Sky broadband unlimited speed my god

zipp0r said:
the noise margin is too low to get 6mbit. you need to check that the bellwire is disconnected and that you have a high quality adsl filter and are connected to the test socket.
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With an average modem/router and stock settings around 4.5Mbit is max but a router with a good chipset like the 834 and SNR tweaking is potentially in reach of 6Mbit.
 
I'm currently on Fiber Pro with sky, 80/20 just did the BT wholesale checker

FTTC Range A (Clean) 80 66.8 20 19.9 -- Available
FTTC Range B (Impacted) 79.5 52.1 20 17.7 -- Available

I dont get anywhere near that! i'm lucky if I get 50mb.
 
shankly1985 said:
Already done this, Between 4-8mb the exchange on openreach is down for June 2014 for Fibre and Sky said from now to end of Next year.
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Sky's service will probably go live within a couple of weeks to a few months. Pity you can't jump ship.
 
shankly1985 said:
After moving house and been with Virgin/cable what seems like all my life. I am forced to change provider and use sky broadband unlimited, after the DLM stage I be looking at around 6 megabit lol a massive change coming from 120mb I feel sick.

Atm I have wolfenstein on download 44GB and it's going to take 2days. My question is how do you guys who not yet on fibre handle this? Do you buy your games on disk and just download patches?
If I get my speed of 6mb it will make downloads bit better at 17 hours for 50gb
fibre is looking like sometime next year, how will I handle this lol
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4G data allowances currently tend to make them prohibitive to use as an alternative to home broadband which is a bit silly given the potential speeds.
 
KIA said:
A BT wholesale provider, such as plusnet.
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But it's all on the same BT network. What plusnet provide is same as what BT and sky provide.

It's all run by openreach, just that sky have there own LLU inside the exchange so they can provide unlimited Internet, and control things themselves.
When my exchange becomes fibre ready, all providers will then get it.
BT, sky, plusnet etc
 
shankly1985 said:
After wait and see i guess. Nothing I can do about it till, exchange is ready. I expect BT to be ready first as its there exchange. But Sky shouldn't be long after and if its to long i'll switch.
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My friends exchange and cabinet went live with all three main providers immediately, Talktalk, Sky and of course BT.

They purposely don't wait around to offer the service otherwise they just lose custom to BT, so yeah you won't be waiting long if at all.
 
Best choice is to find a cheap 2nd hand 4G enabled phone that runs on 3 network. Like HTC One and then get sim only deal from three for £23 a month.

The One Plan 1 month SIM
1
Months
All-you-can-eat data
2000
minutes
5000
texts

Then I could use this for Downloads, and sky for online play till fibre is here. What other last year or older phones are 4G ready?
 
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  1. Because people decided to use it as a replacement for traditional home broadband, something I'm sure they never intended.
  2. Because with the introduction of 4G the attraction of using it as a home broadband replacement could only go up.
Mobile broadband is a shared resource. If you get too many people hammering a particular tower the system grinds to a halt.
 
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