............To find they have a container gone missing with all of there modems on and they wont be able to get one out to you for two weeks?? AND your exisiting broadband supplier have already cut you off as you informed them of the change date

Missing container................. more like they couldnt keep up with the demand from their adverts :thumbdwn:

Ah well fun and games, means less of walkie on here, so good news for you all

btw I've come into my office tonight (sad I know )

Just hope they are offering a reduction in charges or free connection fee. Have a go at someone and see where you get.

A Container of our Work Uniforms also went walkabout, in eastern europe.........Looks like the Chechin rebles now have Broadband..

why not use your existing modem?

I'm hoping to join them but as yet it's not available in my area so you are one step ahead of me!!

I read on the digitalspy forums that people have been forced to use the Sky modems, perhaps it's a firmware thing. I hope not as I'm quite happy with my own. They supply Netgear AFAIK.

I'm hoping to join them but as yet it's not available in my area so you are one step ahead of me!!

I read on the digitalspy forums that people have been forced to use the Sky modems' date=' perhaps it's a firmware thing. I hope not as I'm quite happy with my own. They supply Netgear AFAIK.[/quote']

My Dad just got his, and I am due mine in a few weeks.

I must say the router is the biggest heap of crap I have ever seen. The Wirelesss range is about 1m, if that before the signal becomes poor. Maybe we have a duff unit. They say you cant use your own, but Ill certainly be changing mine for a Cisco router, and if they don't like it, they can bite me:D

I manged to get signed up to Sky Broadband Connect yesterday (Up to 8mb for £17 PM) as an intermediate until I get the full monty. Cost me £40 which is a bit of a pi$$er but never mind, it gave me great pleasure to give Pipex the finger.

As for using the modems I've come across this since my last post -

http://www.skyuser.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=1199

I've got a Sky Broadband box here, I"m just waiting for them to activate my line. They've missed two dates already, so I've given up asking them and look on the BT website for orders placed on my phone line. 12/09/06 - IPStream 2000 (current broadband product) being disconnected. Unknown date - LLU Internet (Sky Broadband) being connected - hopefully that's the 12th as well!

The range on the Sky Netgear wireless box is a bit pants. If you plug another wireless router into one of the ethernet sockets on the back, you can just use that instead. You have to plug the Sky one into your phoneline because your username/password to connect to the service is a secret (it doesn't show up in the admin webpage), so you can't configure another router to match! Swines!

They don't give you any webspace either. Nor a POP3/SMTP email server you can use - just lousy webmail. We've had to go and buy some webspace from somewhere, and get Gmail accounts to receive mail with.

Saving me

They are giving SMTP mail server details now - look on the link above.

I am waiting for the pay service which is still a BT wholesale product - I hope it's a seamless transfer.