cable v sky?

fishing-girl

we are on virgin media for tv phone and broadband and have been for years with no problems,for about the last 6mths the signal ha s become poor and keeps dropping (due to more people being on the system).
the technicians have been out numerous times and it has improved a little but if it continues to deteriorate the next move is to remove the the cable upstairs so we only have one cable into the house, which means i lose the upstairs box for the tv.
have no experience of sky so i dont know how they compare for a whole package of tv,phone and broadband.
so do i stick with virgin and see how it goes or bite the bullit and go with sky.

any views appreciated

d900

tough one
id always stay with virgin just for he broadband..but if its rubbish go check what BB speeds u can get with sky and if u can get the unlimited package.

Coveredinbees!!!!

fishing-girl wrote: »

for about the last 6mths the signal ha s become poor and keeps dropping (due to more people being on the system).

I used to work for NTL and that's the sort of thing we told people when we couldn't be bothered to fix things properly

Marty999

We had the cable package for some years and were pleased with it, never had any problems. We switched to Sky a year ago simply to get Sky One and are very pleased with their package too. Not much to choose between the two really, but if the very fastest broadband speed is important to you then cable is the way to go. I only have the basic 2Mb ADSL from Sky but I believe that is perfectly suitable for most people.

DCFC79

if virgin cant fix it which by the sounds of it they cant then id try sky, if you like virgin tv then you could keep that and get sky phone and broadband but it all depends what speed you could get with sky, pointless moving if the speed isnt as good as what you get with virgin

brodev

I would contact Virgin and ask to cancel. They will ask why and you can tell them your tale. That will probably trigger a proper response from them and get the problem sorted

dekh

There's nothing worth watching on TV

Freeview and 02's £10/£15 for 16MB ADSL2+ broadband.

aliEnRIK

My dad has the 16 meg unlimited sky broadband (tenner a month)
he only gets approx 7 meg due to his distance etc, but I cant fault it, hes never had a single problem with it, and even with heavy usage, hes never been slowed down either.