+ £100 Prepaid MasterCard® Line rental and Sky Talk included + one off £9.95 one off set-up fee
tbc £70.00 possible 6.60 a month if cashback comes your way :sunglasses:
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sox5
26 Aug 17#1
It
mannin
26 Aug 17#2
Sky are dirt bags, i would never go with them for anything
Fluffball90 to mannin
27 Aug 17#15
Ain't that the truth! Can you believe Sky actually tried to break our original broadband contract because i took out (what i thought) was a good offer on the tv and tried saying our original offer was now only valid with a tv deal!
Was on the phone for over an hour trying to get out of our broken contract and has to threaten in the end to get a result,AVOID SKY AT ALL COSTS!
elliothancock to Fluffball90
27 Aug 17#18
Isn't that your fault for faffing around with your contact then...?
Fluffball90 to elliothancock
27 Aug 17#31
Err how about they mislead people on the phone falsely selling packages without telling them of changes to their existing deals in an attempt to con them out of more money? Shocking company that doesn't respect people's contracts
Liam888 to mannin
27 Aug 17#25
Probably upset you never got an offer of some sort
mannin to Liam888
27 Aug 17#28
They did offer me a £30 deal for the same package, but to be honest for 18pm more I get a free SIM sky movies, landline and unlimited 40mb fiber. I would never use sky again.
I know a few people who went with sky fiber and they never give you the full potential your line can handle, they give you the lowest speeds they think they can get away with, because they are bags.
kay9 to mannin
27 Aug 17#26
why.. i use them for my bb and nowtv they are great.
mannin to kay9
27 Aug 17#27
Try cancelling a sky TV package with, took me ten hours of messing about, they are a joke.
They make it so hard to cancel on purpose, not to mention the 3 times they put the phone down on me when I mentioned the word cancel.
Google all the complaints about sky.
I mean I am with talk talk for everything and Thier customers service is crap, but least they sort any problems
One lady at sky even refused to cancel my contract because she should have finished at 8pm and it was 8.45. fing unreal.
This is not to mention the rip off prices £50 pm just for sky TV with sports.
Talk talk I pay 48 a month with sky movies, all the sky sports, landline and unlimited fiber and mobile SIM plus £95 top cashback and £2 per month cheaper than these clowns.
The are called sky for a reason and that being their prices are sky high.
Fluffball90 to mannin
27 Aug 17#33
Gosh you had it even worse than me,I just kept referring to their terms and conditions over and over again making myself feel like a t*** on the phone for an hour and half and eventually managed to get out of a locked contract for double the price I had signed up for !!
They are so rude on the phone when it comes down to either paying them less or cancelling,I swore not to have sky years ago when I remember what a faff it was to cancel but now that they tried to breach our original broadband contract because I took an offer out on a tv package (also falsely sold me credit on the phone just to put the order in and had to chase them up about that) they are such a shocking company I don't know how they get away with it!
Even if sky wanted to give me all they had for free I wouldn't take it ,a terrible A-moral filth of a company.
mannin to Fluffball90
27 Aug 17#35
Me either I wont ever go back to them. The thing that really put the icing on the cake for me was the rude women who refused to cancel as she finished at 8pm, if only my arm could have reached down the phone to strangle her (I'd be up for murder now)
Chasloyal to mannin
27 Aug 17#32
Said the BBC television licence payer, priceless :unamused:
Aldnoah to mannin
31 Aug 17#56
Say it again and say it louder!
mannin to Aldnoah
31 Aug 17#63
SKY ARE DIRT BAGS lol
snappyfish to mannin
31 Aug 17#64
Everyone is a dirt bag, everyone wants your money :dizzy_face:
jcluk to mannin
31 Aug 17#69
Your loss. It's the best TV service in the UK and I've never had an issue with their broadband/phone.
DanB89
26 Aug 17#3
Probably the best deal for ADSL available at the moment. There has been better, but nothing out there at the moment so voting hot.
Am with Sky on a MSE deal, been absolutely fine. Have had some minor issues this last week, but I think the router is giving up the ghost - time will tell :smile:
robertfrancis1975 to DanB89
26 Aug 17#8
I'm with SKY Fibre, have you got the Q hub? I don't find the range very good. My previous BT Homehub 5 is better.
DanB89 to robertfrancis1975
26 Aug 17#10
Nah I have the older router. My brother signed up on a similar package to me a few weeks later and got a Q box. Had some issues with his wireless home phone and interference but eventually sorted it. Works fine for his 1 bed house but does seem the signal is a bit flaky in these devices :disappointed:
melted to robertfrancis1975
26 Aug 17#11
If you have the BT Hub 5A (doesn't work on the 'B' version) install Lede (Openwrt) on it and you can use it with sky fibre instead:- openwrt.ebilan.co.uk/vie…572
chigger1 to melted
27 Aug 17#13
Forgive my ignorace, what does LEAD (Openwrt) firmware do compared to what's already on the BT HUB?
melted to chigger1
27 Aug 17#20
Lede is a fork of Openwrt, which is a linux distro designed for routers. Lede has better support for the BT hub5a than the current Openwrt distro.
The standard Firmware on BT hubs supplied with BT broadband contracts is locked to BT ISPs, so you can still use it if you switch to Plusnet, but not with Sky and most other ISPs.
The Lede/Openwrt firmware isn't locked, doesn't have the highly limited user configurable options of the original firmware, can have additional packages installed, such as OpenVPN, and support for numerous DDNS providers. It also supports WDS or can be set up as a wifi client. You can even change the colours of the LEDs if you want.
The main downside is it is more complicated to configure.
rsmac81
26 Aug 17#4
Just so you know this is for fiber limited to 25gb monthly usage. Unlimited is £30.
Believe_Me to rsmac81
26 Aug 17#5
Sky Broadband Unlimited no fibre
navi1
26 Aug 17#6
Nice deal to switch at the end contract.
MR1123
26 Aug 17#7
I love sky :grin:
nick140773
26 Aug 17#9
I have sky and the broadband is probably the worst part of my package
nexus76
26 Aug 17#12
Look at the garbage router, not even gigaports
666
27 Aug 17#14
All supplied routers are garbage, best option is use virgin for Internet but run the router in modem mode & add your own decent wireless router
kevinc6784 to 666
27 Aug 17#16
That's the route I have taken but still having problems. Connection requests failing randomly whist still connecting on other devices. Currently rebooting modem at least 3 times daily!
Grohller
27 Aug 17#17
If you've got your own router you can obtain the information out of the sky router using wireshark. I use a TP link just fine on mine.
mastin to Grohller
31 Aug 17#61
For Adsl customers, Sky allow you to use your own modem without needing to do that. Only caveat is that if you phone them up with a problem, they won't entertain you until you plug the SR101/102 or Q Hub in to the test socket. So keep the Sky modem incase you ever need to call them.
This the the details that need to be matched in your own modem settings before it will connect up:
Encapsulation: PPPoA Username: [email protected]o2broadband.co.uk Password: install VPI: 0 VCI: 38 Multiplexing: VC-BASED Mtu - 1492 or 1500
jm1082
27 Aug 17#19
I signed up to a deal that ended up working out only £3 a month (from HUKDs!) but Sky broadband isn't even worth that much. very poor reliability!!
SwirlesY
27 Aug 17#21
I got this (or a very similar) deal last year which offered a prepaid card. This offer just reminded me that I never recieved that card. I'll contact them now and see what the score is.
The broadband itself is fine. I reci ved the router as in the picture above which struggled to connect to devices upstairs (the router is downstairs). When they put the prices up slightly a few months ago I used that as leverage to voice my complaints and they sent me a free sky Q router. It worked very well at first but we have since moved to a slightly bigger house and it won't connect at all upstairs.
I have one of those free WiFi extenders from sky from a while ago and that struggles to stay connected to the router, if at all.
I'll weigh up other options when my contract expires in November.
mrb30
27 Aug 17#22
Doe it without tv for a long time
kneale81
27 Aug 17#23
Sky have always offered standalone broadband
d3ron
27 Aug 17#24
Sky broadband is fine, but their router isn't. You can get the password out if it and use your own.
zaax
27 Aug 17#29
Zen Internet is the best (not the cheapest) broadand provider and they will sort your line problems out with BT openreach
Old_Man
27 Aug 17#30
I have Sky and suppose I have been lucky to have had no problems with the unlimited dl service, but with the wifi being very poor, I did purchase "TP-Link 600 Mbps 2-Port Passthrough Powerline Adapter" and it works very well, giving me full speed to my laptop in the other part of my house, so try here: amazon.co.uk/dp/…c=1 works a treat.
trafficzombie
27 Aug 17#34
I'm with Sky for both tv and broadband
TV is sports but no movies. Pay £39 for this.
And unlimited ADSL broadband which currently us £19 a month but will go upto £28 in October.
The tv contract still has a bit of time to go. So can't cancel this.
But want to possibly change from ADSL to fibre. Need better connection than I have for gaming and also streaming as It is always buffering and is very painful.
Any recommendations for fibre. I've seen a Vodafone offer for £25 a month which seems good but are they any good?
Any recommendations would be great.
Chasloyal to trafficzombie
27 Aug 17#36
I'm with Sky for telly, 25 quid a month all channels including sports, movies and box sets till September next year and have been on that tariff since April last year, then I pay 14 quid a month I think on top for multi room so we get a second Sky Q box in our bedroom.
Internet with BT which is unlimited fibre, unlimited calls and BT sport is around 45 quid a month for a 12 month contract but we did get a 200 quid pre-paid BT MasterCard and 100 quid casback on Quidco which has been honoured when we took that deal in March with the calls and sport being optional so work out yourself what it would work out over the year without those add ons
But don't listen to me, let the BBC loving Sky haters tell you what a stripe up Sky are hmmmmm more like they can't negotiate a good deal to pay for stuff worth watching but are happy to weigh on 150 quid a year for liberal biased programming some of us don't ever watch :unamused:
mannin to Chasloyal
27 Aug 17#38
Its not the fact we cannot negotiate a deal, it's the fact the company stinks and are very rude, and when you want to cancel. They take the p and mess you about so you say o no it's ok I will stay with you as it's to much Hassle to leave.
If you don't believe me read the millions of sky complaints and the fact ofcom was investigating them for over two years.
Chasloyal to mannin
27 Aug 17#39
Yep I'm one of those "millions of sky complaints" you're reading :neutral_face:
Edit: Oh and I lied about 14 quid a month extra for the Sky Q minibox, as you can see it's actually 12 quid :raised_hand:
Fluffball90 to mannin
27 Aug 17#49
Spot on,I can only imagine hundreds of thousands of people are paying over the odds for sky because of the cancellation procedure they have in place,it obviously works but it's such a disgusting way to get more money out of people. Ok at the end of the day companies like to keep paying customers and it's the cancellation teams role to persuade people leaving,only in sky's case from my own personal experience does this persuade turn into force and only after much stress do they let you leave.
I don't believe sky will ever change and the best we can do is share our experience with others so they don't make the same mistakes!
mannin to Fluffball90
27 Aug 17#50
Yeah definitely, i had that many phone calls and keep getting fobbed off etc and phone hung up. I won't ever return to them. So frustrating they are.
Thing is though if i rang to start a new package it would be done in five mins.
They should not be allowed to give people the run around like they do, if you want to leave out of contract you have right to do so.
Nayyer
27 Aug 17#37
Nice
mannin
27 Aug 17#40
Yeah but your with them, the complaint is when you want to leave them, they make it so hard and you have to waste hours upon hours of you time trying to do so. You will find out if you ever try to cancel your package.
They are very naughty what they do.
Chasloyal to mannin
27 Aug 17#41
You tried leaving 'auntie' and cancelling your television licence, how did that go?
julieallen to mannin
27 Aug 17#48
I cancelled recently and it didn't take me anywhere near 10 hours, you must be doing something wrong, heres snippets from the chat, including times to show how long it took
09:36 Good morning you’re chatting with Aysha, your Sky advisor. Which aspect of your package are you looking to discuss with me today?
09:47 ok, can you cancel it all 30 days from now please
09:49 Your broadband and Line will go off on 14/09/2017 You will not be able to use the services for anything on/past this date, including emergency calls
So that was 13 minutes including 9 going through security at the start, 2 minutes if you only count from when I actually asked to cancel.
As a comparison, when I cancelled with plusnet, it took almost 2 hours, which was over 90 minutes before they answered. Last time I spoke with talktalk (a few years ago) it took me 2.5 hours to get broadband tech support to answer, and process I had to go through 6 times before I actually spoke to someone who had any odea what they were doing!
mannin
27 Aug 17#42
What has my TV licence got to do with leaving sky, TV licence I have to pay sky I don't and won't.
Chasloyal to mannin
27 Aug 17#45
Absolutely everything because I don't want to pay my TV licence but I don't have the won't option, I never ever watch any of that leftist parasite organisation's channels yet I have to pay for their filth by law.
I'm more than happy to pay for what I watch, unlike the bundles of free loading scratchers out there who chore their entertainment via Jekyll streams, though I do resent paying for a load of old pony I won't ever switch on but life is cruel :angry:
Upgrade to Q for £199?
They didn't charge us anything, just locked us in to the 25 quid a month non contract we were paying on the HD for 18 months on the Q. So absolutely nothing really seeing we upgraded to Q in March and that pony a month for everything deal they gave us last year was running to September next year.
mannin to Chasloyal
27 Aug 17#46
As far as I am aware as long as you don't watch any normal TV channels or use catch up apps you don't have to pay for it anyway, but it's how you can prove that?
Chasloyal to Chasloyal
27 Aug 17#47
I am not sure, as far as I knew it was any live tv at be it terrestrial or through cable/dish. It's actually rather ironic, some might even say hypocritical, of me to be piping up about it because we get the licence free now.
Nothing to do with working for anyone or a shifty move, my mum is very sick so she lives with us and since she's been registered under our roof from March this year because of her age we get it on the Freddie Freeman's :wink: I still don't watch any of their channels though, even she seems to watch the ITV one that shows all the old stuff like Minder and the Sweeney so it is proper saucy we are still required to have one.
Seen plenty of videos on youtube of people playing the tv detector people but I don't know the exact legal small print and have never gone to them lengths, just always paid it with the most gritted of teeth.
kay9
27 Aug 17#43
if they refuse to cancel.. write it on paper signed for.. and then bill them your postage costs as they did not cancel over phone. if they ignore cancel all direct debits..
Steelman111
27 Aug 17#44
I've had Sky 40MB unlimited fiber for 8 years now and honestly to my knowledge I've never had any issues with it, I've never noticed any speed capping despite being a power user so to me Sky's internet is absolutely brilliant.
It's a shame I can't say the same about other parts of their service though, the sky hub I have doesn't support 5ghz wifi and apparently it violates their T&C's if you use an alternative router, so I'm I'm forced to use it, also our sky TV box is on the fritz and despite paying sky £50+ every month for 8 years of service they told me I have to pay a fee for a replacement box or upgrade to Sky Q for £199, what a load of rubbish! The sky TV box is failing due to old age... I should be entitled to a free replacement at this point.
brendanhickey
27 Aug 17#51
Shame you missed the martins money saving site that has bt fiber for £14 a month after paying line rental up front and getting a voucher back in a master card.
adamnsu
27 Aug 17#52
I need some guidance please.
I am an existing sky bb customer. Can I take it in my wife's name as a new customer?
If so, Should I cancel first and then apply in my wife's name?
How much of a gap should I keep when I cancel and new install date.
Is it possible to keep my existing number in this procedure?
justthinking to adamnsu
31 Aug 17#55
You can cancel and take it out in your wifes name as a brand new customer. No credit checks too. You will lose your number.
I cancelled last year (took 15 mins - I find the less you faff the less they do) and two weeks later I set the ball rolling in my Mrs' name. Was without service for about 2 days, but saved a mint.
oonaghmcgilloway
31 Aug 17#53
I also want to cancel as the price has gone up twice in the last 2 months, can you take it out in another family members name? I was told no that couldnt happen when I called them so maybe getting fobbed off a bit fed up was going to go with a monthly rolling contract with virgin for a while, any suggestions??
gordondr1980
31 Aug 17#54
Carphone Warhouse deal by any chance
abdi12346
31 Aug 17#57
Cannot get it for £20 ads line rental and takes it to 28.99?
Crossbow to abdi12346
31 Aug 17#60
I'm getting an even better deal than advertised here for £15 a month for 12 months, which includes line rental, & a £19.95 set-up fee. Are you using the link from the op's post? Or use this (same thing): sky.com/sho…ed/
If you choose Fibre BB, then it'll probably be £28.99.
abdi12346 to Crossbow
31 Aug 17#62
I used the OP link and it worked out to £28.99 on my mobile going to try on desktop now. That deal is good you just sent.
meclive to Crossbow
31 Aug 17#65
Is the prepaid mastercard still available with this? How do you claim it?
Crossbow to meclive
31 Aug 17#66
Unfortunately, it's not available any more since they cut the price from £20 to £15/month: ispreview.co.uk/ind…tml
machomansavage
31 Aug 17#58
I've got 38 mbps for 24 including vat and line rental
tony211166
31 Aug 17#59
Sky are teenage dirt bags baby!
monkey1999
31 Aug 17#67
Isn't there tv the only thing u would want from sky. ??
oooowilliamoooo
31 Aug 17#68
Or for £30 get fiber and a mega TV bundle from Virgin ... £20 is loads just for BB
msharif911
1 Sep 17#70
Ive had Sky BB for around 5 years now and cant really complain about much other than the price. If there is a fault, they do get pretty much straight on it. Routers seem fairly good and reliable. I'm paying over £30pm for mine and wish I could get this deal.
Crossbow to msharif911
1 Sep 17#71
Have you seen these? You maybe eligible for at least £10 off a month:
Thanks, I hadnt seen that one. I've just done it and will buy a pensioner a pint tonight in the pub for good karma.
WadeWatts
1 Sep 17#72
At carphone warehouse and Curry's you can get unlimited broadband (not fibre) for £15 a month right now
TidyWorks
1 Sep 17#74
Remember using your own ADSL router with Sky is very difficult. You will need to use software to get your username/password from the really bad provided Sky ADSL router.
And their service is terrible, went from 18mb down 1mb up with Talktalk to 11mb down 0.3mb up now with Sky (it's been 9 months and no increase in speed).
Will be leaving as soon as I get the chance.
alasdairgray
1 Sep 17#75
Just my experience but..stay away from Sky Broadband...
I made the mistake of leaving Plusnet earlier this year (after hearing the £1 increase). I was lured in to sky by their £10 a month offer they had at the time.
As soon as sky was connected, I noticed a massive drop in speeds (even after the 10 period). I noticed a bizarre thing as well, when having more than 1 device connected. For example i would be streaming a movie on nowtv which was fine, however the bandwidth was then cut for any other device in house. It made simple browsing on my phone impossible. Same would happen if i was downloading a file on the pc, the whole internet came to a halt for everyone else. Never experienced bandwidth issues like this with plusnet.
Anyway, before my 30 day period was up i went back to plusnet and couldnt be any happier.
RevolutionDead
1 Sep 17#76
We need to get back to dirt cheap prices for ADSL, im perfectly fine with 9Mb download, and dont want to be paying pisstaking prices!!!
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Get Sky Broadband without TV
new cust
a month for 12 months
+ £100 Prepaid MasterCard®
Line rental and Sky Talk included + one off £9.95 one off set-up fee
tbc £70.00 possible
6.60 a month if cashback comes your way :sunglasses:
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Was on the phone for over an hour trying to get out of our broken contract and has to threaten in the end to get a result,AVOID SKY AT ALL COSTS!
I know a few people who went with sky fiber and they never give you the full potential your line can handle, they give you the lowest speeds they think they can get away with, because they are bags.
They make it so hard to cancel on purpose, not to mention the 3 times they put the phone down on me when I mentioned the word cancel.
Google all the complaints about sky.
I mean I am with talk talk for everything and Thier customers service is crap, but least they sort any problems
One lady at sky even refused to cancel my contract because she should have finished at 8pm and it was 8.45. fing unreal.
This is not to mention the rip off prices £50 pm just for sky TV with sports.
Talk talk I pay 48 a month with sky movies, all the sky sports, landline and unlimited fiber and mobile SIM plus £95 top cashback and £2 per month cheaper than these clowns.
The are called sky for a reason and that being their prices are sky high.
They are so rude on the phone when it comes down to either paying them less or cancelling,I swore not to have sky years ago when I remember what a faff it was to cancel but now that they tried to breach our original broadband contract because I took an offer out on a tv package (also falsely sold me credit on the phone just to put the order in and had to chase them up about that) they are such a shocking company I don't know how they get away with it!
Even if sky wanted to give me all they had for free I wouldn't take it ,a terrible A-moral filth of a company.
The thing that really put the icing on the cake for me was the rude women who refused to cancel as she finished at 8pm, if only my arm could have reached down the phone to strangle her (I'd be up for murder now)
Am with Sky on a MSE deal, been absolutely fine. Have had some minor issues this last week, but I think the router is giving up the ghost - time will tell :smile:
The standard Firmware on BT hubs supplied with BT broadband contracts is locked to BT ISPs, so you can still use it if you switch to Plusnet, but not with Sky and most other ISPs.
The Lede/Openwrt firmware isn't locked, doesn't have the highly limited user configurable options of the original firmware, can have additional packages installed, such as OpenVPN, and support for numerous DDNS providers. It also supports WDS or can be set up as a wifi client. You can even change the colours of the LEDs if you want.
The main downside is it is more complicated to configure.
Currently rebooting modem at least 3 times daily!
I use a TP link just fine on mine.
This the the details that need to be matched in your own modem settings before it will connect up:
Encapsulation: PPPoA
Username: [email protected]o2broadband.co.uk
Password: install
VPI: 0
VCI: 38
Multiplexing: VC-BASED
Mtu - 1492 or 1500
very poor reliability!!
The broadband itself is fine. I reci ved the router as in the picture above which struggled to connect to devices upstairs (the router is downstairs). When they put the prices up slightly a few months ago I used that as leverage to voice my complaints and they sent me a free sky Q router. It worked very well at first but we have since moved to a slightly bigger house and it won't connect at all upstairs.
I have one of those free WiFi extenders from sky from a while ago and that struggles to stay connected to the router, if at all.
I'll weigh up other options when my contract expires in November.
TV is sports but no movies. Pay £39 for this.
And unlimited ADSL broadband which currently us £19 a month but will go upto £28 in October.
The tv contract still has a bit of time to go. So can't cancel this.
But want to possibly change from ADSL to fibre. Need better connection than I have for gaming and also streaming as It is always buffering and is very painful.
Any recommendations for fibre. I've seen a Vodafone offer for £25 a month which seems good but are they any good?
Any recommendations would be great.
Internet with BT which is unlimited fibre, unlimited calls and BT sport is around 45 quid a month for a 12 month contract but we did get a 200 quid pre-paid BT MasterCard and 100 quid casback on Quidco which has been honoured when we took that deal in March with the calls and sport being optional so work out yourself what it would work out over the year without those add ons
But don't listen to me, let the BBC loving Sky haters tell you what a stripe up Sky are hmmmmm more like they can't negotiate a good deal to pay for stuff worth watching but are happy to weigh on 150 quid a year for liberal biased programming some of us don't ever watch :unamused:
They take the p and mess you about so you say o no it's ok I will stay with you as it's to much Hassle to leave.
If you don't believe me read the millions of sky complaints and the fact ofcom was investigating them for over two years.
Yep I'm one of those "millions of sky complaints" you're reading :neutral_face:
Edit: Oh and I lied about 14 quid a month extra for the Sky Q minibox, as you can see it's actually 12 quid :raised_hand:
I don't believe sky will ever change and the best we can do is share our experience with others so they don't make the same mistakes!
Thing is though if i rang to start a new package it would be done in five mins.
They should not be allowed to give people the run around like they do, if you want to leave out of contract you have right to do so.
You will find out if you ever try to cancel your package.
They are very naughty what they do.
09:36 Good morning you’re chatting with Aysha, your Sky advisor. Which aspect of your package are you looking to discuss with me today?
09:47 ok, can you cancel it all 30 days from now please
09:49 Your broadband and Line will go off on 14/09/2017 You will not be able to use the services for anything on/past this date, including emergency calls
So that was 13 minutes including 9 going through security at the start, 2 minutes if you only count from when I actually asked to cancel.
As a comparison, when I cancelled with plusnet, it took almost 2 hours, which was over 90 minutes before they answered. Last time I spoke with talktalk (a few years ago) it took me 2.5 hours to get broadband tech support to answer, and process I had to go through 6 times before I actually spoke to someone who had any odea what they were doing!
I'm more than happy to pay for what I watch, unlike the bundles of free loading scratchers out there who chore their entertainment via Jekyll streams, though I do resent paying for a load of old pony I won't ever switch on but life is cruel :angry:
Upgrade to Q for £199?
They didn't charge us anything, just locked us in to the 25 quid a month non contract we were paying on the HD for 18 months on the Q. So absolutely nothing really seeing we upgraded to Q in March and that pony a month for everything deal they gave us last year was running to September next year.
I am not sure, as far as I knew it was any live tv at be it terrestrial or through cable/dish. It's actually rather ironic, some might even say hypocritical, of me to be piping up about it because we get the licence free now.
Nothing to do with working for anyone or a shifty move, my mum is very sick so she lives with us and since she's been registered under our roof from March this year because of her age we get it on the Freddie Freeman's :wink: I still don't watch any of their channels though, even she seems to watch the ITV one that shows all the old stuff like Minder and the Sweeney so it is proper saucy we are still required to have one.
Seen plenty of videos on youtube of people playing the tv detector people but I don't know the exact legal small print and have never gone to them lengths, just always paid it with the most gritted of teeth.
I am an existing sky bb customer. Can I take it in my wife's name as a new customer?
If so, Should I cancel first and then apply in my wife's name?
How much of a gap should I keep when I cancel and new install date.
Is it possible to keep my existing number in this procedure?
I cancelled last year (took 15 mins - I find the less you faff the less they do) and two weeks later I set the ball rolling in my Mrs' name. Was without service for about 2 days, but saved a mint.
If you choose Fibre BB, then it'll probably be £28.99.
Existing Sky Fibre customers: £10/mo OFF your bill for 12 months
Save £120 with FREE Unlimited Broadband from Sky for a year - existing customers [Line rental payable at £18.99pm]
And their service is terrible, went from 18mb down 1mb up with Talktalk to 11mb down 0.3mb up now with Sky (it's been 9 months and no increase in speed).
Will be leaving as soon as I get the chance.
I made the mistake of leaving Plusnet earlier this year (after hearing the £1 increase). I was lured in to sky by their £10 a month offer they had at the time.
As soon as sky was connected, I noticed a massive drop in speeds (even after the 10 period). I noticed a bizarre thing as well, when having more than 1 device connected. For example i would be streaming a movie on nowtv which was fine, however the bandwidth was then cut for any other device in house. It made simple browsing on my phone impossible. Same would happen if i was downloading a file on the pc, the whole internet came to a halt for everyone else. Never experienced bandwidth issues like this with plusnet.
Anyway, before my 30 day period was up i went back to plusnet and couldnt be any happier.