Morning...
I'm not sure if im allowed to post asking about this so sorry ops if so.
Im looking for advice from people who have changed there ISP and gone with the sky package... or thought about it as to whether you have/would of benefitted from it or not.
I wanna cut down on stuff and paying all the 3 seperate is costing me approx £75 - £80 a month. I've done a quick workout going off all the same things i have with sky now.. and it would cut down to approx £50 a month!!!
Any advice appreiated, thanks
Lil xx
Morning Lilmiss,
We went from Virgin to Sky about 6 months ago and we've really noticed a differencce - not in a good way.
I don't know how much we're spending (I let Her deal with this one as she's much better bargaining than me!) but it's less than what you're paying right now. We've got the full Sky+ package including movies with evening and weekend calls but only 6Mb broadband (cos we're so far from the exchange). It's ok but Virgin was much better.
We USED to get the full Virgin package (for a tiny bit more) but we had MUCH faster broadband - 20Mb vs 6Mb and the V+ box is a million times better than the Sky+ box. (More recording channels and time and the GUI is better too)
Go Virgin with optical broadband if you can get it. Sky sucks botty.
But thats just my opinion!
*Him*
This is 1 of the things that's putting me off... all the cock ups and messing about. I couldn't be without my net for 2 weeks.
I don't have sky movies or sport so thats what would keep it alot cheaper for me.. Have done in the past, but paid for something i never used.. so refuse to now.
I used to have phone broadband and tv from virgin and was always fine....have only ever had the slowest virgin broadband but its fine for surfing and the odd doanload.....heard lots of bad things about skys broadband slowin down when its busy....
GaryandthelovelyDanne ....
I have Sky+ and wouldn't be without it, I abs love it!... but however, I wouldn't touch Sky broadband again if they paid me!. We were on the Max 18 month ago and it was terrible, dropping connection never being able to connect.
We're on Orange now and have not had a bit of bother.
I see your point in the seperate payments, if we total ours my monthly outgoing is approx which is madness but I get quality for that.
I have been looking at the Tiscali deal with everything all in, phone, BB and TV but I need to know more about that before I switch.
Im with orange, and have been for the last 4 yrs... it was wanadoo & freeserve b4 orange took it over. I've never had any issues with them.. I think in 4 yrs ive only not been able to connect 3 times, which is pretty good.
it's a horrible decision to make Lilmiss, it's a case of better the devil you know because you get tied in for 12 months at least.. I don't envy you right now, good luck x
hi little miss
i used to have virgin broadband and tiscali for my line & rental and the normal sky.
i decided to combine them all into the sky package and pay my line rental to sky which you can do.
i found it quite easy and seemless to transfer the broadband using a mac code. i got it off virgin after a lot of hassle and phone calls to them.
i gave it to sky and they transfered me on the day they quoted.
i don't have any problems with sky broadband itself, only with the online email facility which sometimes doesn't let you access it due to it has crashed but i don't have the problems crashing or getting kicked off that i was having on virgin.
it has worked out saving me around £30 a month having them combined rather than paying seperate bills.
N. B. with the sky (being a bit of a tech head), i know they are lauching a new downloadable music system similar and cheaper to itunes and also video on demand service is due to be launched shortly which is similar to the one that virgin (virgin on demand) offer as well as a few other things they have in the pipeline..
Im currently with Sky for tv.. Bt for fone and Orange for internet.
I have just been having a look at this on virgin too..4 for £40.
But thats only available till 30th sept.
not sure if sky works the same way but when i thought about moving as i was paying to much i phoned virgin up and said i wasnt happy with the bills and that sky or such n such did this offer which was a better deal, they did me a deal which more than halved the cost of the bill and i didnt have to move
If they value the custom they should do a deal with you?
i pay £33 per month fees for 10 meg bb xl tv package (145 channels) and telephone line and talk unlimited anytime and get 2 free mobile numbers to ring
We've always been with Virgin (for about 10 years) and have never had any problems.
Talk Talk in my opinion are pants. My nan changed over to them and it was terrible, she paid the £70 disconnection charge rather than paying the £70 they wanted to charge them for moving house!. Their customer service is appuling, my nan couldn't understand what they were saying to her so I had to speak to them...I wouldn't even go with them for free!
Got the full Sky+ package and have BB with Sky as well....
BB is brilliant.....Never slow.......Never lost a connection and for £10 a month quite reasonable..
we have sky for TV with sky plus, we didnt like the set up of Virgin TV
We have BB with Virgin you can actually just have the BB without the phone, we cancelled the phone due to us having mobile contracts and cold callers.
Ive not heard many people give Virgin a bad word when it comes to BB
) then the Sky+ box and dish was installed next day. I went into hospital then thinking the rest would all be sorted by the time I came out but no.
) and 2 wireless adapters ( one for lappy and one for son's pc in his room ) Son's got his working ok but the speed is so slow.
) so while I couldn't set the wireless router up, I still had my virgin modem working.
