BT, Sky or other - Who the best for gaming?
22-09-2016, 23:19
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BT, Sky or other - Who the best for gaming?
Hi,
We seem to be having a lot of issues with our VM connection and it is coming up for renewal next month and I was wondering, who is the best for gaming?
Is it Sky, BT or other?
Also what speed would I need to be looking at upto 40MB or 80MB
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22-09-2016, 23:30
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Re: BT, Sky or other - Who the best for gaming?
Most other providers will be similar as running on same openreach network but their routers vary.
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23-09-2016, 03:34
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Re: BT, Sky or other - Who the best for gaming?
Sky and BT generally have better upload speeds and lower latency than virgin
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23-09-2016, 14:04
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Re: BT, Sky or other - Who the best for gaming?
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Originally Posted by Stephen
Most other providers will be similar as running on same openreach network but their routers vary.
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I believe sky have a lot of their own network that does not rely on Openreach except in some areas?
Having left Virgin Media almost 4 years ago due to bad latency and lag destroying the ability to game, I switched to Sky and have had a rock steady connection and low latency ever since. Also no jitter which makes a huge difference for gaming.
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Yellow caterpillars are my downloads.
The naysayers here said I would get gradually get congestion with Sky and same bad performance as I had with VM but 4 years later, still stress free 
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23-09-2016, 14:40
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Re: BT, Sky or other - Who the best for gaming?
All DSL providers use the BT Openreach network, although Vodafone DO have their own core fibre network after they purchased Cable & Wireless a few years ago, so some of their traffic goes over that. But primarily all providers use OR cabinets and exchanges.
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23-09-2016, 17:30
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Re: BT, Sky or other - Who the best for gaming?
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Originally Posted by Qtx
I believe sky have a lot of their own network that does not rely on Openreach except in some areas?
Having left Virgin Media almost 4 years ago due to bad latency and lag destroying the ability to game, I switched to Sky and have had a rock steady connection and low latency ever since. Also no jitter which makes a huge difference for gaming.
Yellow caterpillars are my downloads.
The naysayers here said I would get gradually get congestion with Sky and same bad performance as I had with VM but 4 years later, still stress free |
What he said.
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