Sky Fibre Unlimited - what speeds do you get?

Beckyy

I'm currently considering a change from Plusnet to Sky, however can't get Sky Fibre Max on a good enough deal to warrant the move. Their Sky unlimited fibre however would work out much less per month and wouldn't have the traffic management we currently have from Plusnet - however would be capped at 38mbps.

Can anybody confirm the speeds they currently get from this service please?

When I spoke to an advisor on Sky live chat they advised people often get a faster speed from that product, wondering if this is true?

iniltous

Even if your line is capable of more than 38Mb if you take a 38Mb package, that's what you will get, 38Mb...

Beckyy

That's what I thought iniltous, however the advisor made me question that when they said 3rd party speed tests tend to show faster speeds on that product.

iniltous

Somewhere in your router stats will be the rate at which your line syncs, the maximum line rate for your line, it maybe way more than 38Mb, if you take an upto 38Mb package then an artificial software cap is applied by the supplier (BT OR) to make the line run at 38Mb, no faster, obviously if the line sync'd and ran at the fastest rate it could handle (like regular ADSL) then there would be no point in having various 'speed' options, as no one would buy the faster option, if the line ran as fast as it could, so in this case I think you can safely dismiss what Sky said, the question you possibly should be asking yourself is would 38Mb be sufficient for your needs, not will a 38Mb line deliver more than 38Mb