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Keep Sky TV but get faster broadband.
Bingobango
Posts: 3 Newbie
Hi- hope this may be of use to someone.
As a customer switching from O2 broadband, I got the Sky TV, Broadband & Phone package for about £10 a month (as I paid a year up front). I've since discovered, like many others, that Sky's broadband is unusably slow ie. Sky: 1.5 Mbps compared to the 18 Mbps I can get on my 3g phone! However, cancelling the broadband & phone would mean I would have to pay more for the TV! So....
...just in case you don't know: If you're in a Virgin cable area you can get their superfast broadband (slowest is up to 30 Mbps) and you don't need a landline. Because it's cable and Sky's broadband (I'm not in Sky's fibreoptic area) is through the phone, you can run them all at the same time. Therefore I've got Sky HD +, superfast broadband and a landline for approx £20pm for the first 6 months (Virgin have an offer on) and then approx £30 after that. I don't use the Sky Broadband and rarely use the landline but they're there if there's an emergency. If it turns out I don't use the Sky+ much, I'll cancel just before the contract's up to avoid any fees and take it from there.
(If you're wondering why I don't just use the 18 Mpbs from my 3g phone signal; it's brilliant for browsing & downloading - thanks to Three's excellent All You Can Eat Data plan - but you can't really use it for a home network ie. sharing files, printers etc.)
As a customer switching from O2 broadband, I got the Sky TV, Broadband & Phone package for about £10 a month (as I paid a year up front). I've since discovered, like many others, that Sky's broadband is unusably slow ie. Sky: 1.5 Mbps compared to the 18 Mbps I can get on my 3g phone! However, cancelling the broadband & phone would mean I would have to pay more for the TV! So....
...just in case you don't know: If you're in a Virgin cable area you can get their superfast broadband (slowest is up to 30 Mbps) and you don't need a landline. Because it's cable and Sky's broadband (I'm not in Sky's fibreoptic area) is through the phone, you can run them all at the same time. Therefore I've got Sky HD +, superfast broadband and a landline for approx £20pm for the first 6 months (Virgin have an offer on) and then approx £30 after that. I don't use the Sky Broadband and rarely use the landline but they're there if there's an emergency. If it turns out I don't use the Sky+ much, I'll cancel just before the contract's up to avoid any fees and take it from there.
(If you're wondering why I don't just use the 18 Mpbs from my 3g phone signal; it's brilliant for browsing & downloading - thanks to Three's excellent All You Can Eat Data plan - but you can't really use it for a home network ie. sharing files, printers etc.)
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Are you on Sky Connect rather than Sky LLU? Only that would explain a markedly slower line speed on Sky than 02 LLU.No free lunch, and no free laptop
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As I never tire of posting, OP post your router stats.
No reason why your bb link should be slower with Sky than with O2.That gum you like is coming back in style.0 -
Apologies for lack of clarification. I have moved house whilst switching so O2 was at old house, Sky at new. My thread wasn't meant to highlight a worsening link, it was merely to show people who didn't realise that you don't have to lose the cheap Sky TV deal if you get your broadband elsewhere. Hope that makes sense.0
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Yes failing to mention you have moved house so it is a totally different line is kind of relevant!0
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