Sky 5gb broadband

[Simmz]

Nice to see speeds getting faster.

Sky becomes UK’s fastest major broadband provider with launch of new 5 Gbps Full Fibre speed and WiFi 7 hub

Sky Broadband now has the UK’s fastest broadband speeds from any major provider with the launch of its new Full Fibre 2.5 Gigafast+ and Full Fibre 5 Gigafast+ packages, giving customers a superior connectivity experience at home. The 2.5 Gbps and 5 Gbps speeds will be delivered by the new...

www.skygroup.sky

 

[Meddling-Monk]

Just want to see my ISP (Community Fibre) or anyone else that can serve my location give me 10g (really want to stretch my internal networks legs so to speak )

One of my kids works with Sky, so they may grab that at reduced pricing if FTTP is available in their area.

 

[Timalay]

It is aviable in my area, but there is little point for me (and for most people) in getting. The most demanding thing that uses my internet is my Xbox Series X, and there is not way that could utilise it.

 

[Avalon]

The unfortunate reality of multi-gig connections at this point is you can't meaningfully use them beyond speed tests and bragging rights in a domestic setting, or at least not for long. 5GB/s = 1.5PB/month as a round number, ignoring write speed and redundancy that's roughly £37K based on OCUK's 22TB drive price, and that's just buying you a pile of drives, no disk shelves, servers, UPS or redundancy.

 

[Temi_D]

£80/month and symmetrical upload/download for the top package too seems decent. BT need to pull their finger out. I'm stuck on 110 upload

 

[cp88]

The unfortunate reality of multi-gig connections at this point is you can't meaningfully use them beyond speed tests and bragging rights in a domestic setting, or at least not for long. 5GB/s = 1.5PB/month as a round number, ignoring write speed and redundancy that's roughly £37K based on OCUK's 22TB drive price, and that's just buying you a pile of drives, no disk shelves, servers, UPS or redundancy.

I'm currently on 2.5Gbps and absolutely get meaningful use out of it.

I have 12TB of space and simply refresh my library. If I want to download a full 4K 'video sample' I am able to do this in minutes with it ready to go on my Plex.

Even if storage prices were much lower, I don't think I'd ever continuously buy new drives. The beauty of such speed is I don't have to hoard data, I can simply download whatever I am interested in within seconds, watch it and remove it.

 

[Meddling-Monk]

£80/month and symmetrical upload/download for the top package too seems decent. BT need to pull their finger out. I'm stuck on 110 upload

That's rough. Still viable for many things though, but some stuff will definitely be rough (I still remember trying to upload a 25GB video up to Youtube on a 80/20 connection... ). Who are you with right now?

 

[Temi_D]

That's rough. Still viable for many things though, but some stuff will definitely be rough (I still remember trying to upload a 25GB video up to Youtube on a 80/20 connection... ). Who are you with right now?

I'm with EE/BT, the only other option for me is Virgin but their upload is about the same. It's mostly okay, but I've been looking into doing off site backups recently and with about 40TB of storage, I'd definitely need more upload speed

 

[Yaayuh!]

Any FTTP will do for me, please

 

[Avalon]

I'm currently on 2.5Gbps and absolutely get meaningful use out of it.

I have 12TB of space and simply refresh my library. If I want to download a full 4K 'video sample' I am able to do this in minutes with it ready to go on my Plex.

Even if storage prices were much lower, I don't think I'd ever continuously buy new drives. The beauty of such speed is I don't have to hoard data, I can simply download whatever I am interested in within seconds, watch it and remove it.

Oh to be so naive I remember in the 80's when people made the same claim with Usenet or BBS', or the 90's with p2p like Napster, the 00's with bit-torrent or Streamload and more recently with ACD/GS unlimited storage. Remind me again, how did each of those work out? That's without the legitimate 'digital version' fiasco's, studio mergers/failures/retiring platforms or licensing issues - lets not forget people purchased 4K content from apple and woke up recently to find it had been downgraded to 1080p because apple lacked the regional rights to provide a 4K any longer, or that a significant amount of media simply isn't legitimately available in the UK on *any* platform.

Physical media/storage works, anything else is just an 'educated wish'.

 

[the wopster]

Oh to be so naive I remember in the 80's when people made the same claim with Usenet or BBS', or the 90's with p2p like Napster, the 00's with bit-torrent or Streamload and more recently with ACD/GS unlimited storage. Remind me again, how did each of those work out? That's without the legitimate 'digital version' fiasco's, studio mergers/failures/retiring platforms or licensing issues - lets not forget people purchased 4K content from apple and woke up recently to find it had been downgraded to 1080p because apple lacked the regional rights to provide a 4K any longer, or that a significant amount of media simply isn't legitimately available in the UK on *any* platform.

Physical media/storage works, anything else is just an 'educated wish'.

Is there a list of the apple content that’s been removed or downgraded

 

[Penfold101]

*fondly remembers barely being able to scrape the 30 Mb download of Windows XP Service Pack 2 into the two hour window before redialling the modem*

 

[cp88]

Oh to be so naive I remember in the 80's when people made the same claim with Usenet or BBS', or the 90's with p2p like Napster, the 00's with bit-torrent or Streamload and more recently with ACD/GS unlimited storage. Remind me again, how did each of those work out? That's without the legitimate 'digital version' fiasco's, studio mergers/failures/retiring platforms or licensing issues - lets not forget people purchased 4K content from apple and woke up recently to find it had been downgraded to 1080p because apple lacked the regional rights to provide a 4K any longer, or that a significant amount of media simply isn't legitimately available in the UK on *any* platform.

Physical media/storage works, anything else is just an 'educated wish'.

Torrents are as strong as ever, as is Usenet?

 

[Avalon]

Is there a list of the apple content that’s been removed or downgraded

As I said, it’s region specific licensing, we’re safe up north for the most part

Torrents are as strong as ever, as is Usenet?

Sadly, the last 3 decades of personal experience and documented history suggest otherwise.

 

[cp88]

As I said, it’s region specific licensing, we’re safe up north for the most part


Sadly, the last 3 decades of personal experience and documented history suggest otherwise.

I expect you are referring to public trackers. Anyone with desire and greater than average PC skills moved on from those 15-20 years ago.

Private torrents are very much alive and stronger than ever.

 

[Avalon]

I expect you are referring to public trackers. Anyone with desire and greater than average PC skills moved on from those 15-20 years ago.

Private torrents are very much alive and stronger than ever.

You assumption couldn't be more wrong.

 

[uscool]

Sadly, the last 3 decades of personal experience and documented history suggest otherwise.

It's very much still alive as good as it's ever been, I've been using the same few for 10 years+

Maybe your experience is the public ones ?

 

[Avalon]

It's very much still alive as good as it's ever been, I've been using the same few for 10 years+

Maybe your experience is the public ones ?

If only we'd already discounted that theory

 

[uscool]

If only we'd already discounted that theory

I'm guessing you only knew of the public ones, what theory? I see all available right now in any bitrate you want

 

[cp88]

Sounds like limited knowledge/ability. With this then its likely correct, most people can't make use of really fast speeds.

Power users are on the other hand can make use of these speeds for both work and pleasure. Torrents aside, my professional work flow speed is dramatically increased by having such upload speeds.