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Sky, BT or Virgin for wireless multi room?
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Pennywise
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Coming to the end of our fixed term contracts for Sky TV and broadband in the next few months, so open to all options.
Ideally, we want a way of watching live & recorded TV in other rooms of the house via the broadband/wifi rather than having the second and third box wired to a sky dish, telephone cable or ethernet cable.
Been looking at the websites but it's not really clear exactly what each provider requires for the multi-room options. Would be good to just plug the box/tv into the mains and connect to the home wifi, but I'm not sure if that's even possible.
As we are suffering a awfully slow BT copper cable broadband connection, I'm looking at Virgin for cabled internet so it would make sense to use Virgin for TV too, but not if BT or Sky have better/easier multi room options.
Ideally, we want a way of watching live & recorded TV in other rooms of the house via the broadband/wifi rather than having the second and third box wired to a sky dish, telephone cable or ethernet cable.
Been looking at the websites but it's not really clear exactly what each provider requires for the multi-room options. Would be good to just plug the box/tv into the mains and connect to the home wifi, but I'm not sure if that's even possible.
As we are suffering a awfully slow BT copper cable broadband connection, I'm looking at Virgin for cabled internet so it would make sense to use Virgin for TV too, but not if BT or Sky have better/easier multi room options.
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I have Virgin BB, but no TV. If you have their TV service it's wired cable from the wall to the TV. The only way you can connect to boxes in other rooms would be via Powerline adapters AFAIK.
Sky are said to be moving to put their content out via Broadband next year, for those that don't want or can't have a dish. Might be worth waiting for that.
Virgin would give you the fastest Broadband.Drinking Rum before 10am makes you
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