Sky Query

Chris30durham

Hello All,

I had a query, I was wondering I have Sky TV at my current address, and I would like to pay for my girlfriend to get sky tv at her house.  My question is can I have 2 sky accounts in my name at different addresses or will this cause a problem?  Trying to speak to an actual human on live chat or the phone is impossible with Sky at the moment.  Thanks in advance.
Chris

brend10

As I know, you can have 2 sky accounts in your name at different addresses, but you need to use a different email address. 

Ivor_Headache

Have had sky for nearly 30 years, gone along with them every time they’ve had an increase, which over the years have been many. A couple of months ago had email saying they were increasing monthly subscription by £2 a month from May, not a lot I know but it made me think. We have the Sky Q box and have about 10 years viewing on it ( bit of an exaggeration) but a lot. I then looked through what the recordings were and probably 95-99% of them are from free to air channels. In reality when you look at what you get from sky’s basic package, which is all we need now the kids have flown the nest pretty much all of the channels, except the odd few, and I mean the odd few, are free channels, you are paying sky £26 a month for something that you get free anyway. My contract with sky does not end until December, but in a couple of weeks I am going to cancel the contract completely and pay whatever cancellation charges they impose. If you already have sky, the dish is yours to do whatever you wish, we have purchased a ‘freesat’ set top box that was a one off payment of £200, about £3 a month protection for it in case anything goes wrong, you have recouped initial outlay costs in less than 12 months. The box connects extremely easily to your existing sky dish,  you then have something like 170 channels absolutely free. Point of all of this is, unless you subscribe to cinema or sports, you’re wasting your money with Sky, anyway you can always use Netflix or Prime for films!

Neil_Jones

Ivor_Headache said:

Have had sky for nearly 30 years, gone along with them every time they’ve had an increase, which over the years have been many. A couple of months ago had email saying they were increasing monthly subscription by £2 a month from May, not a lot I know but it made me think. We have the Sky Q box and have about 10 years viewing on it ( bit of an exaggeration) but a lot. I then looked through what the recordings were and probably 95-99% of them are from free to air channels. In reality when you look at what you get from sky’s basic package, which is all we need now the kids have flown the nest pretty much all of the channels, except the odd few, and I mean the odd few, are free channels, you are paying sky £26 a month for something that you get free anyway. My contract with sky does not end until December, but in a couple of weeks I am going to cancel the contract completely and pay whatever cancellation charges they impose. If you already have sky, the dish is yours to do whatever you wish, we have purchased a ‘freesat’ set top box that was a one off payment of £200, about £3 a month protection for it in case anything goes wrong, you have recouped initial outlay costs in less than 12 months. The box connects extremely easily to your existing sky dish,  you then have something like 170 channels absolutely free. Point of all of this is, unless you subscribe to cinema or sports, you’re wasting your money with Sky, anyway you can always use Netflix or Prime for films!

Yeah, if you're in contract with Sky TV until December, good luck cancelling it before then because you'll find you can't.  You're stuck with it.  That's what you agreed to, see T&Cs.

matelodave

If you are in contract then the cancellation charges will be about the same as if you stay with them until December. 

£2 a month extra for the next 7-8 months =£14-£16. The cancellation fees even at £26 a month will cost you nigh on £200.so there's really no benefit it telling them to get stuffed - just ride it out until then and cancel at the end of your contract..You might as well get the benefit of the service if you've got to pay for it.

akw2420

Ivor_Headache...
You may know what your doing but not everyone does.
You seem to to be advising that you can just connect a freesat box to a skyQ dish and Bob's your Uncle?
When you get skyQ installed , unless you pay extra to have a combined LNB fitted ,it   will only work with skyQ.
SkyHD+  and SkyQ use different LNB's.
You can tell whether you have a combined LNB or not  by whether there are 2 cables or 4 exiting the dish.

Neil_Jones

akw2420 said:

Ivor_Headache...
You may know what your doing but not everyone does.
You seem to to be advising that you can just connect a freesat box to a skyQ dish and Bob's your Uncle?
When you get skyQ installed , unless you pay extra to have a combined LNB fitted ,it   will only work with skyQ.
SkyHD+  and SkyQ use different LNB's.
You can tell whether you have a combined LNB or not  by whether there are 2 cables or 4 exiting the dish.

The 4k Freesat boxes will work with a SkyQ Wideband LNB.