need help with this

scotty1971

i currently have virgin wireless

10mb

sky are offering me a great package for tv,boadband and phone,but there broadband speed is only 3.5mb,will i notice a big difference in the speeds as i only use it for surfing the net.

thanks

scott

penrhyn

This can only be an estimate of the speed you might get, ime they err on the conservative.

You won't notice any difference in general surfing, video streaming might stutter a bit.

Ensure you are being offered Sky LLU, not Sky Connect which should be avoided like the plague.

scotty1971

it really varies can be anything between 5 and 10

debitcardmayhem

scotty1971 wrote: »

i currently have virgin wireless

10mb

sky are offering me a great package for tv,boadband and phone,but there broadband speed is only 3.5mb,will i notice a big difference in the speeds as i only use it for surfing the net.

thanks

scott

Re the red bits above , have you tested on speedtest here

Mine is here (neighbours kids on holiday and it is Pants) but normally mine is 5.5-->6+ Mbps

DCFC79

The 3.5 from sky may well be a guess, have you asked any of your neighbours as to what speed they get from sky (thats if you do get on well with any neighbours who have sky)

you do have virgin but what you do have is virgin BB with a wireless router

scotty1971

penrhyn wrote: »

This can only be an estimate of the speed you might get, ime they err on the conservative.

You won't notice any difference in general surfing, video streaming might stutter a bit.

Ensure you are being offered Sky LLU, not Sky Connect which should be avoided like the plague.

its not sky connect

scotty1971

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1100173844.png


thats the results i got

bat999

It looks like your results are strange, 70Mbps download speed :undecided

This is what Virgin's 10Mbps results are like:-

buglawton

Similar here, and I would not switch to phone lines.

debitcardmayhem

bat999 wrote: »

It looks like your results are strange, 70Mbps download speed :undecided

This is what Virgin's 10Mbps results are like:-

Jealous or Jelly wobble , sad out in the sticks

scotty1971

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1100230515.png

this is another test about an hour later.

are the tests good or bad,am i better staying with virgin?