Advice needed RE SKY TV and Broadband

samwilzrhcp

I am due to move out into a new house with my partner and obviously i will be wanting sky tv, preferably the basic package with Sky Atlantic, FOX etc due to budgets. I had Sky installed into my room about a year ago, having had to buy a SKY+ HD box, and i was wondering if its possible to opt out of buying a brand new sky box and just take mine with me?
Also i will want broadband also, so will it be better for me to just go with sky and get a package deal? or just go with another provider despite having SKY TV? Will it work out cheaper?

Any help appreciated.

abc123456

The box is yours, you just leave the dish.
Contact SKY about moving house and they will sort what needs to be done. If you have a Sky package, you just move subscription to your new address, box and all !

Gratis

Much depends upon the location and facilities of your new house.

Let’s start with the Broadband.

If Virgin doesn’t offer cable, there, and Sky has not unbundled your telephone exchange, you’d probably be best to use whatever ADSL product PlusNet can offer you.


As regards Sky TV, there is, with respect, nothing “obvious” about wanting it.

If you do, however, the first thing to consider is how you’re going to get a Sky signal to your box.

Is there a clear and unobstructed line of sight from your premises to the satellite? If not, a dish won’t work. (Well, to be precise, a dish will actually work but you won’t be able to watch anything with it if it can’t see the satellite.)

Is there already a dish installed at the house? Is it functional? Is it the correct size? Is it properly aligned? Is it securely mounted? Is it corroded? Does it have enough LNBs? Is the wiring for it in place? Does that work? Is it waterproof? Will it need to be replaced soon? Many things to consider.

Unless you can simply plug your present box into an existing source of signal from Sky at your new house, you will need to install the necessary kit to do so.

At that point, you would need to ascertain and compare the respective costs of your installation from the various alternative suppliers of it.

You might, for example, want to consider the potential advantages of upgrading your current Sky subscription to Multroom for one year when you move, in order to get Sky to carry out the installation work involved and supply you with a new 2 TB Sky+HD box either free or at a massively subsidised and discounted price. You could then use the new box, with its greater capacity, as your main one and cancel the Multiroom after 12 months – leaving you with a second HD box (your existing one) in another room, perhaps your bedroom, with all the wiring in place to watch “Freesat-from-Sky” on it. That could work out cheaper, or, at least, better overall, than getting an independent contractor to install a dish for you.

You might also wish to muse upon the possibilities offered by cancelling your current subscription entirely when you leave your existing household and move into the new household of your partner, who might wish to become a new subscriber to Sky with all the discounts for which she could qualify… Or you might not: it would make you dependent on her for your Sky facility and domestic arrangements can change...

The variables pertaining to your particular situation and circumstances are too manifold for people on here to be able to identify specifically the best solution for you from the many that might be possible. You just have to do the arithmetic for what you actually want and establish what is the most cost-effective way to achieve it.

Feel free, though, to ask about any individual aspect of it. It's just the combination of them that creates the problem!