Sky broadband

[milly0812]

I have been on the same broadband supplier for many years now. First they were wanadoo now orange. The service has been awesome the connection fast enough for my usage and in all that time it's only gone down once and they were on it pretty quickly.
Now I pay £12 a month ( don't know if that's good or bad ) for the bb and I pay £25 for sky tv with kids stuff.

So sky calls me today and says they can save me loads if I use their bb. My question is that I'm much of the ilk that if its not broke then dont fix it but in the same vein I could save £200 + a year which is a nice spares fund :-)

So do you use sky bb , is it any good ?

Ps I have 3 laptops and 4 smartphones all using bb but not much too streaming or downloading??

[bulnose]

sky BB works fine here for me, not a fantastic download or upload speed as im not too near the main exchange but ok for what i do, they dont have great routing for fps games so if u play say counterstrike or something like that expect a 30+ ping to even uk servers, but it has only gone down once in 3 years and that wasnt for long. they give an N rated router out now which they didnt when i had mine installed ..

[Aidi]

Sky BB is worth it if its a Sky xLLU service. Only then do you get the unlimited service.

[Gate88]

I'm off to virgin on the 23rd after 13 years with Sky....

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[milly0812]

Sky broadband

[QUOTE=Gate88;974674]I'm off to virgin on the 23rd after 13 years with Sky....

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Certainly an option as I'm not tied in to either, but I would be looking for an unlimited deal anyways as I prolly have to commit to 18-24 months which seems to be standard these days

[bulnose]

yeah use this to check [url=http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange_search]SamKnows - Telephone Exchange Search[/url]

afaik virgin will limit your dl/ul if u use it too much but just browsing wont affect this

[Gate88]

[QUOTE=milly0812;974682]Certainly an option as I'm not tied in to either, but I would be looking for an unlimited deal anyways as I prolly have to commit to 18-24 months which seems to be standard these days[/QUOTE]

But be very careful with Sky, they're still reliant on BT cables and the speed you get is dependent on them and how far you live from the exchange, its usualy nothing like they promise when you sign up.

[RcRotaryMadness]

Started out with freeserve which became wanadoo which became orange... For us, when it changed to orange the service went down hill so we switched to sky broadband as we had sky tv. With our tv package we were paying ~£40 a month which we were happy with for a while, but then we found sky tv was getting more junk like by the day so we scrapped the lot, and now just have virgin broadband (optical) which we are pleased with, but virgin bb have just sold themselves to an American company so who knows what will happen now.

but anyway, if your happy with your service you get I'd be careful about giving that up... Some times chasing savings just brings problems and heartache.

Also how do you get a £200 saving as £12 x 12 is a £144 minus whatever sky will be charging you for their broadband?


btw £12 a month is an acceptable charge for a good broadband service IMO.

[sparts]

You say you are using 4 smart phones.If one of them is on orange (EE) you only have to pay £6.50 per month for unlimited broadband.

[jimmyhorns]

you are only paying £144 / year, so I dont see how they are going to save you £200?..

[milly0812]

Sky broadband

[QUOTE=jimmyhorns;974699]you are only paying £144 / year, so I dont see how they are going to save you £200?..[/QUOTE]

Because they will do better than the £25 per month I'm paying now

[milly0812]

Sky broadband

[QUOTE=sparts;974698]You say you are using 4 smart phones.If one of them is on orange (EE) you only have to pay £6.50 per month for unlimited broadband.[/QUOTE]

No orange :-( vodafone and tesco which I think is O2

[GIXERMAN]

[QUOTE=Gate88;974674]I'm off to virgin on the 23rd after 13 years with Sky....

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11 years with sky, tv good broad band rubbish 2mb if lucky, now with virgin 30mb all the time and saved money :)

[Sburv]

Sky broadband

[QUOTE=GIXERMAN;974715]11 years with sky, tv good broad band rubbish 2mb if lucky, now with virgin 30mb all the time and saved money :)[/QUOTE]

Have to agree with Gixerman, personally didn't find sky broadband to be much cop either if I'm honest.

[jamiem]

Sky broadband

I get between 11 and 12mb on sky, generally been pretty good for the past 9 months since I've been with them. Their line estimate was 7-14mb, so I'm happy enough with them. It's also nice to have a uk customer service call centre!