Fibre broadband

[Kopite Pete]

I'm thinking about getting fibre broadband as it's now in my area but I am torn between sky and BT Infinity, can anyone recommend either of these two for fibre broadband? :whistle:

[FanchesterCity]

I'm thinking about getting fibre broadband as it's now in my area but I am torn between sky and BT Infinity, can anyone recommend either of these two for fibre broadband? :whistle:

 

Sky should be properly unlimited, I think Infinity's laden with the 'fair use' crap.

 

If you're planning on hammering the speed for all it's worth... and downloading a lot, then Sky might be the way to go (on the assumption it's truly unlimited).

[clangers]

I've got an unlimited BT Infinity account and so far it's been excellent, like many I was hugely nervous about what to expect from BT e.g crap unreliable service and capping. I tender to hammer the service with downloads and it's been great. I get about 62mb download and just over 20mb upload pretty consistently.

[Kopite Pete]

I've got an unlimited BT Infinity account and so far it's been excellent' date=' like many I was hugely nervous about what to expect from BT e.g crap unreliable service and capping. I tender to hammer the service with downloads and it's been great. I get about 62mb download and just over 20mb upload pretty consistently.[/quote']

 

Thanks both. Yeah I'm nervous about BT. I've heard a lot of negative stuff about them. Especially the foreign call centres.

[AdamD]

I am with BT on their Infinity2 package. Unlimited downloads. Obviously your speed depends how far you are from the cabinet and if you have got aluminium cable rather than copper cable but service is reliable.

 

Also BT Care are on twitter, if necessary you can raise a support case with them and get excellent service from the lads and lasses who are based in Northern Ireland.

 

Cheers

[Jarvinja Ilnow]

And Sky is Sky after all

[Guest San Don]

Sky's fibre BB is slightly lower speed than BT for some reason (I reckon its because they say there are absolutely no DL limits).

 

BT say I should get 51meg DL and so too do all the other providers for my exchange and cabinet. Sky say 40meg tops.

 

What fucks me off with sky is no matter what product you buy off them, you have to have all your existing sky boxes plugged into the telephone line for the 12 month contract even if you're not upgrading your tv packages. I mean if Im taking their broadband WTF do my 3 boxes have to be plugged into the phone line for 12 months?

[Guest San Don]

Thanks both. Yeah I'm nervous about BT. I've heard a lot of negative stuff about them. Especially the foreign call centres.

 

Have you tried calling sky in the evening!?

 

You get to speak to someone in Bangalore. Eventually!!

[Kopite Pete]

 

Have you tried calling sky in the evening!?

 

You get to speak to someone in Bangalore. Eventually!!

 

Thanks. Yeah and it's about a 20 min call time just to make one change.

[longballs]

I`m with BT fibre too, not had a problem at all, sync at full speed here 80/20 but I am using my laptop's wireless which craps out at 50meg since I am too lazy to use a wired connection :p

 

The sky offering has 2meg upload and a £50 installation charge I believe.

[Kopite Pete]

Finally decided to go with BT for infinity. I am quiet nervous because changing ISP can be a nightmare.