Decent broadband not available?

[lucyemmaa]

On broadband checkers decent broadband is coming up as available for many different companies where im moving to, including Sky, however when I go on the sky website and check it can only offer up to 60mbs? At my current place we're on 315mb/s and could have more. I will be in the same town which is not rural. Not sure why the wesbite is not showing these options?

[TimmyBGood]

@lucyemmaa 

The Wholesale Availability Checker is the definitive source of information about the Openreach network which carries Sky data.  It's certainly possible that there is also altnet connectivity available (which Sky won't use) or that Sky has not updated its sales systems to take account of a recent Openreach FTTP  deployment.

[lucyemmaa]

Thanks for getting back to me.

This is what I found.

Does anyone know what this means?

[jamesn123]

@lucyemmaa 

There is no full fibre available to that address so you are stuck with standard FTTC (Fibre to the cabinet) which is up to 80mbps, although the checker states that the peak for that particular line will be 75mbps. This means any ISP that usually uses Openreach lines (Sky, BT, Talk Talk etc) can only offer you up to 80mbps over FTTC for that property.

[TimmyBGood]

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@lucyemmaa wrote:

At my current place we're on 315mb/s and could have more. I will be in the same town which is not rural. Not sure why the wesbite is not showing these options?

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315Mbs is a very unusual speed band: which ISP is that with?

As @jamesn123 indicates, ISPs using the Openreach data network can only offer the broadband products which the local Openreach infrastructure supports.  This can certainly vary even within the same town: ours has 'Gigabit' (900Mbs) FTTP at one end and 'up to' 80Mbs FTTC at the other.

[lucyemmaa]

Ahh this is really upsetting, as this might affect us going forward with the new place. We both game and so need decent WiFi, and I don't know if the 70mbps will be enough for us. Really frustrating that it should up in multiple places as being able to have speeds way above this 

[JPR007]

@lucyemmaa If you are serious about gaming you should not be using Wi-Fi if at all possible.

Speed does not really matter with gaming either, online multiplayer games barely require anything more than about 1M/b connection to run perfectly ok with no issues. What's important is keeping latency as low as possible as that's what causes the all too common lag/jumping about/stuttering. 

The downloading of the game initially which if it's into the 100's of GB as a few are now it can be a bit painful though on a slower connection.

[TimmyBGood]

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@lucyemmaa wrote:

 Really frustrating that it should up in multiple places as being able to have speeds way above this 

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Worth noting that the Wholesale Availability Checker only reveals Openreach network presence: it can't tell you anything about local Virgin coaxial cable or any private FTTP ('altnet') provider able to serve the address.