BT Broadband v SKY Broadband?

[Superhudd]

I'd imagine that you are a high downloader and therefore because of that despite it being unlimited they don't like people taking the ****. So they fcuk with your speeds. I used to get funny speeds always after DLing from torrents over night. Its like being put on the naughty step.

 

[markysimmo]

I'd imagine that you are a high downloader and therefore because of that despite it being unlimited they don't like people taking the ****. So they fcuk with your speeds. I used to get funny speeds always after DLing from torrents over night. Its like being put on the naughty step.

Yeh could be, it says unlimited but as we know its not

 

[Klinsmania]

Sky claim to be truly unlimited, i.e. there are no bandwidth restrictions during peak hours, so I doubt they can deliberately slow you down if you are using it too much. Virgin and BT will, but according to Cable.co.uk Sky are one of the few companies who claim to be truly unlimited.

 

[Klinsmania]

Markysimmo, it seems you are not the only one having problems:

http://www.sky.com/mysky/latestnews/article/my-sky-updates/latest-help-and-support-issues/

 

[a spur from swansea]

Had no internet connection from sky since monday morning.....got a yellow light flickering on my hub for the last few days,mmmmmm

 

[Roland Beurre]

It took me several years to get Rupert Murdoch out of the house and it was only when "Star Trek: Enterprise" was cancelled that I persuaded the wife to let it go.

That was just pay-TV, though, and I have to say that, apart from the constant ratcheting up of prices, the service was fine.

We switched our ISP to BT last year because our existing ISP (a small indy company in Scotland called Firefly) could not match the combined broadband + phones price.

I had immense misgivings about switching to BT because of the usual horror stories about lousy customer service but, apart from the installation engineer clearly only knowing anything about the BT modem/router and nothing about how it might connect to my ethernet network, it has thus far been a case of "so far, so good".

Speed has been decent, availability has been very good and, thank Gawd, I have never had to contact them about any issues.

As BT Sport comes free with our package, we recently signed up for it. The two matches I have watched we've had a little bit of buffering - I think Emirates Marketing Project scored 18 goals against Spurs in one match while the egg-timer was slowly spinning - but nothing too egregious.

I've not yet got the BT web site broadcasts to work on Linux, as I believe BT uses Microsoft Silverlight as a browser plug-in. It works fine on Windoze, though.

 

[lynneb]

My Broadband account is being given a "free transfer" from Virgin to Talk Talk. My area relies on a bt line, as there is no cable. What to do???

A. Just wait to be transferred
B. Demand to stay with Virgin - not sure it is possible
C. Try sky or bt

 

[Baleforce]

I got stuck in a similar situation, ended up going with Plusnet as they were cheapest and no one could provide anything above 20mb adsl, it's been alright all things considered, only fallen over once

 

[Sandman]

My Broadband account is being given a "free transfer" from Virgin to Talk Talk. My area relies on a bt line, as there is no cable. What to do???

A. Just wait to be transferred
B. Demand to stay with Virgin - not sure it is possible
C. Try sky or bt

I had talk talk for a while. Good Fibre speed and if you have their telephone lines its cheap also especially for international calling. BUT. if you have a problem or want to cancel or upgrade or talk about a bill. Prepare for hell. Their website is often broken, they pass you from person to person to hang out the call. And they also like to "forget" about cancellations.