Sky Internet

[Iamchamps]

I switched off WiFi on my phone as it was so slow

The second picture is still 4G EE Speedtest not your SKY WiFi. The phone is not connected to WiFi

 

[JohnD]

On my wifi tablet, I'm currently getting 51Mbps. Router is other side of house, 1 floor down.

The hardwired PC gets over 100

On Virgin here, fibre to end of road, then co-ax

The smart TV runs progs and films no probs, on wireless.

Cable TV is part of the package but I don't use it.

Virgin are notorious for winching the price up, though.


Edit
I see they offer 200 and 350 for a slightly higher subscription.

 

[ironsidebod]

The second picture is still 4G EE Speedtest not your SKY WiFi. The phone is not connected to WiFi

This rather assumes that when he does connect to wi-fi that it isn't itself a problem. Wi-fi != internet connection. If you want to properly test the speed there needs to be a physical connection to the router/modem.

If he lives in a densely populated area with lots and lots of wi-fi routers all competing for the same channel space then it won't matter if he has Gigabit internet if his router is channel hopping all of the time.

 

[Ihavenojob]

tried doing a screen shot, failed, upload on PC 21mps, download 207mps, may try phone.

 

[Bodd]

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[dontbelieveawordofit]

A while back I was going to switch from sky to Virgin.

Sky made me an offer and I accepted. Since then I'm sure my Internet has got slower.
I called then the other day to see what an upgrade would cost.. I said I'll think about it. As sure as I'm sitting in my garden with my pants on. It's since got even slower. Do sky do this or is it my imagination.

just do speed test

 

[Bodd]

My laptop

 

[dontbelieveawordofit]

That Speedtest is your mobile EE not SKY, looking at your phone screen your not even connected to any wifi.

Maybe this is the reason it seems slow you are not actually using and instead using 4G?

 

[dontbelieveawordofit]

On my wifi tablet, I'm currently getting 51Mbps. Router is other side of house, 1 floor down.

The hardwired PC gets over 100

On Virgin here, fibre to end of road, then co-ax

The smart TV runs progs and films no probs, on wireless.

Cable TV is part of the package but I don't use it.

Virgin are notorious for winching the price up, though.


Edit
I see they offer 200 and 350 for a slightly higher subscription.

i get ave 350 with virgin . fttp.
£38 first year

 

[Mottie]

That’s slow! Silly question but have you tried switching off your router, disconnecting the power to it for 5 mins and then switching back on? That’s what I do to mine when it runs that slow. Either that or you have a fault on your line.

I’m on Vodafone. Just over £17 a month and that’s good enough for me.

 

[JP_]

Seems pretty good to me! I am on Vodafone (£22 a month, internet and phone line rental) and get about 35Mps at best. But, 2 kids on xboxes, wife on whatsapp video, or something, and me on the PC working, and no problems.

Maybe number of connections is an issue?

But, when you got the worse connection, slower speeds, where were you? In the garden? Wifi would not be as good in the garden as sitting next to the wifi access point / router.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Tried this one ?............https://www.speedtest.net/

Trouble with those speed tests is they never give you figures for comparison. I can do a speed test, but it's double Dutch to me. Wouldn't know if the results were good, bad or indifferent.

 

[Munroast]

you have a better connction than i have

 

[JohnD]

I just ran speedtest on my phone, on wifi, and got 112Mbps download, 14 Mbps upload.

Did it on Vodafone 4G and got 27Mbps

 

[Bodd]

But, when you got the worse connection, slower speeds, where were you? In the garden?

I was in my bedroom on my PC.
The 2nd one I did on my phone connected to my home Internet it was in the garden