Sky Fibre Optic

nightmare99 · 8 Aug 2014 at 17:36

iMacMart said:
I got a 2820n working on Sky fibre the other month?

Cool is it just a matter of installing the latest firmware and following the instructions in the draytek forums?

I am on holiday until Thursday and I need to get some antennas for it as it did not have any attached but I hope to have a go at the weekend.

MissChief · 8 Aug 2014 at 18:30

Mikey said:
Anyone got a Cisco 887VA working on Sky, will hopefully be moving home and having thoughts around IT kit and so forth.

TBH, I'm also mulling dumping Sky FTTC and their TV for bog standard ADSL as I don't game etc. Watching Netflix is about my limit these days along with virtualisation

I would check what speeds you'll get through DSL before changing!

Fuggan · 8 Aug 2014 at 18:40

Butting in a bit here but can get an upgrade to fibre for just £10 a month. What sort of % increase in speeds do you usually see going from BB -> Fibre?

Muz333 · 8 Aug 2014 at 18:56

Fuggan said:
Butting in a bit here but can get an upgrade to fibre for just £10 a month. What sort of % increase in speeds do you usually see going from BB -> Fibre?

Will need to check your line on their site. For me Fibre is marginally better than BB but not enough to justify the expense. I'd get at most an extra 5 mb/s.

Terrier_Jimlad · 8 Aug 2014 at 21:09

Fuggan said:
Butting in a bit here but can get an upgrade to fibre for just £10 a month. What sort of % increase in speeds do you usually see going from BB -> Fibre?

Slap your line number in here https://www.dslchecker.bt.com - it's massively dependent how far you are from the cabinet, as oppose to the cabinet + exchange as per ADSL

Our row of 4 houses went from 1.2Mb/s to 26Mb/s

Ryan-3 · 9 Aug 2014 at 13:08

As said, the change is all dependant on your distance from the little green box and how slow the ADSL connection is.

Personally gone from 1Mbps to 73Mbps.

Furyus · 9 Aug 2014 at 17:18

I went from 2.2mb to 65mb! it's lovely

Glaucus · 10 Aug 2014 at 11:28

Ffs it's broke again. 10mins on hold so far.

iMacMart · 10 Aug 2014 at 12:42

Hoping sky will drop the price of the 70/20 connection soon

It's nice having the 40/10 half price but I'd pay £20 just for the extra bandwidth

timmy85 · 10 Aug 2014 at 12:55

I spoke to them via the web app yesterday to cancel our current ADSL broadband with them following placing an order for infinity 2 with BT on Friday.

The guy offered 12 months 80/20 for £20 a month and free line rental for 12 months normally £15 odd a month. Ended up cancelling the BT order and staying with sky on the fibre pro unlimited package.

andy_mk3 · 10 Aug 2014 at 13:12

Bloody hell he must have liked you

iMacMart · 10 Aug 2014 at 15:13

That's the deal I was looking for but got the 40/10 for £10 a month instead

Well done

timmy85 · 10 Aug 2014 at 17:46

andy_mk3 said:
Bloody hell he must have liked you

I know I did try my luck and asked if he could cut me a deal on the sports channels but he couldn't accommodate. I still bit his hand off though

RabbiJacob · 11 Aug 2014 at 07:08

That's an awesome deal timmy. Did you get a deal on your TV package as well or do you only have broadband & phone?

timmy85 · 11 Aug 2014 at 07:18

Nope no deal on TV unfortunately. I did ask if they could do something for the sports channels but they couldn't. We only have the standard package anyway.

Mikey · 11 Aug 2014 at 08:12

First advisor I spoke to re moving home said I'd have to extend the contract till Aug 2015 instead of Jan 2015. Somehow I feel that was an incorrect answer, so I left it at that.

Post code of my new area seems to have good connectivity options with the various providers BT/Sky/Virgin etc.

RabbiJacob · 11 Aug 2014 at 15:35

timmy85 said:
Nope no deal on TV unfortunately. I did ask if they could do something for the sports channels but they couldn't. We only have the standard package anyway.

That's a bummer, still a fab deal on the phone & broadband though.

I'm thinking of ditching our Sky TV, we only have the basic plus HD and hardly ever watch non-freeview channels. But I'm hoping I may be able to score a similar deal on the phone & broadband. Does anyone happen to know if the TV, phone and broadband contracts are linked?

timmy85 · 11 Aug 2014 at 16:41

I kept telling him I had already agreed and taken out a contract with BT for infinity and was moving to them to get BT sport. Whether that was an incentive for him to offer the two deals (fibre for £20 and free line rental) I'm not sure.

Terrier_Jimlad · 11 Aug 2014 at 20:15

Indeed it's a good deal, they very very rarely have any room to play with on Sports as it's a major money maker, infact the only time i've ever seen a deal on Sports was when BT Sport officially launched, and even then it wasnt a great discount.

I'm going to ring up this week to get some haggling, out of minimum term now and will use the cheaper Plusnet prices to argue some discount, hopefully.

timmy85 · 12 Aug 2014 at 08:34

Just had an email off of them staying the activation date is the 29th. Not within the 6 days the rep had assured me it would be. I'm not overly bothered by the extra wait....... the 29th was the date BT had given me for infinity.