BT Broadband VS Sky broadband
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08-18-2013, 11:54 PM (This post was last modified: 09-01-2022, 01:02 AM by Fearless Community. Edit Reason: Checked Encoding )
I have had sky for about 2 years now, to be honest I AM SICK OF IT [Just my opinion] i was promised 10mbps and look at what they gave me instead!
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I will soon be upgrading to bt infinity with hope that it will be better, with the new fancy fiber optics and stuff. According to THIS map i should get 50mbps once i get BT, we'll see. [also notice the sky speed.]
Does this happen to everyone? Am i the only odd one out? I would like to see responses to argue which of the two broadbands are better.
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08-19-2013, 03:09 AM (This post was last modified: 09-01-2022, 01:02 AM by Fearless Community. Edit Reason: Checked Encoding )
You will never get the speeds that an ISP says you will get, you may get about 20-30mbps but I don't think you will get the 50 they promise. I have never got the speeds I was told I will get, but I hope this isn't the case for you and you will get the 50 they say you will get.
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08-19-2013, 04:35 AM (This post was last modified: 09-01-2022, 01:02 AM by Fearless Community. Edit Reason: Checked Encoding )
When I was on Virgin Media I got the speeds promised. I was getting 50-70mb/s
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08-19-2013, 05:27 AM (This post was last modified: 09-01-2022, 01:02 AM by Fearless Community. Edit Reason: Checked Encoding )
(08-19-2013, 04:35 AM)GeorgeTheBoy Wrote: When I was on Virgin Media I got the speeds promised. I was getting 50-70mb/s
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08-19-2013, 07:27 AM (This post was last modified: 09-01-2022, 01:02 AM by Fearless Community. Edit Reason: Checked Encoding )
I had Sky broadband for ages and the only reason our family got it was because of the price. In terms of speed, it is literally among the worst in the country. It would take me over a day to download something like TF2 whereas now with BT Infinity I downloaded Payday 2 in around 25-40 minutes.

The major turning point was when Sky had a problem with the exchange or something stupid and I didn't have an internet connection for a month, fuck you Sky.
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08-19-2013, 07:31 AM (This post was last modified: 09-01-2022, 01:02 AM by Fearless Community. Edit Reason: Checked Encoding )
Definitely BT. Sky was awful when we had it and their customer help line was ***. A month without internet when we had Sky.
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08-19-2013, 08:16 AM (This post was last modified: 09-01-2022, 01:02 AM by Fearless Community. Edit Reason: Checked Encoding )
(08-19-2013, 03:09 AM)Nathan Wrote: You will never get the speeds that an ISP says you will get

Signed up with VM on 50mbps, speedtest constantly said I had around 55. Then a month or two ago they upgraded everyones internet for free, I now get around 100mbps. For the price of 50mbps. Not bad huh, sod BT, get VirginMedia mate.
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08-19-2013, 08:22 AM (This post was last modified: 09-01-2022, 01:02 AM by Fearless Community. Edit Reason: Checked Encoding )
Yeah. Virgin media. We had a free upgrade to our fiber obtic
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08-19-2013, 08:56 AM (This post was last modified: 09-01-2022, 01:02 AM by Fearless Community. Edit Reason: Checked Encoding )
I have BT Infinity, it's great, I download things at a rate of 2.5 megabytes per second or more.
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08-19-2013, 09:16 AM (This post was last modified: 09-01-2022, 01:02 AM by Fearless Community. Edit Reason: Checked Encoding )
I use BT and this is my result from speedtest
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which is complete bs cus i get about 0.8kbs to 1.2mbs DL speed and about 0.01kbs upload speed however i do live in the middle of no where.
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