- The entry level Ultrafast option with Sky
- Good price for Ultrafast.
- £40 a month for 18 months.
- Set-up fee is £19.95.
- It usually takes 2 weeks to set up.
- Great for anyone.
- Sky claims it can download a 2 hour movie in 1 minute and 21 seconds.
Sky Broadband Ultrafast is first and cheapest Fibre To The Premise option with Sky. Ultrafast will need to have fibre installed from the poles outside your house right to your building. This removes any copper wiring which can slow down your connection. FTTP with Sky are some of the fastest speeds available to the consumer market. The Ultrafast connection is the most suitable level for most people, once you start moving to the high speeds, you need to make sure your devices can support it. Like always, if you are planning to pick up the Sky TV or other home entertainment packages, we will recommend that you go for Sky broadband.
Sky Ultrafast is so fast that you can do just about anything you want with it. It’s great for gaming, working from home, using multiple devices and doing other heavy use activity at the same time. Big families with lots of technology will be able to use this. Large households with many adult house mates all using the internet all day will be fine with this connection. It is the first level of Ultrafast so if you are in doubt about how much you use, please take a look at the Ultrafast Plus or Gigafast options with Sky.
Ultrafast includes the Wall to Wall Wifi Guarantee, your connection will be reliable and accessible across your entire house. If not, you can get your money back, terms and conditions apply. The Sky Broadband Hub which is included with Ultrafast. Sky Pay As You Talk is part of the service.
Sky Broadband Ultrafast costs £40 a month. You can find regular deals on the price but £40 a month is a great price for Ultrafast and it is competitive with the other major providers. The setup fee is a one-off £19.95. The minimum contract length is 18 months. You can find many existing customer deals available with Sky, please take a look here.
The Ultrafast speeds range from 139Mb to 151Mb download speeds with the minimum speed guarantee being 100Mbs. This can download a HD movie in 1 minute and 21 seconds. The upload speed ranges from 23Mb to 27Mb. These speeds will let you do anything you want to but please remember that it depends on many factors and not just how much speed is being delivered to your building. We have created a run down on Ultrafast and if it is worth buying, check it out here.
Pros:
- The entry level Ultrafast option with Sky
- Ultrafast speeds for a great price
- The minimum speed guarantee is enough to do anything you need to online
Cons:
- Your devices might not be able to handle the speed
- Your building may not be able to deliver it
- You may not need speeds that fast
You will get the Sky Broadband Hub. It’s a fast, cutting edge piece of technology and it will let you access Ultrafast if you decide to upgrade later, for more information on this, please take a look at our Broadband review.
Sky broadband is available to the whole country, but certain services such as the Ultrafast and Gigafast services are only available to certain households across the UK, because they need to have Fibre to the Premise. In order to check if you can receive Sky Ultrafast in your area, please click here.
If you want to switch to Sky, you need to go to the Sky website, buy the package you want to have. During this process, Sky will let you know how you should best inform your current provider. They will tell your current provider and recommend that you contact them. When you update your current provider that you are changing your broadband service to Sky, you will be given a date to change your service. You need to make sure that these dates cross-over so you do not go without broadband.
Sky is a premium broadband service and home entertainment provider. They offer some of the best home entertainment in the UK and their broadband is an important part of this service. If you are planning to get Sky TV, you should consider opting for Sky broadband so your home setup is compatible.
If we do not answer your question here, we have more details about Sky Broadband available on our full review, please click here to see the full post.
Sky Ultrafast has 151Mb download speeds, 27Mb Upload speeds, 100Mb minimum speed guarantee and it will download a 2 hour HD movie in 1 minute and 21 seconds.
Yes, Sky Ultrafast is an amazing service but you might need to upgrade your equipment.
Yes, Sky Ultrafast is a fibre connection. Sky uses the Openreach network.
Yes, Sky Ultrafast is Fibre Optic, Full Fibre is another way of saying Fibre Optic.
Yes, Sky Ultrafast is unlimited. You service will not be limited but your speed will be 151Mb.
If you have the older Sky Hub or Sky Q Hub, you can upgrade to the Sky Broadband Hub. The new hub is better than the older technology so you should try to get the new router if you can.
Yes, Sky Superfast does include line rental as standard.
The minimum speed guarantee with Sky Ultrafast is 100Mb.
