6mb Broadband speed...and Sky tell me that's the best that's available

[BelmontRoad]

Looking to upgrade my in-laws broadband for them as its running at a magnificent 6mbs.  Sky tell me that 6mbs is the fastest speed they can provide and would I care to just sit and wait for fibre.  BT, on the otherhand, can do 1.6gbs Full Fibre to the address.  I thought that Sky used the openreach infra or is that just in limited places?

Any thoughts on talking to sky or should we just jump the in-laws to BT and be done with it?

[GD1]

@BelmontRoad  What are the results when you put their address in here https://www.broadbandchecker.btwholesale.com/#/ADSL/AddressHome

Before posting a screenshot remove any address details.

[TimmyBGood]

---

@BelmontRoad wrote:

Sky tell me that 6mbs is the fastest speed they can provide and would I care to just sit and wait for fibre.  BT, on the otherhand, can do 1.6gbs Full Fibre to the address.

---

Sky and BT both use Openreach infrastructure: the difference would suggest that BT is reselling recently available FTTP while Sky hasn't updated its sales database yet and only has a record of bad FTTC (or possibly even ADSL) availablity.

[BelmontRoad]

Looks like it should be available?

[GD1 · Accepted solution]

@BelmontRoad   So FTTP is availbale so as suggested by @TimmyBGood  may be because Sky have yet to update their database

[TimmyBGood]

---

@BelmontRoad wrote:

Looks like it should be available?

---

Yes: OH is 'overhead' (so from a pole rather than in a duct)