Sky Fibre - any good?

jimmy_81

Hi all,

Moving soon & our options for broadband at the new place are limited. It's a long way from the exchange so xDSL offerings look like they'll all be a bit slow, hence been looking into FTTC instead.

At the moment leaning towards Sky as they seem to be the only ones doing 12-month contracts with unlimited usage. However, I do have a few reservations as although Sky were brilliant at our previous property, they made a right mess of us moving to our current place, resulting in us switching to O2. (Yes, which has now been bought by Sky again! :rotfl:)

So anywway - thoughts, anyone who's with Sky for fibre broadband? Good, bad, ugly?

Would love to hear what you think - thanks in advance! :T

TadleyBaggie

I'm happy, get close to 40/10Mbs. Never slows down and not had an outage in the 8 months I've had it.

sirmosh

Most of the problems I hear people having with Sky aren't anything to do with Sky really but rather Openreach !!!!!!ing things up.

I used to give Sky a lot of stick but I'd say generally speaking they're a pretty good ISP these days and if you have Sky TV then they do some pretty decent deals.

Gordon_Hose

Sky and Talk Talk use BT's fibre, so it should all be similar. The only difference would be customer service/support.

jimmy_81

All sounds positive - thanks folks! :T

Any other comments on Sky, positive or negative...?

vikingtraveller

Had sky Fibre for about 2 months,moved into rented accomodation, openreach lad was ex forces so had a good chat, fibre since then has been great, like TadleyBaggie ive been getting 40/10, and i average at about 4MB/sec download speed, so im more than happy because i download a lot of game content on steam, so all is well

bladerunner73

This might seem like an odd post, it was a very strange conversation - but do double check the Sky fibre speeds against the standard Sky broadband speeds offered in the area. The only reason I say this is I have Sky unlimited broadband now and noticed that fibre had become available in my area so called them yesterday planning to switch to fibre and was told that if I made the change I could only expect half the speed that my current standard broadband offers - there were no explanations for this and the I spoke to had never heard of it before, it will probably not be seen by anyone else but just worth checking :eek:

forgotmyname

Strange the small increases in some of these posts. I currently get just over 4mb. With fibre the websites said i should get 68mb.

When i do the same with the standard DLS i get told 3mb. So i think i may do better than 68mb?

Maybe?

fishforsale

i would not go anywhere near sky, absolutely terrible service, absolutely terrible broadband

be prepared to have connection drop outs on a regular basis, and a router that doesnt provide signal to your whole house

Ad86

Never had any issue with my sky service. Or the router

Phreaky

Yeah, Sky Fibre is actually very well regarded.