Sky Fibre Optic

Phonesis · 18 Jul 2013 at 13:32

Just placed an order for Fibre Unlimited.

How involved is the OpenReach engineer visit? What do they do? Any drilling / re cabling?

x22dan · 18 Jul 2013 at 14:26

Phonesis said:
Just placed an order for Fibre Unlimited.

How involved is the OpenReach engineer visit? What do they do? Any drilling / re cabling?

If they need to put a new cable in they will do it externally, then in through your phone socket.
Then they will want to screw the open reach box on the wall, But you can ask them to use double sided tape. Then its just cables going to and from the router and open reach box.

Phonesis · 18 Jul 2013 at 15:03

x22dan said:
If they need to put a new cable in they will do it externally, then in through your phone socket.
Then they will want to screw the open reach box on the wall, But you can ask them to use double sided tape. Then its just cables going to and from the router and open reach box.

Thanks. Hopefully they won't need to do any additional cabling. Do they insist on you plugging the router into the master socket? I have a master socket in my bedroom but a further socket on the other side of the room (where my PC is). Ideally I want to keep the router on the PC side of my room but that would mean not plugging the router into the master.

nam · 18 Jul 2013 at 16:18

mattyfez said:
PlusNet:
Up to38Mb downloadspeed
40GB monthlyusage
£7.99 a month for 6 months, then £15.99
+£14.50 line rental

Up to76Mb downloadspeed
Unlimited monthlyusage
£9.99 a month for 6 months, then £19.99
+£14.50 line rental

Sky
Up to38Mb downloadspeed
£10 a month for 6 months, then £20
+£14.50 line rental

Up to76Mb downloadspeed
Unlimited monthlyusage
£30 a month
+£14.50 line rental

Thank you, but i need to add activation fee of £50 with Plusnet, Sky are currently free. As a existing O2 Broadband customer i thought Sky would have given me more of an offer to stay but they only offer what is on the website..

KIA · 18 Jul 2013 at 19:26

nam said:
Thank you, but i need to add activation fee of £50 with Plusnet, Sky are currently free. As a existing O2 Broadband customer i thought Sky would have given me more of an offer to stay but they only offer what is on the website..

Plusnet offers free activation if you take the phone.

mattyfez · 18 Jul 2013 at 21:23

nam said:
Thank you, but i need to add activation fee of £50 with Plusnet, Sky are currently free. As a existing O2 Broadband customer i thought Sky would have given me more of an offer to stay but they only offer what is on the website..

I've just left o2 (adsl2+ with line rental) plusnet seemed to be best for me over all..
Although sky did offer me tv adsl2 and line rental for £15 a month, but i was sick of speaking to them by that point as I felt I was getting the run around and had been on the phone for about an hour being passed between sky and o2 after they failed to apply a previously agreed discount to my package.

Good riddance to them.

mattyfez · 18 Jul 2013 at 21:49

nam said:
Thank you, but i need to add activation fee of £50 with Plusnet, Sky are currently free. As a existing O2 Broadband customer i thought Sky would have given me more of an offer to stay but they only offer what is on the website..

The only thing plusnet charged extra for me was £5 postage for the new router.

Totally Dubbed · 21 Jul 2013 at 15:36

Posted a video with an explanation of getting around the SKY FIBRE connection on TP LINK routers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_chrM9PXvCo&feature=youtu.be&a

Hamster · 24 Jul 2013 at 01:01

Getting a bit peed off with Fibre Pro. Started off with 76Mbit in November and each time I've had to unplug the modem, which is only every few weeks, the sync speed drops but the SNR stays just under 6. Now I'm at 54Mbit. Upload has remained at 20Mbit though.

the wopster · 24 Jul 2013 at 19:40

Sky have just sent me a new hub ready for Mondays activation, is there any difference between the sky hub I already have and the one they have sent me?

MissChief · 24 Jul 2013 at 20:26

Yes, the Firmware in them is slightly different but you can change the SSID and password to match the old router to save reconnecting every wireless device again.

Phonesis · 27 Jul 2013 at 12:08

Just had my Sky Hub arrive for activation Thursday.

My master socket is one side of my bedroom and my PC is on the other side of the room. Ideally I want the modem and hub together on the PC side of the room. So will the BT Extension kit allow for this? Is it just a cable that runs out from the master socket and along to the modem. I only need it to be about 3 metres.

MissChief · 27 Jul 2013 at 12:52

Engineer should run the extension kit for you, yes.

the wopster · 29 Jul 2013 at 14:39

just had FTTC installed and am synced at 39996 how do I find out what my line is capable of, I take it I have to log into the bt router?

Enigma123 · 29 Jul 2013 at 15:27

woppy101 said:
just had FTTC installed and am synced at 39996 how do I find out what my like is capable of, I take it I have to log into the bt router?

You have to hack the Openreach modem. Thats the only way to get stats

the wopster · 29 Jul 2013 at 15:31

How do I do that

Totally Dubbed · 29 Jul 2013 at 15:38

woppy101 said:
How do I do that

I'm up for learning that too

KIA · 29 Jul 2013 at 18:11

woppy101 said:
How do I do that

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http://hackingecibfocusv2fubirevb.wordpress.com/

Phonesis · 1 Aug 2013 at 12:32

Just had mine installed this morning. Nice smooth engineer visit. Am currently getting a ping of 0!!

drizzy · 2 Aug 2013 at 13:03

You're not actually getting a ping of 0 though... Ping bbc.co.uk for something approaching reality.