Sky

Andybtsn · 1 Aug 2007 at 21:46

House said:
Line rental £10 a month to BT.
Also they will stick you for connection unless there is a live line when you move in as well. That cost me around £100 i think.

This deal seems to get worse by the minute, put my number in and the Broadband went from £5 to £17 :eek:

So with BT's line rental its going to be £70 a month and I can only get the 8mb/40gb deal.

Damn.

Darkwave · 1 Aug 2007 at 21:57

House said:
Line rental £10 a month to BT.
Also they will stick you for connection unless there is a live line when you move in as well. That cost me around £100 i think.

The line doesn't have to be live, just physically connected.

We got our BT line reactivated for free when we switched to Sky Broadband.

stoofa · 2 Aug 2007 at 12:45

Andybtsn said:
This deal seems to get worse by the minute, put my number in and the Broadband went from £5 to £17

So with BT's line rental its going to be £70 a month and I can only get the 8mb/40gb deal.

Damn.

You only get the cheap broadband if you are on an exchange where Sky have equipment installed.
Otherwise you're using BT's equipment and all Sky can offer you is the same "ADSL MAX" service 101 other ISP's can offer - hence the increase in price.

Phil99 · 2 Aug 2007 at 13:07

Jez said:
The LNB has 4 states, 4 "bands" if you like which it has to flick between, and is controlled by the tuner in the box. You CAN split a single satellite feed but only channels on the band which the LNB is tuned to will work. The easy workaround is to have 2 separate LNB's controlled independantly (usually built into a single "dual" LNB, which is just 2 LNB's built in the same package), so the tuners can access any frequencies across all 4 bands as they wish. Also remember that simply splitting the cable would overpower the LNB as it is powered by a current sent up the coax from the receiver, so a special splitter is needed which doesnt duplicate the power feed and will designate one tuner the master, thus only sending commands to the LNB from that one. The slave tuner only gets access to the band the main one happens to be on.

Thanks for that explaination, makes a lot of sense