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Discussion topic: Broadband always slower busy times

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This message was authored by: V1MCS

Broadband always slower busy times

Why is my broadband always slow at busy times it's fibre and this should not happen you guys have an issue 

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This message was authored by: Chrisee

Re: Broadband always slower busy times

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@V1MCS "us guys" don't have an issue thanks but you are not talking to Sky by posting in the forum.

 

Slow down at busy times can be caused by contention, ie other customers competing for limited bandwidth ,which with full fibre is possible as up to 32 lines share a 2.48Gb/s link to the exchange. In practice though that is extremly rareas almost everyone only uses a small % of the bandwidth they buy. That limitation is down to Openreach's GPON system so isn't under Sky's control. Sky regularly measure the download speed which you can access via the Service Checker if you click on the broadband link. An even rarer issue is contention on Sky's backhaul from the fibre exchange but I think you can discount that.

 

Most likely that if you are using WiFi it is interference from your neighbours' networks. This issue is obviously worse in blocks of flats or dense neighbourhoods. Improving your wifi set up can help.

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This message was authored by: V1MCS

Re: Broadband always slower busy times

We have a direct line to the house via a pole connection then it must be the exchange sharing our line with others 

BT was bad in this area but not as bad a sky

at busy times the service drops to the house yet when you do a sky test it says all fine so something is wrong or SKy are not giving correct information.

 

 

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