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Originally Posted by AndyCambs
Yes - but my point is that Sky are not comparing like with like for 99.9% of the people. Unless you live on top of, or adjoining the exchange, then you're not likely to get 16MB or anything like it.
Virgin Media speeds of 2, 4 and 10MB are going to be much closer to what you receive.
So in my case, and I appreciate that there might be the odd 0.1% of the population who it might not apply to - you can really only compare 2MB Virgin prices with anything that $ky offer.
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You were fine till you typed $ky, not really the way to have your comments taken seriously, and actually the majority of urban and suburban lines are capable of 8Mbit+ over ADSL2+, and the vast majority capable of over 4Mbps.
Can I please draw your attention to the following:
http://www.speedtest.net/global.php?...nt=3&country=
Shows a higher average speed for Sky Broadband / Easynet than either of the former components of VM, as do the figures at
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/i/2978.html
Sky 3,340 Kbps
Virgin Media (cable) 2,978 Kbps
Bearing in mind that customers of both will vary from 2Mbit/s upwards, and that Sky customers will go as low potentially as 512kbps.