Sky television

tony sayer wrote:

I know a LOT of people out in the country who'd pay a lot for a VM
service when their hanging off a very long lump of old ally or copper
wire;!..

Me for one. I don't get 2.5Mb _ever_ and he complains about getting
throttled to it?

Not helped at all by getting Virgin leaflets through the door suggesting
I switch. Guys, YOU DON'T DO MY AREA!

Andy

In article , Steve Terry
scribeth thus

"tony sayer" wrote in message
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In article , Paul Heslop
scribeth thus
Steve Terry wrote:

"Paul Heslop" wrote in message
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BTREC wrote:

Sky sucks . Believe me any of their paid services are NOT worth what
you
pay for it. And once a subscriber their customer services dont want
to
know
you. My motto is look for alternatives to Sky. Only Brits are stupid
enough
to watch everything by paying over the odds. Every nation watch their
national teams on any event free , and every nation use their own
national
telephone system . Except Brits . They like to pay extra for all that

I've sampled both cable and sky and though it is pricey Sky still
knocks the crap out of cable. I'd like to say it doesn't but it does.
Paul (We won't die of devotion)

Especially when Virgin then throttle your Broadband to dial up speeds
Steve Terry

I still have the broadband cos it's what I am used to, sadly.

I know a LOT of people out in the country who'd pay a lot for a VM
service when their hanging off a very long lump of old ally or copper
wire;!..
Tony Sayer


Then they have to keep their fingers crossed that Virgin don't throttle them

Steve Terry



One I know struggles to ger 256 K down let alone up;!...
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Tony Sayer

tony sayer wrote:

In article , Paul Heslop
scribeth thus
Steve Terry wrote:

"Paul Heslop" wrote in message
...
BTREC wrote:

Sky sucks . Believe me any of their paid services are NOT worth what you
pay for it. And once a subscriber their customer services dont want to
know
you. My motto is look for alternatives to Sky. Only Brits are stupid
enough
to watch everything by paying over the odds. Every nation watch their
national teams on any event free , and every nation use their own
national
telephone system . Except Brits . They like to pay extra for all that

I've sampled both cable and sky and though it is pricey Sky still
knocks the crap out of cable. I'd like to say it doesn't but it does.
Paul (We won't die of devotion)


Especially when Virgin then throttle your Broadband to dial up speeds

Steve Terry

I still have the broadband cos it's what I am used to, sadly.


I know a LOT of people out in the country who'd pay a lot for a VM
service when their hanging off a very long lump of old ally or copper
wire;!..
--
Tony Sayer



ally who? :O)
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Paul (We won't die of devotion)
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In article , Paul Heslop
scribeth thus
tony sayer wrote:

In article , Paul Heslop
scribeth thus
Steve Terry wrote:

"Paul Heslop" wrote in message
...
BTREC wrote:

Sky sucks . Believe me any of their paid services are NOT worth what
you
pay for it. And once a subscriber their customer services dont want to
know
you. My motto is look for alternatives to Sky. Only Brits are stupid
enough
to watch everything by paying over the odds. Every nation watch their
national teams on any event free , and every nation use their own
national
telephone system . Except Brits . They like to pay extra for all that

I've sampled both cable and sky and though it is pricey Sky still
knocks the crap out of cable. I'd like to say it doesn't but it does.
Paul (We won't die of devotion)


Especially when Virgin then throttle your Broadband to dial up speeds

Steve Terry

I still have the broadband cos it's what I am used to, sadly.


I know a LOT of people out in the country who'd pay a lot for a VM
service when their hanging off a very long lump of old ally or copper
wire;!..
--
Tony Sayer



ally who? :O)

Short for Aluminium

Some BT cables used this in the past ...
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Tony Sayer

On May 20, 5:11*pm, J G Miller wrote:
On Wed, 20 May 2009 07:37:39 -0700, Mike wrote:

* When I was on VM Cable 10Meg I got 10Meg. Always. Now i'm on O2 8Meg I
* get 8Meg. Sometimes.

But are you paying significantly less in monthly charges?

Absolutely. £7ish a month. And to be totally honest I don't mind the
fact that i'm not getting the FULL 8 meg.

tony sayer wrote:
|| In article , Paul Heslop
|| scribeth thus
||| Steve Terry wrote:
||||
|||| "Paul Heslop" wrote in message
|||| ...
||||| BTREC wrote:
||||||
|||||| Sky sucks . Believe me any of their paid services are NOT
|||||| worth what you pay for it. And once a subscriber their
|||||| customer services dont want to know
|||||| you. My motto is look for alternatives to Sky. Only Brits are
|||||| stupid enough
|||||| to watch everything by paying over the odds. Every nation
|||||| watch their national teams on any event free , and every
|||||| nation use their own national
|||||| telephone system . Except Brits . They like to pay extra for
|||||| all that
||||||
||||| I've sampled both cable and sky and though it is pricey Sky
||||| still knocks the crap out of cable. I'd like to say it doesn't
||||| but it does. Paul (We won't die of devotion)
|||||
|||||
|||| Especially when Virgin then throttle your Broadband to dial up
|||| speeds
||||
|||| Steve Terry
|||
||| I still have the broadband cos it's what I am used to, sadly.
|||
||
|| I know a LOT of people out in the country who'd pay a lot for a VM
|| service when their hanging off a very long lump of old ally or
|| copper wire;!..

But those are the very people Virgin don't want as they only want to
'cherry pick' the areas they cover.

Here in the East Mids they ploughed their way thru villages to give
service to some of the towns. Did they put a sub node in
place.......like hell they did

tony sayer wrote:
|| In article , Paul Heslop
|| scribeth thus
||| tony sayer wrote:
||||
|||| In article , Paul Heslop
|||| scribeth thus
||||| Steve Terry wrote:
||||||
|||||| "Paul Heslop" wrote in message
|||||| ...
||||||| BTREC wrote:
||||||||
|||||||| Sky sucks . Believe me any of their paid services are NOT
|||||||| worth what you pay for it. And once a subscriber their
|||||||| customer services dont want to know
|||||||| you. My motto is look for alternatives to Sky. Only Brits
|||||||| are stupid enough
|||||||| to watch everything by paying over the odds. Every nation
|||||||| watch their national teams on any event free , and every
|||||||| nation use their own national
|||||||| telephone system . Except Brits . They like to pay extra for
|||||||| all that
||||||||
||||||| I've sampled both cable and sky and though it is pricey Sky
||||||| still knocks the crap out of cable. I'd like to say it
||||||| doesn't but it does. Paul (We won't die of devotion)
|||||||
|||||||
|||||| Especially when Virgin then throttle your Broadband to dial up
|||||| speeds
||||||
|||||| Steve Terry
|||||
||||| I still have the broadband cos it's what I am used to, sadly.
|||||
||||
|||| I know a LOT of people out in the country who'd pay a lot for a
|||| VM service when their hanging off a very long lump of old ally
|||| or copper wire;!..
|||| --
|||| Tony Sayer
||||
||||
|||
||| ally who? :O)
||
|| Short for Aluminium
||
|| Some BT cables used this in the past ...


SSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh that's supposed to be a secret. As
one of the board stated a few years ago 'There is no Aluminium in the
local network'; with board members like that no wonder BT is where it
is now...

Kraftee wrote:

SSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh that's supposed to be a secret. As
one of the board stated a few years ago 'There is no Aluminium in the
local network'; with board members like that no wonder BT is where it
is now...



No B*****y secret around here. Not only is it basically not all that
good, but it corrodes at the ends - in the junction boxes.

Andy

Andy Champ wrote:
|| Kraftee wrote:
|||
||| SSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh that's supposed to be a secret.
||| As one of the board stated a few years ago 'There is no Aluminium
||| in the local network'; with board members like that no wonder BT
||| is where it is now...
|||
|||
||
|| No B*****y secret around here. Not only is it basically not all
|| that good, but it corrodes at the ends - in the junction boxes.

Yes but they don't 'know' that.

After the first little mistake which I've alluded to, more recently
another high level manager insisted that Alluminium is as good as
Copper, pity no one told him about the different responces to certain
frequencies.

Pretty lucky in this patch as until the recent clamp-down cables were
being changed to copper rather than fixing, so a lot of Ali got
shifted and what is left is in reasonable condition, but on other
patches I do know they are suffering badly.

On 17 May, 10:22, "Bill Ridgeway" wrote:
I'm thinking about gettingSkytelevision. *Skysays it's delivered over the
telephone wire not, as I thought, through a dish. *I already haveInternet
broadband. *I'm concerned that also getting television may not be a good
thing. *For example we're told that copper wire has a finite capacity. *Will
it take broadband, telephone and television without degrading those
services?

Thanks.

Bill Ridgeway

i have sky telephone, tv and internet and i have never had any
problems with the internet or phone. However due to us not having
telephone line connected to box we sometimes lose signal, this is
because sky "ping" the box to make sure everything is all working and
that is how we lose connection sometimes but other than that never any
problems

kim