Yep, eco is off. Main box is wired with one mini on wireless.

I have a mini but it's wired. I like the fact it supports Airplay.

Thought I'd try it wireless and so far it looks good - it replaced a 5Ghz video sender that I was using that was getting major interference, the mini is perfect.

So does this mean Sky now are confident in Openreach's network? and they might come to some agreement with BT?

Will be interesting, the reason NowTV doesn't work on BT TV is due to Sky using Unicast.

Guessing Sky may retain unicast for on demand content and adopt multicast for the live channels.

Was having this conversation not long ago where live TV, except for sporting events etc is pretty much going to dead. People want flexibility these days. Not sure where that would leave advertisers, dynamic advertising with on demand content I guess.

What makes you think they weren't confident in the OR network before?

Reality will be that just like BT Total TV with UHD is not available to everyone then Sky Q over broadband won't be, the outrage quotient will depend on pricing and if it offers other features that Sky Q over satellite does not.

It might signify a move of the confidence in VDSL2 to cover a good number, G.fast on its way and FTTP increasing in volume

OR

It could be a shrew move to add to the pressure for Openreach PLC and forcing investment in Gigabit FTTP, e.g. we have launched this product but can only sell in 2% of the UK, and this means TV is costing 98% of people more than it could be.

In reply to a post by ian72:

Yep, eco is off. Main box is wired with one mini on wireless.

Curious - I left mine in Eco mode, are there benefits to turning it off?

I looked on a few forums before getting it and generally if people have issues with the box it is usually resolved by turning off the eco setting - enough people seemed to have issues that they generally recommend turning it off anyway (plus it is a hangover from the past because I did have issues with Sky HD that were resolved by turning off the eco mode).

In reply to a post by AndyHCZ:

What makes you think they weren't confident in the OR network before?

Because of all the complaints that were being leveled at BT/OR during the Ofcom saga.

Its just interesting how they were saying how bad and unreliable OR were when dealing with problems that they now are opening up a new front that will rely in a big part on that very same OR network.

Edited by bowdon (Fri 27-Jan-17 13:39:30)