[pabscars]

Well in the interest of balance I will give a progress report on my Sky Unlimited BB, the first few weeks were ok, the router was syncing at 4.1kbps down and approx 800 Up. Jitter is usually below 4 to 5 ms and my ping is in the region of 40 to 60 ms (wireless)

Gaming has been generally ok, with stable pings since I changed from a saturated 30/3 virgin media package but all has not been particularly well with Sky so far.

The router just wont respond to the TBB ping monitor so Ive given up trying, and I can also say hand on heart that the superhub is better, there you go I've said it.

The standard issue sagemcom modem/router Sky now issue is just shocking in terms of it's port forwarding and DMZ capabilities, neither of which work full stop on either the PS3 or xbox, and the only way I can get just a moderate NAT is by allowing UPnP to do it's stuff.

After the first few weeks I noticed the router speed had dropped considerably and was now syncing at just 2 meg while the upload remained unchanged, this wasnt the only issue as the broadband kept dropping out randomly and the also when the landline rang.

After a few phone call's and a little head shaking, I've managed to get my speed increased to 3.5 Mbps and it appears to be stable again but it still reboots randomly a couple of times a day, in total in the 4 or 5 weeks I've had this service I've gone through 2 routers and 3 filters which isn't a good start.

Gaming has improved overall but because I'm at the end of a long copper line I'm not feeling the benefit as much as I had hoped.

I do hope VM get to grips with the local issues causing their service (for me) to be pants but I wont hesitate once it's fixed, to move back to vm.

I might have a bit more of a play and see if I can't get the TBB ping monitor to work because I'm interested to see just how stable Sky's BB is now after all the faffing about, and if anyone has successfully managed to get it to work please let me know.