sky BB fair user policy

jamjar · 6 Mar 2012 at 10:34

Hi All I, have been reading that Sky BB is totally unlimited with no fair user policy or traffic management ,can anyone tell me if this is true ? also will there new fibre service due in April also have no fair user policy etc ??

reflux · 6 Mar 2012 at 10:38

I had the 20mb for 2 years and downloaded the **** out of it, no throttling or speed decreases whatsoever.

jamjar · 6 Mar 2012 at 10:52

reflux said:
I had the 20mb for 2 years and downloaded the **** out of it, no throttling or speed decreases whatsoever.

oh and was it any good and why did you leave sky ?

KIA · 6 Mar 2012 at 12:03

How many threads do you need?

Sky Unlimited is truly unlimited and doesn't have an FUP. Sky Fibre will be the same.

jamjar · 6 Mar 2012 at 13:05

KIA said:
How many threads do you need?

Sky Unlimited is truly unlimited and doesn't have an FUP. Sky Fibre will be the same.

Sorry i got carried away with the fibre ha! that is what i believe too Sky Unlimited does seem the best isp for p2p and no fair user policy under handed stuff going on

matt100 · 6 Mar 2012 at 14:23

BE is better, I went there as they explicitly claim no throttle/packet shaping or FUP and I thrash the living daylights out of it with no comeback. Utorrent says a total of 100GB in the last 31 days, then on top of that using it for work, iplayer, phones etc etc and not a squeak from them.

I see the problem with Sky being that whilst they say there's no FUP now, thats not their reason for being, they're primarily cheap and multi service (ie phone, tv etc etc) whereas BE is pretty much set up as a no questions asked, fast, hassle free broadband service.

reflux · 6 Mar 2012 at 14:25

jamjar said:
oh and was it any good and why did you leave sky ?

It's probably the best connection I've ever had. Only left them because I moved out into a place that already had O2.

jamjar · 6 Mar 2012 at 14:41

matt100 said:
BE is better, I went there as they explicitly claim no throttle/packet shaping or FUP and I thrash the living daylights out of it with no comeback. Utorrent says a total of 100GB in the last 31 days, then on top of that using it for work, iplayer, phones etc etc and not a squeak from them.

I see the problem with Sky being that whilst they say there's no FUP now, thats not their reason for being, they're primarily cheap and multi service (ie phone, tv etc etc) whereas BE is pretty much set up as a no questions asked, fast, hassle free broadband service.

very true and i agree ..but when will BE get there act together with the fibre service thats been on the horizon for yonks ! a lot of people will leave BE if they don,t get fibre soon ,as thats where things are going ,and with Sky now in the ring things are starting to look interesting

matt100 · 6 Mar 2012 at 14:44

god knows, more importantly who cares I get 15mb anyway? Fibre is growing but not as fast as your threadcount!

jamjar · 6 Mar 2012 at 14:49

matt100 said:
god knows, more importantly who cares I get 15mb anyway? Fibre is growing but not as fast as your threadcount!

yeah i will have to ask him ha! God that is

and 15mb is enough speed for anyone ,i wonder why people really need 100mb speed as 40mb is way fast enough in todays standards

3dcandy · 6 Mar 2012 at 16:37

My Sky connection is very good, we have crappy aluminium wires so I get 9 meg down and 605 up. No throttling or anything, plus we use the Anytime+ functionality a lot. Saved myself about £20 a month by switching and no fup. Free phonecalls to landlines anytime of the day and night as long as you put down and re connect before the hour is up