1,889 Customer Reviews over 48 pages
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- London
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-03-13
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I've been a sky customer for over 10 years, running a smooth TV services and having mixed experiences with broadband.
I decided to fully upgrade my package for TV+BB and at the very end of the sales process I am informed that installation of the Sky Q box (the necessary piece of kit to extend my BB to the whole house) will take 70 days!!!! This is misselling to say the least. The day before agreed installation date they pushed it forward another 2 weeks. On the next installation date, they did not turn up, did not call and re arranged for 8 days later. NO CUSTOMER SERVICE WHATSOEVER, SHAMBOLIC, TOTAL DISREGARD TO ITS CUSTOMERS. SOLD SOMETHING THAT THEY CANNOT DELIVER.
Suggest you go somewhere else to source your TV and broadband services.
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- West Sussex
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-03-12
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Our Sky internet is absolute crap.
It harks back to the days of dial up.
We have to reboot the router at least four or five times a day. It is so slow, we can not watch anything on Youtube. Our max download speed is 0.1mb. The whole deal is rubbish. I shall be going elsewhere when I get the time to switch. Sky? Don't give them the time of day.
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- Reading
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-03-10
- Comments
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The worst experience I had. It took me several days to cancel subscription. Speed was not as promised. Would never recommend this company.
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- Brighton
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-03-09
- Comments
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I've been with Sky Broadband for five years: fibre optic with international calls included.
The service went from poor to abysmal in the last year or so. The broadband speed is as slow as it gets (keep in mind I live just outside the city, modern surroundings and Sky's own 'connectivity test' keeps telling me I have the fastest possible speed!)and, since buying a SmartTV it is downright laughable.
The box has several LAN cable inputs, not one of which actually work; you'd think it would be possible to call or email or chat to Sky about this. Think again: it isn't. Like many absolutely useless online companies nowadays, Sky have gone out of their way to make sure nobody can ever contact them about anything whatsoever.
In addition, this is the most expensive junk I've ever paid for in my life, considering the poor service, rubbish quality, slow internet speed and bad telephone connection (though that might be down to the equally useless BT). Avoid Sky if you can, unfortunately all other providers in the UK are equally rubbish.
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- Location
- Swadlincote, Derbys
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-03-09
- Comments
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I'm coming to the end of my 18 month contract with Sky so feel I'm in a good position to write a review. It's my first house so I don't have a previous ISP to compare to at the property.
In terms of setup, there was a slight delay to the activation date, which I was well informed about. Luckily I went away on holiday for a week a few days after moving in, so the service was activated by the time I returned. The router was delivered through the letterbox and only took 5 minutes to setup.
The router has decent coverage but unfortunately can't reach the back of the house on the first floor. It's an old house with thick, solid walls so this is understandable. I setup an old BT homehub as an access point upstairs which means I now get coverage throughout the whole house. The router works well out the box, there are a few things you can change and monitor via the My Sky smartphone app and there are some more advanced security features you can setup by navigating to the routers local IP address in a web browser.
I'm on the 36MB/s package and I've been getting that without issue. In terms of reliability, other people on Sky in my area have reported issues but I haven't experienced any. I've had a reliable connection whenever I've need it and there hasn't been significant throttling back at peak times.
Now that my contracts coming to an end, the price is set to increase by £15 per month from £27 to £42. I looked around for some better deals off other providers, along with what Sky could offer a new customer on my package (£25 p/m). I also checked online what upgrade deals they could give me and the only available upgrade was guaranteed 100MB/s for £27 per month (same as what I'm currently paying); faster speeds is nice but 36MB/s is enough for me most of the time, I'd rather save a few pounds. Armed with this information, I phone up Sky to see what they could offer over the phone (you know, these companies always say they can give you the best deals if you ring them up). I explained that I'm happy with the speed but want a cheaper price, the best they could come up with is the same speed for £27 per month - exactly what I'm paying now, which would also get me guaranteed 100MB/s if I upgraded online.
Overall, I've been happy with Sky in terms of speed and reliability but they've been unwilling to give me a competitive renewal price. I'm now moving to EE who offer 36MB/s for £23, plus £100 topcashback on top as well as 5GB extra mobile data.
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- UK
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-03-08
- Comments
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The internet is terrible doesn't work well at all on my pc. Not very pleased with it and it is quite annoying when I'm trying to do something but it won't let me as the internet is not working on my pc
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- Location
- Lossiemouth
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-03-08
- Comments
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Absolutely shocked with the connection speed with sky, have nothing but problems with them, wish you could give them 0 stars!
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- Location
- nyc
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-03-07
- Comments
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-sky has good days and bad days, last night I had to do my homework and it goes off. I'm disappointed by the sky I am. three rooms away from where the sky is placed in my living room, so it is not my thick walls. if you are willing to not have wifi every month for a good week then don't buy sky
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- Aberdeen
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-03-06
- Comments
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The customer service is always busy, so if you have any issue at all, you can just hope they gonna get back to you. In my case, they didn´t... SKY is increasing the charges every year even though there is no improvement in their services. There are other broadband providers available that provide much more professional customer service with lower bills after all. I would recommend staying out of SKY and their overpriced services... I have been loyal to SKY for 4 years and there has been no appreciation at all, they treat you only as a paying customer...
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- West London
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-03-06
- Comments
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Connection speed can actually be pretty good when the wifi is working. Unfortunately the Sky Q routers are very unreliable when it comes to wifi and the connection regularly drops or slows down to a crawl.
I have had two replacement routers so far and both display the same problem (the first one failed completely - the one I have now seems to be heading in the same direction)
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- Aberdeen
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-03-05
- Comments
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Literally only have good thigns to say about sky. I've tried other companies, sky is by far the best in every regard for where I am.
Is your router acting up? No worries, your browser will automatically do a router reset, you just sit and wait.
Still a problem? No worries, without even phoning someone you can run a problem test on the website. What's that? You see there's a fault? An engineer already booked? 10 minutes this took without even a phone call? Yes, this is what happened.
I did this at 10pm, next tday by 1pm the fault had been found and fixed. My speed went from Steam download speed 1.8mb to 4.8mb.
Before you say anything, I'll have you know any other provider I've tried at best was hitting 2mbps actual download speed. Sky started at about 3-4 then when it dropps I did the thing on their website.
Anytime I've had to speak to people at Sky, it's been super polite and actually made progress, this is the handful of times it's veen required in the 4+ years I;ve been with them (on and off as I tried other companies who subsequently failed miserably to outshine sky).
I seriosuly have only good things to say about them which in the modern era of internet providers is a rare thing indeed.
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- Pottersbar
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-03-01
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Terrible they wont retern calls like they said they would and they wont even come out to fix my sky modem or landline and i pay £60 a month
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- Lincolnshire
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-02-27
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- LU2 7JQ
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-02-24
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- London park royal
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-02-22
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Their technical broadband team is a bunch of scums. Their service is con. Their prices rip the pocket of even the rich clients. Their advertised speed is a scam and only, tv and broadband can enjoy the service. AVOID SKY CON SERVICE AT ANY COST.
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- Lanarkshire
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-02-22
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Sky broadband is dire absolute rubbish so I am sourcing another supplier SKY has had the audacity to increase their prices I wouldn’t actually mind if they provided a decent service
DO NOT USE SKY they are best avoided
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- London
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-02-21
- Comments
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Took three weeks to get connectivity from the initial expected go-live date and involved over 240 minutes of my time on the phone to their customer service desk. I had to take two full days off work to be home for techs to visit (both of which were pointless visits as the fault was not within the property - tried multiple times to communicate this to Sky as when we moved in the previous tenants had connectivity fine -but they wouldn’t listen), the fault was at the exchange as suspected. Took three weeks to resolve something that probably could have been resolved very quickly if investigated properly. Kept getting text messages saying the problem was fixed when it wasn’t - all in all a really frustrating experience. No compensation provided except for a £20 discount which doesn’t even cover a month’s bill or lost earnings. Now it’s set up, it’s passable but slow. Will move when I have the energy to deal with this all over again with another provider!
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- Dorset
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-02-20
- Comments
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Been with Sky for a few years, the speeds were awful and it's really expensive. Their owned supplied routers are terrible and they limit using 3rd party routers. WE have recently switched to post office broadband and noticed a big difference in speeds, at it's about half the price.
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- Holyhead Wales
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-02-17
- Comments
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Have been with sky a number of years with no problem.but their broadband now is awful slow and constantly dropping not sure what they have done to it.
Have tried to contact them on twitter,live chat,phone 7 times the numbers I get from the website ring twice then cut off all I want to know is when does my contract end for broadband and sky talk
Its unbelievable the way you cannot contact I have contacted Resolver now for advice
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- London
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-02-15
- Comments
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I have been with Sky many years and recently switched to Sky Q. The new routers they supply are absolute garbage, unreliable, constantly dropping connections and variable speed.
I have had two now and both failed within weeks - in the end I switched back to the old router I have had for over 4 years now. If you are a new customer and don't have that option it must be a nightmare. They really need to sort the router quality out.
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- Livingston
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-02-14
- Comments
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Everytime there is a little bit of wind or rain the entire broadband gose down its so disappointing when I have to use my 4g more then the WiFi, I would not recommend getting this broadband because it is terrible and unreliable
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- Edenderry
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-02-11
- Comments
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Terrible inconsistent speed. Also when I switched to Vodafone and I let sky know in advance they still took my money for the next month and refused to refund it
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- cheshire
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-02-11
- Comments
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they offered me a refund of £24 for total denyal of service 5nov2018 until 20dec when their own customer service representative had stated £8 per day compensation.they then increased their charges to negate the compensation and attempted to charge me more than 100% of what I had signed up for. AVOID SKY AT YOUR PERIL, they lie and rob you.
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- london
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-02-06
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- Brighton
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-02-05
- Comments
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Barely getting 1MB speed with Sky and BT line. Appalling. We are changing.
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- Halesowen
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-02-05
- Comments
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Useless. We have had sky for 2 years now and for 2 years we have had to reset the box and mess with the filter etc nearly every other day. Complained and all you get is it’s prob the box or your phone line, I know it’s not the line as we have had the same prob in our last house and I’m pretty sure we are on our 2nd box. As for the speed, we are lucky if 2 people can browse at the same time without slowing it down.
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- Suffolk
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-02-03
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Awful in every way. Been overcharged for things that I didnt even buy. Broadband rarely works. TV wont connect to wifi ...therefore no youtube, Netflix or catch up etc. Biggest pile of ****!! Been with sky 2 months and had enough of it all already. If I could give minus ratings I would have
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- Shropshire
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-02-03
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Worst broad band I have ever had. I currently use Virgin and have used EE plusnet and can honestly say Sky is the worst. It comes to something when you cant even stream a standard low def video on YouTube without it having to buffer everything couple of minutes. I used sky a few years ago and it was absolutely horrendous. My parents have had sky installed recently (even after telling them how bad they are!) and after spending the weekend visiting them my opinion is still the same. Avoid at all costs
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- Shrewsbury
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-01-31
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Do not get sky as your isp they are completely useless and a waste of time and money. One day the internet will be decent and then the next day it is terrible, it’s like every week at least half the days I can’t use my xbox at all to play games as it’s unbearable to play with such a high ping. I just thought it was because I’m quite a long distance away from the router so I buy a WiFi booster, that has done a decent job but then there is still days where I can’t use it as it’s that bad. The download speed is the worst part, a 10 GB game would take about 8 hours to complete and it took me 2 full days to install a 80 GB game and it was only done in 2 days because I had to use my mobile data to speed it up. I did one of those speed tests and it came out terrible, it’s miles below the uk average and its down in the bottom 1%. If you are looking to use sky for your internet don’t waste your time they’re rubbish look elsewhere.
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- Darlington
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-01-25
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- Amlwch
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-01-25
- Comments
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Absolutely awful and a total waste of money, I'd think twice about using sky broadband services.
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- Glasgow
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-01-23
- Comments
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I was with Sky for two years and had persistent problems with my connection. The connection was always slow and cut out completely regularly (10’s of times per day) before I switched provider. Sky customer service advisors were always pleasant and would eventually send an engineer out after following their troubleshooting instructions, however, the visit would not fix the issue and Sky seemed unable to offer any other solutions except sending an engineer out again. At the end of my contract, the payment nearly doubled without them notifying me and this was the final straw for me switching. I know people who have had a decent experience with Sky bro’s and, however, I certainly wouldn’t recommend their service to anyone.
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- Radcliffe
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-01-22
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too many times my new fibre connection has let me down. Living in a house with 3 gamers might not help but for the superfast fibre broadband to only give me just over 3mb of download speeds is pretty poor in my opinion. think its time to switch Virgin!
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- Bridgend
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-01-21
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Internet keeps dropping, if I've watched a few programs on my smart TV the next day my internet goes off...if I use my Sonos speaker for a few hours ..my internet goes off. Like Sky are metering your use? Then the usual switch off and on, unplug wire....it's a fault outside your home- engineer came next day it was broken again. You can't get any tech support before 9am! Just rubbish, I regret getting sky broadband.
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- Northern Ireland
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-01-15
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AVOID SKY... I received a call a couple of months back offering me deal to switch to Sky from BT. I was promised that even though I was in a contract with BT all would be taken care of and I wouldn’t need to pay any money.
It turns out BT weren’t contacted and a new phone line was put in so I am now paying for 2 separate TV/broadband packages. The cost to get out of my BT package is £340...
MYSTERIOUSLY, the recorded phone call can’t be accessed which would prove that Sky messed up, and I am now out of a lot of money whatever happens. Even if I cancel my Sky package, BT will be charging me to sort out the phone line again. On top of that I will need to pay for a new BT router as my old one was disposed of.
Also the Sky broadband connection is very poor. It consistently loses connection and frequently have to use 3G connection on my mobile devices.
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- Warrington
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-01-14
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terrible service, problem after problem after problem. Each time i'm told its a fault outside your home then hear nothing, internet flakes off all the time max speeds of around 6download 0.5 uploads but its mostly 1-2 if any at all, its infuriating and has been going on for years, tell me I can leave but have to pay termination charges. Avoid them at all costs
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- Dorchester Dorset
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-01-13
- Comments
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Ok I am not a customer with Sky but I just used their website to see what service I could get into a property. I was asked to phone a tel nos and have just spent half an hour listening going through what is clearly mostly about marketing eith future or now and when we finally get to the agent answering the question: there is no Sky BB service available. I assume Sky knows this but just wants to sell me something. Any Sky reps monitoring this - I know Sky TV is available at the property but on the basis of this interaction alone I will not be signing up.
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- barnet
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-01-10
- Comments
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rubbish service, engineers are joke! take your money somewhere else.
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- Edinburgh
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-01-07
- Comments
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Worst internet service I have ever used! I had dial-up in the 90's that was faster. I left virgin as I was told I would get up to 200Meg connection speed at a lower cost. Not only was the cost a lie but the fastest speed I have had to date is 6Meg. It constantly disconnects and customer service are about as useful as a chocolate teapot. Avoid them at all cost!!!
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- Devon
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-01-05
- Comments
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Every aspect of my sky broadband is sub standard. We live in a small mid terrace but struggle to get any signal upstairs. The speeds are so slow we cannot even stream a programme on tv, constantly interrupted by buffering. When opening web pages on both the pc and smartphone, we have to wait noticeably for them to load up, some more complex pages don’t load at all.
Spoke to customer services for around 45 minutes, told you get what you pay for and there is no solution to my problem.
Please don’t use sky broadband it isn’t fit for purpose.
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