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Broadband Speed Online - Sky Broadband Packages and Special Offers |
A
Slow System?

Current
Sky Packages
BASE
Excellent for everyday browsing, with up to 2Mb download speeds
and 2GB monthly usage allowance.
MID
With up to 8Mb download speeds and a monthly 40GB usage allowance,
perfect if you're a regular user and want to download music
and short video clips.
MAX
Great for the whole family downloading music, movies, sports
clips with download speeds of up to 16Mb and unlimited†
usage.
CONNECT
If you aren't in one of our network areas yet, don't worry we
still have a great value broadband product for you with up to
8Mb and 40GB usage allowance.
You
need to test your broadband speed to make sure you get what
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Sky
Broadband is
Now available to Sky Subscribers, I personally have it on the Max
Package and pay £10 a Month which compared to my past BT contract
saves me £15 a month and I now get an 8mb connection, compared
to when I tested my speed
with BT I was only getting a 5.5mb connection. I found this very
strange considering SKY use my current BT phone line. (note changing
your ISP to SKY still requires you to have a BT Phone line connected
to at least the option1 package)
The
Base broadband packages is current FREE(oct 2007) and the MID package
only costs £5 a month but has some restrictions to the amount
of downloading and uploading that can be processed in a month. If
like me you stream alot of video or upload hundreds of photos then
get the full freedom of the MAX package, it costs £5 more
than the MID offer but has no restrictions or hidden costs.
Broadband
Internet is anything from 10 to 150 times faster
than traditional dial-up connections,Broadband doesn't tie up your
phone line and you pay by the amount you down- or upload rather
than the time you spend online, compare to dial-up connections.
Most homes can access broadband through Packages supplied by SKY,
Virginmedia, Pipex, BT, TalkTalk and lots more using BT's copper-wire
phone network. ADSL broadband Providers
You need to put broadband filters
into the phone sockets in your house to make sure you don't get
interference on your telephone line. Most broadband providers will
provide you with 2 of them as standard. They normally have two input
connector slots allowing you to plugin your modem/router cable and
your normal phone line.
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SKY
Broadband provided me with a very classy looking modem router.
The make is Netgear
and the model number is DG834GT.
On the base of the router is a SKY sticker which contains the
following handy information; SSID (service set identifier) in
other words this is the name of your router and you will use
this when attempting to get a wireless connection. There are
only 12 houses in my close, but two of my neighbours are also
use SKY Broadband (I know this becasue they broadcast their
SSID and it begins SKY then 4 digits ie.SKY1234).
The
second piece of key Information is your actual network key.
This will need to be entered when trying to get a wi fi connection
to the router.
The
Third piece of vital info is the Channel which the router is
set at. Mine Netgear router came set at channel 11, I'm no geek
:) so I'm not sure if thats standard or not. Just to let you
know, I had to change my channel to channel 1 because I was
get terrible interference with my baby monitor.
The
routers mac address and serial number are also displayed on
the sticker on the routers base.
I
got access to my SKY Netgear Router DG834GT by typing the following
into the browser bar http://192.168.0.1/
I
then got a pop up box asking for Sky router username and password,
I entered the following username = admin - password = sky
This
then loaded the router settings page. Warning, don't go changing
settings if you don't have a clue what your doing. Give the
Sky helpdesk a phone, they are open 24 hours. |
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holds a wealth of information about your computer, which is
why we constantly hear from users that after using their PC
for a short length of time, it no longer works the way it used
to. This is due in part to invalid entries that exist in your
system registry, that might exist because of software you are
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I
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But you will need to register a
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I
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