NTL Phone & Sky Plus

I did the same last year, my main phone connection through the broadband is upstairs now so I don't bother having any connection to the sky box. Havent got any letters at all from them about it

If there's a fight on box office I want I just ring up and there's an automated system that completes it handy enough

 

Have you multiroom Paul?

 

As far as I know Sky insist on you having a phone line connected for a few reasons:

- They can send updates to your sky boxes this way
- They can ensure the box/card you have is being used at that address by verifying the phone connection
- You can’t use their interactive (shopping/gambling/competitions) etc without a phone line connected

Sky insist you have a phone line when installing their service, however a friend of mine got sky a few years ago and as he was living on his own refused to get a landline just for Sky so instead they just charged him the full installion fee of €120 but his system has been working no bother without the phone line for 4+ years. He just recently upgrade to Sky plus aswell.

 

Yeah grand, I have it a couple of years now. I only use it for browsing and Itunes etc but I've recently started to use it with utorrent and the download speed is very good and no hassle at all.

I changed the phone over earlier this year and the first month or so had a coupld of small issues where the phone was engaged if someone was ringing when it wasnt being used but they fixed it fairly sharp and it's been fine now

 

We got a phone line in as Sky refused to install it without one. The minute he did we canceled the phoneline (2 years ago now) never had a problem with it..
Got ESPN and Setanta no bother and have multiroom....

 

I have the phone, broadband and tv from ntl

The broadband is great I have to say, 3 of us work of the wireless and 2 of us download quite a bit, never have an issue once its up and running

 

we had awlful trouble with sky regarding the phone line connection,

basically when we hooked up our phone line to the sky box our broadband wouldnt work and sky kept sending out letters saying that they were charging us a higher monthly fee as a result of this, we explained to sky what the story was in that our broadband wasnt working etc...

in the end it became a toss up between BT and sky and BT won because we had a great package with them

so now we have NTL digitel and all is shite

 

Was thinking of changing mine to this. How much do you pay for the broadband, phone and tv ? Cheers

 

I have recently updated to digital hd and sky sports+espn

The above 3 (and that was the basic tv channels) before this worked out at 76 euros per month, not too bad, if you go digital its only another 4/4.50 a month on top of the 76 (I would go with the digital)

oh and don't use the phone for calling mobiles, you can get a block on it but you have to pay

 

Did you have a dsl filter on the phone connection to sky box?

 

i dont know what that is but we used the same connection for well over a year so it wasnt as if we changed anything and then one day it wouldnt work,

tried a couple of different wires/connections and it wasnt happening