £80/month from June for a 900/110 connection, so i'm dropping a tier to a 500/60-70 connection - BT can only offer me the price of £49.99 for this. A new customer can get the same connection for £39.99 but they won't budge.

Vodafone offer 500/68 at £29 and Sky offer 470-515/58-60 at £45 - both offer at least £90 cashback with TCB which covers my early penalty charge for breaking contract with BT.

I've previously been with Vodafone for FTTC for 12 months and their customer support was excellent on the single occasion I had an issue, I haven't dealt with Sky support for over 10 years.

EE is also an option, they do 900 at £55 and 500 at £45 with £190/160 cashback offers.
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BT should be able to match the new customer deal but you may need to call a couple of times and try with different advisors, make it clear you'll be off if they can't do the deal for £40 especially considering vodaphone will do it for 30.
 
My work uses Office 365 so all my Teams calls go over IPv6, and we have clients that expect us to be able to configure and troubleshoot IPv6 for them.
 
Hmmm, I occasionally WFH and loads of Office365/Teams - however I guess as i'm using my companies VPN, this is dealt with on the work server side?
 
Correct me if I'm wrong, can't imagine that Office365/teams won't work if you don't have IPv4, doesn't make a difference as far as i'm aware.
 
Yes, to clarify I wasn't saying Teams needs IPv6, I was saying that it is one of many applications I use that can take advantage of IPv6. The only time I'm required to have access to the v6 Internet is when I am doing IPv6-specific projects.
 
Ive had Vodafone FTTP for about a year and its been flawless. They were very accommodating with my needs in terms of fixed addresses etc as well which is a breath of fresh air and the reason I was stuck using Eclipse internet for some 18 years.
 
Vince said:
Ive had Vodafone FTTP for about a year and its been flawless. They were very accommodating with my needs in terms of fixed addresses etc as well which is a breath of fresh air and the reason I was stuck using Eclipse internet for some 18 years.
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You on CityFibre or Openreach's network? I'd love to see how our traceroutes compares since you're also from Essex.
 
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