NowTV

Anyone have any experience of NowTV broadband?

After spending weeks trying to get some sense out of Plusnet regarding extending my contract and failing, I have signed up with NowTV.

There have been a few threads over the last few months. The latest.

I expect you know it is a Sky-based/owned spinoff. Basically giving a cut-down Sky product with a PAYG option. I use Sports day passes for F1 when Channel 4 isn't covering it live.

IIRC most posters have found it satisfactory though maybe one junked it? Also, going from memory again, maybe single-thread performance isn't the best but multi-stream generally OK. My usage on F1 I'd say isn't perfect as it can occasionally buffer but that may sometimes be not their fault. I'd only know if I had Sky at the same time , as it is the Sky broadcast.

They are indeed a Sky-owned service. As per Sky support rep, �the reason it is so cheap is because there is no phone support, all support is online only�.
In fairness, reporting a broadband fault was as easy as logging in to �my account�, running a line test, and once it failed, the site just gives the button to book an engineer - and he came the very next morning. The downside - engineer is booked ASAP and no way to choose date/time is offered.
Speed wise, I don�t think they�re limiting bandwidth in any way. They�ve got to run a TV service down that broadband connection, after all.

Thanks for that.

Couldn't and still can't find any threads with search, but as I was happy last time I was with Sky ......."nowtv" != "now tv"

Edited by hk11 (Sat 27-Oct-18 00:25:49)

No phone support isn't bad really. Plusnet seems very limited ITR now anyway.

Don't know what you'd do if broadband went completely though?

In reply to a post by hk11:

"nowtv" != "now tv"

Oh yes it does! .

Also see here.

Edit: I just realised what you mean by !=. You are drawing a distinction between the PAYG streaming service over any old ISP, and the monthly contract service running on Sky backhail and routers. In that respect, fair enough.

Edit: �backhail� should be �backhaul�.

Edited by RobertoS (Sat 27-Oct-18 09:36:43)

Sorry, I thought that was a term most on here would understand. https://www.codecademy.com/en/forum_questions/55f37c...

I don�t know why you find it necessary to but some abstruse out of context quote to explain what you meant, but that appears to be a weird construct and not the one you used anyway.

It certainly isn�t C, which is the way I read it. More like some sort of discussion of illogicality in logic.

The snippet seems to be some sort of test of a constant against itself. You used it as a statement. As in �77 != 23�.

I was simpy trying to explain why I couldn't find any other nowtv posts. I obviously didn't search for two words now and tv. I assume plusnet would be plus and net etc.

Ah . It came across as a sarcastic comment about my not understanding �!=�, when I clearly did. But even so, the snippet you quoted is meaningless as it stands .

You�d be surprised how many posts there are with the posters using �Now TV�. Before I gave you that original link I had also tried forum searching for the two words, with the default �and� option, but that gives loads of irrelevant answers as it treats it as �either�, not �both� .

Try copy and pasting the following into your URL bar:-

site:forums.thinkbroadband.com �now tv�

Edited by RobertoS (Sat 27-Oct-18 11:09:03)