Sky....

I only have their broadband and have done for years. Bar the usual tedious song and dance of having to ring up every time the offer expires to get the price knocked down, it's been grand and I've had no complaints. The last three months or so however it's been shocking. Wi-fi dropouts consistently, and inexplicable hours here and there where the speed drops by about 80% on the wired network. Anybody else experience a drop in quality?
 


Had cable from its onset in Sunderland and initially it was great. The price went up and up so I got rid and bought a Freesat box. I've got Netflix that costs me nothing but I mostly watch YouTube these days. I will never go back to paying to watch ordinary tv. I would pay for britbox, prime or Netflix as they are relatively cheap. But not Virgin or sky.
Was considering a Freesat box as a next move cos we hardly ever watch live TV, probably 95% on demand and catch up.

Depends what deal you can get at the time of signing up though, think it ended up costing us about £6 a month more to get TV included than it would have done getting broadband and Netflix separately.
 
I'll be the first to admit Sky's coverage of the F1 is second to none, but apart from that I think they are really slipping or at least not moving with the times. Take a look at the football, when it's on amazon you can pick which game you want to watch, they are all there, rather than them picking the big games and the same top teams over and over. They have also lost more and more football to others like BT. Other sports too, cricket is getting more coverage elsewhere.

I have my broadband with them, but Virgin are finally in the process of digging up the streets around me and putting cable in so I will finally have a choice of something other than ADSL, and believe me their bottom package costing the same as I currently pay (£27.99) for more than double the speed will have me jumping ship sharpish.
Virgin broadband speeds are much better but their router range is horrendous. If you have any walls in your house expect it will not work properly lol. Many (including me) put the virgin router in to “modem mode” and buy a better router. Do that and it’s brilliant.

Just a little something if you do switch over.
 
Was considering a Freesat box as a next move cos we hardly ever watch live TV, probably 95% on demand and catch up.

Depends what deal you can get at the time of signing up though, think it ended up costing us about £6 a month more to get TV included than it would have done getting broadband and Netflix separately.
When I last had virgin I was paying 50 a month for the basic package with BB.
That was quite a few years ago as well. I would imagine it's gone up quite a bit given the number of rises they inflict on customers. I had three rises in the last year I was with them. I now pay 22 for fibre BB and nothing for TV.
The daft thing was I didn't leave because of the cost. I had an old NTL router, (not WiFi) and a NTL TV box with no hdmi port. I asked for newer hardware and was told I'd have to pay an installation fee, take out a new contract and my 50 quid monthly charge would be increased.
I told the call centre girl I didn't want to do any of those things and I would leave virgin instead. She replied ok you can do that. So I did and cancelled everything.
Within days a supervisor was on to me offering everything I asked for and even offered me a new TV when I refused. They lost a customer for buttons really and now I'd never go back to them.
 
I was offered £27 quid for Signature and movies. That included a charge for HD and a £10 admin fee on top.
I turned it down, not paying £10 for someone to press a button. Don't agree with having to pay extra for HD these days either, HD is standard now and should be treated as such.
I didn't mention Sky Q to them, but I reckon I've been with Sky 18 years now, in that time I've only ever had one free bit of tech from them, the old white box.
Don't think its too much to ask that they throw in a shiny new Sky Q UHD one for nowt.
It's going off in a few days. I rarely watch it to be fair, it's just the convenience I like.
Will see if I miss it.
 
We've got the lot from Sky and it all works superbly so I would not be without it.

same as Apple - we've all got iphones and ipads and will never change. Also got Netfix which we rarely watch, Amazon prime and the normal terrestrial TV.

For some reason we cannot get netflix to work on the Tv so we have to watch it on Ipad - bugga

I wonder what its like "outside" these days?
 
We've got the lot from Sky and it all works superbly so I would not be without it.

same as Apple - we've all got iphones and ipads and will never change. Also got Netfix which we rarely watch, Amazon prime and the normal terrestrial TV.

For some reason we cannot get netflix to work on the Tv so we have to watch it on Ipad - bugga

I wonder what its like "outside" these days?
What sky box have you got? If you've got a q box Netflix works perfectly.
 
I was offered £27 quid for Signature and movies. That included a charge for HD and a £10 admin fee on top.
I turned it down, not paying £10 for someone to press a button. Don't agree with having to pay extra for HD these days either, HD is standard now and should be treated as such.
I didn't mention Sky Q to them, but I reckon I've been with Sky 18 years now, in that time I've only ever had one free bit of tech from them, the old white box.
Don't think its too much to ask that they throw in a shiny new Sky Q UHD one for nowt.
It's going off in a few days. I rarely watch it to be fair, it's just the convenience I like.
Will see if I miss it.
You should be a gold vip member being with them all that time and that means you would get a free upgrade to skyq.
 
You should be a gold vip member being with them all that time and that means you would get a free upgrade to skyq.
I've a Platinum Sky VIP thing I think, (they've put it on hold since I cancelled).
From memory, the offer on there was for a free Q UHD box if I took out multiroom for extra money each month. Didn't want or need multiroom though and didn't want to pay more.
 
I've a Platinum Sky VIP thing I think, (they've put it on hold since I cancelled).
From memory, the offer on there was for a free Q UHD box if I took out multiroom for extra money each month. Didn't want or need multiroom though and didn't want to pay more.
I was a gold and took up the offer, no multiroom but when the engineer came out, he said he couldn't put the dish on the side of the wall (where the current dish is), so just said to cancel it all. Will wait and see if I get offered anything but not bothered if not. Hardly watch sky that much anyway.
 
I managed to cut my Sky payments down to £45. Binned movies and sports.

when I spoke to the bloke on the telephone, I honestly thought he was getting down his knees to bow before me, i was the first Platinum customer he’d spoken to whose length of membership was older than he was. 🤣

Did feel like saying if I was that valuable a long serving customer (28 years) how about a deal that reflected that, but didn’t want to push my luck.
 
Sky is only good for the sports these days but they know that and thats why they can charge the money they do

I cancelled most of my package about a year ago
 
I need to ring sky, they’ve sent me an email saying my contract is up, they’re offering me discounts but my price is going up 🤣

best of all it says on the email I’ll automatically be put onto a new 18 month contract, oh no I won’t be! Just got virgin round my estate so going to fry and get on their friends and family package and sack sky off, internet has been shit for 6 months and nowt on sky tv, watch freeview channels 99% of the time.
 
Just had a letter today saying my sky tv is going up by £5.50 and broadband £2.50.

I‘m already paying about £90 a month and that’s discounted. Think my contracts up in 2 month so I’ll be pushing for a better deal.

I get sport, films, entertainment, uhd, multi screen and Netflix plus the broadband and line. Out of interest how much are others paying? Regularly hear people saying they get ‘everything’ for £50-60 but I’ve never been able to get near that even after cancelling.

Starting to think I don’t need it. There’s so much content on other platforms now and it’s easy to acquire the football from less official sources.
 
Just had a letter today saying my sky tv is going up by £5.50 and broadband £2.50.

I‘m already paying about £90 a month and that’s discounted. Think my contracts up in 2 month so I’ll be pushing for a better deal.

I get sport, films, entertainment, uhd, multi screen and Netflix plus the broadband and line. Out of interest how much are others paying? Regularly hear people saying they get ‘everything’ for £50-60 but I’ve never been able to get near that even after cancelling.

Starting to think I don’t need it. There’s so much content on other platforms now and it’s easy to acquire the football from less official sources.
This isn’t what you asked, but IPTV for £80 a year, Disney+ for about £80 a year, use my sisters Netflix & pay about £25pm broadband. Along with iPlayer, More4 & ITV Hub, there’s little I can’t watch.
 

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