Phone, TV, Broadband.
As a few of you may know I am having issues with Virgin Media is respect to the fibre optic broadband latency. I'm pricing up some alternatives but have some questions, here is essentially what I want:
Phone line: Couldn't care less about talk packages, but would need to be BT for ADSL/Infinity
TV: Needs to be recordable and have Sky 1
Broadband: Needs to be a quality line, speed isn't essential but obviously the more the better.
With that in mind my questions are:
1. Will Sky install/reactivate a BT line? or do I have to ring BT.
2. Infinity is preffered as I'm 100 metres from the cabinet, but then I can't seem to find a cheap way of getting TV with Sky 1. Do BT do anything with Sky 1?
3a. The all Sky route is cheaper than Virgin, but it means ADSL instead of fibre. I'm about 2.5 miles from the exchange, been burned by shoddy ADSL in the past and am in a pretty heavily residential area. What is the likelihood of ADSL being a good quality and a reasonable (5-10MB) speed? and
3b. Does Sky's fibre service use the BT Infinity network? and if so
3c. Would Sky mind me trying ADSL and if it's rubbish switch to fibre?
4. Virgin are fine for TV, they list a no phone line option for £14 but with a V+ box when I have Tivo. What are the chances of them just leaving it as it is for £14?
Thanks for the advice. I can't actually do anything until the current issues are "rectified", and obviously if they are then we have no issues. I'm not very trusting of Virgin's ETA of the fix though.
Phone line: Couldn't care less about talk packages, but would need to be BT for ADSL/Infinity
TV: Needs to be recordable and have Sky 1
Broadband: Needs to be a quality line, speed isn't essential but obviously the more the better.
With that in mind my questions are:
1. Will Sky install/reactivate a BT line? or do I have to ring BT.
2. Infinity is preffered as I'm 100 metres from the cabinet, but then I can't seem to find a cheap way of getting TV with Sky 1. Do BT do anything with Sky 1?
3a. The all Sky route is cheaper than Virgin, but it means ADSL instead of fibre. I'm about 2.5 miles from the exchange, been burned by shoddy ADSL in the past and am in a pretty heavily residential area. What is the likelihood of ADSL being a good quality and a reasonable (5-10MB) speed? and
3b. Does Sky's fibre service use the BT Infinity network? and if so
3c. Would Sky mind me trying ADSL and if it's rubbish switch to fibre?
4. Virgin are fine for TV, they list a no phone line option for £14 but with a V+ box when I have Tivo. What are the chances of them just leaving it as it is for £14?
Thanks for the advice. I can't actually do anything until the current issues are "rectified", and obviously if they are then we have no issues. I'm not very trusting of Virgin's ETA of the fix though.
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Go here and check what is available - http://www.sky.com/shop/broadband-talk/fibre-optic/
Add it to your basket, then say you don't have a landline, put in your postcode and house number, it will check if it is available.
http://www.sky.com/shop/broadband-talk/
If you follow the relevant links you should find most of the information you are after.
And for BT
http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/consumerProducts/displayPnSHub.do?btheader_primarynav_index=2
However they don't do a TV service with Sky 1 as far as I can see.
Thanks again