We just set up our salt fiber over the weekend. Haven’t run any speed tests but it seems to work well, and work faster than our Swisscom. It was really easy to do, too.

We have a long apartment - four bedrooms past the living room, all concrete walls (typical brutalist rectangle). I kept the repeater we used for Swisscom, and it seems to work well - iPads and iPhones connect to the network in the farthest bedroom.

We have to get used to the new TV interface and figure out/customize the Apple TV remote. Right now i’m Using a combination of Apple TV/tv remote and it is a bit clumsy.

One feature that I really like is that I set up the tv account so it defaults to English. If there is an English track, it plays.

I also have to link our new sky account to the salt account....thatseems a bit weird.

All in all, it seems like a good choice, plus we save a bunch of money.

Does Sky (Sports in particular) offer English-language commentary for events?

I don’t know. I subscribe only to sky show. If the original broadcast language is English, and if the Program carries dual language tracks, then you get English. For sports, I imagine English commentary might be available only if the original broadcast is in English.

My recordings have disappeared.

We returned from vacation and now all my recordings are gone.

Anybody know what to do?

Call up Salt support. Or, if you know the staff at your local Salt store and think they'd be better than somebody in the call centre, drop in to speak to them.

I did call them. Salt support has been able to fix things before. Some things they just did not have knowledge of. This time I received an email two days after making the call, saying :

"Due to a configuration of the platform your registrations were deleted. However, they should be visible and available again next week.
If you still cannot see your registrations by the end of next week, please contact us."

So here we are almost two weeks later and still no recordings. This used to happen with UPC (when a machine died and I lost my recordings).

So, UPC level performance, then...

I have phoned customer service and they re-opened the ticket, which had been closed for some odd reason. I had received no further correspondence.

Can confirm this, recordings which disappeard. Did look into yesterday. However, for me, not all are gone, just some 20 or so.
Interestingly, in the list it is still written 64/500 used, while only 40 are indeed present.

In my case it just says 0/500.

I've held off recording anything new while they fix the problem. Perhaps I shouldn't bother, though...

So this arrived today:

"You have reported us that your recordings are still not visible.
Can you tell us if this is still the case?
If so we would like you to go on our website https://tv.salt.ch/login, try to log yourself in and check if you can see your recordings via Webbrowser. "

I confirmed that both the Apple TV and the website online showed no recordings.

Then they sent this hours later:

"We thank you for your quick feedback.
Your TV issue has been transferred to the department in charge which will have a look at this.
We will inform you as soon as we have more informations and a solution was found for this."

So pretty much what they should have done in the first place. I have not recorded anything new since I noticed the problem.

Let's hope they don't just give up on the second try as well.

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to know if anyone had a such terrible experience with Salt.

I received my Salt Fiber account activation email last Tuesday morning and until now (more than 48h later), it still doesn't work. The Fiber LED has never turned on. We did all the tests, reset router, disconnect/reconnect cables, changed fiber cable and nothing.
When I call them and constantly tell me to wait... it takes time. They have an awful customer service without precise answers and cannot tell me what can be wrong.
With 10+ years of experience with fiber in different countries, this is by far the worst one I ever had. For now, I can't really recommend Salt to any of my worst enemies...

I have the opposite experience. I have had two activations, one at my old house and one in the new house, and both went perfectly. When I rang up to tell them I was moving they couldn't have been more helpful. The customer service lady who helped me was an absolute pleasure to deal with.

i am guessing, it is connected to the correct port, right? for mine, port 2 was open from previous owner, so, i connected there. and it did not work. then after checking the activation email, and the salt box manual, i switched to port 1, an it worked fine. different ports in different parts of ch.

Yes it is on port 2 as it was specified in the activation email and like with my previous provider.
Despite that and just to make sure, I also tried with port 1 and still doesn't work.

Guess this must be first world problems, if 48 hrs delay for an internet line is a such "terrible", "dramatic" experience.

Instead of changing cables etc. you should reboot the salt fiber box regularly, this is what will trigger the activation (if set so), I guess, while trying alternatively port 1 and 2, I wouldn't bet that they told it you right.

Tried both possible ports for me (1 or 2) and rebooted, reseted and hard reseted at least twice a day at least.
I will have a technicien coming to my place next Monday, but I start thinking they sold me the Fiber when they don't have coverage in my area...
And btw, apparently Salt don't have their own technicians and will send a Swisscom one with who they partner...

My tech was from EWZ. I had switched cables and rebooted like I had never rebooted before. He sorted it all out, though. They'll fix it.

I just got my Salt Fiber connection a few days ago. Everything was smooth, took them about a week from the order date to have everything up and running, less than the 2 weeks promised when signing the contract. My speed is 1 Gbps, basically at the limit of the infrastructure I have at home.

Now I need to cancel my UPC connection. I submitted the UPC online cancellation form, but Salt also recommends sending a registered letter. I also read some other people had to do it, otherwise UPC wouldn't let them go. However, in the Salt template, the recipient is UPC Suisse Sarl, Case postale, 8021 Zurich. This looks like a PO Box. If I put this as the recipient in the envelope and send it by registered post (with no physical address and/or person), is it enough to reach them?

The homepage tells the same: https://www.upc.ch/de/support/form/impressum/

As for the PO box, a registered letter has to be signed upon receiving also there, there is no difference compared to an address of a physical building.




You are also entitled to get up to 2 months free salt fiber if there are concurrent subscriptions at salt AND upc.
https://www.englishforum.ch/tv-inter...ml#post2974173

Hello guys,

not sure whether I was lucky or not, but I'm now a proud subscriber of Salt fiber and I couldn't be happier: fast activation, the internet speed is fast and reliable, no disconnection so far.

One thing though: on Salt TV, you get a section called "Replay", which shows you previous TV shows and movies which you can rewatch. However, this section only shows me content from Italian channels. Is there a way to switch that? Thank you.

Today I started having a problem with my Salt TV on Apple TV. After a few minutes of watching anything I get a screen saying:

"An additional device started a stream with your account.
This stream has been canceled, since you exceeded your limit of streams."

Switching to another channel and back enables the stream again, but after a few minutes the same happens.

I'm not logged in on any other device and I'm sure no one else is using it, I even reset the password. Anyone else having the same issue?