sky broadband..

[butty]

for those with the sky shabang ya can now get sky broadband cheap as chips. the fastest 16mb service is only a ten spot a month. im payin 35 a month at the mo for a 2mb line with zen so gonna switch over sharpish

check it oot

www.skybroadband.com

 

[CANO ...]

Im on this or talk talk , soon as i get a bt line

Feck paying 35 a month

 

[R J]

Do ya homework on talk talk before you jump in, a couple of people I know have gone for it and have had a bit of a nightmare. They are supplying shit USB modems with the package too, no wireless.

The sky one gives you a netgear wireless router which are the dogs ..

 

[ClaireW]

I am getting this Sky thing .. beats being on dial up :$

 

[Amelie]

Do ya homework on talk talk before you jump in, a couple of people I know have gone for it and have had a bit of a nightmare. They are supplying shit USB modems with the package too, no wireless.

The sky one gives you a netgear wireless router which are the dogs ..

If it is the Netgear shit, then i can cay with confidance that its terrible. I had this last year with cable at my old house- it was forever going off. It was also quite slow for broadband. Jonno and I chatted about getting this from Sky last week, but i was unaware at the time that is was the Netgear thang.

 

[Elev8/Levit8]

If it is the Netgear shit, then i can cay with confidance that its terrible. I had this last year with cable at my old house- it was forever going off. It was also quite slow for broadband. Jonno and I chatted about getting this from Sky last week, but i was unaware at the time that is was the Netgear thang.

Amz, i assume you mean the Netgear DG834...
How long you had it?
There were issues with these a year or so ago with dropping connections etc, but to the best of my knowledge they have all been fixed with new firmware releases. If you're having problems, try re-flashing it (do a backup first). Don't re-flash it over a wireless connection mind Mine's on the latest firmware & has been fine for months. I can't remember the last time I had to reboot it or tinker with it's settings.

 

[CANO ...]

Different views on this

Anyone else got talk talk or sky bb ??

 

[RetroAndy]

Be getting Sky as soon as i have moved house. Paying 25 squids now for 2 meg line so be daft not too

 

[blue jammer]

"Fair play policy" - it might not be 'unlimited' as offered.

I'd read the small print on your contracts and see about their refund policy if it is limited in anyway.

If anyone gets it, can you confirm if you need to have a BT line in order to have this, and can you get the broadband option without having the TV services etc?

£10/month all in would be good, but I can't see it myself, you'd have the BT line rental as well to pay - whats that £11/month as well?

 

[Str33tb0y]

ive been on at my mum and dad to get hooked up wit the sky deal, its gota be better than dial up theyve got now they always want me to fix their pc when im down there but downloading updates and patches on dialup takes ages, but they say broadband is too expensive for the amount of time they use it..lol i say get in the 21st century mum and dad

 

[Dj Britalian]

get in the 21st century mum and dad

lol, i know where your coming from

Managed to convince my folks to sort it out

 

[butty]

"Fair play policy" - it might not be 'unlimited' as offered.

I'd read the small print on your contracts and see about their refund policy if it is limited in anyway.

If anyone gets it, can you confirm if you need to have a BT line in order to have this, and can you get the broadband option without having the TV services etc?

£10/month all in would be good, but I can't see it myself, you'd have the BT line rental as well to pay - whats that £11/month as well?

well the option below the 'max' option that is a tenner a month had a usage limit of 40gig a month but thats only peak time (6pm-midnight) so it will be deffo above that. and that for peak time downloadage aint too bad.

most of the high usage accounts have some form of fair usage policy on there. if i was to change to zens 8meg option id have a limit of 50 gig a month (at any time) which way aint near enough. and there a fortune.

it makes me laugh tho as i wanna know how the hell 'unlimited' is really in effect limited

if u break skys fair use policy they can cancel ya contract, slow ya line down etc etc but they give u warnings before then. i doubt unless u go over 100 gig at peak times then ya will hear from em which is a hell of a lot.

you need a bt line to be get it and u need to have sky n the 30 quid tv package, thats why theyve don the deal to try n get more peeps to sign up to the tv side of things. its a good deal for those already with sky n got the channels n that fo sho.

 

[Shooms]

I'm likin the look o' this.. cheers for linkage

NTL can 0121... do one

Need to ensure that I can pick up me contract n walk with it up to Manchester when I eventually move...

 

[ClaireW]

u need to have sky n the 30 quid tv package

So if you got a standard Sky package with limited channels (like no movies/sports) then do you have to pay more than is stated on the website ?

Say for instance if you went for the max package with free installation and free monthly fee etc would I still have to pay somewhere along the line cos I only have the standard Sky package and no movies/sports etc ?

Does that make sense :|

 

[butty]

So if you got a standard Sky package with limited channels (like no movies/sports) then do you have to pay more than is stated on the website ?

Say for instance if you went for the max package with free installation and free monthly fee etc would I still have to pay somewhere along the line cos I only have the standard Sky package and no movies/sports etc ?

Does that make sense :|

ah jus checked n it says 'whichever sky package your on' so to me that says as long as u have one of the sky packages then your eligible for it chuck

 

[nics]

not into the sky tv shiznit, so its just the phone and broadband i need

im paying the ordinary £17.99 for me tinterweb and then £13.99 +calls on me BT phone, so was thinking of checking out the talk talk, but i wana see if anybody else is on it and what they think??

 

[Charlie]

Has anyone actually got this new Sky Broadband deal up and running yet ?

When I first seen it advertised a month or so ago, I went onto there website and signed up. I was told that I would recieve more information and have yet to recieve a thing from them.

If it's not actually up and running then I think it's a bit shitty there ads clearly stating that "Sky broadband is here"

 

[butty]

it is here mate i know of a few whove got it, as so many people have signed up for it there havin problems rollin em out as quick so theres a bit of a backlog at the mo

 

[Stylee]

Is a cracking deal, if i didnt get mine free from work i would go with them

Another reason for the delay is that there are several problems with brass profiles at the exchanges, most of it is sorted now, but on the MAX rate adaptive packages they were defaulting to 2mb as the brass still held the information prior to the extended bandwidth being released.

Thank god its gettin sorted now tho, did you say yours is active now butty or are you still toying with the notion of going to sky, if anyone has an active MAX package with sky could you let me know how your finding it as my sis is looking for a full package and looks like this could be the way for her.

Ta all
Robbie

 

[Str33tb0y]

not into the sky tv shiznit, so its just the phone and broadband i need

im paying the ordinary £17.99 for me tinterweb and then £13.99 +calls on me BT phone, so was thinking of checking out the talk talk, but i wana see if anybody else is on it and what they think??

nics ive heard a lot of peeps moaning about this so i would tread carefully the contention ratios arent too great apparantly:S