topic Re: Sky Broadband Superfast in Broadband

Sky Broadband Superfast

shadow971959 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:28:20 GMT

my my broadband speed dropped from 29.5mb to 18.5mb for the last 9 days on running service checker i see the following

You've got

Sky Broadband Superfast

18.5Mb/s

Speed to your hub

Last checked: 13 seconds ago

18.5 megabits per second

You have our Speed Guarantee

Speed to your hub

18.5Mb/s

18.5 megabits per second

Guaranteed download speed

26.8Mb/s

26.8 megabits per second

Upload speed

5.8Mb/s

5.8 megabits per second

Data usage

1491GB

1491 gigabytes

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so how is 18.5mb's within the guaranteed speed of mb's?

Re: Sky Broadband Superfast

TimmyBGood — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:35:06 GMT

@shadow971959

It isn't, but these days the 'guarantee' is only of an option to leave a minimum contract term early without penalty. Speed isn't actually guaranteed, and it's no longer possible to claim a one month refund of the broadband subscription.

Realistically, ISPs don't have any confidence that Openreach is spending time and resources on the legacy copper network.

Re: Sky Broadband Superfast

shadow971959 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:38:42 GMT

ok,

i'll be terminating then i guess

Re: Sky Broadband Superfast

TimmyBGood — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:42:43 GMT

@shadow971959

If you are currently within a minimum contract term then you'd need to log the speed drop with Sky and wait to see if they offer early exit.

Note that in the absence of FTTP at the address no other Openreach ISP is going to be able to offer better speed over a poor copper circuit.

Re: Sky Broadband Superfast

shadow971959 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:54:18 GMT

all well and good but theres no full fibre here

Re: Sky Broadband Superfast

TimmyBGood — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:18:45 GMT

@shadow971959

It's possible that Openreach could restore the line back to its previous speed, but having a GMDS below 40Mbs indicates you are a significant distance from the cabinet which is the main limiting factor in FTTC.

Re: Sky Broadband Superfast

shadow971959 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:27:30 GMT

less than 500 yards from cabinet and within 1 mile of exchange

Re: Sky Broadband Superfast

TimmyBGood — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:32:35 GMT

@shadow971959

Exchange proximity doesn't affect FTTC: it did for ADSL

Another possibility is that your metallic circuit is over copper-clad aluminium rather than pure copper: this was a cost-saving measure long before internet access was a thing.

Either way, the legacy network isn't going to be improved now when ultimately it's destined for closure.

The Universal Service Obligation is for a woeful 10Mbs of data.

Re: Sky Broadband Superfast

shadow971959 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:16:10 GMT

no worries

my whole sky package sucks, its all going when contracts end