BROADBAND -- please give me some advice....!!!?

Question

Please, anyone in England who has had experience with both BT broadband and Sky-TV broadband please help me out. At the moment I am with BT on 8Mb broadband and I'm considering going Sky-TV broadband because BT is a bit expensive. BT charges for 8Mb speed £27 per month. Sky-TV, for 8 Mb speed, charges £5 a month for broadband with a one-off if we subscribe to their £37 per month TV package making a total of £42 p/month so it sounds like an attractive proposition. Please tell me the pros and cons of doing this move. Thank you in advance for any help. Or in fact anyone in the world with similar experience who can help, please help. Thank you again.

"Andy !!!" -- Thanks a lot for your advice. I will definitely make the move then. Problem is, I have the same problem as you... I am stuck with them for another 2 or 3 months because of the contractual obligations they have had us pinned down to, LOL !! Thanks again, mate !!

Answer 1

Join sky mate, I too am on Bt BB 8meg. I just sorted out my sky TV subscription and will be able to get sky 16meg for a tenner a month. Theres not really any cons to this deal, twice the speed for a third of the money.
Thats what I'm doing, but I have to wait 3 months until my subscription is up with BT for their BB.
You'll still have to pay for your bt phone line rental etc, but mines only 11 quid a month.
Also sky will be reliable since they are a long established company, and rich.
Bt on the otherhand has never once provided me with actual 8meg is usually around half that so I wonder what I'm actually paying for anyway.
Definately switch, and let me know how it goes! Cause I have to wait 3 months to find out :(

Answer 2

I would be very careful with SKY.

Firstly, lots of people are having problems with sky broadband and sky Tv is losing lots of customers at the moment. Sky broadband does have a reputation for bieng unreliable.

Also with there tv packages, they can randomly hike up the prices with out contacting the customers.... !!!

Also like BT you can only recieve the Maximum speed is you are very lucky and should check on the sky website to see which speed you can actually get

Also if you can recieve the 16mb then you can probably get Cable from telewest, if this is the case i would recomend them, and the tv pakages from telewest are cheaper also.

Ps.. Andy where are you putting the sky dish on your place ?

Answer 3

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