Sky Fibre Optic

Just had Sky fibre upto 38mb unlimted installed today moved from O2 its 9 times faster its amazing getting over 37mb down an 9.5mb up tested using speed.net had no problems was quick an easy only paying £15 per/month for the 1st year so thats 6 months at £10 an £20 for next 6 months.
Downloads from steam at 4.5 mbs Im over 1 mile away from the green box my ping is at 15m/s well happy.
Dont know if the speed will stay that fast but was thinking that I would only be able to get around 20mb down because of my distance from the green box.
 
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ATM I run a normal ASDL sky line but only get 2.7Mb. I am looking into fibre optic (sky being the best? I have sky TV etc.)
I happy download with uTorrent and the DL increase would be an extra to me. I am more interested in gaming and pings. Would fibre make a considerable difference to this? and if it does would there be a minimum limit like they do with DL speeds?
 
Hi guys, is there a way of checking if Fibre is coming near me any time soon.

I recently moved property and I was getting 40mb at my old address, where as now I'm stuck at a paltry 7mb.

Looks like VM is my only choice in this area even though I'm extremely happy with Sky.
 
Dimi said:
Hi guys, is there a way of checking if Fibre is coming near me any time soon.

I recently moved property and I was getting 40mb at my old address, where as now I'm stuck at a paltry 7mb.

Looks like VM is my only choice in this area even though I'm extremely happy with Sky.
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Try this:
https://www.btwholesale.com/includes/adsl/main.html

This is mine "WBC FTTC Up to 64 Up to 20 -- 31-Mar-14"
 
Zaim said:
Try this:
https://www.btwholesale.com/includes/adsl/main.html

This is mine "WBC FTTC Up to 64 Up to 20 -- 31-Mar-14"
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Looks like VM it is..
 
Did you use the postcode checker or the address checker? The postcode one doesn't seem to show FTTC availability a lot of the time.
 
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WOW!!!!
The skybox wifi has better range then my 7800n, YET the speed drop/loss over its WIFI is so bad.

62-65 connected to laptop, compared to 35-40 over wifi.

Now all this talk about needing the sky password I don't understand?

I have got my skybox ID and log in password with the box, so isn't that just what I need to setup my 7800n on sky?
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Really need to get my 7800n working as the HUGE Speed loss over sky routers Wifi is unacceptable. From 65 down to 35 over WIFI is bloody terrible.

Anyone got there 7800n working help me out, tried all the billion forum instructions but just can't get the 7800n working even with my sky id and password..
 
Ordered my Sky Fibre (40/10) upgrade yesterday as my cabinet has just gone live!

I was advised that no engineer will attend the premises and they would just attend visit the exchange and post out the hub.

I was aware self installs were under trial but didn't release this was now the only option.

Has anyone else done the self install? What's involved?
 
Rollins, I had the same problems with sky and quidco last year.
What I did was made the order online through quidco, then when they rang saying there was no order (the third time this had happened) I just made a new order over the phone and submitted a cashback claim through quidco. I needed to use the live chat to talk to someone but they sorted out the cashback in the end.

If that sounds like too much hassle maybe try topcashback?
 
gamesaregood said:
Ordered my Sky Fibre (40/10) upgrade yesterday as my cabinet has just gone live!

I was advised that no engineer will attend the premises and they would just attend visit the exchange and post out the hub.

I was aware self installs were under trial but didn't release this was now the only option.

Has anyone else done the self install? What's involved?
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BT Openreach guy that did my fibre install said self-installs weren't possible when I asked him. In my case he said if the main socket hadn't been bypassed then it simply wouldn't have worked.
 
I've got terrible congestion on my exchange in Manchester, Sky have completely oversold and not given a second thought to their capacity.

My connection becomes this for 1/10th of the day:
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There's congestion and there's that :/

Only 5 more weeks to go until the expected resolution date :roll: . No BF4 evenings for me :(
 
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PiKe said:
BT Openreach guy that did my fibre install said self-installs weren't possible when I asked him. In my case he said if the main socket hadn't been bypassed then it simply wouldn't have worked.
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Unfortunately I have no choice, as Sky could not offer me an engineer install :( from what I was told all they offer now is self install...

I can only assume if it does not work correctly following a self install then sky would have to send an engineer...

I've got a ADSL Nation faceplate so I'm going to give it a go with that and see what happens, from what I've read some people have used them with FTTC ok. If I don't get the full 40/10 I will just purchase a BT VDSL faceplate myself and change it over. Of course the average user could and would not do this.....
 
just received my SR102 hub as my setup date has been set for the 28th, I didn't realise until reading comments on here about self installs. I have re-read the letter that was sent out and it mentions about doin it myself.

I'm not bothered about this I'm just bothered that the sky dude I did the deal with offered to drop the £50 install costs and now im finding out it's a self install.

Also the fact that im currently using micro filters and have read that it's better to get a certain face plate that already has a filter in it?
 
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