Sky after a week or two with minimal offers on its broadband services has
returned with a range of half price broadband deals and interestingly a Sky
Wireless Booster.
Wireless extenders are not new and work by picking up an existing wireless
signal and repeating it, making them ideal to push your Internet access into
that couple of rooms where it is intermittent or not available. For those
looking to improve wireless coverage a great many devices are available but the
TP Link
TL-WA750RE looks a cheap option, with the option of working as a wireless
Ethernet bridge i.e. connect the Ethernet port on a smart TV to your wireless
connection.
All the broadband services require voice line rental via
Sky at £15.40 a month.
- Unlimited Sky Broadband (if buying TV, or existing TV
customer) £3.75/month for the first 12 months. 12 month contract and
after 12 months price is £7.50 per month. Wireless extender can be claimed for
orders activated before 30th January 2014. - Unlimited Sky Broadband (non TV customers)
£5/month for the first 12 months. 12 month contract and after 12 months price
is £10 per month. Wireless extender can be claimed for orders activated before
30th January 2014. Also qualify for a £25 M&S voucher. - Unlimited Sky Fibre Broadband (up to 38 Mbps
product) £10/month for the first 6 months. 12 month contract and after
six months price is £20 per month. Wireless extender can be claimed for orders
activated before 30th January 2014. Also if not taking a TV package you qualify
for a £25 M&S voucher.
An interesting point is that the small print on the Sky website suggests that the booster will be available to
existing customers after 27th December, no information on price or if it may be
a free option.
UPDATE: Just a few minutes after publishing the Sky press
release for the new hub appeared and from 26th December until 30th January 2014
both existing and new Sky customers will be able to order the booster for free
online via the mysky portal for a limited time period. Technically the booster
offers 802.11 wireless “n”, 2 x 2 Mimo, 144Mbps throughput (in plain English
this means best case of around 50 Mbps in either direction) and a WPS push
button.
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Disappointing that this ‘offer’ is ONLY available to those who take Sky T.V. not,like me, who pay for broadband, line rental & phone calls.
Which offer? The booster is available to both TV and non-TV customers.
“Unlimited Sky Fibre Broadband (up to 38 Mbps product) £10/month for the first 6 months. 12 month contract and after 12 months price is £20 per month”
Is it 12 months or only 6…”I forgot myself in all this excitement” ;).
Corrected the 12 month typo.
I blame the heating for my cold fingers at that time of the morning.
Now where is my pile of 10 bob coins…
I wonder how well this would improve a 3G hotspot.
I checked last night and Sky seem to be charging £20 for this. No sign of it being offered for free.
Now available for free, until end of January.
Ha ha skys adv suggests 100% wireless boost makes me laugh if there kit was any good you shouldn’t need any other kit .I nearly ordered sky fibre but I wanted to use my own tplink wr1043nd but guess what due to skys non standard encapsulation this means you can’t tplinks firmware .so I told sky to hop it..sky believe in better I think not