BT Broadband - anyone use it with Sky Go?

[bitchstewie]

I'm a bit of a footie fan and with Sky and ITV losing the Champions League I'm looking at how I can get the games.

I've been chewing over switching to fibre broadband and that makes BT the obvious choice as it would appear that with BT Broadband I can get their sports package at a crazy discount vs. adding it to my Sky package independently.

My only concern is I watch a lot of stuff on Sky Go and I'm not sure if Sky or BT do any weird st to throttle access to Sky Go when using BT Broadband.

Is anyone here using BT Broadband who also uses Sky Go and if so have you had any issues please?

[hajaba123]

I've got both, all good and works fine. The only thing BT seem to throttle is torrent sites at weekends

[Robert Burns]

I run sky go with sky broadband.

Well... I try but most nights. I asked if they throttled sky go but its a high priority for them and most others like iPlayer. But I can go for hours without a good connection and its like watching 8bit at times haha.

Sky say there is no fault but I've checked my equipment and I know its a faulty port at the exchange side. Its degraded since sky bought out BE broadband. So only thing changed was port swap. Huge argument between me and sky with them wanting charge me £250 for the BT engineer. Emmm nope your supposed supply me broadband and my equipment works. I've given then notice as they are unable to supply the contract so I'm in need of a new BB supplier??

[bitchstewie]

I think BT and just about every other provider make their websites as confusing as possible to try to get you to switch to them for everything.

There are some good deals on 38mbps vs. 76mbps - it says a lot about marketing that I'm even thinking whether 76mbps is of any benefit since I can do everything I need right now on an 8mbps copper connection (barring the odd large download being a little slow).

[RammyMP]

hajaba123 said:

I've got both, all good and works fine. The only thing BT seem to throttle is torrent sites at weekends

Me too, works fine

[DocJock]

I run SkyGo over BT.

Works fine, in fact I've never had a problem in 18 months.

[Rosscow]

BT and Sky Go here, all good.

[340600]

bhstewie said:

I'm a bit of a footie fan and with Sky and ITV losing the Champions League I'm looking at how I can get the games.

I've been chewing over switching to fibre broadband and that makes BT the obvious choice as it would appear that with BT Broadband I can get their sports package at a crazy discount vs. adding it to my Sky package independently.

My only concern is I watch a lot of stuff on Sky Go and I'm not sure if Sky or BT do any weird st to throttle access to Sky Go when using BT Broadband.

Is anyone here using BT Broadband who also uses Sky Go and if so have you had any issues please?

You can't watch BT Sport on Sky Go anyway. You'd need to use the BT Sport app or their website.

[bitchstewie]

340600 said:

You can't watch BT Sport on Sky Go anyway. You'd need to use the BT Sport app or their website.

Thanks and that's a good spot

It's not a massive deal but I'd assumed the "Watch on your Sky box" option would automatically mean they'd also be available on Sky Go but I just looked at the channel list and sure enough they don't show up.

I still can't see a better deal than £12.50/month for the first 12 months for 38mbps "unlimited" usage plus £5 for the BT Sport pack.