Sky anytime +

[Cappers]

Anyone got it is it worth having? I know it's free, but you have to go a "buy" it through sky website and then connect your sky box to your router.

Forgive me for being suspicious, but I am of anyone giving something away free, particularly sky. Are you setting yourself up for something in the future? Why would you need to go and "buy" it in the set up process?

Probably being too much of a cynic, but as I say but suspicious of anything "free" from the likes of sky.

Any views?

 

[salty seagull]

Anyone got it is it worth having? I know it's free, but you have to go a "buy" it through sky website and then connect your sky box to your router.

Forgive me for being suspicious, but I am of anyone giving something away free, particularly sky. Are you setting yourself up for something in the future? Why would you need to go and "buy" it in the set up process?

Probably being too much of a cynic, but as I say but suspicious of anything "free" from the likes of sky.

Any views?

Don`t worry,it`s free and an absolutely excellent service in my opinion.

 

[Since1982]

Forgive my ignorance - but what is it and how does it differ from Sky Anytime?

 

[Cappers]

Forgive my ignorance - but what is it and how does it differ from Sky Anytime?

You connect your sky+ box to your router and you have a much greater selection of TV to watch over the interweb.
See channel 999

 

[Chicken Runner61]

I've had it a while and its been no problem.

You sometimes have to wait a while for it to download (well I do anyway) but apart from that its useful sometimes when there is nothing else.

I think its just how sky keep one up on Virgin all the time. Sky Go is ace and thats free (atm). It might make you want a bigger better Sky box and you have to pay for that unless you are a new customer.
If anything with Sky its the fact they give better deals to their new customers that p's me off - to get anything extra you have to virtually leave, I cancelled my espn for the summer and not only does it take a month to cancel but they offered it me free for the summer to keep it on! I suppose the fact I might not start it again when the footie returns shows how much of the £10 per month they get is pure profit to them.

 

[timseagull]

It's great. My sky+ went on the blink and all my series links failed to record when i was on holiday. I just used this to download the missing episodes.

 

[Hiney]

It's brilliant

 

[forumwayseagull]

Well good service, no complaints at all...

 

[Cappers]

Looks like a bit of a no brainier, although cant help but think....

 

[Cappers]

Thanks all, anyway

 

[W3 BHA]

It is free and it is good. It used to be available only to those who subscribed to Sky Broadband. The reason they now offer it to customers whoever their broadband supplier, is that they use this system for downloading films to rent in competition with Netflix and Lovefilm. If you want to set it up wirelessly they will offer you a Sky wireless box at £60. Quite why you would go for this when a homeplug system is cheaper and better, I don't know!

 

[Tony Le Mesmer]

It is free and it is good. It used to be available only to those who subscribed to Sky Broadband. The reason they now offer it to customers whoever their broadband supplier, is that they use this system for downloading films to rent in competition with Netflix and Lovefilm. If you want to set it up wirelessly they will offer you a Sky wireless box at £60. Quite why you would go for this when a homeplug system is cheaper and better, I don't know!

As our router is too far away from the telly, it would require a Sky wireless box. Don't fancy paying £60 for this, so would be interested in finding out cheaper alternatives. You mention a homeplug system. What's that?

 

[Since1982]

You connect your sky+ box to your router and you have a much greater selection of TV to watch over the interweb.
See channel 999

Thank you

 

[Wardy]

As our router is too far away from the telly, it would require a Sky wireless box. Don't fancy paying £60 for this, so would be interested in finding out cheaper alternatives. You mention a homeplug system. What's that?

Homeplug is a system that uses your houses electrical wires as a CAT45 cable. In effect you plug on in to the wall near your router then plug the router into that and another one near your sky box and plug your sky box in to that.

 

[Box of Frogs]

Anytime+ is great for catching up. Set up is fairly straightforward and easy if you plug your router into your Sky+ box. I object to paying Sky £60 for the ability to add wireless connectivity hence I moved my router so I could plug it in with a LAN cable.

Going to be interesting later this week when I change over to BT Infinity - hope it all still works!!

 

[Easy 10]

Anytime+ is great for catching up. Set up is fairly straightforward and easy if you plug your router into your Sky+ box. I object to paying Sky £60 for the ability to add wireless connectivity hence I moved my router so I could plug it in with a LAN cable.

Going to be interesting later this week when I change over to BT Infinity - hope it all still works!!

I'm such a twat. That never even OCCURRED to me.

I'm going to do it.

 

[Cappers]

Homeplug is a system that uses your houses electrical wires as a CAT45 cable. In effect you plug on in to the wall near your router then plug the router into that and another one near your sky box and plug your sky box in to that.

Must be on the same electrical ring circuit for this to work though

 

[Easy 10]

Snorted this out yesterday, and on the whole I'm impressed. I found an extra long ethernet cable I didn't know I had under the stairs, ran that from my Sky box to my router, activated that bitch online and BOOM - there it was.

The only thing is, it seems very SLOW to download. I'm getting a consistant 9mb + on my broadband which *should* be plenty to get things downloading nice & quick, or so I am led to believe. But downloading a HD film literally takes hours, and it doesn't even give me the option of watching on a buffer while its in the process of downloading either (even when it was 40% downloaded).

This TV on demand shit is supposed to be fairly instant, thats the POINT isn't it, not this "download and watch in a few hours" malarky. I'm going to switch it off and on again tonight and try again, cos I'm sure that ain't right.

Anyone else getting s-l-o-w downloads ?

 

[ManxSeagull]

mine normally take about 5 minutes to get the initial buffer loaded then can watch programme/film as the remainder is downloaded onto the box.

 

[mikeyjh]

Snorted this out yesterday, and on the whole I'm impressed. I found an extra long ethernet cable I didn't know I had under the stairs, ran that from my Sky box to my router, activated that bitch online and BOOM - there it was.

The only thing is, it seems very SLOW to download. I'm getting a consistant 9mb + on my broadband which *should* be plenty to get things downloading nice & quick, or so I am led to believe. But downloading a HD film literally takes hours, and it doesn't even give me the option of watching on a buffer while its in the process of downloading either (even when it was 40% downloaded).

This TV on demand shit is supposed to be fairly instant, thats the POINT isn't it, not this "download and watch in a few hours" malarky. I'm going to switch it off and on again tonight and try again, cos I'm sure that ain't right.

Anyone else getting s-l-o-w downloads ?

I find it a wee bit slow, but that could easily be at the Sky end as well - You can start watching as soon as it's something like 3% downloaded though, what message are you seeing after 40%?