Sky Broadband

richard · 25th January 2007

I'm sorry to say I have been tempted away from Plus.net to Sky simply based on pricing, As my ADSL line is not business critical I cannot see why I can refuse £5 per month instead of £21.99 per month

Time will tell I know, but what are you thoughts about Sky Broadband (easynet)

Solidhost-John · 25th January 2007

Well from what I have read plus net weren't overly reliable anyway? As for Sky, did you get their ADSL2 package ?

[inx]Olly · 26th January 2007

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ligaya · 26th January 2007

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Originally Posted by [inx]Olly

Is it really a fiver a month?

What restrictions are there?

Apparently so! Info here - http://broadband.sky.com/

Product "MID"
Download Speed - Up to 8Mb
Monthly Usage Cap - 40Gb
Free 12 Months McAfee
Free Wireless Broadband Box
Activation Fee - £20
Home Install Option - £50
Monthly Price - £5

Surely they're making a lost, even the BT loop charges are higher than £5! - maybe their doing it as a loss to get volume, same as Sky TV itself!

richard · 26th January 2007

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Originally Posted by li***a

Apparently so! Info here - http://broadband.sky.com/

Product "MID"
Download Speed - Up to 8Mb
Monthly Usage Cap - 40Gb
Free 12 Months McAfee
Free Wireless Broadband Box
Activation Fee - £20
Home Install Option - £50
Monthly Price - £5

Surely they're making a lost, even the BT loop charges are higher than £5! - maybe their doing it as a loss to get volume, same as Sky TV itself!

Yup, that will be the one, however until my exchange in unbundled they are offering their "connect" package, which is a standard BT Wholesale 8Mbps with 40GB allowance for £5 instead of £17.99 - £20 install covers the SKY firmwared Netgear DG834GT wireless router, only restrictions with all of the above is that it is a 12 month contract and you must also subscribe to Sky TV

markcastle · 26th January 2007

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othellotech · 26th January 2007

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Originally Posted by richard

only restrictions with all of the above is that it is a 12 month contract and you must also subscribe to Sky TV

And they can reduce their massive advertising bill becuase you're doing it for them by talking about it. The backhaul they hope will go over the EasyNet LLU systems, so its only the BT Fees that they add on, you're almost covering that with your payment, and they guarantee another year of your hard-earned on the TV package

heypresto · 26th January 2007

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SKY firmwared Netgear DG834GT wireless router

Am I right in saying you cannot use your own hardware instead? A colleague has told me that Sky do not reveal your username and password to you.

richard · 26th January 2007

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Originally Posted by heypresto

Am I right in saying you cannot use your own hardware instead? A colleague has told me that Sky do not reveal your username and password to you.

There is something done, i'm not sure it hasn't arrived yet, but the following site reveals how to use normal hardware "somehow"

http://dg834gt.mognuts.com/NetgearRouterUtility.html

[inx]Olly · 26th January 2007

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othellotech · 26th January 2007

If you spend money on advertising it reduces your nett profits, if you spend it on cost-of-sale service provision, it affects your gross profits, making you look a "leaner" company !

I heard that the sky ad budget was in excess of £170m/yr

So even if they do sub the b/band wholesale price by £4/subscriber/month, adding another 1m saps to their pay-TV service only "costs" them £48m - more efective than the ads, and at a quarter of the price - no brainer really.

Kemik · 3rd February 2007

I thought that they would just be another "Free / low cost" broadband host but they're bandwidth limit is the same as BTs! Anyone know if they block ports, or anything like that?

Thanks.

UKE-Craig · 24th February 2007

I was planning to join sky since we have sky & it was free for current clients until I rang them & they tried to slap a £200 connection fee lol. We currently use BT's business solutions & its great.

Winterz · 23rd March 2007

Richard any feedbacks/news for Sky BB?? Im thinking of migrating too.

ukgaz · 23rd March 2007

using their max package at home, when they say upto, they really mean it, at one point you could be hitting a nice 16mbit, the next you could be dropped down to about 500kbytes, but i'd say 600kbytes is about average