Uk Broadband Information & Deals
Skys first quarter results show an increase in their broadband customer base by 229,000 bringing their total to 1.48 millon users with 88% of customers connected via the sky LLU network.
Sky offer a number of broadband packages to Sky TV subscribers including free broadband see sky broadband website for more details
If any of you have Sky broadband you will know that the bundled netgear router is shipped out with wireless security turned on as default and a network key is issued to allow you to connect to it.
This all sounds great in theory but it turns out that the default security setup has a major flaw. The network key can be worked potentially giving hackers access to your network. Sky’s network keys are generated via an algorithm calculation on the routers MAC address.
For a hacker to get the routers MAC address would be childs play and the algorithm’s to generate the network key is far from unbreakable.
Whats the moral of story? well if you are one of the 1 million or so sky broadband customers and have used the default security setup then its time to change your network key to something “random” if your need help doing this try here
This week the old sky smtp mail servers have officially been switched off so make sure you have updated your mail settings from smtp.sky.com to the new smtp.tools.sky.com and the tcp port is now to be set to 465 and make sure you enable SSL authentication in your mail software
more info can found on the sky broadband website
According to figures released today SKY have grown their broadband subscriber base by a massive 28% in their first quarter of the financial year to nearly 1.2 million customers , they look set to hit their target of 3million customers by 2010.
The fast growth in their Broadband customer base is no doubt partly due to their TV / Broadband bundle offers where customers can get Free broadband if they subscribe to certain TV packages
information on sky broadband can be found here
Sky have announced that its upgrading its email services and will now be powered by Google with additional features including 10GB storage, Calendar, Chat and photo sharing as well as the excellent Web mail interface users of Google mail will already be used to.
Existing Customers will be upgraded over the next few month and “@sky.com” email addresses will remain the same
more information can be found here