Sky Broadband

[TeessideKeith]

Good or Bad

I guess it is like most things. Has good and bad points

[Paul]

ADSL so depends on line quality, quality of equipment on line and distance from exchange to name a few things. Do you know how far you are from your exchange?

[TeessideKeith]

what do you mean

[webcrawler2050]

Exchange, Is like a mini data centre where your calls and broadband is routed through. In this case Sky, they are BT Wholesalers & use BT exchanges. There is a difference, ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) which is used by the likes of BT, SKY, Pipex etc the list goes on - most of these are BT wholesalers. So they say for example "up to 8MB" the speed of your adsl connection, will depend on how far you are away from the BT exchange if it's next door great, you should get full if not all the 8mb if its 1 mile + then your speed will be dependant on how far away you are.

Now - Virgin Media Use DSL = Digital subscriber line - This means, they do not use Exchanges etc. You have Fibre Optics for the conection, which means, you get faster downloads, more of the speed you pay for etc. If I remember rightly, the green box you may have at the end of your street, the connection from there is copper, where as from the box to the DC is Fibre *I think this is right* where as BT is copper all the way!

My advice, if you are going just on price then you are a fool. Think about the problems this may cause, price isn't everything you know!

[Central]

Originally Posted by webcrawler2050

Exchange, Is like a mini data centre where your calls and broadband is routed through. In this case Sky, they are BT Wholesalers & use BT exchanges. There is a difference, ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) which is used by the likes of BT, SKY, Pipex etc the list goes on - most of these are BT wholesalers. So they say for example "up to 8MB" the speed of your adsl connection, will depend on how far you are away from the BT exchange if it's next door great, you should get full if not all the 8mb if its 1 mile + then your speed will be dependant on how far away you are.

Now - Virgin Media Use DSL = Digital subscriber line - This means, they do not use Exchanges etc. You have Fibre Optics for the conection, which means, you get faster downloads, more of the speed you pay for etc. If I remember rightly, the green box you may have at the end of your street, the connection from there is copper, where as from the box to the DC is Fibre *I think this is right* where as BT is copper all the way!

My advice, if you are going just on price then you are a fool. Think about the problems this may cause, price isn't everything you know!

A post from someone who has no clue. Sky only provide up to 8mb on the BT dslams. Sky use the Easynet network for LLU which means the exchange is unbundled. They can provide upto 16mb. There is no STM's either on any Sky packages. Some of there packages have limits but not all.

Check if your exchange is unbundled for Easynet/Sky

This is the speeds I get on my Sky line

http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/res...7135&v=3833818


All for £10 a month

[webcrawler2050]

Originally Posted by Be*

A post from someone who has no clue. Sky only provide up to 8mb on the BT dslams. Sky use the Easynet network for LLU which means the exchange is unbundled. They can provide upto 16mb. There is no STM's either on any Sky packages. Some of there packages have limits but not all.

Check if your exchange is unbundled for Easynet/Sky

This is the speeds I get on my Sky line

http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/res...7135&v=3833818


All for £10 a month

Good for you!

[Central]

Originally Posted by webcrawler2050

Good for you!

Nice comeback considering I was correcting you

[webcrawler2050]

Originally Posted by Be*

Nice comeback considering I was correcting you

Really couldn't care less!

[Central]

Thats why you keep replying huh?

[Rob]

Are we at all able to have a thread where we don't get petty flaming between the sky and virgin media camps and manage to avoid the snide little insults?

[Shaun]

Originally Posted by webcrawler2050

Really couldn't care less!

If I remember rightly, the green box you may have at the end of your street, the connection from there is copper, where as from the box to the DC is Fibre *I think this is right* where as BT is copper all the way!

My advice, if you are going just on price then you are a fool. Think about the problems this may cause, price isn't everything you know!

poo poo............ You talk rubbish.

[Central]

Originally Posted by Rob

Are we at all able to have a thread where we don't get petty flaming between the sky and virgin media camps and manage to avoid the snide little insults?

My apologies.

[sav112]

for £10 thats fantastic...I'm thinking of jumping off Virgin 2Mb as its gone back to £18...Which is a joke in my View.

[Skatoony]

At first when I switched to Sky, my area were having problems causing my connection to cut out every few hours. It's stable now though, and I'm getting 2.7Mb down with 768K up (I always get these speeds) - only £10 a month as well. My download may be slower than what my Virgin Media connection was (which was 4MB), but it's the upload I want the most as uploading many music files to my website takes far too long on 400K.

Initially I wasn't pleased, but now I am since everything is working

[PeteTheMusicGuy]

Dont have Sky bb myself but my uncle does and the last few times I've been over and borrowed his PC it seems to be fine