TV, broadband package advice

Get Sky home broadband and home phone package. Quite cheap and the first 6 months at half price. Then subscribe to British Eurosport for 2.99 a month and stream it through a loptop to ya TV. Works well and you get all the bike racing you can eat as well as cycling ( Tour de France, Spanish Velta etc )

 

Broadband speeds will depend on how far you are away from the exchange, our cul-de-sac does not have cable infrastructure installed, so had to go for SKY, however i use plusnet for my broadband, shop around most company websites have a speed checker for your address.

 

theres everything wrong with profit of that obscene amount...............whos paying for it us the public!!!!!

then you get the businesses like the cocking banks the say " oh our profit is down 5.34% we've not had a good year......................but the fact is they still made a massive profit just not as massive as the year before.......paid for by us the public...

And what about that basted bank thats said its made a loss of 3 something million......then because they have had to put 7 trillion aside to cover the miss sold ppi.......somewhere else where they cocking ripped off the public.....


So YES theres a lot wrong with obscene profit!!!!!!!!

 

Yes, it is the final bit of the connection that determines speed.

I just stick with Freeview, there just isn't the quality on Sky to justify it. If you don't like men kicking balls, and I don't, then why would anyone subscribe to Sky; tabloid TV at its worst.

 

Particularly true when the company concerned is operating in a free market where we can choose to buy their products or not, unlike the Olympics which will be paid for by the taxpayer, whether we like it or not; now that is obscene.

 

Is that a good thing or a bad thing ?

 

Or using the as said public money to promote british private shareholders...................er i mean businesses!


its the obscene amount of profit that the tax payer is having to pay that is stumbling the growth in this country!
Especially when these companies that have been shown to rip us all off and worse than that illegally, still pay off the o so valuable ones at the top such ridiculous amounts of money that the average ones of us can't even begin to comprehend!

 

I find myself agreeing to a great extent with Andyb, here.

Oh god, am I sick? What should I do? I need medical assistance!

 

you know it makes sense.......

 

I know, Andy, that's what's worrying me! :wink:

 

Got sky tv pay 40 per month with all movies etc but not the sports channel as its all football shite and racing is on Eurosport anyhow, broadband is free through orange as I have a mobile contract with them and bagged my broadband for nowt! BT landline which is 15 per month and all in all service is great for all 3, I've just recommended my mum to sky as she is looking at getting all 3 and we both get 75 quid of vouchers when she signs up! Happy days!

 

For what it's worth i would'nt touch Virgin with a barge pole, last year i also decided to go for a total package, phone, tv & broadband, decided on Virgin, arranged it all over the phone with their useless call center staff, eventually. then they did'nt install the phone, why not? well they have to install a line from the local BT green box by the road side,it's only TV & internet that comes through the cable, only where i live there ar'nt any spare lines, and BT won't be installing any more any time soon. I later found out that they knew they could'nt fullfill the deal before they sold it to me. took me ages to try to sort it out, eventually told them to stuff it & take it out. they tried to keep charging me for a service they wer'nt supplying and still owe me money back, that i don't expect to see again. Absolute thieving basterds.

 

I do Sky for TV/Phone/Broadband its not bad, just do the basic Sky TV package that gets me Eurosport and documentaries and I'm happy with that, their phone service is about the same as Talk Talk and BT but their Broadband service is better, you can if you like really download all the time if you want and they dont cap you, other ISP's I've tried will do this, inc Virgin and BT Talk Talk too.

I've only had to call Sky twice about my broadband, the first time the guy had half a clue but managed to sort things out, the second time a different guy was very impressive with the way he dealt with my problem, about the best service I've ever had from a utility company to be honest.

As has been mentioned, if you threaten to leave Sky once in a while they will do you a deal for 6 months or so to keep you, its been about a year since I've done it so might chance my luck again in about 6 months

 

I forgot about that, my Sisters contract for BT is up soon and I'll go that route, thanks.

 

I've been with Virgin (and before that Telewest, which was the same thing) for about 10 years and I've generally found them to be excellent. The TV package is fine, we don't bother with Sky Sports or Movies, but they are there if you want them. The only thing I miss is Sky Atlantic.

The broadband is very good, I have 2 teenage daughters and it's not an issue at any time.

Customer service is much better now, last time we had an issue with the TV signal degrading at night on recordings they diagnosed it over the phone and sent an engineer to fit a booster pack and it's been perfect since.

There Tivo box (same as Sky+) works well and gives you the option to record 3 channels at once (better than Sky).

At the end of the day it's coming through a cable, whereas Sky is a copper wire from BT.

 

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