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Originally Posted by jcw00
To get the 16Mb you have to be very close to the Exchange <3Km.
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3km isn't that close, the majority of people are within 3km of their exchange, and you have to be way closer than that to get 16Mbit
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Originally Posted by AndyCambs
Just checked the Sky pages about their version of events with Virgin Media.
http://www.sky.com/portal/site/skyco...ntentid=646110
They refer to "upto 16Mb per month. I'm not sure how many people are likely to be able to get this speed - I live about 3 miles from the exchange, and checking on www.broadbandchecker.com it shows that I should get
So a more fair comparison would be
Virgin Media's television and 2MB Broadband (that's twice as fast as Sky could manage) for £20 per month.
You can't compare Upto speeds which are very very dependant on where you live. |
Some people in heavily congested cable areas might claim that cable's speeds also depend on where you live. It seems that VM are trying to promote themselves as being able to guarantee speeds which they cannot.
Anyway the Sky thing does say 'up to', doesn't promise anything and does state..
http://check.skybroadband.com/
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* Top speeds may vary significantly depending on distance from local exchange and line quality
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http://check.skybroadband.com/onnet.aspx
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**Top speeds may vary significantly depending on distance from local exchange and line quality.
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If you want to compare 2Mbit products Sky do offer one, free of charge, albeit with a usage limit.
At the end of the day though it's all rhetoric from both sides, if you take the press releases of either that seriously you need to back off a bit, they'll both merrily pick out the best case scenario to look better than the other.
It's called... PR
Take it at its' face value at your extreme peril
