re Sky tv
 

Currently a vm customer however have to move to a new house because the old one is getting demolished, anyways the new apartment doesn't have vm (not a cabled area) but i do have a shared dish, each room has the sky connection (living room, and both bedrooms) however i want to have sky in each room but dont want to have to suffer watching the same stuff as the person in the living room.

i assume i have to get bt and can i get sky bb bundle? i move in on monday and i need to get all this stuff sorted before 2 weeks (carpets, laminated flooring etc)

how much do you think it will cost as i keep reading stuff about £199 a box:shocked:

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Sky+HD box is free and a second box non recordable HD is free with a £10.25 fee a month.
Try and build a bundle here
http://www.sky.com/shop/

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is the sky world package, all the packages combined apart from mutv, chelsea and espn?

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if the new place has infinity enabled go for a Sky package including fibre broadband. the broadband package you want to be on is called sky fibre pro or something which hasnt got the 2mb up cap. that of course is down to your usage and willingness to spend.

with regards to tv, sky multiroom is what your after. boxes are free but you pay extra per month.

call up and try to haggle

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infinity for my area is september 2012:p:

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use that to your advantage. endure ADSL with Sky then move up when Skys fibre product becomes available. they want your £££ ;)

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just done a post code search and it says i can get Sky Broadband Everyday Lite and Unlimited as long as i take sky line rental :)

currently forking out £130+ for vm

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call Skys CS

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The prices currently are as follows
Sky World £53.00
HD Pack £10.25
Sky Multiroom £10.25 with a free non recordable HD box
Sky Unlimited BB £7.50
Sky Talk £12.25 includes 01/02 calls after 7pm and weekends
Sky Talk Unlimited £5.00 for calls all day to 01/02 numbers

Total £98.25 if you took Sky Talk Unlimited , there are currently offers on via online for half price BB

When Fibre Optic becomes available at your exchange I believe the pricing is as follows

Upto 40mb / 2mb upload unlimited £20.00 which would add £12.50 to above price
Upto 80mb / 20mb upload unlimited £30.00 which would add £22.50 to above price.

Some prices may rise in September bear in mind , it's also worth noting ESPN would cost you an additional £9.00 if you have Sky Sports or £12.00 if you don't subscribe to Sky Sports.

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thats it all ordered, all booked for the 29th of may :)

now its time for the dreaded vm call :(

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what did you order and whats the break down of the deal you got?

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well my mum wanted the 1tb box

• Sky+HD 1TB box £149
• SkyHD Box Free
• SkyHD Box £49
• TV standard set-up Free
• Broadband Hardware Postage £2.18
• Line Rental Set-up £10
• Anytime+ engineer set-up Free

• Sky TV £40.50
  • - Entertainment Extra
  • - Sports 1 Pack
  • - Sports 2 Pack
  • - Movies 1 Pack
  • - Movies 2 Pack
• Sky Sports 3 Free
• Sky Sports 4 Free
• Sky Movies Premiere Free
• Disney Cinemagic Free
• HD Pack £5.12
• 2 x Multiroom subscription £20.50
• Broadband Unlimited £7.50
• Sky Talk Freetime Free
• Sky Talk Line Rental £12.25

£103 a month
i was paying about 130-140 a month for vm

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broadband postage and set up? thats nice of them. did you speak them about fibre becoming available later on in the year?

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september

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so there'll upgrade you when it becomes available or do you have to call in?

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they said they will phone me once it becomes available

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:tu:

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been on the phone for a 20+ mins trying to cancel vm, and they still wont take no for an answer

VM "but we can provide vm to you at your new address, cheaper bla bla"
me "i want to cancel vm"
vm "why"
me "because i've got a sky install coming tomorrow"
vm "you need to phone them after after this call and cancel them"
me "un fricken real" i then put the phone down

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was that retentions? tell them your getting fibre and your 30meters away from the cabinet and half mile away from the local exchange. and your getting sky sports 3, 4, f1 etc. in H 'bloody' D

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lol, i'll sort it during the week, i need to gear my self up for another long exhausting call.

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What speed have Sky estimated for your line until you get fibre ?

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between 9 -16mb

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could you be kind enough to set up ping monitors for both your ADSL connection and then Fibre when you get upgraded ?

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You will be lucky if you get that from my experiences.

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Anytime+ will function perfectly well even at your lowest speed , I receive 9mb through Sky Unlimited BB and Anytime+ HD content is generally available to play within 30-45 seconds.

---------- Post added at 15:17 ---------- Previous post was at 15:16 ----------

What experiences you don't have any of Sky :confused:
He has to receive within that guideline or he can cancel , his line can obviously cope with the minimum 9mb , my estimate was 5-11mb I get 9mb.

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My estimate was 9.6 - 16 but im getting 20mb

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My estimate was 1.5 to 2.5 ish Mbps and I get close to 6

Roll on the 28th when I hopefully get Sky fibre installed.

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will do, quick question does the sky equipment get posted days before the visit or does the sky engineer bring the equipment?
reason i ask is that i haven't moved into the new house yet (between flit)

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thanks man. they send you out the equipment and then openreach come out and installs it for you I think

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Mine was posted out , I received it approximately one week before my line went live.

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is there any chance i can contact sky and have them send out the equipment to my old adress as i haven't moved in yet

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probably, not sure. postman pat might end up giving it to your new neighbours

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problem sorted, engineer is bringing the equipment, thats a load off my mind

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l have had several experiences in the last couple of years whilst staying with family in several places and the speed we got was 0.5MB to 1.0MB.

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Simple answer to that Den is there on a long line from the exchange or have a fault , my parents can't get much over 1mb with a BT line due to being on a long line however theyre exchange is due to be upgraded for fibre later this year.

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l think there is a lot of truth in how far users are from the exchange as both members of my family are 8 to 10 miles from the exchange.

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Unfortunately Den , that is the limitation for some with long lines , my Sky BB line gives me 9mb which for my use i'm more than happy with until a time when my exchange is upgraded to fibre giving me the option to upgrade to either 40/2 or 80/20 service from Sky.

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Due to a mess up by vm my new install date for phone and bRoadband and is now the 7th of June

I have 3 non activated phone jacks (living room and 1 in each bedroom) 2 bedrooms so will sky still install the box plus 2 multirooms or is this gonna be a further delay?

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there'll fit new cables for the boxes via the dish

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they didn't, i got shafted big style and now i'm on the war path with the housing people, the return connection for sky+ is apparently not working, no multiroom either because there was sky connectors in the rooms, so because of the total balls up i never got the 1tb sky+hd box

absolutely furious

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huh?

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i got sky hd, thats it, nothing more nothing less, 1 box that only records 1 channel

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why? could you elaborate please

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the 2 installers came up to install the sky tb box, plus the 2x multirooms, but when they went into the room they said it couldn't be done i'd have to get the housing to sort it or id have fork out the money for it, , so i never got the 2x multiroom installed (i have no idea why) just said they don't do that type of install whatever the hell that meant, so the engineer passed me onto the cs, was asked a few questions and then the installer said we have another problem, the return connection in my house aint working so i can only have the tb box but can only record 1 thing at a time, i said fine so the guy installs the tb box and it all goes well, 5 mins later the the other installer comes up and says because of the order you made and because we can't do the instal for that order you cant get the tb box they then installed the hd+ box

no tb box, no multirooms and only 1 recordable feed.

5 mins with sky and now i ask my self the question, why did i even bother

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you live in a flat or house? they meant to say they wont drill holes etc. ?

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its a flat with a shared dish, the housing don't want dishes all over the place so its a shared dish, in each room there is a connection for the out door ariel, all he said to me was he doesn't do tat type of installation.

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then call someone that does. did they not say they will send someone senior out? does each box need its own cable from the dish itself or can the feed be split within your property?

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i asked about using a spliter, he said it can't be done because the lnb would burn out

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he's right, you can't (googled it) not sure what your going to do now. contact the housing people and push for an agreement between sky and the housing people or tell them to get VM feeds installed

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Bt ole reach just sent me a MSG saying I don't need a engineer to come out to install bb and phone and that I can do it my elf on Thursday, if that's the case how the hell can I not have it activated sooner rather than later

Need to get the clerks of work out, the freeview wall plates don't work in the bedrooms.