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Moving house so got to say goodbye to VM and look for a new provider (where we're going isn't in a VM area unfortunately).

Sky seem to be doing a good deal, the guy I spoke to at one of their booths in the local mall said its end of their financial year so they have a load of incentives to offer:

Unlimited Fibre (likely only to get 11-16mbps due to location) £10/month for 12mnths, no set up costs but £6 for delivery of the sky hub.

We'd also take tv for £22/month and phone line at £15/month (might be able to knock that down a bit)

Plus they'll give us £75 in vouchers.

Seems to be an ok deal, what are Sky like for internet these days and is the hub a terrible bit of kit or ok?
 
Can't comment on the hub as that came out after we got fibre and I refuse to pay for one but we've not had any issues whatsoever with fibre.
 
Had no problems with the hub or fibre.
When I had standard unlimited from them I only got around 12mbps.
But with fibre was promised 40 and I get around 44 usually.
My upload did drop from 1.2mbps to around 560kbps after about a month.. not sure why.
 
I'm trying to get a work around with the Hub, but it's solid, very rarely dropping, etc... Only thing letting it down is the wired and wireless speeds, but you easily get the maximum from an 80Mbps connection through it, so it doesn't affect your service.

Currently waiting for their DLM control so I can get back to over 60/70Mbps, as I'm currently locked at 40/8 on a very stable line. :mad:*

*Beats my old 1.5/0.5 I suppose. :p
 
Ryan-3 said:
I'm trying to get a work around with the Hub, but it's solid, very rarely dropping, etc... Only thing letting it down is the wired and wireless speeds, but you easily get the maximum from an 80Mbps connection through it, so it doesn't affect your service.

Currently waiting for their DLM control so I can get back to over 60/70Mbps, as I'm currently locked at 40/8 on a very stable line. :mad:*

*Beats my old 1.5/0.5 I suppose. :p
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Can you explain what that means please? I'm on the 80Mbps Fibre, line is supposedly capable of 57Mbps but i get ~45Mbps.
 
It's Dynamic Line Management. Sky use the most stable profile by default, so it makes your connection rarely drop out, but at the cost of outright speed. Sky Fibre Pro customers are soon going to be able to choose the profile they're on.
 
Ryan-3 said:
It's Dynamic Line Management. Sky use the most stable profile by default, so it makes your connection rarely drop out, but at the cost of outright speed. Sky Fibre Pro customers are soon going to be able to choose the profile they're on.
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That's interesting. So we'll have an option to sacrifice some stability for more speed? Would that be something that's controlled through the Router settings or would it need a call to Customer Services?
 
The SR102 is OK, the wireless I find is pretty poor though, through a combination of interference and no AC or 5Ghz means it's not the best. But it does the job.
 
Looking at getting Sky Fibre Pro soon, they just need to get some deals on for it. They run deals on the normal fibre, but fibre pro is full price!

C'mon Sky ;)
 
I got pro for £20 per month for 12 months price match of plusnet, just phone up and know your stuff tell them your leaving for a better deal with plusnet
 
KIA said:
Proof?
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I was told in my response the other day. We can't at this moment control our DLM, but this feature will be added in the future for Pro customers. That, the increased maximum speed and Static IP are the added features.

I guess this will be done on the Sky website at: https://mysky.sky.com/mysky/settings/broadband-pro

edit: Press them and tell them competitors deals. We got free line rental for a year and it appears they've given it at a slightly reduced price for the last 6 months of contract too.
 
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