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A nice try from Sky to compare like for like but you can clearly see it isn't the case.

I wonder why they didn't compare Vm's 20Mbps to their Unlimited package?

At the end of the day its about choice, for me who has recently signed up for Sky's services due to Vm failing to resolve outstanding issues with my broadband and TV its good to try and alternative ISP and compare like for like.

I've not had the Sky broadband installed yet so can't comment on that too much, but the TV picture quality knocks spots off VM so far, In standard definition on my 40 inch Toshiba I don't see any pixelation and blocky issues on sky yet some of VM's channels are borderline unwatchable at times, in particular ITV2+1. I can't comment on HD yet because I'm not paying extra for the privilege (one of the downsides with Sky as VM give you this for nowt)

Just getting back to the broadband, speaking with next door and running some tests on their Sky Unlimited Broadband, they only get about 5 to 6 Mbps download speed (due to our distance from the exchange) but the Jitter is nice and low at 1 to 2 ms at Peak times.

Vm's Jitter is anywhere from 4ms to 40ms but generally for me over 20ms which coupled with an upstream packet loss issue makes gaming extremely laggy and frustrating even on 50Mbps.

I've asked my neighbour over the last 6 months how many times have they had drop outs on their Sky BB and the answer was none, and he also replied with "we have 3 laptops on 24/7 in our house, and the lad is upstairs playing Black Ops on his PS3, all with no issues so far".

Personally I cant play Black Ops on my PS3 as its tooooooo laggy, and I get lag in every single FPS style game I play across both PS3 and XBox platforms.

So take from this what you will, this is just one perspective, but If my VM's services were better (quality wise) I would pick them hands down over Sky as both me and the Mrs love On Demand and the V+ functionality etc.