Sky By Broadband

irishgeo

ok the parents have a sub which qualifies, my question is can i use their sub details in my house whihc will i wont be getting sky in. but will be getting broadband.

watty

Its a waste of Bandwidth and messes up your PC.

acquiescefc

watty wrote:

Its a waste of Bandwidth and messes up your PC.

Is this true??

In what way? Just found out about this and was gonna try it when my new laptop arrives.

dmeehan

there are background services running, khost.exe and kservice.exe which continually send packets back to the server, even when you are not using sky by broadband

see: http://hintofsarcasm.com/2006/01/12/sky-by-broadband/

whippet

well that answers that, I won't be availing of this kind offer from sky

ethernet

dmeehan wrote:

there are background services running, khost.exe and kservice.exe which continually send packets back to the server, even when you are not using sky by broadband

see: http://hintofsarcasm.com/2006/01/12/sky-by-broadband/

Just let the firewall block them.

I resent programs that do that ... take note, Microsoft.

watty

It won't work then. Sky by broadband makes all the subscribing PCs in to a "hidden" p2p distributed network to reduce load on Sky servers. Someone may be getting the video from your PC as you get it from someone elses.

I wouldn't have anything to do with it. At least the BBC trail explains that is what happens. Since you pay for your connection and have a cap , p2p to distribute commercial content and save the providers on bandwidth is cynical theft from the users.

ixtlan

I guess I concur. I never actually managed to get it running, probably due to a software firewall issue...

However my wireless router stopped working occasionally (DNS resolving issues).... Look up on the internet and find that some routers are overwhelmed by peer-to-peer software... And I think I don't have p2p... Oh wait a second... What's this kservice and khost... Stopped those and router stays up.

Ix.

Sparky

peer guardian blocks bskyb servers so i enable it when im not using Sky By BB

irishgeo

damn thought it would be a cheap way of getting the football live.

watty

It isn't live. Its a relatively slow P2P background download.