Any Sky Unlimited (LLU) users - feedback please, esp Gamers/Heavy Users

Uther · 20 Jan 2012 at 18:12

I was quoted 11-18 and get around 14 on a 1km line.

3dcandy · 20 Jan 2012 at 18:59

distance from the exchange is only one thing that affects your broadband speed, it's the overall quality of the line...internal and external. Approx 1.6km from exchange might not be 1.6 km line length either...
I'd hazard a guess and say you should get 10+ meg on that line...

Alexrose1uk · 20 Jan 2012 at 19:49

Well Xilo have off and checked for me, and nope not CPW enabled as yet, and no update on the live dates.
I shouldn't be a problem for any ISP in terms of saturation really, my line is only about 3MB

6KM line IIRC.

VaderDSL · 20 Jan 2012 at 21:10

I got quoted 4 - 9mbps. I get on average 3.5 - 4 due to length of the line.

No biggie, I knew when I moved here that it was going to be slow.

V F · 22 Jan 2012 at 17:28

What uptime record have you lot had with router and connection?

VaderDSL · 22 Jan 2012 at 17:29

V F said:
What uptime record have you lot had with router and connection?

Mine's been fairly solid for the last 6 months, probably 2 drop outs and 2 reboots forced by myself.

andy_mk3 · 22 Jan 2012 at 17:38

Estimated Access Line Speed: 7.0Mbps - 14.3Mbps

Currently synced at 6144Kb

3dcandy · 22 Jan 2012 at 17:38

the netgear router seems pretty solid to me aswell. We've had some loss of sync at nights, but that is because they are upgrading our exchange to 21cn and it appears everyone get's booted off whilst they are doing it...

Doz007 · 22 Jan 2012 at 20:05

andy_mk3 said:
Currently synced at 6144Kb

This is what worries me, Sky Estimate that I'll be able to get between 5 & 11.4Mbps on my line but if I'm going to get under 5 I'd rather not bother.

3dcandy · 22 Jan 2012 at 20:50

Doz007 said:
This is what worries me, Sky Estimate that I'll be able to get between 5 & 11.4Mbps on my line but if I'm going to get under 5 I'd rather not bother.

Stick with Virgin then if it's the headline speed that you're interested in...
Remember no throttling at all (Virgin throttle a lot), unlimited downloads, and if you take it with a Sky package it's got decent downloadable content for free.

andy_mk3 · 22 Jan 2012 at 21:05

Doz007 said:
This is what worries me, Sky Estimate that I'll be able to get between 5 & 11.4Mbps on my line but if I'm going to get under 5 I'd rather not bother.

To be fair I get closer to 7Mbps if I connect it to the master socket. It's just easier to have the router upstairs as I have 3 ethernet connections into it!

kidloco · 22 Jan 2012 at 21:40

switched over to SKY unlimited last week. Moved from O2. Speed is up to around 13mb at the moment. One thing I have noticed is that when I am sharing torrents, even if only downloading at 100k a sec it cripples performance on the internet. Its like my connection goes back to the old dial up days. Its the same on other devices as well (laptop, iPad 2 etc) Really bugging the hell out of me now. Never had this issue on O2.

Any ideas what it could be chaps?

VaderDSL · 22 Jan 2012 at 21:49

kidloco said:
switched over to SKY unlimited last week. Moved from O2. Speed is up to around 13mb at the moment. One thing I have noticed is that when I am sharing torrents, even if only downloading at 100k a sec it cripples performance on the internet. Its like my connection goes back to the old dial up days. Its the same on other devices as well (laptop, iPad 2 etc) Really bugging the hell out of me now. Never had this issue on O2.

Any ideas what it could be chaps?

Might be the upload choking everything, or the amount of connections crippling the router.

andy_mk3 · 22 Jan 2012 at 21:50

VaderDSL said:
Might be the upload choking everything, or the amount of connections crippling the router.

I'd say this, always been the same for me.

KIA · 22 Jan 2012 at 22:44

kidloco said:
Any ideas what it could be chaps?

Cap upload speed to 80% of max.

kidloco · 22 Jan 2012 at 23:49

Cheers guys, I figured it must have been a router issue as the speed up & down is the same I was getting on SKY. Guess the o2 router was just better at handling heavy traffic then the SKY one.

I know they dont like you to change your router, ive managed to get my username and password and considering getting a decent router instead of the standard one as it seems to be a bit on poor side.

MissChief · 22 Jan 2012 at 23:50

I've always had the same problem when torrenting on Sky. Other connections in the house suffer incredibly but I live by myself so it's no problem!

andy_mk3 · 22 Jan 2012 at 23:55

Change the settings in your torrent program, you must be using too many connections. I use my own netgear router now, only for the wireless N. It made no difference to torrents though. I just limit the upload and limit the total number of connections and it's fine.

Doz007 · 23 Jan 2012 at 03:31

3dcandy said:
Stick with Virgin then if it's the headline speed that you're interested in...
Remember no throttling at all (Virgin throttle a lot), unlimited downloads, and if you take it with a Sky package it's got decent downloadable content for free.

It's the Anytime+ factor that has got me thinking about moving to Sky BB. I'm on the 50Mb package with Virgin at the moment which I'm fairly sure is exempt from the throttling and traffic management they do to customers on their lower tarrifs.

3dcandy · 23 Jan 2012 at 08:34

Wrong. All Virgin (according to their own literature) tariffs have throttling or traffic management on file sharing protocols like p2p, usenet etc.

http://help.virginmedia.com/system/selfservice.controller?CMD=VIEW_ARTICLE&ARTICLE_ID=389387&CURRENT_CMD=SEARCH&CONFIGURATION=1029&PARTITION_ID=1&USERTYPE=1&LANGUAGE=en&COUNTY=us&VM_CUSTOMER_TYPE=

As I said, moving to Sky from Virgin cable may come as a complete shock to you or a nice surprise. You will have a considerably slower real world connection in many ways, and probably a worse ping too. However, in my experience the connection is just as useable because VM seem to have little spare capacity compared to Sky. I can get full download speeds for about 90% of the time, whilst the mother in law NEVER gets hers and a lot of websites are slow to load and Skype for example is worse than her old BT 2mb connection. It all depends on the area you are in. A lot of my mates are moving away from VM due to the throttling/traffic management and unuseable connection at peak times...