SKY Broadband the new 56K Dial Up?

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Yep, I've had no end of bother with my Sky connection. I am going to be speaking to BT next week to see if they can do better. Our internet regularly drops below dial up speeds and makes it utterly pointless. Plus, because we are on an exchange that hasn't been unbundled, we are on their limited "Connect" package, which, as far as they are concerned, we should be grateful just to be able to connect at all.
 
It worked

then Disconnected

It worked

Then Disconnected

What Joke :thumbsdown:
 
I agree - being a sky broad band user, i have found the service good for 6+ years up until about a year ago, then it has been rubbish since then, poor speeds and dropping connections left right and centre. I have also had a number if days in recent months with no connection at all. Coincidental with the uptake of sky on demand.

Tempted to move to plusnet :mad:
 
I got the email from Sky saying I was about to be transferred but thankfully was out of contract. Im now connected with PlusNet, which is ok so far.

Ive ditched both Sky for broadband and also ditched O2 for mobile as there was no incentive to stay with either and every reason to leave.
 
so if o2 been bought by sky and when does my contract end?:unsure:
 
Communications companies are fine until they p**s you off. Then its time to leave and go to another. Until they p**s you off, or sell out to the company that p**sed you off in the first place.

Basically they're all profiteering bawbags. Even used car sellers have more scruples these days.
 
I was with O2 Home Broadband, and also noticed problems beginning as soon as the transition to Sky began. It's not yet completed, as far as I remember (if memory serves, it's all done with next month), but the bills started coming from Sky this month.

My speed often drops very low, and sometimes randomly disconnects, which never once happened with O2's service. I'm also quite sure that Sky won't keep me on the same price-plan, which has a huge discount currently because I have a telephone with O2 as well (which of course I've had no problems with), when all's said and done.

The irony is, I went with O2 specifically because I *didn't* want to go with Sky, whose offering at the time was the only other suitable one. :roll:

Ah well. When my contract's up, I'm pretty sure I'll be fleeing to PlusNet. :p
 
Plusnet? 16MB in my area :wooha:

I am so temping to switch whatever broadband I have or I will ask BT to have better connecter

Decsions Decsions:unsure:
 
At least switching provider is ludicrously easy nowadays...

I had to switch to O2 because my prior ISP got bought up by the plague that is TalkTalk, and turned to cack quite literally overnight, as well. :lol: It went very smoothly, and I imagine getting away from Sky will be equally so.

It does make me wonder why on Earth Sky went and bought up O2's home broadband business when they quite clearly couldn't handle it, though...
 
I was with Be and quite happy with the service.

However, as soon as I learnt that they had been bought by Sky and my account would move over to them I jumped ship. I want to select the ISP, not some company buying my existing provider out.

I switched to BT Infinity (FTTC) fibre and it has been good to date. So much faster and a very stable connection, plus no noise on the line when making calls at all.
 
KieranD212 said:
With Sky my cousin is adamant that they are getting ****ty speeds due to them pushing fibre optic.
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This wouldn't surprise me one bit, as when they started trying to push their HD television content subscriptions, the quality of what was on their existing service suddenly magically immediately became fuzzy and poor. They stopped doing this after a while, but it stuck in my mind, for good reason, as I think that's a pretty lame practice.

Harrison said:
I want to select the ISP, not some company buying my existing provider out.
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This. Absolutely this. Seconded.
 
All businesses experiment with trying to maximise their profits by utilising their infrastructure to the full. The problem is it isn't good when their experiment directly on their customers to do this, rather than in a closed test environment.

Personally I've always been fairly happy with Sky TV (19 year customer), but have noticed some channels degrade in quality as times. It even used to happen on analogue. Remember Sparklies? Originally they would say it was due to a misaligned dish or similar hardware issue, but as Sky added more channels and reduced the bandwidth of some the sparklies would increase in the lower channels.

I did prefer sparklies over digital artifacts. At least you could continue watching the program with a bit of interference, but with digital TV (including freeview and Sky), if you get interference you normally lose the whole lot.
 
I don't remember sparklies and I'm not sure I ever encountered them (have only used Sky TV since their digital offering came into being - was with a cable provider prior to that), but I agree that anything's better than the problems the supposedly superior digital TV has. The slightest bit of breeze (sadly not much of an exaggeration), and goodbye everything. :roll:

What surprises me is how many apologists there still are, who try to counter the cold, hard fact that analogue television was in a number of ways far superior to the current digital offerings. :p Never got stuck without television when a little bit of rain fell, for starters, and even on low-bandwidth channels, the picture was never anywhere near as poor as it is on digital. And it's not even like any of those apologists are from North America, who always had a lower television resolution than us, and who seem to have seen the most improvement from changes to broadcasting standards in recent years.
 
If Sky moved with the times, they'd be offering free mobile internet or something with their less than perfect service. At over 40 a month for the top package they can't get away with offering the same as they did 10 years ago, surely.

We're with Sky, (low package TV and mid internet) but getting my folks to change would be like trying to get conversation out of a wall. :lol:
 
Well they do offer more. Sky Go and ON Demand. Both are good services that don't cost anything extra for Sky customers. It is great being able to watch Sky on tablets, phones and laptops. And On Demand is really useful and has a lot of content available.
 
I quite like Sky :oops: , not sure why it's getting hate. Been with virgin, bt, bulldog, o2 and I've found sky to be by far the best and have the best support.

Takes 2 minutes to get adsl profiles reset, bt took me 1 week of constant phone calls, hence most of my customers have been moved to sky and sky fibre where available, less hassle when stuff does go wrong.
 
Harrison said:
Well they do offer more. Sky Go and ON Demand. Both are get services that don't cost anything extra for Sky customers. It is great being able to watch Sky on tablets, phones and laptops. And On Demand is really useful and has a lot of content available.
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That's a fair point I forgot about Sky go. Did they not buy out O2 though or did that not include the mobile phone network? I'd love it if a company like sky offered free mobile data when you buy home broadband from them. It would be very handy.


@ gouldin, I suspect sky are better in some areas than others from the looks of this thread so far. I don't really have any complaints but we do tend to get significant random drops in speeds quite often.
 
AmiNeo said:
Did they not buy out O2 though or did that not include the mobile phone network?
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Sky only bought O2's separate O2 Home Broadband business, which O2 put up for sale in order to return their focus to their mobile phone and mobile broadband divisions.
 
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