Sky Fibre Optic

KIA · 2 Sep 2012 at 14:56

iMacMart said:
Not moved to my new house yet but is there somewhere I can get an estimated speed with just the postcode for sky fibre?

Use the BT wholesale address checker.

iMacMart · 2 Sep 2012 at 16:38

KIA said:
Use the BT wholesale address checker.

Only shows adsl2+ speeds of 17meg

I know FTTC is in the area as samknows states it???

KIA · 2 Sep 2012 at 17:20

iMacMart said:
Only shows adsl2+ speeds of 17meg

I know FTTC is in the area as samknows states it???

It isn't blanket coverage.

Try http://fttc-check.alc.im

iMacMart · 2 Sep 2012 at 18:20

KIA said:
It isn't blanket coverage.

Try http://fttc-check.alc.im

Looks better?

panyan · 2 Sep 2012 at 21:22

day 3

Zaim · 2 Sep 2012 at 21:24

panyan said:
day 3

Nice, that ping is great.

panyan · 2 Sep 2012 at 21:27

Zaim said:
Nice, that ping is great.

Thanks - the engineer that installed it was quite surprised with 6ms as he usually gets 10-12ms

he said he hadnt seen pings of 6ms since the first few months of fibre when hardly anyone was on it

KIA · 3 Sep 2012 at 11:23

Ping bbc.co.uk using command-prompt.

panyan · 3 Sep 2012 at 11:24

KIA said:
Ping bbc.co.uk using command-prompt.

I did do yesterday, i used the -t command and over 100 entries all of which came back at 7ms

KIA · 3 Sep 2012 at 14:03

Not bad. You beat my BT Infinity connection by 1ms.

morfmedia · 3 Sep 2012 at 18:14

You must live outside LINX or similar!

panyan · 3 Sep 2012 at 21:00

morfmedia said:
You must live outside LINX or similar!

your going to have to explain that comment to me mate - i dont know what the significance of "linx" is

panyan · 3 Sep 2012 at 22:41

day 4

drizzy · 4 Sep 2012 at 10:19

I got 6-7ms to BBC with Be fastpath. It should be the norm, not the exception!

The Deuce · 4 Sep 2012 at 10:44

My result on Sky PRO Fibre with a line sync of 79996down 20000up

zoomee · 4 Sep 2012 at 12:56

Unfortunately I had to tell sky where to go. They wern't prepared to budge on the Pro service for the £20 I had in mind.

Thats when I looked at BT - You guys do realise that you can get the Infinity option 2 for £20? which is equivalent to Sky's fibre pro service?

StonedPenguin · 4 Sep 2012 at 12:59

zoomee said:
Thats when I looked at BT - You guys do realise that you can get the Infinity option 2 for £20? which is equivalent to Sky's fibre pro service?

Yup, With traffic management.. With Sky you don't.

zoomee · 4 Sep 2012 at 13:01

StonedPenguin said:
Yup, With traffic management.. With Sky you don't.

Sky are using BT's fibre service so are also subject to the same traffic management. Its the reason why BE won't currently offer a fibre service, as they are at the mercy of BT

BUT - If you know something i don't - please say so, as I've got till the 17th to cancel lol!

The Deuce · 4 Sep 2012 at 13:37

zoomee said:
Sky are using BT's fibre service so are also subject to the same traffic management. Its the reason why BE won't currently offer a fibre service, as they are at the mercy of BT

BUT - If you know something i don't - please say so, as I've got till the 17th to cancel lol!

Sky have NO traffic management, whereas I know BT do.

zoomee · 4 Sep 2012 at 13:46

The Deuce said:
Sky have NO traffic management, whereas I know BT do.

Aye for P2P stuff they do - not sure about newsgroups (can't find anything solid on that yet) and even then if its throttled from 80MB it'll still be worth it no?

Sure I read on the sky forums that whatever policies BT have in place, it applies to sky also?

I'm waiting for sky's 'winback' team to call me so no rush just yet - Got till the 17th before BT take over.