UK - Sky or BT package?
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- Hombre_Lobo
Yooooo
Just moved into a new place and im needing a internet, phone and tv package. We cant get virgin media tv, so thats out.
So its between Sky and BT. Anyone got any experience with either?
I hear Sky has too many users so that its broad band speeds get throttled form 5pm-midnight. Anyone find this to be true?
Have any of you lot got BT vision tv?
is it good? how does it work? it says you pay per show, but how much? i cant seem to get any info from BT site (id browse further but im using a usb dongle which takes a year to load any web page).Hope you can help!
- detritus0
Much of your BB rate will be down to the contention for capacity on your local loop - this is regardless of provider. I'd suggest Sky would merely be rebadging BT's own offering, so after checking contract fine-print, just go with whatever's cheaper.
BT are rolling out their 'Infinity' service which I don't think can be rebadged by other vendors - might want to check availability in your area.
- detritus0
^ I say the above assuming Sky are repurposing ADSL.
If they offer cable connectivity (kind of goes against their branding though, eh?), then check that out.
- its_only_me0
I always hated skys broadband. Awfully bad.
Never tried BT
I changed to Virgin from Sky and the broadband is great.
- I take it you've not hit up upon Virgin's DL throttling? That'll take the shine off them, if and when you do.detritus
- PIZZA0
BT are pretty shitty speed wise and the routers are very badly made, need to be restarted manually a lot... but also they like to turn off and update too without any indication so you can brick them if you happen to restart it when it's updating and not just freezing up for no reason.
I'd recommend O2, been pretty good for me
- kingkong0
Virgin is the only fibre optic broadband in the UK. Mile miles quicker than both
- bjm0
Virgin has incredibly limiting bandwidth usage rules unless you buy their most expensive internet package. Their "peak" hours cover most of the day: 10am to 3pm ~ 4pm to 9pm. If you go over 5 gigs down during one of those time blocks you suffer a 75% hit on your speeds for 5 hours, even if you pass that threshold at 8:59pm.
I'm in the UK for a year only (grad school), and my roommates didn't want to go for the top service pack, the bill is in my roommates name and Virgin's call center service is so poor and understaffed that I don't blame them for not wishing to cancel.
Sad to say I can't wait to come back to Comcast in the US, Suck it Virgin!
- Hm, I got my numbers wrong it's 3 gigs in the morning block and 1.5 gigs in the night block., for the 10mb package.bjm
- PIZZA0
Fuck Virgin, when they bought up NTL they claimed I owed them £80 and rang me saying they were about to send debt collectors round... I told them this was the first I heard of this, they said they sent a bunch of letters but it was to an address I hadn't lived at because I moved 2 years ago and cancelled the broadband when I did.
Turns out they "Had two databases and troubles merging them" and apologised. Took them 5 seconds to check that fact, after apparently 4 months of sending letters and then eventually threatening me.
Virgin can get fucked and catch aids
- kalkal0
I hope you avoided both of them and went with BE
- Hombre_Lobo0
I heard BE were great, but I'm now with PlusNet. It's decent enough though. Cheaper than BE.
- Looks alright if you don'd download much. You know I can still get you a good offer on BE ;)kalkal