Sky Fibre Optic

LiamC · 18 Apr 2014 at 12:08

Thinking of Leaving Virgin media ( too Expensive ) and Joining sky. Is there internet service any good?

DannyDrama · 18 Apr 2014 at 18:36

MagicBoy said:
Go on, what makes it carp?

"It's not the router I'd pick" isn't a valid answer.

Power supply not shielded so it keeps dropping out. It's a right pain in the arse.

MissChief · 18 Apr 2014 at 22:45

DannyDrama said:
Power supply not shielded so it keeps dropping out. It's a right pain in the arse.

My router would say otherwise?

System Up Time: 1169:43:35
Port Status TxPkts RxPkts Collision Pkts Tx b/s Rx b/s Up Time
WAN MER 16505104 19740244 0 1013 837 66:11:21
LAN Up 178401765 155965380 0 7446 6832 1169:43:35
WLAN Up 68867682 40209934 0 411434 19016 1169:43:12

The 66 hours was an outage at the exchange for a short period.

MagicBoy · 19 Apr 2014 at 00:45

DannyDrama said:
Power supply not shielded so it keeps dropping out. It's a right pain in the arse.

Yeah it's unshielded, but is there any proof it needs to be? The el-cheapo wall-warts that 90% of routers come with aren't exactly the pinnacle of engineering either.

I've had an SR101 since launch day and never had a problem, even in a building with 16 other wireless networks. It's far more reliable than the older Sky kit. It goes months between reboots and works flawlessly with Xbox live where the older ones needed periodic reboots to keep open NAT. 1322 hours and counting so far, last reset was after an Xbox Live outage to rule out any issues at my end for a league event.

Wireless networks are for light usage, anything more sensitive should be cabled. End of. My wireless at the old place used to drop when the upstairs neighbour used the microwave. If it's not that then substitute a cordless phone or a wireless doorbell. The 2.4GHz spectrum is a mess because it's unregulated.

DannyDrama · 19 Apr 2014 at 08:06

MagicBoy said:
Yeah it's unshielded, but is there any proof it needs to be? The el-cheapo wall-warts that 90% of routers come with aren't exactly the pinnacle of engineering either.

I'm not that technically minded tbh but I remember reading an article about it where the guy took it apart, shielded it himself and tested again and said it was better. I can't find the article but currently trawling my 'tube history for the video.

I have the SR101 and quite often a page will take 3 seconds to start loading and is fine after that. I've narrowed the problem down as much as my knowledge/google will allow and my next step is to try the shielding method with a new unopened router on standby in case I mess up.

Cap4152 · 19 Apr 2014 at 08:10

Just getting round to setting up my AC56U to work with my Sky fiber but not having much luck!!

I've got my username and password from the SR101 however can't see where to input it on the ASUS (Merlin build) :confused:

I go to the WAN page and guess I have to put it somewhere in the section for ISP special requirements?

Any help appreciated

iMacMart · 19 Apr 2014 at 21:41

Picked myself up a 4th gen AirPort Extreme from the bay for £20 today, got to be better than the SR101 (which can't be hard) range wise

Looming forward to testing it, once collected tomorrow

neodude · 20 Apr 2014 at 09:22

pdobs1 said:
Just getting round to setting up my AC56U to work with my Sky fiber but not having much luck!!

I've got my username and password from the SR101 however can't see where to input it on the ASUS (Merlin build)

I go to the WAN page and guess I have to put it somewhere in the section for ISP special requirements?

Any help appreciated

Cant help you specifically as I use DD-WRT but do a search on the SkyUser forum, plenty of guides there.

the_wu · 21 Apr 2014 at 19:35

pdobs1 said:
Just getting round to setting up my AC56U to work with my Sky fiber but not having much luck!!

I've got my username and password from the SR101 however can't see where to input it on the ASUS (Merlin build)

I go to the WAN page and guess I have to put it somewhere in the section for ISP special requirements?

Any help appreciated

I'm using the latest Melrin build, 374.40.

Goto Advanced settings > WAN > Special Requirement from ISP

Add your sky username and password in here (Manual clientid (for some ISPs)) not forgetting to put them in single quotes, like 'username|password'

And change the DHCP query frequency to normal mode.

Hope this helps.

andy_mk3 · 21 Apr 2014 at 20:51

This might help, from mine:

shankly1985 · 24 Apr 2014 at 03:21

Switching to sky soon from Virgin. This will be my first time with them and there Fiber.
I looking at getting there max 76MB can anyone tell me do you always get your Max speed?
I really dont want to switch from virgin but have no choice "new house" etc So going from 120MB what I get most of the time dropping to around 90MB in day time. 76MB will be fine so long as I keep getting it... Last time I had a internet down phone line was years ago with BT and I never used to get full speed, so this has me worried.

GAC · 24 Apr 2014 at 06:58

shankly1985 said:
Switching to sky soon from Virgin. This will be my first time with them and there Fiber.
I looking at getting there max 76MB can anyone tell me do you always get your Max speed?
I really dont want to switch from virgin but have no choice "new house" etc So going from 120MB what I get most of the time dropping to around 90MB in day time. 76MB will be fine so long as I keep getting it... Last time I had a internet down phone line was years ago with BT and I never used to get full speed, so this has me worried.

first things first do you know how far away you are from your cabinet ? and if not try and find out. best thing to do is find it and then try and track the route it takes on the poles to where you live,

for example im roughly 300 meters away via the poles about 200 meters in a straight line and im expecting mid 50's (getting activated today).

Cap4152 · 24 Apr 2014 at 08:17

Perfect - Thanks for the help guys.

I'm at work at the moment but will have another look tonight.

waspy88 · 27 Apr 2014 at 17:24

Eurgh.. anyone in the Manchester area had troubles with Sky Fiber this weekend? It was horrid on Friday night and its started to play up again now.

andrewc1978 · 28 Apr 2014 at 06:20

Hi

Just bought a ZYXEL VMG1312-B10A to replace my SR102 Sky Router but just cannot get it work.

I pulled the username & password using wireshark but still no joy :-(

Can you please help

Thanks
Andrew

andrewc1978 · 28 Apr 2014 at 06:23

SKY FIBRE PRO - ZYXEL VMG1312-B10A

Hi

Just bought a ZYXEL VMG1312-B10A to replace my SR102 Sky Router but just cannot get it work.

I pulled the username & password using wireshark but still no joy :-(

Can you please help

Thanks
Andrew

bremen1874 · 28 Apr 2014 at 10:30

Is the ZYXEL known to work with Sky and their nonstandard settings?

andrewc1978 · 28 Apr 2014 at 11:42

I assume so yes. I've been going through the manual & contacted Zyxel regarding how to change its MAC address

Furyus · 28 Apr 2014 at 16:47

Guys, When accessing the router Via IP Address
192.168.0.1 - Does anyone else's take about 5 mins to access the page?

Also been getting some terrible speeds!!! I'm on the Fiber pro, and average connection for me is around 58mb down and 19mb up. but lately I'm lucky if I ever get 25down!

Any ideas? I've contacted them and they have say it would be the CAB, so engineer is attending.. just wondered if anyone else has had this..

mrbios · 28 Apr 2014 at 17:30

Furyus said:
Guys, When accessing the router Via IP Address
192.168.0.1 - Does anyone else's take about 5 mins to access the page?

Pretty much instant here. How are you connecting to it? Wired/wireless/home plugs?