Another Sky Price Increase

[bad company]

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.

Thanks for that. Would the Powerline in the Q boxes do the job? They were not switched on when the Sky engineer tried to install the boxes.

Probably not - it's a very old version (55Mbps I think) and is likely to be disabled in future updates. I'd just get a 500Mbps external set.

Many thanks for your help and please excuse my ignorance.

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?

[bad company]

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?

[MissChief]

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?

[numtumfutunch]

MissChief said:

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?

Are you having a bad day or just naturally nasty?

[bad company]

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?

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.

[Hilts]

MissChief said:

Would you like Sky to wipe your arse too?

How much is that?

[b4gga83]

Hilts said:

MissChief said:

Would you like Sky to wipe your arse too?

How much is that?

ROFL!!!

[BrabusMog]

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!

[Zippee]

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?

To be honest BC that's a pretty good deal.

Always amuses me on here how many people are so rude/direct/arsey - would really love to see if that would be the same if they weren't hiding anonymously behind a keyboard

[westtra]

Cinema £11
Box £1
hd £1
Kids £3
Entertainment £13
Multi £12

Total £41

Is what I have been offered so far, £3 cheaper but I loose F1 as on legacy deal.

[bad company]

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!

Thanks for that.

I also live in a conservation area but managed to hide my dish.

[westtra]

Tried chat again today and not budging on the £40 ish for everything except sports.

More annoying when you can get the same on now tv for £21 and thats not even taking into account deals you get on passes.

So looks like unless they come down further we are getting rid of sky q and using now tv instead which looks like it has 1080p and download to tablets etc. Comming soon.

[bad company]

Zippee said:

To be honest BC that's a pretty good deal.

Always amuses me on here how many people are so rude/direct/arsey - would really love to see if that would be the same if they weren't hiding anonymously behind a keyboard

Thanks and agree about ‘keyboard warriors ‘.

[rscott]

westtra said:

Tried chat again today and not budging on the £40 ish for everything except sports.

More annoying when you can get the same on now tv for £21 and thats not even taking into account deals you get on passes.

So looks like unless they come down further we are getting rid of sky q and using now tv instead which looks like it has 1080p and download to tablets etc. Comming soon.

You don't get all the channels on NowTv though. I also wouldn't be surprised if they introduce a higher price point offering for full HD (just as Netflix charge for more HD & UHD).

[BrabusMog]

bad company said:

Thanks for that.

I also live in a conservation area but managed to hide my dish.

Not many places to hide a dish on a Georgian terraced house

[westtra]

rscott said:

You don't get all the channels on NowTv though. I also wouldn't be surprised if they introduce a higher price point offering for full HD (just as Netflix charge for more HD & UHD).

Everything we watch is on there.

Even if they do will still be way cheaper than current package.

[f1_dragon]

6 days go until services terminated, the offer for the last 2 weeks has been:

Entertainment £13
Cinema £11
Sports £16.50 (or Cinema + Sports £23)
Box Sets £3
HD £3
Sports HD £4
Kids £3

Interestingly no offers at all on Broadband or Phone.

[westtra]

f1_dragon said:

6 days go until services terminated, the offer for the last 2 weeks has been:

Entertainment £13
Cinema £11
Sports £16.50 (or Cinema + Sports £23)
Box Sets £3
HD £3
Sports HD £4
Kids £3

Interestingly no offers at all on Broadband or Phone.

They quoted me £57 for full package £41 without sports and both of which included £12 for multi room today. Strange its not same price for everyone trying.

[f1_dragon]

Spoke to retentions again, settled on £49/month for Entertainment, Box sets, Kids, Sports + Cinema, HD and sports HD. I'm ok with that.
He also said offers of e.g. Box Sets at £1 are for people who have never had that option before.

[Leicester Loyal]

Had a letter through in the post today, parts of my package are rising. Only totals to £2 though, but still a rise none the less.