Sky Fibre Optic

Currently on just normal Sky unlimited and only get 3.7Mbps download :(
Will have to enquire about fibre as i didn't even realise Sky did it! (Coming from Virgin only a few months ago)

I have read a few pages on here and people are happy with it seems so will go for it if i can!
 
1mm3 said:
Apparently it is going to be £30/ month compared to BT Infinity 2 (80mb package) which is £26/month (currently on offer for £20/month for first 3 months)

You have to take into account that BT does "manage" its P2P activity so not a truly unlimited product.

See here
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Hence why I'm telling him to get Sky over BT ;)

Thanks, those seems like pretty good prices!
 
I read some place that the fibre pro will only be for new customers,
Guessing they mean new fibre customers,
Not even sure if thats true or not yet seems a shame if it was.

But yes its £30
 
If Sky roll out 80/20 at a good price, I'll be switching from BT when my contract comes to an end (some 16 months away).

Not that I have any issues with BT, but I get my TV through Sky so it makes sense.
 
MilanoChris said:
If Sky roll out 80/20 at a good price, I'll be switching from BT when my contract comes to an end (some 16 months away).

Not that I have any issues with BT, but I get my TV through Sky so it makes sense.
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If you with Fibre with BT at this point you cant move across to Sky,
Guessing this might just be a issue with Sky's account managment system.
 
Is it worth paying the additional £10, for greater download speed?
Considering that most of the time we are unable to saturate the 40mbps bandwidth...80mbps will make virtually no difference.

What do you guys think?
 
sunama said:
Is it worth paying the additional £10, for greater download speed?
Considering that most of the time we are unable to saturate the 40mbps bandwidth...80mbps will make virtually no difference.

What do you guys think?
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How many users sharing the connection?
P2P?
Usenet?
 
I won't bother I'm just hoping they roll out 40/10 at no extra charge. I've been with sky since 2007 I would hate to leave because or poor upload.
 
MilanoChris said:
I didn't know that, I was wondering why their online checker fobbed me off. I expect it'll be a different story in a year.
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Yeah i am sure then will get a update done soon,
I remember when BT first came out with fibre you could not move from fibre to non fibre "the mac addresses were not added to Sky account system" but that got sorted soon enough.

As for the site,
Seems that's not on a real time database and so needs to be checked day to day.
 
If you like to saturate your line with massive P2P downloads (15GB+) on a regular basis, go for 80/20.
 
Dad mentioned to me last week he was going to look into fibreoptic and yesterday he phoned round sky and bt comparing prices.

Sky was cheaper, but currently I'm really needing a decent upload speed (and of course a good download aswell) but what do bt offer over sky? And generally who would be better?
 
I've heard Vodafone Sure Signal devices don't work with Sky Fibre service, can anyone confirm or deny?
 
HUNTER.P said:
Dad mentioned to me last week he was going to look into fibreoptic and yesterday he phoned round sky and bt comparing prices.

Sky was cheaper, but currently I'm really needing a decent upload speed (and of course a good download aswell) but what do bt offer over sky? And generally who would be better?
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Sky are certainly not cheaper, unless you were mis quoted on BT?

Mikey said:
I've heard Vodafone Sure Signal devices don't work with Sky Fibre service, can anyone confirm or deny?
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All that stuff needs is a normal internet connection, probably just (As mentioned above) a router issue which shouldn't be hard to bypass. Best place to check would be the Sure Signal / Sky Fibre forums though.
 
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