Good discount from Sky

thegisp

Hi,

New to all this, please be nice!

Had Sky broadband for 3 years been paying approx £15/month line rental and £10 (including an extra £2.50 as I don't have Sky TV) for their unlimited broadband, so in total about £25/month. The service and speeds have always been good.

Was having a look on here to see if there were better deals about. Saw a few and thought I'd change to maybe talk talk. So I went on the Sky website to see how to cancel etc. A popup box came up asking if I needed help so explained what I was looking for. I then got in conversation with why I was leaving.

Then, I was asked about what offeres I had seen. Quickly googled an found some cheap offer. Initially I was offered £5 off a month for a year. I explained that this was a nice offer, but I'd be leaving. I was then offered £14/month line rental, free unlimited broadband for a year and a free sky hub.

So I'm now paying £14 a month for my line rental and unlimited broadband (and a free router.)

Just thought I'd let the moneysavers know as I thought this was a good deal.

John

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Hello john, are you related to rupert by any chance?

That is not a bad saving but I have seen much much better offers than that.

Carl31

Cheaper doesn't mean better

I just moved to sky as they were doing a cash back deal on quidco, I'll be leaving sky the minute my contract ends. Websites blocked, the wifi router is rubbish, throttling at peak times, signal dropping out. Never had an issue with ee

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Carl31 wrote: »

Cheaper doesn't mean better

I just moved to sky as they were doing a cash back deal on quidco, I'll be leaving sky the minute my contract ends. Websites blocked, the wifi router is rubbish, throttling at peak times, signal dropping out. Never had an issue with ee

Did you check your broadband settings? There are family settings which block some websites if you do not disable it.

Some websites are blocked on all ISP's in the UK due to legal requirements.

I know what you are saying about the signal not being reliable. Mine was currently teetering on the brink of dropping after I re-synced my router to a higher connection speed last night. It's still a lot lower than I had at Be* and barely holding the connection. An utterly crap system IMO.

thegisp

I agree, cheaper does not mean better. But as I've had no problems I can't really complain. My speeds have been good even with two people streaming video at times, had no dropped connection or problems with blocked sites. If I had then I'd be looking to change. To be honest one of my concerns was if I moved and got these problems and to be fair they seem to happen with all providers

corf999

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Some websites are blocked on all ISP's in the UK due to legal requirements.

I don't believe that is true. I believe they often only target the big 4 (Virgin, BT, Sky, Talktalk) with the court cases.

The remaining ISPs are very small in comparison to these major players.