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General => Random Chat => Topic started by: Greeners on February 03, 2013, 12:26:44 pm
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So what does everyone have? I have now cancelled my Sky subscription as I couldn't stomach paying £50pm for the channels and service we were getting.
I've pretty much had to rule out Virgin as they do not appear to have cable ran on my estate. The other option would be BT vision I suppose? Anyone had any experience? Freeview HD with a PVR?
Thanks
PS, sorry Steve! :ashamed:
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Subscribed....
We've got HD Freeview... have you look at the YouView boxes Nath?
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Freeview on sky is not bad and includes some HD, just no recording. You would need a separate pvr device.
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Isn't BT Vision a cable service?
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Subscribed....
We've got HD Freeview... have you look at the YouView boxes Nath?
Not as yet Rich, but will do! :happy2:
Freeview on sky is not bad and includes some HD, just no recording. You would need a separate pvr device.
Yes we did this before when we cancelled our mutiroom, so this may suffice?
Isn't BT Vision a cable service?
It is, but we have BT Infinity already. :happy2:
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BT Vision is essentially Freeview with extra packages available.
Don't know much about the YouView.
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http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/products/tv/youview-and-vision-compared
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Did they not offer you a massive discount / reduced sub price to keep you Nath?
We are in similar boat as moving next month so going to use that as leverage in getting better deal
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There's plain old Freesat, too, as you already have a dish...
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We pay £60 a month for Sky and like you that really grates with me it's alot of dosh just so Lee can watch the footie Zzzzzzz
We are unable to get Virgin so interested to what other peeps think to the other services
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Thanks Hedge/Simon.
No Lee not a sausage which I'm quite surprised as I've been a customer for at least 10+ years! :surprised: To be honest I'm not bothered either way and didn't cancel just to get them to offer a better deal. If that deal comes then so be it, if not they lose a customer.
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There's plain old Freesat, too, as you already have a dish...
Another option, cheers! :drinking:
So has anyone any experience with the above?
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Interesting! Did you just cancel today? Wondering whether hitting target numbers during a month makes a difference to getting a nice retention offer or not.
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We pay £60 a month for Sky and like you that really grates with me it's alot of dosh just so Lee can watch the footie Zzzzzzz
We are unable to get Virgin so interested to what other peeps think to the other services
Just clicked who you are now! :laugh:
Hello trouble! :wink:
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Interesting! Did you just cancel today? Wondering whether hitting target numbers during a month makes a difference to getting a nice retention offer or not.
Yes buddy, this morning. As I said I may get a call before it switches off on March 6th, but if not then no skin off mine.
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We pay £60 a month for Sky and like you that really grates with me it's alot of dosh just so Lee can watch the footie Zzzzzzz
We are unable to get Virgin so interested to what other peeps think to the other services
Just clicked who you are now! :laugh:
Hello trouble! :wink:
Soooooooo slow lol
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We pay £60 a month for Sky and like you that really grates with me it's alot of dosh just so Lee can watch the footie Zzzzzzz
We are unable to get Virgin so interested to what other peeps think to the other services
Just clicked who you are now! :laugh:
Hello trouble! :wink:
:signLOL:
You not noticed the avatar I put up for her. Do you remember the "ride" offer now :grin:
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We pay £60 a month for Sky and like you that really grates with me it's alot of dosh just so Lee can watch the footie Zzzzzzz
We are unable to get Virgin so interested to what other peeps think to the other services
Just clicked who you are now! :laugh:
Hello trouble! :wink:
Soooooooo slow lol
Sounds like a challenge! :evilgrin:
We pay £60 a month for Sky and like you that really grates with me it's alot of dosh just so Lee can watch the footie Zzzzzzz
We are unable to get Virgin so interested to what other peeps think to the other services
Just clicked who you are now! :laugh:
Hello trouble! :wink:
:signLOL:
You not noticed the avatar I put up for her. Do you remember the "ride" offer now :grin:
Still no! :confused: :chicken:
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Golf R vs Roc R vs TTS!
Place your bets :laugh:
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Golf R vs Roc R vs TTS!
Place your bets :laugh:
I don't remember inviting you! Mr Silver wheels! :P
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Golf R vs Roc R vs TTS!
Place your bets :laugh:
I don't remember inviting you! Mr Silver wheels! :P
By the Time he's got the power down we'd be out of sight anyway :wink:
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Golf R vs Roc R vs TTS!
Place your bets :laugh:
I don't remember inviting you! Mr Silver wheels! :P
By the Time he's got the power down we'd be out of sight anyway :wink:
True enough! :innocent: :laugh:
Lets not start picking on him here too! :signLOL:
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Had a Humax foxsat HDR box for a few years now. Had sky but didn't want to pay so now watch Freesat.
Has BBC1 HD, BBC HD, ITV HD and Channel 4 HD. Can record 2 channels and watch another recording or record 1 channel and watch another channel.
Never had a problem with it and its free :happy2:
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We have an intruder...... :grin:
Seriously... anyone paying 50-60 quid PM for sky needs their bonce checking!
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There's plain old Freesat, too, as you already have a dish...
Another option, cheers! :drinking:
So has anyone any experience with the above?
Beat me to it, they do a free sat HD recorder which has all the same functionality as a sky HD and uses your dish and twin IF cables mate.. Might cost you £200 to get that box but no monthly charges.
It's the way of the beast free box, and pay subs or , no subs buy the box. If you just want TV channels and no recorder in Standard definition , then Argos £29.99 is the cheapest.
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There's plain old Freesat, too, as you already have a dish...
Another option, cheers! :drinking:
So has anyone any experience with the above?
....Yes, I've got plain old (and free) Freesat on a dish. At least I think I have! It has limited channels but it really just depends how much telly you want to watch. I probably watch less than 20 progs a week absolute maximum and that includes "Neighbours" every week day.
Whatever it is which I've got, I don't pay any monthly charges at all.
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I manage great with Freesat HD on my Humax Freesat bot with twin tuner and 320gb hard drive.
Would like Nat Geo wild, Discovery turbo and Motors Tv but dont want the bills
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I card share for 20 quid a month and get all sky channels for that
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I'd love to change from Sky TV. Just seems easier to stay put. :sad1:
I have no idea where to look as we have Sky+HD, Full programme package (needed for sport and movies) Sky+HD Multiroom, Sky Talk, Sky broadband (which is sh*te) and I'm sure there's something else. My brother says I'm "Sky's bitch".
We have an intruder...... :grin:
Seriously... anyone paying 50-60 quid PM for sky needs their bonce checking!
Your not wrong. i can't believe how our Sky bill has expanded over the last 20 odd years Our flat bill (excluding extra phone calls abroad & all the hired movies) is about £105 PM.
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Total and utter rip off that mate...
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I'd love to change from Sky TV. Just seems easier to stay put. :sad1:
I have no idea where to look as we have Sky+HD, Full programme package (needed for sport and movies) Sky+HD Multiroom, Sky Talk, Sky broadband (which is sh*te) and I'm sure there's something else. My brother says I'm "Sky's bitch".
We have an intruder...... :grin:
Seriously... anyone paying 50-60 quid PM for sky needs their bonce checking!
Your not wrong. i can't believe how our Sky bill has expanded over the last 20 odd years Our flat bill (excluding extra phone calls abroad & all the hired movies) is about £105 PM.
It's because people forget, Sky do more then just Tv now. so paying £35 10 years ago has increased by £15 in this time for the equivalent tv package, and not including HD content, which wasn't about then.
Back then people where paying separate telephone and broadband fees, so that's why it appears why people don't understand why they pay a TV company so much money...
Oh and your brothers got the wrong person :wink:
I wouldn't run 4 HD +'s if I didn't work for them..I have a Freesat main tv so if I get the boot, I can switch to that :laugh:
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Do sky boxes still require to be connected directly to a phone socket?
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Do sky boxes still require to be connected directly to a phone socket?
Yeah. Saying that my ex's family got away with it for years as you only really need that for on demand services, saying that when they upgraded to skyHD they had to run a phone cable to it
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Do sky boxes still require to be connected directly to a phone socket?
I think they are supposed to be but since mine was Installed the telephone connection has never worked (engineer was supposed to come back to fix it but never botherd)
Sky is the only option up here to get any extra channels on top of free view.
I normally just watch Comedy central, Fox, Discovery and Discovery turbo.
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I'm desperate for an alternative. Cancelled my hd and movies package last week to cut costs. All I watch is fox, sky one, sky Atlantic and the f1 channel. Suppose I could live without all but the f1 channel.
Any other way to get the f1 channel? Seems I'm paying for sky just for f1 and I'd love a better broadband provider.
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Do sky boxes still require to be connected directly to a phone socket?
Only if you have multiroom--- fact
Stops people moving boxes from address to address and watch sky on the 2nd,3rd,4th viewing cards .
Phone line proves boxes location.
Single box isn't needed to be, only for interactive spend more money function or box office/on demand.
subscriptions are not reduced on a single card hence why phone doesn't have to be attached.
This answers the question . :happy2:
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Do sky boxes still require to be connected directly to a phone socket?
Only if you have multiroom--- fact
Stops people moving boxes from address to address and watch sky on the 2nd,3rd,4th viewing cards .
Phone line proves boxes location.
Single box isn't needed to be, only for interactive spend more money function or box office/on demand.
subscriptions are not reduced on a single card hence why phone doesn't have to be attached.
This answers the question . :happy2:
My mum n dad had Multi-room and used to take one box on holiday with them in the caravan (my mum cannot miss her Tennis!) and both boxes worked fine, they did that for 4-5 years at least :happy2:
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^^^^ No need for that anymore with Sky Go. I get a LOT of use out of Sky Go, one of the best things they've done in years, some great features.
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Do sky boxes still require to be connected directly to a phone socket?
Only if you have multiroom--- fact
Stops people moving boxes from address to address and watch sky on the 2nd,3rd,4th viewing cards .
Phone line proves boxes location.
Single box isn't needed to be, only for interactive spend more money function or box office/on demand.
subscriptions are not reduced on a single card hence why phone doesn't have to be attached.
This answers the question . :happy2:
My mum n dad had Multi-room and used to take one box on holiday with them in the caravan (my mum cannot miss her Tennis!) and both boxes worked fine, they did that for 4-5 years at least :happy2:
They will still work, but if they were removing for holidays, coming home and reconnecting, the minute the box senses dial tone, it will call back Sky by itself.
Some people get away with it, but if they do, they take the risk of making each viewing card missing its scheduled call back a full charge debit from their bank account. Sky issue 3 warning letters before this happens.
They also monitor what's called Call back sequences, ie all boxes on a multi basis should reply 1 after the other. If they don't and one responds say a week later from the other, the customer is written too, and warned about charges etc.
You take the chance but if you do take boxes on holiday Repeatly, or be silly enough if abroad to phone in with a fault, the call centre pick up where the call is being generated from so be carefull. :happy2:
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I wish you could get the Discovery channels on Freeview then I would leave - I cant do without my fix of Wheeler Dealers and Fifth Gear though , Ive got the Sports Pack just for the F1 as well , as I fell out of love with football a few years ago and now dont watch a single game.
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I card share for 20 quid a month and get all sky channels for that
Tell me more.........
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I card share for 20 quid a month and get all sky channels for that
Tell me more.........
Card cloning..
This is being investigated at Sky currently.
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Do sky boxes still require to be connected directly to a phone socket?
Only if you have multiroom--- fact
Stops people moving boxes from address to address and watch sky on the 2nd,3rd,4th viewing cards .
Phone line proves boxes location.
Single box isn't needed to be, only for interactive spend more money function or box office/on demand.
subscriptions are not reduced on a single card hence why phone doesn't have to be attached.
This answers the question . :happy2:
It's the multi room that the phone line has never worked on, it's been like that for 3 years now and I have never recieved a letter or warning from sky about it not being connected.
I was hoping they would send a letter or call with a warning so I could point out that I called sky a week after the engineer failed to return to ask when he was returning to finish installing the phone line.
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You take the chance but if you do take boxes on holiday Repeatly, or be silly enough if abroad to phone in with a fault, the call centre pick up where the call is being generated from so be carefull. :happy2:
They can't do that if you withhold your number. :wink:
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You take the chance but if you do take boxes on holiday Repeatly, or be silly enough if abroad to phone in with a fault, the call centre pick up where the call is being generated from so be carefull. :happy2:
They can't do that if you withhold your number. :wink:
Erh no you can't, because on the white 5th gen cards, this was addressed and the 1471 dial setting in the boxes was made de-fungt :wink:
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You can have your number set to withhold permanently. :smiley:
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You can have your number set to withhold permanently. :smiley:
Yes, not disputing that, but even if your phone line is Ex directory , Sky still know the number it calls from.
The white viewing cards were shall we say tweaked, from the old 4th version Blue sky cards were totally withholding was possible.
We as field engineers are now told to no longer input anything into dial prefixes.
But what do I know :confused:
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Oh Steve. Bless. This has nothing to do with dialling prefixes. :happy2:
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Oh Steve. Bless. This has nothing to do with dialling prefixes. :happy2:
Then please explain how our viewing cards cannot tell sky there location if your saying phones can be set to withhold perminantly.
do remember sky have a tie up with BT so blocking a line, is not something anyone can just phone up and ask for.
You in your job I expect you know a way to, but its not a public get around.
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I have to say that the HD offerings from Sky makes quite difference IMO. Ok we pay over £50 pm thanks to Sports pack really but comparing the number of HD channels Sky provides vs the alternatives means I don't want to give up Sky.
SD sucks big time once you've seen what HD is like!!!! Freesat / BT only have 4-5 HD channels at the moment so don't think I'll be ditching Sky just yet.
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Do sky boxes still require to be connected directly to a phone socket?
Only if you have multiroom--- fact
Stops people moving boxes from address to address and watch sky on the 2nd,3rd,4th viewing cards .
Phone line proves boxes location.
Single box isn't needed to be, only for interactive spend more money function or box office/on demand.
subscriptions are not reduced on a single card hence why phone doesn't have to be attached.
This answers the question . :happy2:
My mum n dad had Multi-room and used to take one box on holiday with them in the caravan (my mum cannot miss her Tennis!) and both boxes worked fine, they did that for 4-5 years at least :happy2:
They will still work, but if they were removing for holidays, coming home and reconnecting, the minute the box senses dial tone, it will call back Sky by itself.
Some people get away with it, but if they do, they take the risk of making each viewing card missing its scheduled call back a full charge debit from their bank account. Sky issue 3 warning letters before this happens.
They also monitor what's called Call back sequences, ie all boxes on a multi basis should reply 1 after the other. If they don't and one responds say a week later from the other, the customer is written too, and warned about charges etc.
You take the chance but if you do take boxes on holiday Repeatly, or be silly enough if abroad to phone in with a fault, the call centre pick up where the call is being generated from so be carefull. :happy2:
Never had a letter, nor phone call from Sky in almost 5 years and never been charged due to line not being connected either, due to location of boxes neither of them were connected as they repeatedley caused problems and refused to connect so were both disconnected after 6 weeks of being installed.
No need to worry about moving boxes now as they bought another house where they were going on holiday anyway, so new sky package on that house.
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I'm with Virgin. I pay £42 for cable M+ TV, 60MB Broadband, and Phone with free eves/weekends.
Never ever had a problem.
Not many Channels when compared to XL+ but I could easily cope with Freeview with a humax box, and Cable Broadband.
Main thing I'm with Virgin for is the Broadband.
I'd love Sky. I was with em for years, but had a lot of problems with the Internet service.
SkyGo looks amazing. :happy2:
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We have an intruder...... :grin:
Seriously... anyone paying 50-60 quid PM for sky needs their bonce checking!
It depends if you get it for that price with broadband and a landline included.
The equivalent service from cable for me is £63 p/m, but will be swapping to Virgin when we move due to it being cabled into the new house already and restrictions on dishes on the outside of the house.
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I card share for 20 quid a month and get all sky channels for that
thats quite a lot. I know people who have paid around £90 - £100 for the whole year
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The modem died in my main Sky+ HD box 2 years ago in a storm. It has not worked since then and I've never had a letter. My 2nd Sky+ HD box in the bedroom is only turned on once every couple of weeks, and never had a letter for that too.
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Does anyone know if its possible to just get Virgin Fibre Optic Broadband without a phone line or tv package?
If so, is it extortionate?
The landline is pointless.
The M+ TV package, I could live without.
My Panasonic plasma has Freeview and FreesatHD and there is more than enough channels for me.
I would miss the recording facility of my V+ box though...but I'm sure I could buy something to do the job.
...I just want Virgin Broadband :sad1:
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http://store.virginmedia.com/broadband/compare-broadband/index.html
There's a little box which lets you uncheck the phone line option, puts the price's up though. In fact, it's probably worth having the line for the price difference.
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Does anyone know if its possible to just get Virgin Fibre Optic Broadband without a phone line or tv package? Yes
If so, is it extortionate? Yes, you may find it cheaper to have the phone line as well even if you never use it
Broadband on its own:
30Mb £22.50
60Mb £27.50
100Mb £35.00
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Hi Monte,
Yes it is, possible to have VM Fibre Broadband without a phone line. I have VM 100mb broadband only
If you click the link below, you get the option of choosing your broadband, with or without a land line.
http://store.virginmedia.com/broadband/compare-broadband/index.html
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I left SKY about 3 month ago.
After 3 month I received welcome back offer, full tv package (entertainment+, movies and sport) for only £13 per month +£50 credit on bill.
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I cancelled my Sky a couple of weeks ago. I don't watch much tv and what I do watch is mainly available on Freeview. The only reason I haven't cancelled before now is because I love the functionality of Sky+. You View boxes are available now though which is the Freeview equivalent of Sky+. I'm moving my phonecalls and broadband to BT from Talk Talk and the You View boxes are currently free to new BT broadband customers.
When I rang Sky, I rang with the sole intention of cancelling. Not to take the pee and say I want to leave just to get a cheaper deal. I have been a customer for about 8 years I think. I have never had movies or sports, just the entertainment package for £26/month. I ended up on the phone to them for 50 minutes whilst they offered me various deals to stay with them. First it was a cheaper subscription (£19.35 was the best they could do), then they tried to offer me their phone/broadband/tv package and then they offered me a free HD box. I don't have a HD tv so that was no use to me. I told them what I would be happy to pay to stay with them but they couldn't do it (I was being a bit cheeky but if you don't ask you don't get).
So I'm going to see how I get on with BT and the You View box. I just hope my internet connection is good enough for it to work properly. All the new gear should be arriving on the 13th of this month.
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We just have freeview but would like a freeview HD recorder. All depends on how much tv you actually watch and which channels!
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I've got the Humax FOXSAT 500g HDD (Freesat) It uses the remaining sky feeds, really easy to use, plug and play, unfortunately doesn't have Dave. :sad1:
Cost me about £200, I don't watch much tv so I'm not really missing sky. Couldn't stand to be paying £30-£40 per month just to watch maybe 6 channels! :stupid:
Also picks up the free to air HD channels. BBC one HD, BBC HD, ITV HD and channel 4 HD.
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Total and utter rip off that mate...
x2 We got rid of Sky nearly two years ago.
We only had it for the Football and Sky sets the packages up so that you can't just have the Football and end up with channels you never watch.
If I'm desperate to see a match live I will go down the pub or watch it elsewhere.
They rang a few times about why we cancelled and it was plainly for the reasons above.
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Thanks Guys (Leesey, MarkMarked and gfrost) :congrats:
All those on Sky, what is their Broadband service like nowadays?
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Thanks Guys (Leesey, MarkMarked and gfrost) :congrats:
All those on Sky, what is their Broadband service like nowadays?
had loads of dropouts on sky, even being capped on speed and i live less then 50metres from my exchange. My friend who lives around 300 Metres away from the exchange was on the up to 10mb speed and was only getting 1mb.
He switched to o2 and now has full speed, no problems/
Im on VM, was on the 20mb package and now they boosted me to 60mb! loving the speed. Perfect for my server and home network
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Sky is pretty pants unless you have fiber. Im on 12mbps download and 0.9mbps upload.
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I also dumped sky about 2 years ago ... wanted a new box as mine was old they wanted to charge me 350 quid for a new box * gasp*. I had been a customer for almost 20 years but they would not budge even offered to meet half way but they would not budge. I pointed out if I was a new customer I would get a free box and installation all they needed to do was send the box and i would install as I had a dish etc, but they still would not budge 350 thats it....so told them to stuff it. Best thing I ever did.
Now have a VU+ Uno box records,timeshifts etc same as skybox plus as its a Linux box does a whole load of other stuff as there is a free community building interfaces ( I use VIX ) and all for nothing :). Just need to get your Geek on :).
Steve
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My out-laws have Sky Broadband and it's nothing short of desperate! The Wi-Fi hub is weak at best, and they barely get 1mb!! :surprised:
Oh and the customer service is shocking too!!
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Currently watching Sky Sports F1 HD, getting the most from my £60 a month :signLOL:
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Currently watching Sky Sports F1 HD, getting the most from my £60 a month :signLOL:
:P