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Sky Broadband in Charlesland

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  • 30-09-2013 1:06pm
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    stevestevenson
    Registered Users Posts: 130 ✭✭


    Following UPC's latest price hike, I'm now looking at other options. Sky tell me they're achieving speeds of (max) 6mbps in Charlesland. To a layman like myself this means little, so in summary - are they better/worse than UPC?

    I watch a lot of netflix so speed is important.

    Any assistance appreciated....


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    JanneG
    Registered Users Posts: 386 ✭✭JanneG


    stevestevenson wrote: »
    Following UPC's latest price hike, I'm now looking at other options. Sky tell me they're achieving speeds of (max) 6mbps in Charlesland. To a layman like myself this means little, so in summary - are they better/worse than UPC?

    I watch a lot of netflix so speed is important.

    Any assistance appreciated....

    Sky with their 6Mb are lagging way behind UPC even on a reasonably busy day. UPC are delivering "up to" 30Mb in Charlesland but in reality you'd be getting 15-20 on average (based on my own connection)

    UPC is also uncapped, ie you can download as much as you want without paying extra or your speeds being affected.

    As Sky piggyback on the likes of Eircom, you could always hope for an improvement once the eFibre comes into effect.


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    stevestevenson
    Registered Users Posts: 130 ✭✭stevestevenson


    JanneG wrote: »
    As Sky piggyback on the likes of Eircom, you could always hope for an improvement once the eFibre comes into effect.

    Any timeline on that? Halving (at best) my current speed doesn't seem like a viable option at the moment given the amount of stuff I watch online. I wonder is 6mb even enough to watch a show without freezing/stopping.


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    JanneG
    Registered Users Posts: 386 ✭✭JanneG


    stevestevenson wrote: »
    Any timeline on that? Halving (at best) my current speed doesn't seem like a viable option at the moment given the amount of stuff I watch online. I wonder is 6mb even enough to watch a show without freezing/stopping.

    No idea... I'd say you'd be looking at a loy of buffering or at least having to avoid any HD material...


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