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Old 02-06-2013, 12:08   #1
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Free wifi dongle for Sky Box for movies and HD customers

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
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Old 02-06-2013, 12:13   #2
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re: Free wifi dongle for Sky Box for movies and HD customers

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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.
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Old 02-06-2013, 12:24   #3
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People on DS says free for them but shows i need to pay sadly
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Re: Free wifi dongle for Sky Box for movies and HD customers

Well it came up as free for me so cheers
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Old 02-06-2013, 16:24   #5
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Re: Free wifi dongle for Sky Box for movies and HD customers

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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/
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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
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Old 03-06-2013, 08:30   #7
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Re: Free wifi dongle for Sky Box for movies and HD customers

I also managed to order this and got it totally free , nice to keep as a backup as all my boxes are currently wired.
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Old 03-06-2013, 11:42   #8
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Re: Free wifi dongle for Sky Box for movies and HD customers

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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
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Re: Free wifi dongle for Sky Box for movies and HD customers

Decided to order one myself.
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Re: Free wifi dongle for Sky Box for movies and HD customers

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.
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Re: Free wifi dongle for Sky Box for movies and HD customers

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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.
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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.
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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.
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