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Hey All,

Currently with UKFSN and do a lot of downloading through newsgroups and the internet.

Sky has just been enabled in my area on upto 16mb so I am thinking of switching. First of all will I recieve a quicker speed than what I am on now (currently on upto 8mb syncing at 5mb).

Also what are the speeds like on Sky Broadband, especially newsgroups.

Do they do any throttling at all?

I have also read that the pings are high on sky due to a lot of interleaving being in place, is this true as I am a gamer so need reasonably low pings (currently around 30ms)

Thanks, Sam
 
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Just migrated from plusnet to sky max yesterday and so far seems to be great.

I was syncing at 5mb with 488kbps upload with plusnet but am now at 8096kbps down and 768kbps up. It depends on your line though if you will get a better speed.

Sky don't have any traffic shaping on their llu packages. Not sure about newsgroups as i've never used them but I get around 250kbps on p2p programs.

Yes pings are quite high because of interleaving. Mine are around 35ms-40ms.
 
considering moving to sky myself from pipex, any one know what the pings are like in terms of higer than standard adsl providers without interleaving?

i mostly ping around 50ms on pipex (am located in N.I) the tv / broadband package seems a good deal seeing as pipex are charging me around £30 for 2mb while they do throttle never been told off no matter how much i download

am concerned about the pings on sky seeing as i do game quite a bit
 
Speeds on premium newsgroup feeds (using Ngroups.net myself) are full wack all the time. I get whatever my line is synced at without any issues from servers. No throttling, no shaping, no limits. There is a AUP but some are going over 100's of GB each month without a sniff of a cease and desist.
This is on the LLU products at a bargain tenner a month.
30ms pings dont really make a blind bit of difference from what I have found with gaming on Xbox Live so interleaving doesnt really bother me. I would much rather have the download speeds and cheaper costs ta.
 
I am switching to Sky 16mb from Virgin Cable.
I don't have a BT socket by my pc so will be running it through the wifi router with a wifi pci card.
Will this affect pings as well?
 
Just got mine last night. Keeps cutting out, well 3 times so far, still annoying though! For some mad reason since last night whenever I download Rar files the .part files, they won't extract all seem to have errors. On downloads since last night.

Just came from virgin though, and altough they garunteed me that the line won't be faster than 2meg, i'm at 5.

O and get it free hehe :p
 
begbo said:
Just got mine last night. Keeps cutting out, well 3 times so far, still annoying though! For some mad reason since last night whenever I download Rar files the .part files, they won't extract all seem to have errors. On downloads since last night.

Just came from virgin though, and altough they garunteed me that the line won't be faster than 2meg, i'm at 5.

O and get it free hehe :p
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Sometimes it's just the router being dodgy. It's a decent router its just sky's version of firmware which has made it pretty rubbish..Sometimes my wireless slows to a crawl and i have to reboot it to get it working again. Oh well, can't really complain about 16mb for £10 :)
 
Hey all,

Sorry to hijack... thinking of leaving my current ISP and going with Sky as they've just enabled LLU at my exchange.

Anyone have anything to say about them or LLU in general? Is it better than the ever-reliable BTw?? ( :rolleyes: )
 
How can you find what speed you can get via sky broadband, i don't want to put activate the line just to find out what speeds it can do, on postcode bt say 5mb and a distance of 1.3km what would you expect roughly on that.
 
I ended up going with UK Online.

Here is a speedtest I have just done:

http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/results.php?t=1183392267&v=1720959

And here is a ping test:

Code: 
Pinging jolt.co.uk [82.133.85.65] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=56
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=56
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=56
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=56

Ping statistics for 82.133.85.65:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 15ms, Maximum = 21ms, Average = 17ms
As for speeds at 1.3km, obviously depending on line quality you will get pretty close to 8mb as I am 2.3km from my exchange and get the above speeds.
 
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thankyou, i have a number of isps ready.


BE, Bulldog, Ukonline, Sky, tiscali,

which out of them would you take?

im connected @ 5.5mbit/832u atm


currently with ukfsn [entanet] and i fancey a change.
 
I switched to Sky from Virgin Cable (4Mbit) and haven't looked back. I'm only getting 5Mbit due to my distance from the exchange, but it's cheaper than Virgin and from what I've seen on this forum as of late a whole lot more reliable.

I've had the odd disconnect at 1am, and their webmail is pants, but other than that I've had absolutely zero problems. Always 5Mbit solid and pings are just as good as they were on Virgin.

Also, as said a couple of times above, Sky don't do any crappy "traffic management" on their LLU services.
 
TiZoR said:
thankyou, i have a number of isps ready.


BE, Bulldog, Ukonline, Sky, tiscali,

which out of them would you take?

im connected @ 5.5mbit/832u atm


currently with ukfsn [entanet] and i fancey a change.
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Out of them id go with Be, Sky coming 2nd, Tosscali are absolutely atrocious, you can only use them to read e-mails, browse, as if you download or play online games then they will slap you on the bad boy pipe for breaching the FUP, they traffic shape, the list go's on, Bulldog are now part of Tosscali seen as Tosscali have took over Pipex, so id avoid them like the plague to. :D
 
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