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Or you could just get a free to air satellite reciever. Screwfix were doing a kit including the dish for £69

Then you'll be able to get loads of free foreign language German (no soft porn on Saturdays now :cool:) Polish, Russian, Arabic ;)

Not sure what English channels are Free to Air these days, but a lot of these FTA channels have multi language feeds.

Eurosport is a good example, on my FTA reciver I can change the language feed to English commentary.

There was a big lie put out by a certain satellite broadcaster that all the FTA channels would disappear overnight so you'd better have this new box and subscribe, otherwise no Eurosport.

But it was still FTA last time I checked :smt019

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Buy a dreambox :D

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Yeah but if you have their Sky talk phone package too, it's a free call

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+1

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what's one of them?

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Had Sky for about 13 years now and wouldn't do without it.
Because O2 have decided to increase the price of their home phone and BB, i've decided to go with Sky. This means for variety and chikdrens package, Unlimited BB and home phone it works out to £31.75.
I'll be getting basically the same as what i'm currently getting now, but paying £10 cheaper than if I continue with O2 for Phone/BB.
Downside, will have to pay for 0870/0845 numbers, but considering I don't tend to use those numbers i'm not that bothered.
If there is a cheaper way of getting all this i'll certainly be interested.
As for Sky having bad equipment compared to Bt is quite funny. The reason is that BT own the exchanges/lines that Sky uses. Unless of course it's the router ( any evidence to the contrary is welcomed ).

Ste.

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The router is a Netgear. It's not even re-branded.

Good kit.

Pete ;)

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the only problems we had with sky was, 1, in bad wheather the picture would break up, well it would wouldn't it, and 2, for broadband the speed depends on where you live , in our case pay for 8 meg get 2-4 meg :(, that's why we now have virgin tv phone, and 50 meg broadband, not cheap though £70 a month, but sky's not cheap when you add on movies or sports.

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The telly is good, sky plus is good but not as good as V+ box.

On V+ you can watch one channel and record 2 others, sky plus you have to be watching one of the channels to record 2 channels.

The sky broadband is terrible pay for 16mbps get 2mbps, the netgear router is carp and drops out so often so any big downloads get reset.

Get cable instead 20mbps all day long (can go up to 100mbps) what you pay for is what you get, the telly is not quite as good as cable (no atlantic channel, no 3d and less movie / sport channels) but the internet more than makes up for it.

Oh and HD channels are free on Virgin but you pay extra on Sky