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Posted 19 December 2013
Free wifi booster for Sky Customers
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About this deal
This deal is expired. Here are some options that might interest you:
From the 20th of December... So don't call and ask today you will get charged £20 all sky broadband customers can claim a free wireless booster to help clear up wireless black spots
The wireless booster is a pretty new item and will be used to boost wifi signal round the house and help remove wifi black spots
To claim your booster go to sky.com/boo…ter to claim yours from TOMORROW
Offer live from 1000, December 20 according to the sky live chat advisor at this url:
sky.com/pro…er/
- KTF
Get a free Sky Wireless Booster now for NEW CUSTOMERS
Existing Customers can claim your free booster online from 27 December.
- antdav
Available for free for existing Sky broadband customers from 27th December 2013
- freebiehunter
offer live from the 27th of December Still active
et a free Sky Wireless Booster when your broadband is up and running. If you joined Sky Broadband before 20 December, you can claim your free booster online from 27 December. You'll need to log in with your Sky ID.
sky.com/sho…ter info pasted from here
- shakey1981
Ends 30th JANURARY
- hanif39
Offer now extended to 27th Feb
- UnicornRiver
Now out of stock.
- hanif39
The wireless booster is a pretty new item and will be used to boost wifi signal round the house and help remove wifi black spots
To claim your booster go to sky.com/boo…ter to claim yours from TOMORROW
Offer live from 1000, December 20 according to the sky live chat advisor at this url:
sky.com/pro…er/
- KTF
Get a free Sky Wireless Booster now for NEW CUSTOMERS
Existing Customers can claim your free booster online from 27 December.
- antdav
Available for free for existing Sky broadband customers from 27th December 2013
- freebiehunter
offer live from the 27th of December Still active
et a free Sky Wireless Booster when your broadband is up and running. If you joined Sky Broadband before 20 December, you can claim your free booster online from 27 December. You'll need to log in with your Sky ID.
sky.com/sho…ter info pasted from here
- shakey1981
Ends 30th JANURARY
- hanif39
Offer now extended to 27th Feb
- UnicornRiver
Now out of stock.
- hanif39
More details at Sky Digital has currently Sign up to a package and you and the referrer both get up to £125 in vouchers campaign, if you want to use it you can do so from this .
Community Updates
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sorted byI used the deep link, and this rectified the problem
sky.com/qui…ink
hope this works for those who are having trouble
While I'm not calling BS, I think if you're gonna say stuff like that and tell us to "Do our research", you should be supplying at least a few examples of documentation to back it up.
I've worked with electronic equipment my whole adult life. From laser cutters to PCs and I currently work in an ofice with 2 fully functioning wireless repeaters in a building that runs several, and I've not had a day off sick in 10 years.
While you may very well be getting ill spending time around EMF, it's not something that'll affect everyone and I'd beg you to stop scaremongering!
OT.
Heat from me.
My Sky router is a bag of crap. Boosting it would be a god send
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0207 126 7020
helpforum.sky.com/t5/…905
From 20 December 2013 to 30 January 2014 we’re offering all qualifying new and existing Sky Broadband customers a free Sky Wireless Booster (usually £20 + P&P). Some customers have been experiencing issues redeeming.
On Friday December 27th we experienced issues with the offer setup that meant people were unable to get the booster offer into their basket. This was fixed and tested on Friday afternoon. As part of this resolution we had to make the booster available as a sold product in Shop. Anyone trying to get the booster via Shop will see it as priced at £20.
We are still investigating some outstanding issues where customers are having problems getting the offer into their basket.
New Customers
If you purchase Sky Broadband between 20th December and 30th January the offer will be made available to you once your service has gone active. When your installation is complete and your Sky Broadband service has gone active we will then add the booster offer to your account and send you an e-mail to advise that the offer is now available.
This can take a few days. New Sky Broadband customers will have until 1st May to redeem the booster offer, so plenty of time for the installation and activation of your service.
Existing Customers
This is broken into 2 offers:
Free Sky Hub - this will be offered to everyone with an older router, these include: Netgear Phase 1, Netgear Phase 2, D-Link Phase 2, Sagem Phase 2 and Sagem Phase 2 Refresh. You will NOT be offered a free wireless booster at this stage.
Once you have redeemed your free Sky Hub we will then add the booster offer to your account and send an e-mail to advise that the offer is now available. This can take a few days. Redemption is via sky.com/boo…ers and your Offers page in My Sky.
You will have until the 27th of February to redeem the offer of a free wireless booster
Free Wireless Booster - this will be offered to all customers who have a Phase 3 Sagem router or Sky Hub. You will NOT be offered a free Sky Hub.
If you have tried to redeem the offer of your free wireless booster before and your encountering issues, please empty your basket in My Sky and sign out, then click this link: sky.com/boo…ers to then complete your order.
If you are still experiencing issues please see the checklist below:
You Must be UK Sky Broadband customer
Your Sky Broadband must be in an active state
Your account must not be in debt
Your Sky Broadband must not in pending cancel state
You must have the correct router type for the offer you're applying for
You can only redeem one booster/Sky Hub per customer account
You will not be able to order Broadband and booster at same time (you must wait until your service has gone active)
It is free from the 27th if you have a read through
Firstly, you should only use a WiFi booster as an absolute last resort in actual WiFi repeater mode. The only way it works without compromises is if you put it into Access Point mode and plug it into your router using a LONG ethernet cable and place it far away from your router, broadcasting on a different WiFi channel.
Secondly, if all you do is put it right next to your router, it will only make your WiFi worse. What you are supposed to do is put the WiFi booster as far away from the router as possible, but close enough that your WiFi signal is still decent. It then acts as a relay, you connect to the WiFi booster and it relays your signal to the router. However that causes one huge side effect, at BEST you get HALF your normal WiFi speed and in many cases it will be much less. I have tested such devices on my own WiFi and I only got 1/3 my normal speed.
A really good WiFi booster would actually use two WiFi chips on different channels, that WOULDN'T halve your speed, but none of these cheap devices do that.
It should also be able to work like the wireless adapters they were offering for the Sky+HD boxes, it connects to your router over WiFi and you plug anything you want in to the ethernet port on the booster. In my experience though this rarely works as well as using native WiFi on a device if it has it.
For free its still worth picking up, but be aware of how it works before considering using one.
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Then magically appears in your basket. New shop has bugs.... does it work now people???
Going around in circles on the website for days now :-(
Forgot to update: It wasnt anything to do with this offer, its because we recently moved it knocked some discounts off the system but sorted now (or so they claim).
sky.com/qui…301
Well id call them back , as most of us on here have double checked and it doesn't sign you up for another 12mnths
I think a few people had this problem... Get in early tomorrow. If it's anything like the free on demand box there could be wait if you don't get in quick
They could have saved themselves a few quid by just telling me to wait a few days and they would send me one of these (I would have actually have been OK with that).
Now I get the new hub and I'll still be ordering one of these!! Win win for me then!!
Surely you would place this towards the edge of your wifi routers range to extend it further rather than have it transmit wifi from the same location?
Look up EMF Sensitivity - we should be reducing wifi signals not boosting them. I can tell when a wifi signal is in range through emf symptoms. I think if someone had come to me and told me the same thing however I would of thought they were plain crazy. It's there and it will damage your and your family's health. Why do they sell it? Imagine the billions lost to the electronics industry. Before you discard this warning do me a favour and do your research. Electro magnetic fields have put me in hospital after lengthy sessions with electronic equipment like sitting next to a router or computer. Emf is recognised medically throughout Europe apart from the UK (surprise surprise). Try powerline extensions if you desperately need Internet in other rooms in your house. Avoid boosting wifi please no matter the price.
haha i'm exactly under the same situation.
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sky.com/sho…er/?DCMP=pac-SkyCom:na_booster
Oh no it isn't!
The Sky Wireless Booster is just a wifi repeater. "Essentially, they pick up a wireless signal just like your tablet or laptop, then rebroadcast that signal, giving you a second access point to connect to"
More info (including some disadvantages) for those interested here: thewirecutter.com/rev…er/
Just sit tight and wait until the 27th.
had to buy the new hub last week, website wouldnt add to basket properly so had to ring up.
trying to log in to view offers now and getting: To claim any offers online, you need to register or sign in in to your Sky account to reveal the offers open to you and add your chosen products to your basket. I AM SIGNED IN!
That's why danielthomas4 wrote that in the description.
Yes, the new black hub has the fibre modem built in so you no longer need the openreach modem. They introduced it so that customers can do a self install and no need to change the master socket.
The guy up there probably ordered the free hub upgrade.
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I told him this was not good enough as the offer is supposed to be available now! I asked if I could order one with him over the phone, he said no and that Sky wanted this offer to be actioned online - I said this was not good enough if the site isn't working! I said if this issue isn't fixed for a couple of days what if I miss out on this offer and he assured me I wouldn't.
I don't feel fill of confidence over this but I will keep trying. I was initially impressed I got through to Sky on the phone very quickly but then disappointed with my conversation. Hope you have more luck than me...
Thanks for letting us know again!