Unlimited FTTC broadband products?

muckbrien

Hi

Are VM and Sky the only companies offering truly unlimited FTTC?

And are they the exact same in terms of speed and congestion or will there be issues with sky as reported online?

Currently with Eir but getting Netflix 4k

ED E

VM aren't FTTC resellers, they use their own DOCSIS network.

Gonzo

you wont get far watching alot of Netflix 4k on a 1tb cap, presuming it's been steamed several hours per day.

Sky offer truly unlimited FTTC and I think they are the only truly unlimited service provider for all of Ireland along with Virgin who are a cable provider.

ED E

Gonzo wrote: »

you wont get far watching alot of Netflix 4k on a 1tb cap, presuming it's been steamed several hours per day.

Can you even do that though? My understanding was if you take the ven diagram of content available in Ireland and 4K it'd be pretty small.

muckbrien

Gonzo wrote: »

you wont get far watching alot of Netflix 4k on a 1tb cap, presuming it's been steamed several hours per day.

Sky offer truly unlimited FTTC and I think they are the only truly unlimited service provider for all of Ireland along with Virgin who are a cable provider.

Is there widespread problems with sky fttc as reported here
No point switching if theres some problem with the backhaul and 4k starts buffering then

Falconire

muckbrien wrote: »

Is there widespread problems with sky fttc as reported here
No point switching if theres some problem with the backhaul and 4k starts buffering then

I don't think Sky are offering FTTC yet they just did a Press conference with Siro

muckbrien

Falconire wrote: »

I don't think Sky are offering FTTC yet they just did a Press conference with Siro

So sky fibre is an inferior product to eir and vf fttc?

Falconire

muckbrien wrote: »

So sky fibre is an inferior product to eir and vf fttc?

When you stay sky fiber do you be mean dsl fiber like efiber or do you mean FTTH

Marlow

Falconire wrote: »

I don't think Sky are offering FTTC yet they just did a Press conference with Siro

muckbrien wrote: »

So sky fibre is an inferior product to eir and vf fttc?

No. Sky do FTTC (which is VDSL). They don't do FTTH (nor does Vodafone, on OpenEIRs platform).

Eir (and Vodafone) have that hidden limit of 1TB in their terms and conditions. Sky is unlimited.

The only other difference between the providers then is, how good their upstream is. Vodafone got fairly contended with the high internet usage during the snow days. Dunno how Sky users got on.

4k Streaming takes 25 Mbit/s per stream and uses 7GB per hour streaming. So, hitting those limits can quickly crop up.

/M

muckbrien

Marlow wrote: »

No. Sky do FTTC (which is VDSL). They don't do FTTH (nor does Vodafone, on OpenEIRs platform).

Eir (and Vodafone) have that hidden limit of 1TB in their terms and conditions. Sky is unlimited.

The only other difference between the providers then is, how good their upstream is. Vodafone got fairly contended with the high internet usage during the snow days. Dunno how Sky users got on.

4k Streaming takes 25 Mbit/s per stream and uses 7GB per hour streaming. So, hitting those limits can quickly crop up.

/M

Thanks I'm talking about efiber ( vdsl fttc)not ftth

Why is there so many complaints here about slow speeds at certain times on sky fttc

Is the backhaul more congested

Marlow

muckbrien wrote: »

Thanks I'm talking about efiber ( vdsl fttc)not ftth

Why is there so many complaints here about slow speeds at certain times on sky fttc

Is the backhaul more congested

Could very well be.

With a lot of customers, it's easy to oversubscribe the network.

Being unlimited, Sky has to do this, to make up for the cost on the other end. That's why other providers set limits and then charge accordingly, if you exceed ..... or do worse.

/M

ED E

muckbrien wrote: »

Is the backhaul more congested

Eir - Own connectivity as far as London
Vodafone - Own pan european network, 100's M subs
Sky - Renting the cheapest transit they can from BT

Gonzo

ED E wrote: »

Can you even do that though? My understanding was if you take the ven diagram of content available in Ireland and 4K it'd be pretty small.

I've no idea how much 4k content is available through Netflix or Sky services but I imagine there is enough of it available to heavily eat through the 1tb cap if a household was watching enough of it.

With a 1tb cap in place I ain't making any plans to upgrade my Sky Hd box to Sky Q and 4k when that cap is used for everything else such as work, videos and gaming downloads.

I am still giving consideration to switching to either Digiweb or Airwire when my contract with Eir is up next month. Apart from the cap, I am very happy with the FTTH service from Eir, never seen any contention and silky smooth all the way.

muckbrien

ED E wrote: »

Eir - Own connectivity as far as London
Vodafone - Own pan european network, 100's M subs
Sky - Renting the cheapest transit they can from BT

No point switching to sky so

Better to work within the 1TB limit on eir and vf

Some_Person

Magnet Business Fibre (VDSL) is unlimited.

raytaxi

During the snow my house went thru 260Gb couldn't believe it though was 4 using broadband ps4 and netflix. I went into netflix to reduce file size