Doubt i would have had to pay him anything if he'd gone up there and fallen. fuck all to do do with me if he'd decided to risk it. As i said before, i went up when he told me he cant. The point i'm making is sky installers are shit and you get what you pay for. Free installations are crap installations. I paid 60 quid for mine and it was spot on. They ran the cable correctly instead of slinging it over the roof and then through a hole in the wall. Would you be happy with a random looking wire coming into your house through a hole in a wall?? Maybe you would but i wouldnt.

How much was the sky installation and how much was the independant one?

If you want them to do more than a standard install its fair enough they kick up a fuss as he as an individual will not get anything extra for a complicated install - if anything it may take longer and thus get less jobs done in the day = not hitting targets.

Also if they are not insured to go on the roof its fair enough they don't want to as they know they would get sod all if there wasn accident - or would you have been happy to pay out a few grand if he fell?

I had an independant installer when i switched from normal sky digital to sky+ HD because the original sky guy was a prick.
He wouldnt go on the roof to put the dish up coz they aren't insured so i had to do it. He wouldn't go in the loft to run the cable correctly either. He wanted to just throw the cable over the roof and drop down the front of the house and then drill a hole through the wall and pass the cable through. I told him i wasn't happy with that and he got all arsey. I told him to just leave all the bits for me and fuck off for all the use he was but he said he wasn't allowed to leave the job until he had seen the sky tv working so we ended up passing the cable through the letter box temporarily to get it in the house. After he fucked off i had to re-install it the correct way.

Trust me mate, your better off looking in the yellow pages for independant installers that say "any installation possible" in their advert. The guys that turned up for me were spot on, they went straight up on the roof and ran the extra cable exactly how i wanted it.

go for the standard installation and if they get round and say its another 100 to fit, offer the fitter like 60 for his own pocket.
what my dad did to pull us some strings and get us a free box

Spoke to a fella at Comet on Sunday and he said that standard installation is up to 1st floor. And I'm on the 2nd floor. So he said I'll have to ring Sky up and see how much it would cost for installation cos it wont be free.

I'm on the Sky Broadband Max package, the £10/month one. It's unlimited and upto 16meg, but we're so far from the exchange that we only get 8meg. Can't fault it.
Has a 768kb upload too, which is handy for torrents etc.

i'm on sky broadband, and it seems ok.
There own service wasn't available at the time of installation, so i'm on the bt equivalent package, 8mb 25gig d/l limit for £17. Will automatically change to the £5 package when it's available in the area.

My rents have sky broadband its fine, I have been told I can gewt a 3mb line for free so I wont complain lol

Sky are really good at offering broadband but has anyone actually got it? I joined Sky in Sept cos I cancelled my previous broadband and thought I might as well pay a bit more and have sky tv and free broadband.
They originally told me begining of Nov, then said beginning of Dec and had a letter yesterday saying 'New Year'!! so still have no broadband at home.


As for Sky TV - they tried charging me £99 for Sky+ box and £60 installation. I told them I couldn't afford £160 so they said they would give me free installation. I then said I would only have it if they didn't charge me, so they gave me a 'graded' box. basically you have sky on a 8 day approval and apparently a 'graded' box is one that someone has had in their house and changed their mind in the 8 days., so didn't cost me a penny.....

just want feckin broadband now :lol:

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Originally posted by Pablo
free sky broadband

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Mine gets fitted week tomorrow and then I can get the free sky broadband too :D

if its 3 stories up then it might not be a standard installation, you'll have to give them a bell. We got sky plus with multiroom here are the installer did such a messy job, wires not tacked to the wall outside, massive unsealed messy holes coming into the house and he didnt even ask us where the tv was going so theres not quite enough cable in the lounge to hide it around the skirting boards to the tv :mad:

Saw the adavert last night, in all honesty I actually think the "recommender" gets a free sky+ box and the "new customer" gets it for half price. But then of course there's a further subscription charge on top too.

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Originally posted by loafofbrett
it'll be standard, if you say i recommended you we both gat sky+ boxes half price ;)

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When i had mine installed, i called up, then come and fitted it. Easy

Call them thats the easy option , pretty sure its a free phone number.

it'll be standard, if you say i recommended you we both gat sky+ boxes half price ;)

Dont know whether this should be in house day or geek day or what so put it in here.

Thinking about getting Sky+ in my room. I dont have an external aerial in there at the moment so thats part of the reason.

On the Sky website it says standard installation is free. But it doesn't say what a standard or non standard installation is so how do you know if you are going to have to pay extra :boggle: