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Discussion topic: Appears Sky are throttling my broadband speed

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This message was authored by Chrisee This message was authored by: Chrisee

Re: Appears Sky are throttling my broadband speed

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@cricketkingkenny there is nothing "illegal" about the fact you are on a 40/10 line profile rather than 80/20. The system used to deliver your broadband service uses the copper phone line from your home to the cabinet where it connects to a fibre system the speed you get depends on the length of that line. If you care to post your hub's connection stats forum members who are customers like yourself can tell you the potentisl speed of your line see Find your Sky Broadband router statistics

 

The advertised 62Mb/s is the average speed the several million customers who buy Sky Superfast serrvice get not a promise. When I had that service I got 80Mb/s because my phone line was roughly 300m long. I was helping a customer recently whose line could only deliver 10Mb/s as their line was nearly 2km long. We both would pay the same amount. Full fibre will remove that difference but the laws of Physics mean copper lines lose bandwidth due to length..

 

Where Sky can seem cheep is where lines can deliver say 52Mb/s if working perfectly but are put on the 40/10 profile rather than the full fat 80/20. You will find your contract mentions that and in day to day use the odd 15Mb/s a customer  might lose is not noticeable and many lines cannot as in practice deliver the full potential due to age and condition. However it is not illegal its just what Sky do as always read the contract when you sign up. 

Hope that helps.

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This message was authored by TimmyBGood This message was authored by: TimmyBGood

Re: Appears Sky are throttling my broadband speed

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@cricketkingkenny wrote:

 

 Which without notifying me is illegally throttling. 

 

I'd suggest 'illegally' isn't a particularly useful concept in this situation.

 

Meaning misled me and capped my line for over ten years. 

Ten years ago broadband products were rather different, though: volume limits based on 'fair use' were much more common then.


 

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This message was authored by Kelsingra This message was authored by: Kelsingra

Re: Appears Sky are throttling my broadband speed

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Hey @cricketkingkenny 

 

Thank you for joining the Sky Community Forum 🙂

 

I just wanted to confirm that the information that the Superusers gave you are correct. If you still feel that Sky has wronged you, please make sure to raise a formal complaint following the options on this link:
https://www.sky.com/help/articles/how-to-make-a-complaint

 

Thanks,

Fanni

Community Moderator

This message was authored by mae-3 This message was authored by: mae-3

Re: Appears Sky are throttling my broadband speed

@cricketkingkenny 

 

It would be useful to see a set of router stats, so the community can see what speed your broadband line is capable of achieving.

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