topic Re: Sky or BT 500mbps in Broadband

Sky or BT 500mbps

jasonuk1975 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 10:08:58 GMT

Currently with BT on 500mbps and happy with it but price is high.

I am looking at the Sky Broadband 500mbps deal under Black Friday.

Anyone any views between the two ? Is Sky as fast and reliable as BT?

Re: Sky or BT 500mbps

JimM1 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:10:05 GMT

@jasonuk1975 Yes.

Re: Sky or BT 500mbps

Chrisee — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:13:38 GMT

@jasonuk1975 both Sky and BT are normally reselling the same Openreach connection. There are differencesxin the equipment each provides with perhaps an edge to EE/BT on the WiFi performance.

Re: Sky or BT 500mbps

JimM1 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:20:51 GMT

@Chrisee Would agree with that, but if BT move you over to EE on the EE Smarthub+ the Feb2025 FW update they did has turned that once reasonable hub to a toaster at times! Staying on the BT Smarthub2 is the way with some reduced features!

Re: Sky or BT 500mbps

Chrisee — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:22:37 GMT

@JimM1 interesting I was going on the performance at my daughter's home.

Re: Sky or BT 500mbps

JimM1 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:26:11 GMT

@Chrisee What router is she using, the BT Smarthub2 although EE have had it FW updated to kind off work with there system is not too bad, everyone raved about that, used one after EE did that back in April, boy do they sure know how to mess with a hub, 10-10 before, and 2-10 after!

Re: Sky or BT 500mbps

Chrisee — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:53:00 GMT

Think they upgraded to EE @JimM1 a few weeks back but not certain.

@jasonuk1975 if your WiFi is currently decent and you live in an older property I would not swap as the Sky Max hub pretty well relies on 5GHz signals to talk to its extender pods which works well in homes with partition walls but less well in traditionally built British homes,