Page 1 of Free new Hub

If you're a Sky broadband customer log in to your account as there a new Hub on offer for free and a subsequent Booster when you let them know you have a dead spot in your house.

Snaps

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My new Flash Fiction blog. All my own work
500ish

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I used to be with it, but then they changed what `it` was.
Now, what I`m with isn`t it, and what`s `it` seems weird and scary

can't see the hub for free Snaps? got a direct link?

Ste
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If you sign in it should be right there.
If not give them a ring. I picked it up off Hot UK Deals

Snaps

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My new Flash Fiction blog. All my own work
500ish

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I used to be with it, but then they changed what `it` was.
Now, what I`m with isn`t it, and what`s `it` seems weird and scary

As far as I can see the only Free bit is the Wireless Booster

bloody sky website... try as i might, i can't add the wireless extender
to my basket.

tried calling but the waiting time is horrendous.

Ste
My Flickr Photostream

Got the same issues as Ste but got through, the hub is definitely NOT free and up to £69, free to new customers, the extender is free but before the girl completed my order she put me through to fibre tech support to try n fix my issues, that resulted in a new white hub ordered free (!!) but need to order booster seperate cos he cant.

Will try again later, might be cos I'm on iphone or might be the upsurge of traffic hukd and the weather has caused.

Jimbo : oÞ

"There`s that word again... is there a problem with the Earth`s gravitational pull in the future?"

Well this is strange as the new black hub is on my account page as free. If I had the time to work out screen shots I'd post it up.
Maybe each account is assessed as to what services you've got and length of time you've been with them? Only thing I can think of.

This is the Hot Uk Deals link.
Maybe trawl through the comments and see if you can figure out from there

Snaps

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My new Flash Fiction blog. All my own work
500ish

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I used to be with it, but then they changed what `it` was.
Now, what I`m with isn`t it, and what`s `it` seems weird and scary

Think this is a new customer/retention due to length of contact offer.
It's £69 on my page but the booster is free, an it did let me add it once I switched to the desktop.
(Odd though, it brought up a "Beta Shop" with the option to switch back, it added the booster anyway even though no email confirmation yet)

Apparently the new hub just combines the old white hub and the BT Infinity modem box thingymajig into one box so no actual benefit to the likes of myself (according to Sky support)

.....except, as I pointed out, one mains plug instead of two, less wires and the reclaming of one of my ethernet ports on the back currently used to connect both together.

Still didn't get the black one though LOL.

Jimbo : oÞ

"There`s that word again... is there a problem with the Earth`s gravitational pull in the future?"

managed to order the booster in the end, turned up yesterday which
was a lot earlier than expected.

struggled to set it up due to our router not having a WPS button and
me being a bit strict with MAC filtering. there's a MAC address on the 
base of the unit and also on the packaging, but this relates to the wired
LAN port, not the WiFi adaptor built in.

sorted in the end though, the WiFi MAC address is +1 different to the
LAN MAC.

seems to work fine, and unlike regular WAP's you don't have to have
an ethernet cable connected to them in order for them to work.

the box itself is tiny... think AppleTV (maybe a bit smaller than that!).

Ste
My Flickr Photostream

My new Hub arrived yesterday. Maybe just my impression but things seem to happen a bit quicker. I haven't tried the on demand TV yet to see if the HD downloads are faster than the 'go and have a three course meal' that they were before.


Snaps

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My new Flash Fiction blog. All my own work
500ish

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I used to be with it, but then they changed what `it` was.
Now, what I`m with isn`t it, and what`s `it` seems weird and scary

This item was edited on Friday, 3rd January 2014, 09:54