At a guess its what Orange want based on their attitude, but thinking of leaving them.

Currently pay £5/month, but choices of BT or Sky are £18/£17 month. I cant get the cheap Sky deal, so have to have their 'connect' package instead at higher rate :(

I know BT is the devil, but I can get quidco, whereas Sky I cant as connect package is excluded.

Only really surf and watch some youtube/trailers. Dont really stream often, and no online gaming.

Help me decide folks. Sensible head says sky for better connection, wallet is dragging me to BT with cashback.

I'm on Sky, been pretty good so far, BT are driving my Dad mad (very slow and intermittent), so Sky wins for me every time! I would never go back to BT!

Ask Sky when they plan to unbundle your exchange, I've been on the connect package for the last 4 years and until recently was paying £5pm (Now £7.50) as they planed to unbundle my exchange in July 07. And as I had expressed an interest in BB from them they matched the then £5pm deal for the connect package! We're still waiting to be unbundled

Are you talking mobile internet?

wrt landline internet:

imo best is to check which exchange is nearer then ask people who live around you to see what issues etc they have.

Virgin seems to be really good where I live (20mb, consistant) but 30 miles away at my parents place, Virgin (apparent 20mb but actually more like 10mb bb on good days and 1mb on bad) cuts out every ~2:30pm and ~10:30pm.

Sky around here is ok, slow and occasional cut outs.

BE (Which is 3rd party BT) is very good around my place. It is what I use currently, though not fastest (8mb ADSL) I never get disconnection and downloads are always stable, not to mention gaming.

Thanks all.

Having ventured onto a few sky user forums, seems their connect package is simply BT's ASDL max package rebadged, and not really Sky at all - unlike their LLU. Same with my current Orange package.

So prob best to go straight with BT instead, as more likely to get LLU 1st.

Broadbands back up tonight, so may well hold out a while yet - even though Orange is really crap & heavily throttled.

Avoid sky connect at all costs, its a very poor service with heavy speed throttling in the evening due to it being run on BTs ADSL network. Sky LLU is fantastic and I have Sky unlimited which is truely unlimited with no traffic management.

Put your postcode into Sam knows and it will tell you which ISP's have LLU kit in your phone exchange. For example, here its either BT, Sky or AOL.

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange_search

Unless you have the Virgin fibre network or a special local scheme available to you then you will be using BT copper wire infrastructure at some point to get your services. This is the same privatisation scam as having a choice of water, power and rail services. There is still only one supply for the infrastructure for all of these, the only difference is who you pay.

Yes there are different components in the system at various points and the support you get will vary but the basic wires are the same.

Avoid sky connect at all costs, its a very poor service with heavy speed throttling in the evening due to it being run on BTs ADSL network. Sky LLU is fantastic and I have Sky unlimited which is truely unlimited with no traffic management.

Put your postcode into Sam knows and it will tell you which ISP's have LLU kit in your phone exchange. For example, here its either BT, Sky or AOL.

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange_search

No LLU services in my exchange, yet other smaller ones in area LLU enabled.

Will stay put for now as only paying £5/month