Sky Q

Hi BB,

Presently I have two VPNs, I have had a cheap and cheerful one from Hidden24 the longest and that works for what I want but I am not sure how secure it is.    That costs me about £48 pa.     I use Norton for my laptop security which I am confident is very secure and I was persuaded by them to try their VPN, but it was a disaster.      Norton VPN is too secure and blocks so much that it is not workable.    Norton costs about the same but because of the problems they have extended my current subscription until Feb 2021.   I have had a long conversation with Norton Support and they admitted to the issues and said they are working on them.

I agree with you totally about Sky and getting locked into them.   I have had Sky since it was introduced but now have just Sport and what they call Box Sets, which is Sky One, Atlantic etc on TV, but we get our 38Mb Broadband for £10 pm and our telephones are Sky.      Like you we are away from home in the van for 5/6 months each year and have carried out a review of what we use and what we need.   We have agreed that Vodafone will probably suit us better in the short/medium term and because I am due to renew my iPhone next May for a 5G model, we will wait until then and review the market again.

i currently have 20Gb of data with Vodafone and unlimited voice and txts and because 4G is so good around most of Western Europe it works for us.   We have not purchased camp site wi-fi for at least two years.    My wife hooks her iPad onto my iPhone and uses my 4G and that works too.

We have just had a 5 week trip to Italy, Tuscany and Garda, and didn’t take a TV with us.      Enjoy BP, our friends are on B3.6 right now where we were earlier this year.    It has been 22c for weeks, but next week a bit cooler, but at least 6 hours sunshine everyday, which is good for the joints and morale.     Speak soon.

BillC