Considering Sky Broadband

As a Sky Digital subscriber, I am considering switching my broadband
subscription over to them from AOL.

I will be interested to know of other peoples' experiences of this
service, and if they have found it reliable.

Thanks in anticipation.

"The Weary Wizard" (E-Mail Removed) wrote in message
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> As a Sky Digital subscriber, I am considering switching my broadband
> subscription over to them from AOL.
>
> I will be interested to know of other peoples' experiences of this
> service, and if they have found it reliable.
>
> Thanks in anticipation.

Before you do, have a look here:
http://www.skyuser.co.uk/forum
and here:
http://bbs.adslguide.org.uk/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=sky

"The Weary Wizard" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> As a Sky Digital subscriber, I am considering switching my broadband
> subscription over to them from AOL.
>
> I will be interested to know of other peoples' experiences of this
> service, and if they have found it reliable.
>
> Thanks in anticipation.
>

I recommend it. I have used it since Dec and the speed has been good and
very consistent. I am on Mid and am getting over 90% of speed most of the
time by speed tests from http://www.dslzoneuk.net/ I check the speed most
days BTW.

> As a Sky Digital subscriber, I am considering switching my broadband
> subscription over to them from AOL.
> I will be interested to know of other peoples' experiences of this
> service, and if they have found it reliable.

Pretty good overall (been with them since ~April) - less than half the
price I was paying to Pipex and i'm getting data 6-7 times faster.

The webmail interface is *useless* though, but if you normally use
pop3 / smtp for email, this isn't an issue.

One thing to check though, are you on an LLU enabled exchange,
otherwise I believe they put you on a "bought-in" service, which is
reputed to be abysmal. As long as you're on an LLU enabled exchange
you should be rocking :-)

You can check the status of your exchange over at
http://www.samknows.com

The Weary Wizard wrote:
> As a Sky Digital subscriber, I am considering switching my broadband
> subscription over to them from AOL.
>
> I will be interested to know of other peoples' experiences of this
> service, and if they have found it reliable.
>
> Thanks in anticipation.

If you want a pipe with no thrills then it'll be fine, but be warned
support is abysmal (so bad they've refunded me for the last 9 months
I've had with them after I asked my BB account to be closed inside the
12 month minimum period with out monies, in fact I thought I may have
to give them money), the mail service is very patchy & I've never
known the pop3 to work, whilst other have to a lesser or greater
degree. They don't appear to have any conception of stable connection
speeds so you get the max your router will synch at that moment which
may or may not be substaninable for the period of 24 hours.

If you're on of the lucky ones you'll get along swimmingly, but are
you feeling lucky.

Others have posted links to a couple of very useful sites, take time
to read them & use the information to guide your decision

Been with Sky from January, no problems at all. Never dropped out or
anything. Previous 8mb connection the max i got was 4mb with sky its
6mb. Cant moan at the price either ! The routers pre configured so no
messing around with that. Not had to deal with support or even call
them so i cant comment on that bit.