Sky Email

Unread post by **Stephen** » 22 Oct 2016, 16:48

Any other Sky Broadband users having a problem with their emails on their Sky accounts. I cannot get my account to authorise and login on the Sky web site is no no as well.

Unread post by **towny44** » 23 Oct 2016, 14:31

No problems using my Sky e mail Stephen, has yours cleared itself yet?

Unread post by **Stephen** » 23 Oct 2016, 16:41

Yep all good today thanks John.
A nightmare yesterday though. And from the posts on the Sky forum Sky were in complete denial of the problem.

Unread post by **david63** » 23 Oct 2016, 17:28

There was a major DDoS on Friday - not sure if that may have had something to do with it.

Unread post by **Silver_Shiney** » 23 Oct 2016, 21:42

Sky - believe in better

Virgin - believe in best

(And, yes, I've had Sky)

Unread post by **towny44** » 23 Oct 2016, 22:36

Silver_Shiney wrote:
Sky - believe in better

Virgin - believe in best

(And, yes, I've had Sky)

We would miss Sky Atlantic far too much to consider changing and, incidentally, their standard price for all we currently get from Sky would be more than we pay to Sky, AND with Sky we get free landline calls 24/7, with very cheap international calls and free calls to all UK mobiles.
Which to me is certainly the best deal; and I prefer Australian owners to US ones, even if Murdoch is now a naturalised Yank.

Unread post by **Silver_Shiney** » 23 Oct 2016, 22:49

You do realise my comment was TIC?

Yes, there are some channels that are exclusive to Sky, but I believe there are some channels exclusive to Virgin, as, indeed, there are to Freeview.

Having had both concurrently, I have to say that my experience with Virgin was better than that with Sky. As far as value for money goes, it obviously depends on what you use your package for - we rarely use our landline and get free calls in the evenings and at weekends, the digibox does all we need it to and the broadband can't be beaten.

Frankly, if I lost the Lady C, I would cancel the TV package altogether as I don't watch enough to make it worthwhile.

Back on topic, I understand that several ISPs suffered an attack over the last few days, not just Sky

Unread post by **Stephen** » 24 Oct 2016, 07:24

The only reason I would go over to Virgin is so I could get their super fast fibre broadband without the need for BT. I could then dump BT and their outragious landline rental charges as we hardly ever use the landline phone. But at the moment that isn't going to happen as we can't get Virgin round here.

Unread post by **towny44** » 24 Oct 2016, 08:47

Stephen wrote:
The only reason I would go over to Virgin is so I could get their super fast fibre broadband without the need for BT. I could then dump BT and their outragious landline rental charges as we hardly ever use the landline phone. But at the moment that isn't going to happen as we can't get Virgin round here.

Can you switch to Sky for your land line in your area? I realise it will be the same hardware, but you should get a better deal with TV, Broadband and phone all from Sly.

Unread post by **Silver_Shiney** » 24 Oct 2016, 09:12

I looked at going back to Sky a few years ago and they said I had to get a BT phone line installed first and pay BT rental. I don't know if that's still the situation

Unread post by **Stephen** » 24 Oct 2016, 11:08

towny44 wrote:
Stephen wrote:
The only reason I would go over to Virgin is so I could get their super fast fibre broadband without the need for BT. I could then dump BT and their outragious landline rental charges as we hardly ever use the landline phone. But at the moment that isn't going to happen as we can't get Virgin round here.
Can you switch to Sky for your land line in your area? I realise it will be the same hardware, but you should get a better deal with TV, Broadband and phone all from Sly.

Good Morning towny

Yes I could, but I currently have Sky broadband only which is all I want and need. I could get a bit cheaper line rental if I moved it to Sky but then I would probably have to sign up for one of their phone packages and another 12 month contract which I don't want or need. We use our mobiles all the time, and the only reason we have BT's landline still is for the internet connection otherwise I would drop them like a stone. Our quaterly BT bill in calls comes to literally a few pounds the rest is all line rentals charges.

Unread post by **towny44** » 24 Oct 2016, 11:30

We mainly use the landline for calls which is why we like the Sky package, the mobile is for urgent calls only when out, or texts when on holiday, it generally costs me less than £20pa in top ups.

Unread post by **Stephen** » 24 Oct 2016, 11:56

towny44 wrote:
We mainly use the landline for calls which is why we like the Sky package, the mobile is for urgent calls only when out, or texts when on holiday, it generally costs me less than £20pa in top ups.

That's the difference.
Mrs S and I both have our own mobile phones but have monthly contracts totalling £17 a month for both phones. Mine is £10 a month, and for that I get 600 mins of calls which is more than enough for me, unlimited texts and a GiG of data. So you can see why we don't need BT's land line.

Unread post by **qbman1** » 24 Oct 2016, 12:12

Stephen wrote:
The only reason I would go over to Virgin is so I could get their super fast fibre broadband without the need for BT. I could then dump BT and their outragious landline rental charges as we hardly ever use the landline phone. But at the moment that isn't going to happen as we can't get Virgin round here.

Even fewer round our way - this is a university town after all !!

Unread post by **towny44** » 24 Oct 2016, 12:16

Stephen wrote:
towny44 wrote:
We mainly use the landline for calls which is why we like the Sky package, the mobile is for urgent calls only when out, or texts when on holiday, it generally costs me less than £20pa in top ups.

That's the difference.
Mrs S and I both have our own mobile phones but have monthly contracts totalling £17 a month for both phones. Mine is £10 a month, and for that I get 600 mins of calls which is more than enough for me, unlimited texts and a GiG of data. So you can see why we don't need BT's land line.

Have you looked at vodafones broadband offer? I think they also offer TV as well, you could then kick BT into touch.

Unread post by **Silver_Shiney** » 24 Oct 2016, 13:16

I think - although happy to be proved wrong - that everyone other than Virgin uses a physical BT phone line, regardless of who you pay line rental to.

Unread post by **david63** » 24 Oct 2016, 13:35

Silver_Shiney wrote:
I think - although happy to be proved wrong - that everyone other than Virgin uses a physical BT phone line, regardless of who you pay line rental to.

Except in Hull

Unread post by **Silver_Shiney** » 24 Oct 2016, 13:43

david63 wrote:
Silver_Shiney wrote:
I think - although happy to be proved wrong - that everyone other than Virgin uses a physical BT phone line, regardless of who you pay line rental to.
Except in Hull

Sorry - forgot they're still on empty baked bean cans with a length of string joining them

Unread post by **towny44** » 24 Oct 2016, 14:51

Check these out doubters.

https://www.vodafone.co.uk/broadband

http://www.vodafone.co.uk/shop/mobile-b ... nylnty/lcc

Unread post by **Stephen** » 24 Oct 2016, 17:21

towny44 wrote:
Check these out doubters.

https://www.vodafone.co.uk/broadband

http://www.vodafone.co.uk/shop/mobile-b ... nylnty/lcc

Looks interesting John.

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