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Anyone got it?
We were always planning to get the Sky, "see speak surf" deal, as it seems quite good value for money.
My brother is telling me the internet is shit, although he doesnt have it himself, just from word of mouth.
Sharing a flat with 4 uni lads, likely to be playing poker, dowloading music etc. will it be ok?
We were always planning to get the Sky, "see speak surf" deal, as it seems quite good value for money.
My brother is telling me the internet is shit, although he doesnt have it himself, just from word of mouth.
Sharing a flat with 4 uni lads, likely to be playing poker, dowloading music etc. will it be ok?
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as for them being crap.. its an excellent service if it sets up properly initally, but it can be a pain if you have problems on the line or with the order .. or with your email
i personally wouldnt really recommend it
We're 5 students, and ours is usually fine. No worse from what I have at home.
I been on it like 5 days now - working well so far
Paying £10 per month for their top package - which is £5 a month less then what I was on before. If you've already shelling out for Sky TV then it seem excellent. They said I should be getting like the full speed as I'm close to the telephone exchange but getting 13 mb/s which is fine with me.
Also you got to remember people that are having bad experience are like 7 times more likely to complain then those who have a good service.
If you're happy with Sky Broadband then you're not very likely to be seeking out Sky Broadband related forums, etc to post how happy you are, but if it's not working for you - you're way more likely to be looking.
Okay i have it and its not the best.
for me it blocks me from running a dedicated games server for Half Life 2.
and their support service ain't the best because the broadband service is fairly new.
For example i want a new router because i believe mine to be faulty (long long story)
I spent 15 mins on the phone to some lady who had to "troubleshoot" the problem i was so angry because all i wanted was a bloody new router!
It's alright if you do the basic things i'm rather close to my exchange so i get good speeds.
I would Recommend Virgin media internet. It might be pricey, but you get what they say with no blocks.
Good man :thumb:
Considering i've just switched from them i'm not the best man at the moment
Oh BTW if you get someone to recommend you to Sky then you both get £30 worth of M&S Vouchers - so get a friend to recommend you to sky and treat yourself - if not I'll be happy to recommend ya ..
aah nice one, a weeks worth of luxary food for me.
ive ruled out virgin media as the TV package is shit, no sky one + no sky sports news.
Im used to internet in uni halls, so it cant get anyworse than that.
That can be said about pretty much every provider though. Everyone has stories about shoddy after service.
a lot of the processes they have set up for raising issues to higher technical departments etc arent really up to scratch to say the least.. the whole support system is a bit shit because its so new and because of the amount of people signing up
you cant really expect to ring up and demand new equipment, a company isnt going to want to send you a replacement product if they aren't certain its faulty.. and you'd be surpised at the amount of people who think they've got a broken router but its actually a problem at their end .. ALOT of people are seriously dim when it comes to things like that
well after spending 55 mins on the phone to an 0870 number and finding out its nothing there end and nothing to do with my computers, and ever since using there box had problems pretty much points me in the director of the box.
Yeah it was the food I was thinking about too on what to spent £30 on at M&S ..
:banghead:
Oh my god! I get the same thing expect i do it three times a day!!
Anyone else think sky aint that good now?
:yes:
1. You can reboot without unplugging - just go to 192.168.0.1
2. You can manually increase the minimum db level so it's less likely to disconnect in the first place
3. you can download a free program which monitors your web connection and automatically reboots for you if you lose the connection
That does not always work
Would'nt have a clue how to and sky haven't said so...
Might aswell try it