Changing ISP

Infam0us

Infam0us

Infam0us

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Hello, I am currently on the Sky Connect Package as I was told I could not recieve any other internet packages from sky in my local area. However I have recently learnt of the traffic shaping procedures for all users throughout 5PM-12PM and wish to change ISP as soon as possible.

However, I currently have my phoneline and TV with them in the same deal, would it be possible to get a new ISP whilst keeping the Sky TV and phoneline?
 
AFAIK yes, Sky provide the voice service but there's a BT layer in the middle. You should be able to order any BT Wholesale ADSL service (but you'd need to get a MAC key from Sky).
 
Thats great, as I want Virgin to provide my Internet but want to keep Sky+ TV, I may or may not keep the phoneline with Sky depending on what Virgin offer for phones. I know you have to have Sky TV to have their Internet but I don't see why you would need the Internet to have the TV? So just get the MAC code and get my new ISP and keep the current phone and TV package no problem?
 
Infam0us said:
I don't see why you would need the Internet to have the TV?
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You don't.
If you're moving to Virgin cable you don't even need a MAC key. You can cancel the voice service if you want. If it's VM's ADSL service you'd have to be crazy to move to them.
 
Because every day Sky Connect traffic shapes you from 5PM-12PM regardless of your online usage, and having been with Virgin before we got a good service. Regardless, it is more likely that we'll keep the TV with the channels and Phone with Sky and just change the ISP itself to Virgin. Possible? :)
 
tolien said:
The cable or the ADSL though? They're completely different beasts and the latter's about as popular as a pig farmer at Hanukkah.
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I've used ADSL in the past and its been fine, thats not the issue at hand the issue is the changing of packages from Sky to Virgin :)
 
It sounded like you were saying you'd had ADSL in general.

Just about any ISP would be better - without any specifics (such as budget, typical usage, features, whether any LLUers have a presence at your exchange) it would be pointless giving suggestions (plus there's a sticky for this purpose).
 
Apologies for the confusion, honestly feel free to suggest some alternatives to me, bearing in mind they would have to be available in my local area and be around £20 per month? Btw I don't want this to turn into a who to pick ISP thread so if that is the case please PM me or find alternative means to show ISP, its just here before Sky we had Virgin and their service seems so much better than what were currently getting!
 
You're missing the point of the sticky: the idea wasn't to ban "recommend me an ISP" threads but to try to stop a tide of threads that gave no information about what was required from the ISP.
For anyone to suggest an ISP that would be any use to you, you need to give more information (Zen are generally decent, £20 gets you Zen Lite with a little change but a 5GB - download only - cap which might well be no use to you; the Enta resellers tend to have higher limits but Enta's network seems to be quite variable just now). Whether it's here or by PM or whatever else isn't relevant.

The obvious first thing to work out is whether there are any LLU options available, because £20 doesn't get you a lot with BT Wholesale.
 
tolien said:
You're missing the point of the sticky: the idea wasn't to ban "recommend me an ISP" threads but to try to stop a tide of threads that gave no information about what was required from the ISP.
For anyone to suggest an ISP that would be any use to you, you need to give more information (Zen are generally decent, £20 gets you Zen Lite with a little change but a 5GB - download only - cap which might well be no use to you; the Enta resellers tend to have higher limits but Enta's network seems to be quite variable just now). Whether it's here or by PM or whatever else isn't relevant.

The obvious first thing to work out is whether there are any LLU options available, because £20 doesn't get you a lot with BT Wholesale.
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Thanks for clearing that up Tolien, my primary uses for Internet are gaming, browsing and torrents (mostly overnight) so a cap of 40GB Monthly should cover that. Also I don't want to be subject to another oversubscribed line and be forced into accepting slow speeds. My exchanges postcode is PL26 8SB what is on offer to me?

Regards.
 
Probably, but it sounds like you had cable (different phone socket from the BT one?) as I didn't see where you explicitly said it was adsl, you were vague.
 
I think it was ADSL, I'm not entirely sure. All I remember is that it was with Virgin, we had the phone and broadband package and my speeds were normally around 3MB. I seriously don't think it was cable as this area is to rural to get it.
 
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