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hi everyone, we are moving to our first flat in June (yay!!) and are looking at getting sky broadband,just wanted to know peoples experiances with this,good or bad?thank you

I was with Pipex for 4 years on a 2mb connection paying £23/month when we left, we could download at max 170k but usually around 50-100k, connection would drop off quite regularly. Put this down to the distance we are fom the exchange and still a lot of aluminium cable in our area.

Changed to sky around 6 months ago, still on a 2mb connection now paying £10/month for the unlimited package, download can now reach just over 300k, usually around 250-280k, connection still drops off but far less frequently.

So sky has worked out much better for us. Faster & more reliable, plus, £13/month cheaper and sky give you a free netgear router instead of a crappy usb modem.

All the best

Gerald.

This item was edited on Monday, 14th January 2008, 08:37

I`m also interested in SKY broadband and, as an existing subscriber, it looks like I can get 2mb a month free.
Just a £60 a month set-up fee.
I will rarley download, it will just be for occasional browsing.
My question is this, do you have to change your phones over to them too?
I`m happy to stick with BT for my phone, as my work pay the bill. (I just take the bill in and they send the cheque).
Switching my phone to SKY would, therefore, make me worse off.

You don`t have to take their phone service although if you do you still pay BT for the rental and can get free evening and weekend calls free with Sky.

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although if you do you still pay BT for the rental and can get free evening and weekend calls free with Sky.

Yeah, but I would still have some calls, and switching to SKY would mean I woujld pay for them.
Whereas leaving the house phone with BT means my work pays it all. 8)
Good to know I don`t have to take SKY`s phone service though, cheers. :D

If you`re planning on accessing your work email or network through VPN then forget SKY. The routers they supply (you cant use your own) wont allow VPN traffic.

If you just need it for home use then fine but I know a number of people in my company have had to ditch them because they cant work from home now.

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If you`re planning on accessing your work email or network through VPN then forget SKY.

No worries there, just light home use.

I don`t have Sky myself but that statement contradicts a friend who has Sky and uses VPN access to work through the provided router. Sounds like you may have other issues - or a VPN client that probably will not play ball with many routers...

Yep I have Sky and access my work through a VPN no problem.

I`m about to tackle them about speeds.
I`m getting an average download of less than 2 mb when I`m paying for 8 and the upload is so slow as to be useless. In fact some evenings it just seem to freeze completely.
I can see the exchange from my bedroom window so that`s not the problem.


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