Just had sky fibre installed

[AdamD]

Originally Posted by Mick Fisher

Lets hope it all goes according to plan

Indeed, although I still have Virgin till the 25th, so fingers crossed it works first time, heh

[nstokes]

Still not in my area yet sadly

[Harryn9000]

Originally Posted by Mick Fisher

Lets hope it all goes according to plan.

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Only you can decide, based on your personal requirements, what is the best deal.

However if saving a little money is your only concern then BT might be your best bet but bear in mind that you have to take a telephone service with your fibre BB service.

BT are a little cheaper than sky with their free install and half price for 6 month offers but offer more expensive telecom service, are renowned for adding stuff on to your bill that you never wanted, insist on 18month rolling contracts and actively protocol manage their network, support is offshored and on a par with VM.

Sky offer a free install for existing customers and cheaper telephone options. The BB is completely unmetered and unmanaged. The service is very reliable but from my limited experience the support has been UK based and very good. Contract is 12 months. I pay Sky £30pm for Fibre Pro (80/20) and was paying VM £30pm for 30/3 service. Offhand I can't remeber what sky talk costs except for me, with my usage, it offered a saving over my, at the time, BT line and the costly calling plan they insisted on foisting on me.

i looked at sky website at i could get just broadband for £10 pcm but then add line rental takes it to 25 quid mark, i'm not interested in getting a call package as getting a quality one of virgin but i am only one in my house using 100mb which i don't need but sky is quite appealing but had it in the past and got into trouble with it, plusnet is quite appealing aswell

[AdamD]

I hate the fact they force you to have their phone line, but I guess, it's a smallish price to pay for truly unlimited broadband.

Sky seems to be the only real unlimited provider these days, but you do pay a bit more for that luxury.

[Harryn9000]

thinking about it not rely bothered if it unlimited really aslong as i can do the same stuff i can do now

[Central]

I love it

[Chrysalis]

Originally Posted by keepitretro

and he also said there's only 2 people on fibre on the whole estate!!!!

vs 2000 on cable :p

[iateallthepies]

Off to Skys adsl until my cab is sorted. Those pings of yours are awesome.

[Qtx]

Superb pings!

Looking forward to being able to play games again once sky is installed. Wasted 6 months of a subscription due to VM jitter making it unplayable.

[Chrysalis]

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

The modem is supposedly to be always mounted on the wall, though the engineers who did my install explained why and left it up to me to do whatever.

Installation includes a free up-to-20m data extension kit which is basically an ethernet cable that plugs into the master socket and lets you site the modem that far away.

Where is the current ADSL router and what's stopping you putting a FTTC router in exactly the same place?

I was offered on the wall, I said no incase it made harder to change the modem for a hacked one but I sort of wish I said yes now.

[AdamD]

Hmm, had the new sky router delivered today, Sky always seems to get "most" things right, at least.

With Virgin it was a nightmare, so it's a nice relief to not only get updated at every stage, but to get texts saying when things are being delivered etc.

[iateallthepies]

Originally Posted by AdamD

Hmm, had the new sky router delivered today, Sky always seems to get "most" things right, at least.

With Virgin it was a nightmare, so it's a nice relief to not only get updated at every stage, but to get texts saying when things are being delivered etc.

Totally agree, sms texts off Sky telling me delivery of router to when Bt turning up (which they don`t have to as my line is active now and the ADSL is too )

[Mick Fisher]

Originally Posted by AdamD

Hmm, had the new sky router delivered today, Sky always seems to get "most" things right, at least.

With Virgin it was a nightmare, so it's a nice relief to not only get updated at every stage, but to get texts saying when things are being delivered etc.

Yes I have to agree. Although I doubted my sky router would show up in time for the install.

I was surprised to find Parcelforce delivering it at 07.00am on a Saturday morning in time for a Monday install. I didn't think that Parcel Force worked on Saturdays.

[AdamD]

Yea I had a text this morning, from Royalmail, at 7:02 saying your item (tracking number here) from Unipart on behalf of sky is due for delivery today and sure enough, it arrived today.
Then had a text a few hours later saying it had been delivered (..well duh :P)
hehe

[qasdfdsaq]

Originally Posted by Mick Fisher

I was surprised to find Parcelforce delivering it at 07.00am on a Saturday morning in time for a Monday install. I didn't think that Parcel Force worked on Saturdays.

They do indeed. One of the biggest electronics retailers in the country use them for their Saturday deliveries, often with an 8pm order cutoff. So you could order at 8pm Friday and have Parcel Farce at your door at 8am the next morning.

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Originally Posted by AdamD

Then had a text a few hours later saying it had been delivered (..well duh :P)
hehe

It's useful sometimes, I've once sat in all day from 11 til 5 without realising the idiots had already delivered my package to the neighbours at 10am. And they didn't bother updating the tracking info until after 7... That was with ******-link mind you