Free wifi dongle for Sky Box for movies and HD customers

nstokes · 02-06-2013, 12:08

See link. Seems Sky Movies and HD customers can get a free wifi adaptor for Sky Box.

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...64&postcount=1

muppetman11 · 02-06-2013, 12:13

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Originally Posted by nstokes

See link. Seems Sky Movies and HD customers can get a free wifi adaptor for Sky Box.

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...64&postcount=1

Yes it's to promote and increase the use of On Demand I believe.

nstokes · 02-06-2013, 12:24

People on DS says free for them but shows i need to pay sadly

dilli-theclaw · 02-06-2013, 15:00

Well it came up as free for me so cheers

02-06-2013, 16:24

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Originally Posted by nstokes

People on DS says free for them but shows i need to pay sadly

It is free, but when you first try to buy it it comes up at £21ish..But scroll down the page it says free for existing movie customers

Sing into MySky go to this link, scroll down about a third of the page and there is a banner offering free adapter to existing movie subscribers. If you have movies when you click to buy through that link the price is £00.00. I've done it and I also bought 2 of them when they were reduced to £9.99 a few months back.

http://www.sky.com/shop/tv/wireless-connector/

nstokes · 02-06-2013, 16:39

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Originally Posted by Bogof

It is free, but when you first try to buy it it comes up at £21ish..But scroll down the page it says free for existing movie customers

Sing into MySky go to this link, scroll down about a third of the page and there is a banner offering free adapter to existing movie subscribers. If you have movies when you click to buy through that link the price is £00.00. I've done it and I also bought 2 of them when they were reduced to £9.99 a few months back.

http://www.sky.com/shop/tv/wireless-connector/

Thanks for that i have found it now and shows as £0.00 and order has been placed

muppetman11 · 03-06-2013, 08:30

I also managed to order this and got it totally free , nice to keep as a backup as all my boxes are currently wired.

nstokes · 03-06-2013, 11:42

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Originally Posted by muppetman11

I also managed to order this and got it totally free , nice to keep as a backup as all my boxes are currently wired.

I agree, always best to have a backup. Mine has now been shipped according to order tracker

Chad · 05-06-2013, 00:23

Decided to order one myself.

greeninferno · 10-06-2013, 17:21

I just received one of these free thanks to the link.

what sorts of speedsd are people getting for downloading stuff?

An SD program i tried started virtually instantly.

tried a 30 minHD program and it and it literally took over an hour.

Its connected to the Superhub 1 - is this the bottle neck?

I can only get around 20 Mbit on a laptop positoned right next to it, the sky dongle is downstairs.

As opposed to full 60 Mbit from the main PC.

muppetman11 · 10-06-2013, 17:51

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Originally Posted by greeninferno

I just received one of these free thanks to the link.

what sorts of speedsd are people getting for downloading stuff?

An SD program i tried started virtually instantly.

tried a 30 minHD program and it and it literally took over an hour.

Its connected to the Superhub 1 - is this the bottle neck?

I can only get around 20 Mbit on a laptop positoned right next to it, the sky dongle is downstairs.

As opposed to full 60 Mbit from the main PC.

My main Sky+HD box is wired via Ethernet to my router and my line speed is 9mb , HD content is usually available in 5-15 seconds , I would suggest the wifi is slowing it down somehow.

greeninferno · 10-06-2013, 18:03

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Originally Posted by muppetman11

My main Sky+HD box is wired via Ethernet to my router and my line speed is 9mb , HD content is usually available in 5-15 seconds , I would suggest the wifi is slowing it down somehow.

Yes it must be.

30 min HD program 1.31 GB took 3 hours to fullly download.

greeninferno · 11-06-2013, 01:26

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Originally Posted by greeninferno

Yes it must be.

30 min HD program 1.31 GB took 3 hours to fullly download.

just had a check on the Sky help Forums and there are scores of people having problems with slow downloads on all sorts of ISPs and different set ups.