Sky Fibre Optic

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Who will be ordering this tomorrow?

If I can get it, I am seriously thinking about changing from VM to it. Too many drop outs with VM. £20 a month for 40MB is quite reasonable as well.
 
What are we looking at in terms of plans on any monthly transfer allocations, peak time and non-peak time plans, throttling and potential future changes to the plan and contract length?
 
DJMK4 said:
What are we looking at in terms of plans on any monthly transfer allocations, peak time and non-peak time plans, throttling and potential future changes to the plan and contract length?
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Details are sketchy, but it's certainly interesting for me as I have Sky TV. Would be nice to have TV, broadband and phone in one package.
 
DJMK4 said:
What are we looking at in terms of plans on any monthly transfer allocations, peak time and non-peak time plans, throttling and potential future changes to the plan and contract length?
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none... Sky unlimited is truly unlimited and will be on Fibre too.

only downside is for the initial roll out speeds will only be upto 40meg down and 2 meg up unlike BT's 40/10

once the intial phase is done i imagine 40/10 will be implemented and potential 80/20 also.
 
Rossi~ said:
https://fibre.sky.com/shop/broadband-talk/broadband-options/sky-fibre-broadband/

Indeed, was going to ring up today but will do tomorrow.
Any idea whether they would customise connection speeds upon request? e.g. if i could get a 40/10 connection, whether they'd be able to increase the upload speed if i sacrifice download speed via a cap?
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I think that is very unlikely. It would be nice if we could do this sort of thing but it's almost unheard of amongst consumer ISPs over here and I would imagine any that do it would be extremely small suppliers that would charge a premium. Not somebody like Sky.
 
Sneaky little change there. Really want to upgrade to this but for whatever reason our area hasn't had fibre installed yet and is not even on the list of areas for it to be installed.
 
FrenchTart said:
I think that is very unlikely. It would be nice if we could do this sort of thing but it's almost unheard of amongst consumer ISPs over here and I would imagine any that do it would be extremely small suppliers that would charge a premium. Not somebody like Sky.
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That's a shame, NTL did it for me back in the day but nobody seems to do it these days.
 
argh! really interested to go with sky but I just cant justify the 2meg upload as it isnt fast enough however long I have to wait for the upgrade.

Anyone with sky comment on how good their service is for gamers? (Ping,reliability,packetloss, throttling during peak times)

I know they used to be extremely poor when they came out
 
Lighters said:
argh! really interested to go with sky but I just cant justify the 2meg upload as it isnt fast enough however long I have to wait for the upgrade.

Anyone with sky comment on how good their service is for gamers? (Ping,reliability,packetloss, throttling during peak times)

I know they used to be extremely poor when they came out
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If you're just worried about gaming then the 2mbit upload really will not matter to you. It is much more than sufficient for gaming.

Sky's LLU service has always been great. Their IPStream service has always been sub-par. This is true pretty much across the board - ping, jitter, download speeds, throttling.

I would expect their FTTC product to closely match their LLU product in those regards, but it it remains to be seen whether or not their network will be able to cope with the increased load (given that Easynet generally manage their network quite well though, I have high hopes).
 
Lighters said:
argh! really interested to go with sky but I just cant justify the 2meg upload as it isnt fast enough however long I have to wait for the upgrade.

Anyone with sky comment on how good their service is for gamers? (Ping,reliability,packetloss, throttling during peak times)

I know they used to be extremely poor when they came out
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From what i can see, all Sky have said about speeds so far is 40Mb download. 2Mb upload just happens to be the speed that the trials are on at the moment. Unless someone can point me in the right direction.

I'm on Sky ADSL2+ 16mb down, 0.65 up. Gaming is brilliant, low pings (25-50) in the UK. Fibre will be great.
 
Sorry I should have slipped streaming into there :) hence why 2meg isnt fast enough :P

Edit - thinking about talktalk
£114 line rental
£22.25 6month then 29.50 for remaining
 
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