This weekends World Cup Qualifier game for England is only going to be available over the internet, but there are worries if the UK’s broadband is up to the job or not!

The game between the Ukraine and England can be watch by going to www.ukrainevengland.com for a price of £4.99 for those who sign up early enough. The reason the game has been set to be shown this way is because of the TV company Setanta, who had the rights for the game, going belly up. This meant that the rights were passed onto someone else and they decided to have the game streamed live online.

The ewporry for many fans is that tehy won’t get a decent stream of the match and there will be worry that the broadband connection could cause parts of the game to be missed if it loses connection or if the play is fast the image could appear jerky and not smooth.

The best advice we can give those looking to pay for the game is to test your broadband speed and see if you have a good healthy broadband speed before you pay to watch the game. If you are living in very rural areas and your telephone exchange is not close by then you may struggle to pick the game up so it runs seamlessly, use our free broadband speed test to check your broadband speed.

We woudl suggest that you want to have a minimum of a reliable 2Mb connection if you are wanting to watch the game via your broadband connection. What is important to remember is that although you may be signed up to a “up to 8Mb” broadband package you are unlikely to be receiving broadband at that speed to we encourage you to test your broadband speed in advance to see what your actual broadband speed achieved is.