Sky Broadband

[POOOS]

Moving into a new house soon.

Wondering whether to get Telewest phone, TV and broadband package

or

whether to get BT land line, separate calls package, Sky telly and (for a tenner) Unlimited Sky broadband.

Has anyone heard anything about whether Sky broadband is any good or not? And does anyone know what Sky's Fair Usage Policy is on its unlimited broadband?

Cheers in advance.

[The-Sir]

We're getting it next month, seems to be a good deal.

[PTP]

The guy who sorts out all this stuff in our house is going down the sky broadband route. Think he said something about it becoming free or really cheap after a while, something to do with my area not being covered yet. we were with Tiscali last year and their user policy screwed us over after about 7months. Other companies have done the same to mates.

[The-Sir]

Originally Posted by PTP The guy who sorts out all this stuff in our house is going down the sky broadband route. Think he said something about it becoming free or really cheap after a while, something to do with my area not being covered yet. we were with Tiscali last year and their user policy screwed us over after about 7months. Other companies have done the same to mates.

same here mate

[Bridgey]

We've got the talk talk free broadband. Its spot on, no limits on downloads well recommend it.

[POOOS]

Does anybody know what the "Fair Usage" is, though? I can't find out off the Sky site.

[POOOS]

Sky's FUP (.pdf file)

[plonky]

Originally Posted by POOOS Sky's FUP (.pdf file)

Telewest has no limit whatsoever

[The-Sir]

Originally Posted by POOOS Does anybody know what the "Fair Usage" is, though? I can't find out off the Sky site.

From what I can make of the link you posted, everyone shares the bandwidth.

eg. if there are ~
5/5 people in one house using the internet simultaneously with a 5meg connection, they will each get a meg of bandwidth each.
if there are ~
2/5 people in the one house using the internet, the 5 meg bandwidth will get split 2 ways, with 2.5 meg each

This is pretty much what sky would do, but with thousands of households instead of "the amount of people using the net in a house".

This means that at peak times (weekends and evenings) you would have a lower bandwidth than say in the early morning / late morning / afternoon when less people would be using it.

Hope this helps.

[POOOS]

Originally Posted by The-Sir From what I can make of the link you posted, everyone shares the bandwidth. eg. if there are ~ 5/5 people in one house using the internet simultaneously with a 5meg connection, they will each get a meg of bandwidth each. if there are ~ 2/5 people in the one house using the internet, the 5 meg bandwidth will get split 2 ways, with 2.5 meg each This is pretty much what sky would do, but with thousands of households instead of "the amount of people using the net in a house". This means that at peak times (weekends and evenings) you would have a lower bandwidth than say in the early morning / late morning / afternoon when less people would be using it. Hope this helps.

Aye. May just stick to the Telewest which, as plonky says, has no limits.

[The-Sir]

fair dues, go fer it