Sky Ultrafast Plus Broadband - thoughts?

james00744

I'm currently paying £40 a month for TalkTalk, around 41 Mbps (Yes I know... rip-off), and I can move to Sky at 500 Mbps for £32.18 month contract.

Now I was originally with Sky, and moved to TT due to the line disconnecting too often.

I'm reaching out to those of you who have used Sky's Ultrafast 500 Mbps and wondered what your thoughts are?

Paying £8 less for a much quicker line looks a good deal and it's not the typical 24 month contract.

iniltous

No comparison really , your current TT and previous Sky service were on the copper pair network, if you can get 500Mb that’s obviously the newer FTTP network, so you will need FTTP  installed ( so an engineer visits etc ) , the old copper connection becomes redundant , as far as what Sky are like , fundamentally it’s the Openreach FTTP network, so that part will be the same regardless of the ISP , the backhaul into Sky network, the quality of the Sky router , Sky customer service,  is typical of a mid range provider, better than the cheapest providers , not as good as the very expensive providers , but on par with ISP’s they compete directly with .

james00744

iniltous said:

No comparison really , your current TT and previous Sky service were on the copper pair network, if you can get 500Mb that’s obviously the newer FTTP network, so you will need FTTP  installed ( so an engineer visits etc ) , the old copper connection becomes redundant , as far as what Sky are like , fundamentally it’s the Openreach FTTP network, so that part will be the same regardless of the ISP , the backhaul into Sky network, the quality of the Sky router , Sky customer service,  is typical of a mid range provider, better than the cheapest providers , not as good as the very expensive providers , but on par with ISP’s they compete directly with .

FTTP is available. Openreach came a few weeks ago and it's all connected.

However TalkTalk offer £56 for 944Mb/s, and I don't need that speed, so looking for a better deal.

Plusnet better than Sky?

iniltous

Plusnet don’t offer telephony on FTTP , that may or may not be a consideration, but TBH , there probably isn’t anything in it ,with both of those ISP’s ,  some will love them and some won’t …as you suspect paying for 900Mb in the vast majority of cases is going to be overkill, in fact depending on what you use your connection for , there is a 150Mb profile ( sold as 100 for advertising reasons ) and with FTTP you connect at the speed you buy it may be more than adequate it’s still more than 3x faster than your FTTC , my FTTC is 80Mb and if FTTP becomes available then 150Mb would be more than good enough for my needs 

james00744

iniltous said:

Plusnet don’t offer telephony on FTTP , that may or may not be a consideration, but TBH , there probably isn’t anything in it ,with both of those ISP’s ,  some will love them and some won’t …as you suspect paying for 900Mb in the vast majority of cases is going to be overkill, in fact depending on what you use your connection for , there is a 150Mb profile ( sold as 100 for advertising reasons ) and with FTTP you connect at the speed you buy it may be more than adequate it’s still more than 3x faster than your FTTC , my FTTC is 80Mb and if FTTP becomes available then 150Mb would be more than good enough for my needs 

I use the connection for IPTV football and I work from home on the Internet, so any speed increase in general browsing will be a big plus.

The football will probably still be laggy/jumpy as I understand the increase in speed won't have any impact.

But a faster connection for less per month seems like a no-brainer.

One thing with some suppliers - the IP is static. I want the option to be able to reset my router and a new IP is applied. This is purely because I've found it can play a part with successful email sending. If the IP gets onto a blacklist for no fault of my own, it can have a negative impact on email delivery.

JSmithy45AD

I'm on the 150Mbps Sky FTTP for £28pcm and it's been faultless. Same speed via ethernet downstairs and upstairs via WiFi dongle, this is through their own router. I've always found their CS good too.

james00744

JSmithy45AD said:

I'm on the 150Mbps Sky FTTP for £28pcm and it's been faultless. Same speed via ethernet downstairs and upstairs via WiFi dongle, this is through their own router. I've always found their CS good too.

Cheers. So looking like the £32 option for 500 Mbps is a reasonable price.

Something to use as a control/benchmark at least.

JSmithy45AD

james00744 said:

JSmithy45AD said:

I'm on the 150Mbps Sky FTTP for £28pcm and it's been faultless. Same speed via ethernet downstairs and upstairs via WiFi dongle, this is through their own router. I've always found their CS good too.

Cheers. So looking like the £32 option for 500 Mbps is a reasonable price.

Something to use as a control/benchmark at least.

You won't notice any difference whatsoever between 150 and 500Mbps unless downloading or uploading(my upload is 28Mbps) large files so it's up to you whether the £4 (£48 total) is worth it or not. I'm always amused by people bragging about their Gigabit Virgin connections when they only use a fraction of that and pay double.

james00744

JSmithy45AD said:

You won't notice any difference whatsoever between 150 and 500Mbps unless downloading or uploading(my upload is 28Mbps) large files so it's up to you whether the £4 (£48 total) is worth it or not. I'm always amused by people bragging about their Gigabit Virgin connections when they only use a fraction of that and pay double.

£48?

Sky is showing the 500 as £33 (it was £32 when I last checked - maybe I need to clear my cookies).

JSmithy45AD

james00744 said:

JSmithy45AD said:

You won't notice any difference whatsoever between 150 and 500Mbps unless downloading or uploading(my upload is 28Mbps) large files so it's up to you whether the £4 (£48 total) is worth it or not. I'm always amused by people bragging about their Gigabit Virgin connections when they only use a fraction of that and pay double.

£48?

Sky is showing the 500 as £33 (it was £32 when I last checked - maybe I need to clear my cookies).

Total difference for the 12 month contract (if it is 12 months, I need to check mine now because I'm not sure if it isn't 18 months). £60 if it's £33pcm now.

james00744

JSmithy45AD said:

james00744 said:

JSmithy45AD said:

You won't notice any difference whatsoever between 150 and 500Mbps unless downloading or uploading(my upload is 28Mbps) large files so it's up to you whether the £4 (£48 total) is worth it or not. I'm always amused by people bragging about their Gigabit Virgin connections when they only use a fraction of that and pay double.

£48?

Sky is showing the 500 as £33 (it was £32 when I last checked - maybe I need to clear my cookies).

Total difference for the 12 month contract (if it is 12 months, I need to check mine now because I'm not sure if it isn't 18 months). £60 if it's £33pcm now.

The quote I saw is 18 months.