Watching MotoGP without BT Sport

Watching MotoGP without BT Sport

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MonkeyBusiness

3,912 posts

186 months

Sunday 5th July 2015
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Amazon Firestick + XBMC/KODI + VDub25 add on = brilliant clear picture.

Mort

55 posts

194 months

Phateuk

751 posts

136 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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L9 ACP said:
Just had a lengthy online chat with Virgin and they do indeed have some stonking deals on.

Been advised on the 'big kahuna' bundle which is the 152mb broadband, phone line and loads of TV channels. With BT sports and ESPN extra its £65 per month but only £48.99 for first 12 months (18 month contract)

That'll save me about £10 per month when paying full price so decent saving for first 12 months

Is the 2016 GP on BT sport 2 again or BT europe?

Edited by L9 ACP on Sunday 5th July 10:48
I recently moved from sky to virgin after nearly 10 years with sky. There are some really alluring deals with VM, which I swapped for (big kahuna, with bt sport etc) but tbh I'm going to be moving straight back to sky once my contract is up.

A couple of things to consider:
1. The tivo box is pretty much un-usable and the interface is totally illogical. It's slow, the on demand apps (iplayer, itv etc) aren't wrapped into the UI like the sky box - they basically play from html or flash web version meaning you can't download programs from them onto your storage, you have to stream them live and it's very clunky which it comes to pausing and rewinding etc - often it just restarts :/

2. The broadband is pretty unreliable. I'm aware of the controversial "up to" speeds, but ours was the stated 150mb for a few weeks, after that it seemed to slow right down. Peak times I see around 15-20mb. I've had it totally cut out and remain offline for 30+mins three times in 5 months - not ideal when I work from home.

3. The tivo box relies on the internet connection. When the connection cuts out (see point 2!) or slows down, the box really suffers - you get no tv whatsoever when the internet goes down.

Obviously these are just my views, but if you look on the VM help forum it's full of similar experiences ranting

L9 ACP

187 posts

193 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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Thats worth knowing thanks.

What area are you in? it is a location problem or general?

jjr1

3,023 posts

259 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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Mort said:
Man alive that is what I call a useful site !

Thanks

coetzeeh

2,641 posts

235 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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Vigin Media broadband generates least amount of complaints according to Ofcom (better than Sky)

http://media.ofcom.org.uk/news/2014/latest-phone-b...

Virgin Media's average broadband speed is twice as fast as the next fastest provider's average speed.

None of them are perfect.

Phateuk

751 posts

136 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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L9 ACP said:
Thats worth knowing thanks.

What area are you in? it is a location problem or general?
I'm in Nottinghamshire, the problem seems to be when they oversell in a certain area without having the infrastructure in place to handle the demand. That's certainly the case where I am, and having known that in advance I wouldn't have switched.

mitzy

13,857 posts

196 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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Virgin XL Package

BB
TV
Phone
BT Sports

Happy Days

macdeb

8,492 posts

254 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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Agree with all said about Sky, cucking funts! Only contact I had from them in 10 years was the increase in price, then when I said I was leaving I couldn't beat them off with a stty stick. E-mails, letters Tossers.
Been with BT since [didn't want to initially] and have to admit the coverage is faultless and will probably swallow the small increase in order to keep watching. Even with the increase it's still a lot cheaper than Sky. Phuck, I even hate saying the name Sky furious

Mr2Mike

20,143 posts

254 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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L9 ACP said:
Just had a lengthy online chat with Virgin and they do indeed have some stonking deals on.

Been advised on the 'big kahuna' bundle which is the 152mb broadband, phone line and loads of TV channels. With BT sports and ESPN extra its £65 per month but only £48.99 for first 12 months (18 month contract)
I was quite tempted to move to Virgin (from sky) except the appalling quality of the cable installation on many houses in my street put me off. This video pretty much confirmed my suspicions.

At least I was able to completely install my own Sky setup without a Sky monkey getting anywhere near it.

FartKong

897 posts

182 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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Virgin are a complete disgrace of a company. I have used most of the ISP's over the years and although they had some issues none of them were serious. Virgin on the other hand were terrible. I was paying for the top speed which was 100Mb at the time yet I was getting only half that speed and during the evening it dropped to around 2-20Mb.
I complained and was told there was nothing wrong with my connection and this is fine. After several more months of this I was "upgraded" to 120Mb but saw no change. The only time I had speeds anything like that were at 4am.
Eventually they admitted there was a usage problem in my area which should be resolved in a month. Surprise surprise months went by and nothing changed and even after another "upgrade" to 150Mb my speeds didnt improve and if anything my service became worse.
I had 10 engineers including so called "senior" engineers call round and they all said the same things and didn't do anything and none of them could explain the constant T3 and T4 timeouts I was getting.
Have a look on the forums and you'll see page after page of people with similar problems. I had enough eventually and cancelled my service and haven't looked back since. I'll never ever use Virgin again however you may be one of the lucky few who don't have any of these problems in which case you'll think they're fine.

graham22

3,293 posts

204 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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Don't forget ITV4 highlights on Monday night.

Having followed MotoGP on Eurosport for many years, it's almost embarrassing to say the Monday night's coverage is enough - leaves Sunday free to do other bike things.

I simply haven't bothered to do anything else and am probably paying a lot of money to Sky now for not much else - that's a lie, quite happy with Eurosport's BSB & WSB coverage plus Thundersport GB & FIM Trials on Motors TV.

Yoda.

2,260 posts

247 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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As I could never manage a complete MotoGp news/results blackout for over 24 hours until the ITV4 highlights, I've used the streaming sites to relatively good effect. I decided to take the plunge 6 weeks ago & get BT Sports @ £13/month...just before they announced a price hike to £20/month. Luckily (sort of) I paid an extra £30 at the outset so as to avoid the dreaded 12 month contract.
I have a feeling that when the increase takes effect on 1st August, I'll be back to watching the race(s) via a streaming site again.

Simes205

4,527 posts

227 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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jjr1 said:
Mort said:
Man alive that is what I call a useful site !

Thanks
I've used that since MotoGP went to BT sport.

Lincsblokey

3,175 posts

154 months

Tuesday 7th July 2015
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Simes205 said:
jjr1 said:
Mort said:
Man alive that is what I call a useful site !

Thanks
I've used that since MotoGP went to BT sport.
If you think thats good...

download aceplayer software to pc/laptop...

find a website that sounds like live football lol

search channel list, enjoy full HD streaming with no ads or crap.

BobSaunders

3,027 posts

154 months

Wednesday 8th July 2015
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FartKong said:
Virgin are a complete disgrace of a company. I have used most of the ISP's over the years and although they had some issues none of them were serious. Virgin on the other hand were terrible. I was paying for the top speed which was 100Mb at the time yet I was getting only half that speed and during the evening it dropped to around 2-20Mb.
I complained and was told there was nothing wrong with my connection and this is fine. After several more months of this I was "upgraded" to 120Mb but saw no change. The only time I had speeds anything like that were at 4am.
Eventually they admitted there was a usage problem in my area which should be resolved in a month. Surprise surprise months went by and nothing changed and even after another "upgrade" to 150Mb my speeds didnt improve and if anything my service became worse.
I had 10 engineers including so called "senior" engineers call round and they all said the same things and didn't do anything and none of them could explain the constant T3 and T4 timeouts I was getting.
Have a look on the forums and you'll see page after page of people with similar problems. I had enough eventually and cancelled my service and haven't looked back since. I'll never ever use Virgin again however you may be one of the lucky few who don't have any of these problems in which case you'll think they're fine.
This is because at peak times they throttle everyone - it's in their T&C's.

You will also share that connection with the surrounding houses, and roads when it bottlenecks eventually.

Also, there is not a chance in hell that you will ever use the full pipe - i honestly don't know why people buy it. Most people are more than comfortable at 10 or 20 depending on how many devices you have running at the same time (xbox, netflix, internet surfing, music for example - all about 2meg a piece with varying burst speeds)

You will only use the full pipe if you are illegally downloading/uploading or need it in bursts for work related items - however, you're only as fast as the responding service pipe.