BT, Sky or other - Who the best for gaming?
 

Hi,

We seem to be having a lot of issues with our VM connection and it is coming up for renewal next month and I was wondering, who is the best for gaming?

Is it Sky, BT or other?
Also what speed would I need to be looking at upto 40MB or 80MB

Re: BT, Sky or other - Who the best for gaming?
 

Most other providers will be similar as running on same openreach network but their routers vary.

Re: BT, Sky or other - Who the best for gaming?
 

Sky and BT generally have better upload speeds and lower latency than virgin

Re: BT, Sky or other - Who the best for gaming?
 

I believe sky have a lot of their own network that does not rely on Openreach except in some areas?

Having left Virgin Media almost 4 years ago due to bad latency and lag destroying the ability to game, I switched to Sky and have had a rock steady connection and low latency ever since. Also no jitter which makes a huge difference for gaming.

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Yellow caterpillars are my downloads.

The naysayers here said I would get gradually get congestion with Sky and same bad performance as I had with VM but 4 years later, still stress free :)

Re: BT, Sky or other - Who the best for gaming?
 

All DSL providers use the BT Openreach network, although Vodafone DO have their own core fibre network after they purchased Cable & Wireless a few years ago, so some of their traffic goes over that. But primarily all providers use OR cabinets and exchanges.

Re: BT, Sky or other - Who the best for gaming?
 

What he said.