Is anyone willing to say anything good about sky connect?This is a discussion on Is anyone willing to say anything good about sky connect? within the Sky happiness forums, part of the Sky Broadband feedback category; I note that most of the posters in this particular part of the forum are on mid/max.
I'm thinking of ...
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06-04-09, 01:43 PM
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Is anyone willing to say anything good about sky connect?
I note that most of the posters in this particular part of the forum are on mid/max.
I'm thinking of jumping the Sky ship already but wondered how many out there are willing to praise Connect, as most of the stuff i read effectively boils down to "don't touch it with a barge pole"
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06-04-09, 02:24 PM
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Re: Is anyone willing to say anything good about sky connect?
As a temporary solution at £5 a month while you are waiting on an LLU connection, it's fine. Other than that, as you say, don't touch with barge pole is probably correct.
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06-04-09, 02:55 PM
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Re: Is anyone willing to say anything good about sky connect?
If I was offered it for free I wouldn't touch it.
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06-04-09, 03:46 PM
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Re: Is anyone willing to say anything good about sky connect?
If I was paid to take it I wouldn't have it.
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06-04-09, 11:51 PM
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07-04-09, 12:01 AM
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Re: Is anyone willing to say anything good about sky connect?
When I first joined sky it was good, now the only good thing I can think about it is that I'm no longer on it.
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07-04-09, 09:52 AM
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Re: Is anyone willing to say anything good about sky connect?
I've been on Connect for over a year and it's fine...having said that, any downloading i need to do is scheduled for the day so I'm not capped in the evenings so browsing/streaming is spot on!!
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07-04-09, 10:45 AM
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Re: Is anyone willing to say anything good about sky connect?
Very much the same as IANTE, Year to the day I think or very close. Had a few problems at the start of traffic shaping, now organised my downloads.
Things are fine :-)
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07-04-09, 11:20 AM
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07-04-09, 11:22 AM
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Re: Is anyone willing to say anything good about sky connect?
No such luck there, we are all in the same boat
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