Sky See + Surf Base Broadband & TV Bundle

• Great priced 2Mb Sky broadband and Sky TV bundle
• Limited time offer:£50 M&S voucher when you sign up online
• Choice of 1 Sky digital TV channel pack
• Free wireless broadband box
• Add or remove Sky TV mixes to the package for just £1 each per month
• Great anti-virus & firewall suite

Sky broadband review: See + Surf Base

Half price set up when you take a Sky+ box for £49 or a Sky+HD box for £49 (+£10/mth for the HD pack).

Plus, £50 M&S voucher when you join any package online (Ends 27/01/10).

WHILE Sky's fantastic 'See, Speak & Surf' broadband bundle brand has such a nice ring to it, sometimes you just don't need to speak, man!

Set up does cost a slightly costly £60 - but if you take a Sky+ box for £49 the set up is halved to just £30, effectively offering a Sky+ box for just £17. These usually cost around £99 - so it's a good deal.

Top notch

This Sky See & Surf Base 1 broadband bundle offers Sky broadband and Sky's top-notch digital TV, but ditches the home phone option, saving you a fair amount in the process.

The Sky broadband part of this Sky bundle is the very basic Sky Base package which gives speeds of up to 2Mb with a monthly usage allowance of 2Gb.

Basic browsing

This is probably not suitable for heavy web users, but is absolutely fine for basic browsing and emailing and will even allow you to download as many as 500 music tracks.

The 'See' part of this two-part package is your Sky TV choice, and here you get to choose 2 'packs' - as Sky likes to call them. This means you choose one of the available 6 mix of packages which are made up of:

- Variety

- News & Events

- Music

- Knowledge

- Kids

- Style & Culture

Add mixes to the bundle

Of course, you can always add more Sky TV 'packs' to your bundle, at just £1 per month each. You can also drop one of the 'packs', and save and knock the price down by a quid.

If you love movies, or are a footie fan, you can also add Sky Sports and/or Sky Movies to your TV package. While there is an extra cost for this, the price increase will start at around 50p a day extra.

The Sky+ Box currently costs £49 - but if you take it then set up is reduced to just £30 (from £60). Sky+ allows you to record and store shows to watch back when it suits you.

High definition

And if you are feeling really posh, you can buy a Sky HD Box which does everything the Sky+ Box does but also delivers your TV in eye-poppingly clear high-definition.

Make sure you have a HD-ready TV though and keep in mind there is a monthly fee for this service, but having experienced it ourselves, we know that once you've seen it, the cost is irrelevant.

As a TV and broadband-only bundle package this is indeed excellent value for money from Sky, but do keep in mind the need for line rental in order to receive it.

The Sky+ HD box again costs just £49 and also reduces set up to just £30. Sky+ HD does come with a monthly subscription fee of £10 though - but it will 'HD' anything else you pick, such as Sky Sports or Sky Movies.

A little more detail...

Broadband		Special Note...	Any good?
Package:	Base	-
Connection:	ADSL	Telephone line
Max Speed:	Up to 2Mb
Usage Limit:	2GB
Totally Unlimited:	No
Hardware:	Wireless Router	-
Internet Security:	Free trial included	McAfee Internet Security Suite free for the first 3 months.
Online Gaming:	All major consoles supported

TV
Summary:	1 TV Pack included (extra £1/mth) Free Sky Box
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Payment, Installation & Contract
Setup Cost:	£60
Hardware Cost:	Free
Line Rental Provider:	BT (£11.54/mth)
Minimum Contract:	12 months
Payment Method(s):	Direct Debit / Credit Card (Non Direct Debit payments incur 50p extra per month)
Support:	0870 support line. Free email support.
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