My mum wants to watch Sky Sports without landline

[JC991]

My old mother doesn't have a landline, and wants to watch sky sports. She won't use the internet for anything else.

What's the easiest and most cost effective way of her doing this 

Thanks!

[BenJoBanjo]

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@JC991 wrote:

My old mother doesn't have a landline, and wants to watch sky sports. She won't use the internet for anything else.

What's the easiest and most cost effective way of her doing this 

Thanks!

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Use the NOW TV app (which may already be on her smart TV) and subscribe to a Sky Sports package:

https://www.nowtv.com/plans/new/sports 

If you subscribe for a day or a month at full price then cancel they usually give you an offer to get it a lot cheaper by signing up for 6 months. I know many people who pay £19.99pm for the full Sky Sports package via NOW. You can pay extra for full HD and UHD if you like, but the standard 720P streams are perfectly watchable. 

[JC991]

Many thanks.

Would you know whether a mobile wifi dongle should be good enough to provide the connection? She has a PAYG EE one atm, which has good 5G connection when she has credit, & I could just use that with a bigger, regular, allowance?

It'd save her signing up for a 24-month contract with another provider and all that.

Thanks!

[BenJoBanjo]

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@JC991 wrote:

Many thanks.

Would you know whether a mobile wifi dongle should be good enough to provide the connection? She has a PAYG EE one atm, which has good 5G connection when she has credit, & I could just use that with a bigger, regular, allowance?

It'd save her signing up for a 24-month contract with another provider and all that.

Thanks!

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It would certainly be good enough if she can receive a fairly decent, steady signal. NOW TV is much more forgiving of slow connections than Sky Stream or Glass. Have you done a speed test to see what speed is received via the WiFi dongle? 

[JC991]

Thanks. Not yet, but I''ll do a ping when I'm up next. Sky says 50mb should be plenty to watch, and EE sells itself on at least that, so I'm hopeful it'll be enoough. 

Thanks for your help!

[BenJoBanjo]

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@JC991 wrote:

Thanks. Not yet, but I''ll do a ping when I'm up next. Sky says 50mb should be plenty to watch, and EE sells itself on at least that, so I'm hopeful it'll be enoough. 

Thanks for your help!

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You should be absolutely fine then. NOW actually say their minimum requirement is just 2.5Mbps so if the EE dongle can sustain 50Mbps then buffering shouldn't be an issue. 

I actually set my mum up with a NOW sports sub last year - she only gets about 15-25Mbps via her broadband as she's in a remote area and it works perfectly well.