Sy5

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Anyone use it? Is it any good?

mad555

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Used it,changed to O2 and wish I hadnt switched.Had Sky broadband for about 18 months with no issues at all.

lazy

We have had sky broadband for about 2 years and never had any problems. Never used anyone else though, so can't comment in comparison to other providers.

MattW

Friend of mine just got it, 6mb during the day, barely 1mb after 6pm due to traffic shaping. At 11pm it goes back to 6mb, they are in the process of moving again.

farmerwrx

had sky for awhile now no probs,when i had bt broadband my speed was on average 1mb and bt said it was as fast as it could be but when i switched to sky it went straight to 4.5 mb

ALi-B

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I'm not with Sky, but I have noted in the past is people on Sky internet have complained about slow access to SN (same with PassionFord).

I think that may have been rectified (seperate issue to the current one). But its something to be aware of though.

urban

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I've sky broadband
Only ever had 1 issue which was a line fault as opposed to a BB fault
I now have almost a 10 Mb connection too

Sy5

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Cheers chaps.

I have had trouble getting on here in the past couple of weeks but it seems ok now. I'm on orange and it seems ok. Getting Sky HD and seems silly not to get the Broadband for £10.

Neanderthal

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I had Sky Broadband on an old bundled exchange. It used to be great during the day but in the evenings I swear they throttled it back so much that dial-up would have been quicker!
I'm with Freedom 2 Surf now. No such throttling issues (so far).

urban

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Mine doesn't get throttled - at least not that I've noticed

@Sy5
My sky broadband is only £5 per month - fantastic value for money
I do also have skytalk which is probably the reason why its only £5

Neanderthal

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Urban, if you're only paying £5 then you're on an unbundled exchange and they don't throttle those. I was having to pay £17.99 for Sky Connect.

michaelro

Used to get 6mb then BT did something to my line and I can only get 3

Changed to Base package (2mb) which I get free - Don't do any downloading and 2mb is fine for me for surfing.

No problems with Sky at all - Get 2mb all day.

Xx-IAN-xX

Found them to be poor ,customer services will have you pulling your hair out .I'm with bethere who i find to be quite good

urban

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OK - Sky's customer service isn't great, infact far from it.
But they're all the same now anyway.
Most big companies redirect you to an Indian call centre

My experience thus far of Sky's customer service is if you get an Indian accent they you're fcuked
If you get a Scottish accent you'll generally get it solved very quickly

richie001

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Sky Broadband is OK if your just going to surf the net but,if you are a gamer Sky isn't that great because they use interleaving which cause's high ping's.

bioforger

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bluergh Interleaving n throttling, screams of an ISP that can't cope with demand! Like Plusnet. Get a proper ISP with no bandwidth restrictions.

SirFozzalot

No issues here with Sky Broadband. Had it almost 3 years now. Use it for general surfing and online gaming (PS3).

Pakolainen

wow, 5 notes a month for broadband is cheap as chips. but sucks that it's throttled after 6. have sky tv here in finland but of course no broadband. using elisa, 24 mb down and 8mb down, no throttling ever. customer service sucks here also. that costs me 39€ a month.

richie001

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It's not a fiver for long,it going up in the new year to a Tenner and their dropping my monthly usage limit from 40mb to 10mb

urban

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I haven't heard of a price increase?

My usage doesn't appear to be throttled at home.
How would I know anyway?

OK monthly usage is being dropped from 40Mb to 10Mb, but according to what I know for £10 it goes back to 40Mb