Adios Virgin. Roll on SKY!!!!

mortakos · 05-12-2007, 18:16

After two months of speeds "up to 20Kilobit" i finally got my SKY Broadband connected today and boy what a difference it made. I have Sky Max which is "up to 16MB" and so far i have had a solid 14MB speed no matter what the time. And my line stats are perfect. I was lucky enough to be only 1km from the exchange but so far so good. So happy i switched to SKY.Better TV service as well. I could not recommend SKY enough to everyone that has problems with Virgin Media.

06-12-2007, 09:13

another thread of i hate vm so went to sky lol glad your happy

Graham M · 06-12-2007, 09:15

Huzzah! More bandwidth for me!

06-12-2007, 12:59

Need a few more thousand for that

Graham M · 06-12-2007, 13:44

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Originally Posted by darthlinux

Need a few more thousand for that

Depends on how much of a heavy downloader he is

06-12-2007, 18:18

I was on a bout u

LooieENG · 06-12-2007, 22:32

mortakos, what's your "estimated" line speed? Mine says 6mbit, but I'm only 950m away from the exchange.

Paul K · 07-12-2007, 14:06

950M from exchange as the crow flies or straight line? Can be a big difference in distances. Also that is only a small part of the equation for what speed you get.

Bengie · 07-12-2007, 14:50

He wouldn't have had the guts to come on and say if he had made a mistake, how do we know you're not just saying that because what you got is crap and you're too embarrased to say so.

mortakos · 07-12-2007, 15:03

Here are the statistics from my router.

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 16379 kbps 764 kbps
Line Attenuation 22.5 db 11.1 db
Noise Margin 7.4 db 17.0 db

My physical line length is about 1km. My straight distance is 560m.

And why would i lie about my speed? My latest speed tests at peak time show me a download speed of 14MB and upload of 650KB. Not only i did not make a mistake but i wouldn't be happier. The last two month with VM have been nothing but nightmare. With speeds that were barely touching 1MB at peak time and constant disconnections.

**Hugh** · 07-12-2007, 15:32

mortakos, glad that you are happy with your move.

TheBlueRaja · 07-12-2007, 16:04

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Originally Posted by mortakos

Here are the statistics from my router.

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 16379 kbps 764 kbps
Line Attenuation 22.5 db 11.1 db
Noise Margin 7.4 db 17.0 db

My physical line length is about 1km. My straight distance is 560m.

And why would i lie about my speed? My latest speed tests at peak time show me a download speed of 14MB and upload of 650KB. Not only i did not make a mistake but i wouldn't be happier. The last two month with VM have been nothing but nightmare. With speeds that were barely touching 1MB at peak time and constant disconnections.

I've been telling them the same for ages mate, they wont believe you though, rose tinted specs you see, half of them still dont care about Sky One, Virgin one is the mutts though apparently

. My Sky BB has been wonderful too, im about 2k from the Exchange but i still get a solid 9.5mbps on Max too and for a tenner a month its a bargain.

mortakos · 07-12-2007, 17:30

Could not agree more with you. I am not even going to refer to the TV services and how superior the quality is. Even when i had Virgin BB in my previous house for 5 years i still had SKY as my TV provider. And Virgin 1 cannot even compare to how better SKY 1 is. Besides, being on SKY i get both

. And as far as billing is concerned, i pay 28 pounds/ month and i have MAX BB which is very stable, full TV package, and also Sky Talk. So all in all i pay 39 pounds (including my BT line rental) about 15 pounds less than what i was paying for the appalling service from VM. On top of that SKY even paid my BT installation for 125 pounds. What more can someone ask from a provider? If as you say they won't listen it is not my problem. But at the same problem i don't want to be called a liar just because my services look too good too be true.

colin-bennett · 09-12-2007, 10:22

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Originally Posted by mortakos

Could not agree more with you. I am not even going to refer to the TV services and how superior the quality is. Even when i had Virgin BB in my previous house for 5 years i still had SKY as my TV provider. And Virgin 1 cannot even compare to how better SKY 1 is. Besides, being on SKY i get both

. And as far as billing is concerned, i pay 28 pounds/ month and i have MAX BB which is very stable, full TV package, and also Sky Talk. So all in all i pay 39 pounds (including my BT line rental) about 15 pounds less than what i was paying for the appalling service from VM. On top of that SKY even paid my BT installation for 125 pounds. What more can someone ask from a provider? If as you say they won't listen it is not my problem. But at the same problem i don't want to be called a liar just because my services look too good too be true.

wow
well SKY offer free install which I guess you had.
Thats Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£90.00 of equip and install charges. Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£125.00 BT install charge.
Thats Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£215.00 cost to SKY. BUT ??
If we then take the costs of adding sky equip to your local exchange and the cost to activate your BBI MAX then I guess SKY may start to make money from your account sometime in the distant future.
So I guess you had the deal of the century ????
Need I say more ??????????????????/

TheBlueRaja · 09-12-2007, 12:59

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Originally Posted by colin-bennett

wow
well SKY offer free install which I guess you had.
Thats Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£90.00 of equip and install charges. Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£125.00 BT install charge.
Thats Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£215.00 cost to SKY. BUT ??
If we then take the costs of adding sky equip to your local exchange and the cost to activate your BBI MAX then I guess SKY may start to make money from your account sometime in the distant future.
So I guess you had the deal of the century ????
Need I say more ??????????????????/

Well if you could explain your point that would be a start.