sky's free broadband, any good?

S3quence

tightbarsteward wrote: »

No its not Netgear.

mine is im looking at it right now

DatabaseError

s3quence, yours may be (netgear 834GT), but the v2 router supplied by sky is a sagem, or so the users say.

espresso

The latest routers supplied by Sky are made by Sagem or Netgear.

baron777red

thanks to s3quence for your reply, your right i'm not interested in what the router does and what to do if it breaks,

im not technically minded so all this about routers have gone over my head

Inactive

baron777red wrote: »

im not technically minded so all this about routers have gone over my head

That sounds like the qualities of Sky, first line support staff.. :rotfl:

Sparky29

You can now get £150 cashback by going through quidco.

http://www.quidco.com/sky-digital/

I'm seriously thinking about changing. For a TV/ Broadband/ phone package its only going to be about £5 more than I'm already paying Madasafish for broadband alone. Plus £150. Win Win :j

mhoc

Thinking about having the full sky package, 4 , unlimited phone calls, mid range package and this will come to £29 a month. A good saving because at the moment we are paying £21 sky, £29 orange plus whatever to BT.

But we want a sky plus box which is £99 plus there is the £30 installation total £129.

We already have a dish and have been with sky since the start so we are out of contract. I did try to have a conversation with sky this morning but got nowhere and she then offered to put me through to the cancellation department who didnt answer and then got cut off :mad:

So is there any way out of paying the £129?

Also I think we already have unlimited calls with BT so do I just go online and cancel this or do i have to ring them up?

Where we are we are the furthest possible from our box and so only get 0.5 megabits, maybe 1.5 on a good day. Some times of the day its impossible to get pages to load and if anyone tries to download films on their laptops the main stand alone freezes altogether. So better a free broadband for the very little we do get.

matrix999

Try and get thru to the Sky Retention Dept they have the authority to give better deals incl Free Sky + and connection

S3quence

mhoc wrote: »

Thinking about having the full sky package, 4 , unlimited phone calls, mid range package and this will come to £29 a month. A good saving because at the moment we are paying £21 sky, £29 orange plus whatever to BT.

But we want a sky plus box which is £99 plus there is the £30 installation total £129.

We already have a dish and have been with sky since the start so we are out of contract. I did try to have a conversation with sky this morning but got nowhere and she then offered to put me through to the cancellation department who didnt answer and then got cut off :mad:

So is there any way out of paying the £129?

Also I think we already have unlimited calls with BT so do I just go online and cancel this or do i have to ring them up?

Where we are we are the furthest possible from our box and so only get 0.5 megabits, maybe 1.5 on a good day. Some times of the day its impossible to get pages to load and if anyone tries to download films on their laptops the main stand alone freezes altogether. So better a free broadband for the very little we do get.

I think though not 100% sure you can buy the sky+ box elsewhere and just get sky to activate Sky+ for you. I know a friend of mine did that as back in the day you got a bigger harddrive in the boxes. This obv means if the box breaks you need to buy another one

twins4384

Further to the above, you would need another feed from the dish as the Sky+ box needs two inputs from the dish.