Another Sky Price Increase
Discussion
PF62 said:
I thought the Q boxes had powerline technology built in, so used the mains wiring to communicate?
Although I don't have Sky TV, I have Sky Fibre Broadband with a Q router and a Q WiFi extender and those do.
Yes the Q boxes have powerline built in but switched off for the time being. Nobody seems to know when it will be turned on.Although I don't have Sky TV, I have Sky Fibre Broadband with a Q router and a Q WiFi extender and those do.
KTF said:
Or a powerline between the rooms.
Powerline is more appealing than running cables around the house. The problem was a 500+ year old inglenook fireplace blocking the signal between the Q boxes. I thought with the new WiFi arrangement each box would get its own signal from the router?rscott said:
bad company said:
Powerline is more appealing than running cables around the house. The problem was a 500+ year old inglenook fireplace blocking the signal between the Q boxes. I thought with the new WiFi arrangement each box would get its own signal from the router?
The current Q setup will mesh between boxes, routers and boosters to get a network - if that doesn't work for you then the dishless Q certainly won't. You're better off with power line or cabling.
rscott said:
bad company said:
rscott said:
bad company said:
Powerline is more appealing than running cables around the house. The problem was a 500+ year old inglenook fireplace blocking the signal between the Q boxes. I thought with the new WiFi arrangement each box would get its own signal from the router?
The current Q setup will mesh between boxes, routers and boosters to get a network - if that doesn't work for you then the dishless Q certainly won't. You're better off with power line or cabling.
I have Powerline now the units are 200Mbps they work ok for surfing the internet and emails etc., but often cut out when I’m trying to stream the radio. Apparently it’s caused by ‘noise’ interference. Would a mesh network work better?
rscott said:
bad company said:
rscott said:
bad company said:
Powerline is more appealing than running cables around the house. The problem was a 500+ year old inglenook fireplace blocking the signal between the Q boxes. I thought with the new WiFi arrangement each box would get its own signal from the router?
The current Q setup will mesh between boxes, routers and boosters to get a network - if that doesn't work for you then the dishless Q certainly won't. You're better off with power line or cabling.
I have Powerline now the units are 200Mbps they work ok for surfing the internet and emails etc., but often cut out when I’m trying to stream the radio. Apparently it’s caused by ‘noise’ interference. Would a mesh network work better?
Time to update as joy of joys I have a letter from Sky advising of their 'price change'. I currently have:-
Box sets (think this just means tv) £19
Sports £13.75
Multiscreen £12
Total tv £44.75
Fibre Max Broadband £17.50
Line rental £9.99
Anytime Extra call plan £8.00
Total broadband & phone £35.49
All in £80.24
They now want to increase tv by £1.50, sports by £.50 and broadband by £1.01. So an increase of £3.01 which doesn't sound much but equates to 4% which is well above inflation.
Do I call them and 'do the dance' or suck it up?
Box sets (think this just means tv) £19
Sports £13.75
Multiscreen £12
Total tv £44.75
Fibre Max Broadband £17.50
Line rental £9.99
Anytime Extra call plan £8.00
Total broadband & phone £35.49
All in £80.24
They now want to increase tv by £1.50, sports by £.50 and broadband by £1.01. So an increase of £3.01 which doesn't sound much but equates to 4% which is well above inflation.
Do I call them and 'do the dance' or suck it up?
MissChief said:
bad company said:
Time to update as joy of joys I have a letter from Sky advising of their 'price change'. I currently have:-
Box sets (think this just means tv) £19
Sports £13.75
Multiscreen £12
Total tv £44.75
Fibre Max Broadband £17.50
Line rental £9.99
Anytime Extra call plan £8.00
Total broadband & phone £35.49
All in £80.24
They now want to increase tv by £1.50, sports by £.50 and broadband by £1.01. So an increase of £3.01 which doesn't sound much but equates to 4% which is well above inflation.
Do I call them and 'do the dance' or suck it up?
You're already getting significant discounts. Fibre Max is normally £25, Line Rental normally £18.99, Box sets normally £38, Sports £27. Would you like Sky to wipe your arse too?Box sets (think this just means tv) £19
Sports £13.75
Multiscreen £12
Total tv £44.75
Fibre Max Broadband £17.50
Line rental £9.99
Anytime Extra call plan £8.00
Total broadband & phone £35.49
All in £80.24
They now want to increase tv by £1.50, sports by £.50 and broadband by £1.01. So an increase of £3.01 which doesn't sound much but equates to 4% which is well above inflation.
Do I call them and 'do the dance' or suck it up?
Sounds like you’ve had a hard week, I should go and lie down for a bit.
BrabusMog said:
bad company said:
If that’s a good deal fair enough but I like to check.
Sounds like you’ve had a hard week, I should go and lie down for a bit.
Sounds lik you’ve got a pretty good deal. I pay that to Virgin in the UK (live in a conservation area so not allowed a sky dish) and don’t get all the channels, just sky sports, BT sports and internet. Bloody rip off! Sounds like you’ve had a hard week, I should go and lie down for a bit.
I also live in a conservation area but managed to hide my dish.
PapaJohns said:
AWRacing said:
mandos_01 said:
Cancel the service and sign up in a partner's name?
This^^ and use your partners maiden name if you are married as it'll recognise the surname. I've done this recently and it was the man at Sky that told me to use my wifes maiden name as the system wouldn't recognise her as a new customer even though she wasn't on the original contract in any way
Jasandjules said:
Just got Sky Q multi and movies etc for not much more than we pay now for boggo single room HD. Took a bit of effort mind.
I’d love Sky Q but they couldn’t make it work in my house. There’s a big inglenook fireplace between the 2 rooms I wanted the boxes in. I’ll try again when they get it all working on Broadband.Jasandjules said:
bad company said:
I’d love Sky Q but they couldn’t make it work in my house. There’s a big inglenook fireplace between the 2 rooms I wanted the boxes in. I’ll try again when they get it all working on Broadband.
Might just need a wifi signal booster ? I guess I find out this week when the engineer comes to fit it...rscott said:
They may swap the dish - depends on the age/ condition of it. Cables are only changed if there's a problem.
When they tried to install Q at mine they would have installed a new dish, apparently the old one wouldn’t work with Q. As it happened the couldn’t do the installation anyway as they couldn’t get a signal between the 2 rooms where I have boxes. I looking at having Ethernet sockets installed so we can try again.I just spent about 45 minutes on the phone to Sky to ask about Q boxes.
As I posted much earlier in the thread when the engineer arrived last year to install Q he was unable to get a signal between the 2 rooms where I wanted the boxes. There’s a brick wall and an inglenook fireplace blocking the signal. My question was simply will the system work if I install Ethernet sockets so the boxes can be hard wired? Apparently this should work but nobody seemed 100% sure.
I think I’ll get the Ethernet cables put in anyway, at least I can boost the WiFi which isn’t great at the moment and I’ll have the option of other non Sky internet tv.
As I posted much earlier in the thread when the engineer arrived last year to install Q he was unable to get a signal between the 2 rooms where I wanted the boxes. There’s a brick wall and an inglenook fireplace blocking the signal. My question was simply will the system work if I install Ethernet sockets so the boxes can be hard wired? Apparently this should work but nobody seemed 100% sure.
I think I’ll get the Ethernet cables put in anyway, at least I can boost the WiFi which isn’t great at the moment and I’ll have the option of other non Sky internet tv.
Jasandjules said:
bad company said:
When they tried to install Q at mine they would have installed a new dish, apparently the old one wouldn’t work with Q. As it happened the couldn’t do the installation anyway as they couldn’t get a signal between the 2 rooms where I have boxes. I looking at having Ethernet sockets installed so we can try again.
Had our engineer out. All he did was drill out and hard wire the main box to the bedroom. All works perfectly.Thought I’d update.
I said goodbye to Sky last week after some 25 years and replaced with Humax Freesat HDR-1100S boxes. I seem to have everything I had or bothered to watch on Sky except the football but as only watched 2-3 games a year that’s a big saving. I added NowTV so I can buy a day pass for Sky Sport to watch a match if I want at £10.
Happy days.
I said goodbye to Sky last week after some 25 years and replaced with Humax Freesat HDR-1100S boxes. I seem to have everything I had or bothered to watch on Sky except the football but as only watched 2-3 games a year that’s a big saving. I added NowTV so I can buy a day pass for Sky Sport to watch a match if I want at £10.
Happy days.
MissChief said:
Mr Trophy said:
I see these are going up AGAIN....
Once a year only and by 10% or less as in the terms and conditions. Is it that big of a deal?Gassing Station | TV, Film, Video Streaming & Radio | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff