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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: michael.d.s. on 13 November 2008, 19:25:03
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sky 1 2 3 are back on virgin digital does anyone know how that came about.
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They kissed and made up, was announced a couple of weeks ago
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sky 1 2 3 are back on virgin digital does anyone know how that came about.
all about £££££££££££ probably
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They were sueing each other then suddenly dropped it a couple of weeks ago, I didn't follow it very closely... can you tell? ;D ;D
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I am cancelling sky tomorrow,changed package on 10th oct, to come in to effect 1oth nov. when 10th nov. arrived they cancelled all paid channels. lots of phone calls etc;last one on tues. promised it would be back on by 6.p.m. it stil isnt back ,so break em. >:( >:(
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I am cancelling sky tomorrow,changed package on 10th oct, to come in to effect 1oth nov. when 10th nov. arrived they cancelled all paid channels. lots of phone calls etc;last one on tues. promised it would be back on by 6.p.m. it stil isnt back ,so break em. >:( >:(
You'll probably get it free for 3 months if you phone and cancel ;)
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pete is right , my pal works in the sky call centre and he is instructed to give upto 6 months free for a threatened cancellation . He is also told to give out movie and sports packages for six months half price if you cancel them . And if you tell them your box is broken and its out of warranty ( its your box not theirs ) if you say just cancel the subscription they will offer you a sky+ box for free .
fight the system 8-)
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TIP: I find the easiest way to get sky 1, 2 and 3 is to subscribe to Sky :y
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TIP: I find the easiest way to get sky 1, 2 and 3 is to subscribe to Sky :y
but virgin is cheaper and has better features on the v+ box :P :P
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I'd rather boil my head than give Branson any more money! The day I found out he was buying telewest/ntl I cancelled my subscription with them and ordered BT/Sky.
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I am telling Sky to cancel my subscription when I move as there is no dish there.
Wonder what they will offer me. ;D ;D ;D
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TIP: I find the easiest way to get sky 1, 2 and 3 is to subscribe to Sky :y
but virgin is cheaper and has better features on the v+ box :P :P
Yes. But I am incredibly rich and I dont know what a v+ box is. So there.
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TIP: I find the easiest way to get sky 1, 2 and 3 is to subscribe to Sky :y
but virgin is cheaper and has better features on the v+ box :P :P
Yes. But I am incredibly rich and I dont know what a v+ box is. So there.
pop round bud i will show you ! ! ;D ;D
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I get my broadband through Virgin as i don't have a landline. Why pay the rental when i've got more free mins per month on the mobile than i use? I did have one but a waste of money in my case paying BT rental & ntl call costs.
3 freeview tellies in the house though so pleased to see sky1 back. :y
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I get my broadband through Virgin as i don't have a landline. Why pay the rental when i've got more free mins per month on the mobile than i use? I did have one but a waste of money in my case paying BT rental & ntl call costs.
3 freeview tellies in the house though so pleased to see sky1 back. :y
Is this any good, do you get any speed loss or is it as fast as they say?
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I get my broadband through Virgin as i don't have a landline. Why pay the rental when i've got more free mins per month on the mobile than i use? I did have one but a waste of money in my case paying BT rental & ntl call costs.
3 freeview tellies in the house though so pleased to see sky1 back. :y
Seems ok but i've nothing to compare it to. Can still go where i want & download stuff. :y
Is this any good, do you get any speed loss or is it as fast as they say?
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I get my broadband through Virgin as i don't have a landline. Why pay the rental when i've got more free mins per month on the mobile than i use? I did have one but a waste of money in my case paying BT rental & ntl call costs.
3 freeview tellies in the house though so pleased to see sky1 back. :y
Seems ok but i've nothing to compare it to. Can still go where i want & download stuff. :y
Is this any good, do you get any speed loss or is it as fast as they say?
Thanks, what speed have you got, 2mb, 10mb or 20mb?
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i'm supposed to have 10mb virgin bb but it's more like 6.2 click the link for a free bitrate test it's the most accurate one there is.
http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/speedtest/
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i'm supposed to have 10mb virgin bb but it's more like 6.2 click the link for a free bitrate test it's the most accurate one there is.
http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/speedtest/
Just done the test, I'm supposed to get up to 8mb, the test shows 742 KBPS >:(
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it varies during the course of the day also routers and modems can limit speed the best way to do it is average it out over a period of time .
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i'm averaging 7000 kbps (7mb) but i'm bloody paying for 10 >:(
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it varies during the course of the day also routers and modems can limit speed the best way to do it is average it out over a period of time .
I'm toying with going over to Virgin, getting 20mb broadband and free calls anytime, when you take out a phone line you get their basic tv package free.
Doesn't work out any more expensive than I am currently paying Tiscali and BT.
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i'm averaging 7000 kbps (7mb) but i'm bloody paying for 10 >:(
So their claims of being no speed loss due to fibre optic cables is slightly inaccurate :-?
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i would agree , i think their claims may stand up at 4:45 am on a tuesday but not when we use it most . i know for a fact that they do limit our bitrate at peak times .
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I get 1, Talk Talk say I would get 2, BT say I get 8 >:(
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pete is right , my pal works in the sky call centre and he is instructed to give upto 6 months free for a threatened cancellation . He is also told to give out movie and sports packages for six months half price if you cancel them . And if you tell them your box is broken and its out of warranty ( its your box not theirs ) if you say just cancel the subscription they will offer you a sky+ box for free .
fight the system 8-)
sorry but that is not true at all , i phoned to cancel (after 3 years with them) because my box was faulty (this they agreed with) and they told me it was £99 for a new sky+ box, so i said no thanks i will cancel and their answer was ok your services will stop on the 6th december no offers of any kind were forthcoming,
i then received a letter on the 10th of this month saying sorry your leaving what can we do to keep you so i phone them and said if you sort out my sky+ box i will also transfer phone and broadband to them, to this they replied they would send an engineer out but it would cost me £65 as box is out of warranty
what do you do?
i would of understood this if i had phoned up and been abusive etc but im a firm believer that this gets you nowhere and as such take the line , "i dont know if you can help me"
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i'm supposed to have 10mb virgin bb but it's more like 6.2 click the link for a free bitrate test it's the most accurate one there is.
http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/speedtest/
Just done the test, I'm supposed to get up to 8mb, the test shows 742 KBPS >:(
Hi,
I'm getting about the same as you on average, and i can only receive 1meg. max. according to my ISP :(.
Have you tried FullSpeed from www.getfullspeed.com it's free and certainly upped my download speed infact from 4kb/s to over 115kb/s :).
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Made no difference to me, we are out on a limb and bt can't provide the service needed for good download. ::)
My 'Dongle' is faster that my home BT when in North Yorks.. ::)
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it varies during the course of the day also routers and modems can limit speed the best way to do it is average it out over a period of time .
I'm toying with going over to Virgin, getting 20mb broadband and free calls anytime, when you take out a phone line you get their basic tv package free.
Doesn't work out any more expensive than I am currently paying Tiscali and BT.
i have the full xl package with virgin all channels on v+ box 2nd v box and free calls and 20 meg broadband and im very happy with it ! :y
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i'm averaging 7000 kbps (7mb) but i'm bloody paying for 10 >:(
So their claims of being no speed loss due to fibre optic cables is slightly inaccurate :-?
Technicaly they are right, but its also based on the local exchange, if loads of people down your road are high downloaders you will get less speed.
But if your the only computer boff on your street, speeds will be higher :y
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My 10mb Virgin runs at the full 10mb all day every day as long as you watch when you download big files as they cut your speed by 75% during most of the day if you go over 1 or 2gb. Generally very happy with mine. Download a nice constant 1200kb/s off the Giganews server :y
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i'm averaging 7000 kbps (7mb) but i'm bloody paying for 10 >:(
So their claims of being no speed loss due to fibre optic cables is slightly inaccurate :-?
Technicaly they are right, but its also based on the local exchange, if loads of people down your road are high downloaders you will get less speed.
But if your the only computer boff on your street, speeds will be higher :y
But do you actually get fibre optic all the way into your house?
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i'm averaging 7000 kbps (7mb) but i'm bloody paying for 10 >:(
So their claims of being no speed loss due to fibre optic cables is slightly inaccurate :-?
Technicaly they are right, but its also based on the local exchange, if loads of people down your road are high downloaders you will get less speed.
But if your the only computer boff on your street, speeds will be higher :y
But do you actually get fibre optic all the way into your house?
no standard coax >:(
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i think the fibre optic ends quite a distance away , it would take a fair amount of equip to convert the fibre op to electical , therfore i would think the fibre op only makes up a small part of it.