Topic: sky broadband

[Shaymin]

a general question to the room - to those of yall who have sky broadband as your ISP, have you been experiencing garbage an insane amount of bottlenecking in the past month or so??? we're paying for fibre optic and getting speeds of less than 1MB (fibreoptic is supposed to be like, 20MBs)

[not chloe]

We're not on Sky (We're with TalkTalk but this makes no difference) and also have BT Fibre Optic

We still get the worst of slow speeds despite the fibre optic because we're so far away from the fibre optic hub (like a box in your neighbourhood with a fibre optic sticker on it that powers everyone in your area's wifi). Anyway we've been told that the position of our house in relation to the hub is the issue for it. That could be your prob so I guess you should just move house ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Milsap]

I'm with Utility Warehouse and been getting some slow download speeds lately.

[Shaymin]

We're not on Sky (We're with TalkTalk but this makes no difference) and also have BT Fibre Optic

We still get the worst of slow speeds despite the fibre optic because we're so far away from the fibre optic hub (like a box in your neighbourhood with a fibre optic sticker on it that powers everyone in your area's wifi). Anyway we've been told that the position of our house in relation to the hub is the issue for it. That could be your prob so I guess you should just move house ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

thing is where i live they're making extra efforts to bring Real Good Fibre Optic (cause of Airbus), but I've been snooping and it seems lots of sky customers are suffering with crappy bottlenecks. i would complain to sky themselves but my name isn't on the bill so they're unlikely to listen orz

[lets all go out for some frosty chocolate milkshakes]

when you say Real Good Fibre Optic do you mean "Fibre Optic where its actually Fibre Optic right to the modem" or "hell fibre optic we all actually got in broadband hellhole uk where its fibre optic up to the local neighbourhood internet exchange thingy but still the same crappy old copper wire up to your house i.e. you plug it into the phoneline"

if you plug it into the phoneline then its going through copper wire at some point and isn't ACTUALLY true fibre optic. the phoneline copper is garbage for fast internet speeds as any internet networking nerd will tell you and the further you live from something called a "DSLAM" (edit: idk if theyd use a DSLAM for fibre optic????????? maybe im wrong. the shame of beth not knowing. aaghhhguguuuguguuugugughghhhh) the more crappy copper wire it'll have to travel through and the slower it'll get. its basically Treacle for internet

even if you get BT out to have a look at the bit between the local internet station and your house & they find no faults/neglible faults they charge YOU for the callout so you have to be 100% sure there is a Provable Fault on the line. they stack the cards against you so you just give up and begrudgingly pay them loads of money for slow internet. capitalism!!!!!!!!!!!!



that said i am not sure how it goes in the days of pseudo-fibre optic but back in the adsl days they had a bunch of things they could try so hella yell outside ur parents door or by a marching band bass drum and bang on it non stop until they give in and do something about it