sky broadband any good?

supermum4

Hi guys i'm thinking of changing to sky for my broadband and phone, i can get unlimited b/band and free evening and weekend calls plus line rental for £21.25 a month just want to know if sky are any good really;)?
thanks in advance

spike7451

Depends on a few issues like the distance you are from the exchange & age of the wiring.If you're on a slow connection at present & move to Sky,then it's doubtful your speed will get any better.So you need to do your research first.

penrhyn

I'd suggest keeping your line rental with BT, no matter who you use for broadband and calls.

supermum4

spike7451 wrote: »

Depends on a few issues like the distance you are from the exchange & age of the wiring.If you're on a slow connection at present & move to Sky,then it's doubtful your speed will get any better.So you need to do your research first.

Hi thanks for the reply BT put a new lines up from the outside pole to the side of my house last year and had a new inside line done 3 years ago (don't know if thats long for phone lines though) i'm close to the exchange but have had terrible disruption to my internet with talk talk for the last 3 months:(, had tiscali previously for 7 years without a hitch. with this additional info what do you think about my chances of having a decent connection with sky?:beer:

penrhyn

It wont be any different to what you have now, all the work is done by the same BT Openreach engineers.

AdamBrunt

Not sure that is necessarily true, penrhyn.

We moved from a BT ADSL package (with Plus.net) to Sky's LLU product and, with nothing else changing in terms of wiring, our connection sync speed went up by over 1.5MB :T

macman

OP, are you talking about Sky LLU or Sky Connect (non-LLU)? 2 very different things. Don't even consider Connect, it's just a resold BT Wholesale product.

kwikbreaks

AdamBrunt wrote: »

We moved from a BT ADSL package (with Plus.net) to Sky's LLU product and, with nothing else changing in terms of wiring, our connection sync speed went up by over 1.5MB :T

Sky LLU is an ADSL2+ product so if you were previously on ADSL gains are possible. Sometimes spectacular ones on short lines.

Penrhyn was doubtless talking about line quality though not speeds.

supermum4

macman wrote: »

OP, are you talking about Sky LLU or Sky Connect (non-LLU)? 2 very different things. Don't even consider Connect, it's just a resold BT Wholesale product.

thanks for all the replies i have just checked with sky and the broadband is LLU so hopefully that means i should be ok doesn't it?:beer:

lucylucky

Does the Sky site show any speed increase for your number?

supermum4

lucylucky wrote: »

Does the Sky site show any speed increase for your number?

yes butit says it's just an estimate;)