Originally Posted by AndyCambs

Upto being the operative words. Unless you live in, on top, or adjoining an exchange, then it's unlikely that you're likely to get even close to that. Out of interest I checked what my maximum speed would be - a paltry 1MB, which is half the slowest speed that Virgin Media offer. Okay, so you don't always get the full 2, 4 or 10MB offered by VM, but you're going to get much closer to the advertised speed with them than Sky.