moving to sky

[dingledangle]

hi guys,i`m thinking about switching to sky as my contract with virgin ends in august,just wanted peoples opinion about sky`s broadband service

[gmb45]

hmmmmm well sky bloke told me out of the 20mb they advertise you will get about 8mb, but the standard bb package they give you a monthly allowance of so many gb ( not sure how much ) if you want unlimited bb its another ?7.50 a month, virgin bb is the best by far for speed and reliabilty.

[dingledangle]

virgin have put my bill up to ?33 pm,im only on tv-large and 10 meg broadband

[gmb45]

yeh vm turning into rip off coonts, best thing you can do is when contract is over ring sky see what they can offer, then ring vm and select "thinking of leaving us" option and see what they will offer, play one against the other, all tho vm dont seem to give a ~~~~ about old customers nowdays since nag3 kicked in if it wasnt for vms bb i would be off to sky like a shot.

[dingledangle]

cheerz for advise mate,will give em both a ring and see what i can get

[NaNaNiii]

Im with sky and my speeds arent that bad

Another thing is that the download is really unlimited. Virgin used to cap my speeds when i downloaded stuff but sky dont do that

[Shady]

depends on how far you live from exchange. in my last house i was at 18mb with sly.. down to 2.7 here
up to 32mbps when infinity comes in june tho

[Bonesy]

slys broadband is nowhere near as good as virgins esecially the 50mb.

[MrFug]

The VM 50mb service isn't capped, but they do throttle certain traffic, like BT and NNTP. I found I could avoid the throttling by changing my giganews SSL port.

VM are always one step ahead of Sky when it comes to BB. When sky complete their infinity rollout, VM should have rolled out 100mb.

[notluckyuk]

the 30mb VM isnt capped either..i dont have a choice sky BB 2.1mb

[bj1]

there is no competition when it comes down to fibre optic you get what you pay for that is why sky offer 2mb for free im with talk talk and get around 6mb im more than happy with that

[dingledangle]

decided to go with sky,got family friends code of ebay and ordered,broadband,phone,all entertainment packages,sky sports,movies and hd box for ?12 a month more than i was paying at virgin,so could`nt turn it down really.