I am discontinuing sky. Andy suggestions?

kittyIE

Cancelled sky. Soo many options for alternatives. Any suggestions? I’d like sport channels,Rt1,channel4 Fox News Any help would b appreciated

ForestFire

kittyIE wrote: »

Cancelled sky. Soo many options for alternatives. Any suggestions? I’d like sport channels,Rt1,channel4 Fox News Any help would b appreciated

Your bonkers.................ie

Although I prefer switcher.ie myself

Delta2113

You want Fox News - oh dear.

Furasta

Delta2113 wrote: »

You want Fox News - oh dear.

And RT lol

Tea drinker

Why did you cancel Sky Kitty? Was it value for money or issues with the service?
Eir had a fairly cheap deal with brroadband for a while, but performance can be hit and miss, I found it great in Dublin, my sister out the country found it awful and moved to Sky. I guess it's the same for any ISP, some areas have poor performance.

The Mighty Quinn

Tea drinker wrote: »

Why did you cancel Sky Kitty? Was it value for money or issues with the service?
Eir had a fairly cheap deal with brroadband for a while, but performance can be hit and miss, I found it great in Dublin, my sister out the country found it awful and moved to Sky. I guess it's the same for any ISP, some areas have poor performance.

I was looking at this. Think it's 39 a month for broadband and TV with eir. I was paying 33 a month for sky and currently paying 55 a month for Vodafone Siro. The broadband speed is fine, but connection drops fairly regularly, only briefly but enough to disrupt video calls or screenshare at work.

Have Netflix subscription which is my Sky now. Was all getting a bit expensive. So the Eir deal sounds good, I'd save on broadband cost plus get TV. I'm in Limerick City, wonder will it work. Do you know if the Eir needs a phone line, if it does its probably slow speeds? Siro is through my electricity box.

icdg

We might confine responses to offering assistance to the OP rather than questioning her choice of viewing

Tea drinker

The Mighty Quinn wrote: »

I was looking at this. Think it's 39 a month for broadband and TV with eir. I was paying 33 a month for sky and currently paying 55 a month for Vodafone Siro. The broadband speed is fine, but connection drops fairly regularly, only briefly but enough to disrupt video calls or screenshare at work.

Have Netflix subscription which is my Sky now. Was all getting a bit expensive. So the Eir deal sounds good, I'd save on broadband cost plus get TV. I'm in Limerick City, wonder will it work. Do you know if the Eir needs a phone line, if it does its probably slow speeds? Siro is through my electricity box.

Eir deal did include Amazon Prime free for a year which has some decent content, more old stuff than Netflix but still a few great new series too. Not sure if that deal is still on, see if anyone on your street / road has Eir and if it is fast and reliable. If it's ca-ca doesn't matter how cheap it is.

kennedmc

kittyIE wrote: »

Cancelled sky. Soo many options for alternatives. Any suggestions? I’d like sport channels,Rt1,channel4 Fox News Any help would b appreciated

How did you cancel Sky? Rang up this morning and they said it was over a 1 hour wait.

I then filled in some cancellation online form but not sure where that will go....

Tea drinker

kennedmc wrote: »

How did you cancel Sky? Rang up this morning and they said it was over a 1 hour wait.

I then filled in some cancellation online form but not sure where that will go....

If you are out of contract just move to another provider they cancel it for you.
Who are you moving to? Or just cancelling for now?

Capt'n Midnight

Which Sky Box / LNB do you have ?

Freesat box will give you https://www.freesat.co.uk/whats/full-channel-list/ out of the box
Linux box if you want to tweak

Cancelled sky. Soo many options for alternatives. Any suggestions?
I’d like sport channels, - good luck on that depending on what you deem essential
Rt1, - RT HD on Freesat
channel4 - yes - add the HD through other channels
Fox News - just watch CNN in opposites mode.

FRIENDO

kittyIE wrote: »

Cancelled sky. Soo many options for alternatives. Any suggestions? I’d like sport channels,Rt1,channel4 Fox News Any help would b appreciated

We have Saorview (aerial required)
Have Saorview channels on the TV and on a Walker Saorview Combi Box

Walker Saorview Combi Box (will work with your satellite dish and Aerial)
Has all the channels we need and more
Saorview channels
Free to Air Satellite Channels (hundreds of channels bbc, itv, C4, C5 etc)
We added a Hard drive to the Combi for recording
If the box is recording, we can watch other Saorview channels on the TV. as the box only allows you watch what you record, so easy to have the channels on TV as well.
You can record and watch a recording at the same time on the Combi
It's easy to use

We have a Netflix account

Sport
Eurosport Player account for sport
Eurosport was 20 Euro for the year, we got a special, think it's usually 40 for the year otherwise.

Lots of football highlights are on BBC 1 HD
Quest HD shows English Championship highlights.
Saorview channels also have loads of sports
RTE, Virgin media and TG4

Also have a Channel called Freesports HD on satellite, shows lots of sports

We don't get Fox news on satellite, but every other news channel I can think of is free.

You can watch some Fox news apps on the phone if you really want it and cast to your TV.

Clitheroekid

S4C BBC ALBA ,BBC Scotland and BBCone Scotland also show live and recorded football