topic Re: Gigabyte rip off in Broadband

Gigabyte rip off

IanEA — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:55:48 GMT

Sky sell you a very expensive wi fi upgrade,

you then find 900bps is impossible to archive, because they leave you with your old router not designed for the speed, you just paid for ! And then have the bloody cheek to want £7 to get the speed you paid for with the hub you should have when you order 900bps, ours just scrapes in a 630bps so that cover Skys small print ? I did not expect Sky to treat me like fool after 8 years A discussing con job !

Re: Gigabyte rip off

Chrisee — Fri, 01 May 2026 06:19:07 GMT

@IanEA the WiFi gurantee with Sky's WiFi Max is 25Mb/s in every room in hour home which does not sound like much but is sufficent to stream video etc. No ISP is going to guarantee 900Mb/s in every room as that would require equipment costing many hubdreds if not thousands. In practice for most activities 100Mb/s is ample. You can access the full speed over Ethernet and over WiFi near the hub acssuming it is out in the open on a surface but ask the signal to pass through walls and spoeds drop.

My own solution was to buy my own WiFi kit save the money on WiFiMax which has paid for the ourchase several times over. YMMV

Re: Gigabyte rip off

IanEA — Fri, 01 May 2026 10:04:29 GMT

We have in Fleet a isp called toob who sell 900bps that actually give up and download at 900bps, !at £29 Sky £41 and you don't get the speed you pay for !

Re: Gigabyte rip off

Chrisee — Fri, 01 May 2026 10:19:35 GMT

@IanEA toob own and run their own fibre network and like several other Altnet companies are charging retail prices which are lower than the wholesale prices Openreach charge telcos like Sky. If they are available to you take them up on their offer. Hopefully they suceed and prosper but every month or so one of the Altnets either sell out to a comptetitor or go into administration.

Re: Gigabyte rip off

Me134 — Fri, 01 May 2026 10:27:18 GMT

@IanEA wrote:
We have in Fleet a isp called toob who sell 900bps that actually give up and download at 900bps, !at £29 Sky £41 and you don't get the speed you pay for !

You won't be getting those speeds over WiFi either, from the Toob website (Device dependant, speeds from 10Mbps).

https://www.toob.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/WIFI-SPEED-A4-Z-fold-PDF.pdf

Re: Gigabyte rip off

TimmyBGood — Fri, 01 May 2026 10:44:43 GMT

@IanEA wrote:

We have in Fleet a isp called toob who sell 900bps that actually give up and download at 900bps, !at £29

Altnets (who by definition own their own localised network infrastructure) aren't paying the national provider for wholesale circuits and can choose to burn through start-up capital rather than charge sustainable prices if they see fit.

They can also offer symmetrical connections as standard: on the national network BT Wholesale restricts those to lucrative leased line contracts.