25 Feb 2024 02:30 PM
Looking at returning to Sky, and looking at Sky Stream. Do you have to have Sky Broadband as I'm not willing to move my broadband provider, but would like to have Sky tv.
25 Feb 2024 02:32 PM
Posted by a Superuser, not a Sky employee. Find out moreNo you can use any broadband provider. It's not like Virgin whose streaming service is currently tied into being a Virgin broadband customer.
Sky Stream user. Former Sky+ HD and Sky Broadband customer
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25 Feb 2024 02:32 PM
Posted by a Superuser, not a Sky employee. Find out moreNo you can use any broadband provider. It's not like Virgin whose streaming service is currently tied into being a Virgin broadband customer.
Sky Stream user. Former Sky+ HD and Sky Broadband customer
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25 Feb 2024 06:24 PM
@sha54 who is your ISP .... Sky Stream has issues with some ISPs😉
25 Feb 2024 08:31 PM
@Exiled-in-HH Which ISP's, I know there's been issues with Virgin BB but wasn't aware of others. It would be useful to know as I'm coming to the end of my current contract with my provider.
25 Feb 2024 08:37 PM
I have virgin broadband and sky stream. I have never had an issue, Rock solid.
Secondly, the Virgin media network will be available for wholesale next year, it will be a true competitor to Openreach, Sky may even use the VM infrastructure to deliver their broadband. It will be interesting to see if this allows or indeed Virgin will want to open up their stream box to other ISPs. Virgin have recently upgraded the amount of channels available on their stream service to mirror their cable service, now includes talking pictures and all the +1 channels etc as well as Sky sports UHD channels
25 Feb 2024 10:00 PM
Octaplus is one and the service supplied to Persimmon new builds is another... then there are the ISPs that use non-UK IP addresses😉
25 Feb 2024 10:03 PM
Virgin Media that's interesting... it is a shame their coverage is so limited🤔
26 Feb 2024 10:54 AM - last edited: 26 Feb 2024 10:55 AM
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@Jason+Golding wrote:
Secondly, the Virgin media network will be available for wholesale next year, it will be a true competitor to Openreach
There's some debate about that ; )
Interesting that A&A see it as a way of providing domestic broadband with some actual resilience, presumably by having their consumer-end hardware connected to both and so able to use either network as failover.
26 Feb 2024 05:45 PM
You don't need sky broadband.
I've had sky stream for over a year so and it's the worst mistake I've ever made. I'm returning to Sky Q ASAP.
26 Feb 2024 08:19 PM
@Exiled-in-HH VM pass through 16.3 million homes.
26 Feb 2024 09:24 PM
Basically only urban homes and very low geographic coverage🤔
27 Feb 2024 10:42 AM
@Capt555 I guess you can hang on to Q for 4-5 years which is likely to be the end of Sat broadcasting by Sky. I had Q from 2016 until October 2022 when I switched to Stream and wouldn't return to Q. I guess it has to be what your happy with.
27 Feb 2024 02:19 PM
@Exiled-in-HH @If you say so
27 Feb 2024 03:16 PM - last edited: 27 Feb 2024 03:18 PM
VM are expanding their network massively with NexFibre, they intend to become a national player even outside their old cable areas.
27 Feb 2024 03:21 PM
@Jason+Golding YES I do... do you think is widely available in rural areas🤔
VirginMedia have never been available anywhere I've lived😉