Looking for some adviceon skybox m3

[astr4twin]

Hello, firstly please excuse my ignorance. I have done a little reading but am totally confused by it all. (sorry)

In a nutshell i have just cancelled sky after 3 years of them constantly dropping my internet connection and a month of hell where i ended up worse of than when i started.

So i've decided it would be a good idea to grab a couple of skybox m3's. I am however totally confused as to what actually needs to be done to them to watch sky tv.

If anyone could please help me, my questions are....

1. Do i require a good internet connection?, as i am constantly downloading stuff. Taking up all available bandwith.

2. Do i require a subscription and if so, who do i pay that to as i have seen people selling them with 12 months subscription?

3. Is there another box i could buy which would make thing's alot easier? I dont mind paying out a one off if that meant being able to watch sky tv with a nice listings guide and minimal effort.

Really appreciate any help.

Thank you.

[nibblitz]

1. Do i require a good internet connection?, as i am constantly downloading stuff. Taking up all available bandwith.
You dont need internet at all if just viewing free channels, viewing other channels will use miniscule amount of internet bandwith, even a dialup connection would be fast enough..

2. Do i require a subscription and if so, who do i pay that to as i have seen people selling them with 12 months subscription?
Cant talk about that sort of thing here, you'll have to Google

3. Is there another box i could buy which would make thing's alot easier? I dont mind paying out a one off if that meant being able to watch sky tv with a nice listings guide and minimal effort.
There's lots of different boxes you could buy, none will be as simple to use as a proper SkyTV digi box... You wont get a nice listings (EPG) with a Skybox/Openbox, you need to be looking at spending at least twice as much for a box with that sort of capability..

[astr4twin]

Thank you for taking time out to reply to me, appreciated.

sorry, for the innapropriate question, i wasnt aware. I will keep on googling.

My main concern was my crappy internet speeds posing a problem so you helped me out alot.

Thank you.