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Anyone using sky broadband?
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I'm thinking of changing over to their 16M package, for =A310/m.. but want=
=20
to know if it's reliable before doing so.
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I have the 8M package. I've had to flash the Sky router with a hacked
firmware that lets me control the max speed it'll sync at, as with
standard firmware in it would sync at 3M or so, work for a day and
crawl to a halt.
Forced to a fraction under 2M and its fine.
(I pay for the 8M for the higher limits)
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Heh. If anyone tries to tell you it's cheaper to live on the continent,
tell them that I'm paying 35 euros per month just for a 1 meg connection
that rarely gets to 700k. I pay Telefonica another wad on top of that
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It's Spain, a 2nd world country only kept afloat by Germany and Britain,
what do you expect.
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And what's going to happen now that Poland are going to get all "our" dosh?
Actually, it does feel ironic that I had to move to Spain to benefit
from all the money I paid into the British tax system. 40% of our roads
are paid for by Europe.
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for line rental.
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I have the 8MB package for a fiver/month.
I have had problems[1] but I think they are modem related rather than
ISP related.
[1] It loses the DNS settings (At least I think that's waht it is; I
don't really understand this stuff) periodically. A reboot of the
modem usually sorts this for a while. I ought to swap over to my old
modem to see if it gets better but need to get a tuit first.
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One thing with ADSL is that your modem (for want of a better word) will
go down the pipe with the least traffic on when it first logs in. As
time goes by that pipe might get busier and other pipes free up a bit,
your connection might slow down considerably and things like DNS lookups
might time out. Reseting the modem then goes down a different (quieter)
pipe and things speed up again.
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So an occaisonal reboot of the ADSL router is a good idea? Once a day?
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Leave it alone, let other people do the rebooting.
Your speed will wobble up and down (a little) but if there's no other
problems, not by much.
I had a different problem in that I've got a very long line, lots of
noise, the router connected as fast as it could and after a few days it
ground to a halt under all the data errors.
I had to reboot that regularily until I found a way to force it to
connect slower.
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Once a week?
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Not really. If you experience a slowdown then try it otherwise if the
speed is OK you're just disrupting your own service for no reason.
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Surely it's not just down to the telephone line is it?
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The BT line forms the local part of the loop, and I'm using that already=20
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It's only a couple of years ago I was paying =A330/m for 512K, the fall in=
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price is quite recent.
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If I were a new customer I'd get this:
(there's some small print at the bottom of course).
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40 USD for 1.5M DSL and another 15 USD a month for the line.
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Mine is 45-ish. Cable. Don't know the speed. "Enough".
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I can't get cable here in the slums.
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with my current ISP so have no worries there. My only concern is if the=20
ISP behind it all is a shambles, and it would seem to be ok.
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That what I was thinking, I can save £20/Month if I switch from Zen to
Sky (as an existing Sky TV customer) for the same speed (8Mb/s) service.
Sky bought Easynet and I use Easynet at work, it goes wrong a lot, they
always blame BT, it's never their fault, etc.
Zen, although expensive are one of the most reliable in the country
chose them when I moved here (I was previously happy on NTL Cable but no
navvies have been down our street to dig it up yet). After experiencing
what a PITA it is to have an ISP that isn't as reliable as I'm used to
at home, I don't mind paying for the service.
I'd be interested if it is as good then the extra £20/Month can go back
into getting the movie channels back on :-)
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I'm looking at a problem on my mate's [1] Sky connection. He lost
connection just over a week ago and after several fruitless calls to
their helpdesk [2] he's asked me to look at it. [3]
He was very happy with Sky up until now
The fault was fixed after applying a system restore from just before
it went faulty. The only thing that's been installed between those
dates were MS updates so I'm now looking at what the updates entailed.
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So this is a problem with Fister[1], not Sky BB? Why would that make him
unhappy with Sky?
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My mate's happy with the service but not with their Customer Service
when things go wrong.
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Ah, script readers on the end of the phone eh?
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[1] System restore actually worked? I had to re-install the cnut on my
laptop because it said there were no restore points.
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[1] You met him at BOSM, him with the ZX10R and Fisher Price boots.
[2] He's not impressed with their Customer Service. They've cut him
off four times when he's been speaking to them.
[3] He's got Vista installed.
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I'm on that one, but only syncs at about 2 and a quarter megs, and gives
about 1.8-2 meg throughput measured. Rock solid 768k up however.
In the 8 months it's been in, it's dropped 3 times, and that was over
one weekend, so I suspect that was as a result of some messing about at
the exchange rather then simple unreliability
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You should really know better. Don't be a pikey, pay for a proper service,
or do you just browse websites at home?
Hasn't your exchange been LLU'd?
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