Sky Broadband Reviews
Sometimes the best way to get a feel for a broadband provider is to read what those who are already customers think of the service they're receiving. Below are all the reviews we've received for Sky.
Overall Customer Ratings for Sky
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Based on 178788 customer ratings since 2009-04-02 (Show recent ratings)
Ratings are left by users of our speed test as well as by reviewers. Recent star ratings summarise the last 12 months of ratings or the last 100 ratings placed, whichever is largest.
1736 Customer Reviews for Sky
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Appalling. Slow with frequent outages. |
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| Chris | London | Sky | 2020-03-31 | |
just came to the end of my sky contract so feel I can write an honest review of sky fibre broadband. When we first got it it was perfect but as the months went on it got slower and slower and more unreliable. I am paying for 100mbps download but currently getting 30-40 when stood by my router and 10-16 from about 8 feet away. My ping is anywhere from 35-50. I would not recommend sky for Internet and will most definitely not be using them again. |
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| Ben | plymouth | Sky | 2020-03-28 | |
genuinely i don’t think your wifi could get any worse, the amount of times i will be sitting watching tv or on my phone and all of a sudden nothing loads cause of the wifi is unimaginable, literally the ******* thing ever! then you try and fix it and again doesn’t work, tv great fine good but the wifi is awful, worse than awful, so unreliable and inconsistent! recommend u get it sorted |
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| anonymous | northern ireland | Sky | 2020-03-25 | |
Disgustingly horrific. Worst 5 years of my internet life. Honestly, if there are any alternatives in your area, use them. Buy a pigeon and it’ll be faster than this rubbish. We have averaged 0.3Mbs over the last week, and not for the first time. Slow, unreliable, and expensive. Don’t do it |
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| Cheddar | Hampshire | Sky | 2020-03-24 | |
don't bother with this its absolute garbage. switched from EE WISH I HAD NOT BOTHERED. Its so slow its painful. also says it will reach every room. I only have a ground floor property it will not even reach to the far end of the building. |
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| MARK V | Sky | 2020-03-24 | ||
Generally too inconsistent to be considered acceptable. Even at off - peak times it is extraordinary how it can just completely go for about five minutes and come back. Particularly irritating if I'm trying to play a game that requires a constant connection. I won't be tolerating it much longer and I'd encourage others not to bother in the first place |
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| Harvey | Gloucester | Sky | 2020-03-23 | |
Having been a long time BT Broadband customer, I made the fateful decision in January to switch to Sky, largely so I could have my TV and broadband on the same bill. The issues began when Sky inexplicably started sending my broadband to my next door neighbour. This meant a month's wait to actually start receiving broadband services given the 2 weeks it takes to took for my neighbour to take back their line, and then the further 2 weeks for Sky to finally take over my BT service. Fast forward to mid March, and I finally start receiving broadband services from Sky, which is exactly 1/3 of the speed of my previous BT service, which is also incredibly unstable. I was told upon complaining, that there is an external issue with the openreach hub out in the street (what an amazing coincidence that this issue began at the exact moment my service switched over to Sky!). Needless to say, my patience with Sky is at an end, and I have run home to BT with my tail between my legs like a sad ex-boyfriend begging for their former partner back. |
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| Ben | Manchester | Sky | 2020-03-17 | |
I've been a sky customer for over 10 years, running a smooth TV services and having mixed experiences with broadband. |
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| Eric | London | Sky | 2020-03-13 | |
Our Sky internet is absolute crap. |
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| Irene Cripps | West Sussex | Sky | 2020-03-12 | |
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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| Yulia | Reading | Sky | 2020-03-10 | |
I've been with Sky Broadband for five years: fibre optic with international calls included. |
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| Michael | Brighton | Sky | 2020-03-09 | |
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. |
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| Ian | Swadlincote, Derbys | Sky | 2020-03-09 | |
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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| Abbie | UK | Sky | 2020-03-08 | |
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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| Shaun sutherland | Lossiemouth | Sky | 2020-03-08 | |
-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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| gemma | nyc | Sky | 2020-03-07 | |
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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| Samuel | Aberdeen | Sky | 2020-03-06 | |
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. |
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| Mr B | West London | Sky | 2020-03-06 | |
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. |
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| Liam | Aberdeen | Sky | 2020-03-05 | |
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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| Annonamouse | Pottersbar | Sky | 2020-03-01 | |
Atrocious customer service and the most inefficient useless service provider I have encountered in decades. I moved to a temporary home and Sky messed up the home move leaving me without Internet for over a month. No engineer arrived on the day of connection after taking holiday to be at home. I spent hours and hours on the phone to Sky listening to their 'hold' music and heard dozens of excuses and lies from endless Sky staff. A month later I moved to permanent address, on the day of connection, no engineer... YET AGAIN. This time Sky appointed a member of complaints staff, who stayed in contact and pushed through a connection date for 10 days later. I was awarded compensation for the first messed up home move, which doesn't begin to cover the cost of the extremely frustrating loss of internet, endless hours on the phone and me sitting in waiting for engineers. It has now come to my attention that no compensation has been awarded for the second messed up home move and that I have been put on a tariff £5 per month more expensive than I agreed. So another one hour on the phone to someone at Sky complaints who isn't going to take responsibility and get to the bottom of the issue but expects me to call Sky again and speak to another member of staff. I have refused to call them again and suggested someone contact me, but that hasn't happened reflecting very well the contempt they have for their customers. I am furious and have lost all patience with the shambolic incompetence of Sky and would advise anyone consider Broadband with them to find an alternative provider. |
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| Tina Whatley | Lincolnshire | Sky | 2020-02-27 | |
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| Donna | LU2 7JQ | Sky | 2020-02-24 | |
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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| Michael Grossblat | London park royal | Sky | 2020-02-22 | |
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 |
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| Pauline Jenkins | Lanarkshire | Sky | 2020-02-22 | |
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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| NJG | London | Sky | 2020-02-21 | |
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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| D BRown | Dorset | Sky | 2020-02-20 | |
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. |
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| Alan Jones | Holyhead Wales | Sky | 2020-02-17 | |
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. |
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| Andy B | London | Sky | 2020-02-15 | |
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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| Brain | Livingston | Sky | 2020-02-14 | |
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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| Bartosz Gasiorowski | Edenderry | Sky | 2020-02-11 | |
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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| mr hulme | cheshire | Sky | 2020-02-11 | |
SKY Broadband is the typical offering here in the UK - utter garbage and about the same speed as the internet was when I was on blueyonder 20 years ago - only just 10mbs. Broadband suppliers like sky deliver the absolute minimum possible in terms of speed and reliability; it is so bad in this country it is a scandal, and both the companies and the legislators should be ashamed of themselves. |
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| felix dodd | london | Sky | 2020-02-06 | |
Barely getting 1MB speed with Sky and BT line. Appalling. We are changing. |
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| David | Brighton | Sky | 2020-02-05 | |
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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| Darren | Halesowen | Sky | 2020-02-05 | |
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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| Crystal | Suffolk | Sky | 2020-02-03 | |
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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| C Cherrington | Shropshire | Sky | 2020-02-03 | |
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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| Joel Evans | Shrewsbury | Sky | 2020-01-31 | |
From day one the speed and reliability has been shocking even though we were told differently when they drew us in with sweet talk! Even though we complained from the start, we're stuck with Sky or else have to pay an exit fee. They are not prepared to waver this... Not happy |
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| N Sykes | Darlington | Sky | 2020-01-25 | |
Absolutely awful and a total waste of money, I'd think twice about using sky broadband services. |
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| Sy | Amlwch | Sky | 2020-01-25 | |
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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| Richard | Glasgow | Sky | 2020-01-23 | |
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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| Rob | Radcliffe | Sky | 2020-01-22 | |
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