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This is a discussion on Painless switch from BT to Sky within the Sky happiness forums, part of the Sky Broadband feedback category; Just wanted to put on record that my switchover from BT Boradband to Sky went without a hitch. I also ...

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Old 02-03-09, 05:59 AM
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Painless switch from BT to Sky

Just wanted to put on record that my switchover from BT Boradband to Sky went without a hitch. I also moved to SkyTalk and gave Sky my line rental too, much to BT's chagrin. I was using a Netgear ADSL router/modem with a Netgear hub (lots of wired LAN devices) and simply substituted the Sky Sagem rounter for the Netgear router and connected in the Netgear hub on switchover day and everything worked straighy away. Performance is if anything slightly faster and more consistent than BT (I connect at around 7.5Mbs and download around 6.3Mbs). A result!
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Old 02-03-09, 09:10 AM
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Re: Painless switch from BT to Sky

Nice one glad to hear it,
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Re: Painless switch from BT to Sky

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Hi good to hear everything went well now just enjoy
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Re: Painless switch from BT to Sky

Post your stats and let's see if you can get anymore speed.
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