Sky Fibre Optic

MissChief said:
Sky's current offer is half price Fibre unlimited for a year (£10 per month) with a £30 activation fee and a 12 month contract.
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Thanks.

Do Sky throttle their fibre at any time or does that not happen anymore?

Also just seen an ad on tv where BT claim their downloads are quicker than sky. Any truth in that or is it just marketing b*******?

Cheers
 
I guess for me, the biggest saving would be to drop from 80/20 (76/18 real) to a 40/10 connection (which I'm guessing I should just about get maximum on).
So for example the Sky deal listed above.
At £10/month for the fibre and then I'm assuming in the region of £17 for line rental, that would be £27/month as opposed to £42/month I'm currently paying at BT.
So a £15/month saving to halve my internet connection.
Going to have to think on that I guess.
 
can any experts clarify for me

spoke to skys online chat people and they checked, i can get "fibre" but the phone people say i cant. everyone else says i cant.

so why is this? they checked twice they had my address right and it was showing i could get 40mbit. is it that my lines about to be enabled by BT? also why does the online people have different info to the phone people?
 
stoofa said:
I guess for me, the biggest saving would be to drop from 80/20 (76/18 real) to a 40/10 connection (which I'm guessing I should just about get maximum on).
So for example the Sky deal listed above.
At £10/month for the fibre and then I'm assuming in the region of £17 for line rental, that would be £27/month as opposed to £42/month I'm currently paying at BT.
So a £15/month saving to halve my internet connection.
Going to have to think on that I guess.
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Mention to BT that you're thinking about leaving, they may be able to offer something.
 
mark2410 said:
can any experts clarify for me

spoke to skys online chat people and they checked, i can get "fibre" but the phone people say i cant. everyone else says i cant.

so why is this? they checked twice they had my address right and it was showing i could get 40mbit. is it that my lines about to be enabled by BT? also why does the online people have different info to the phone people?
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Do you have an active telephone number?

Use the address checker.

https://www.btwholesale.com/include...lchecker_applications_diagnostics_adslchecker

http://www.sky.com/shop/broadband-talk/fibre-optic/
 
Just downgraded the Unlimited Pro to Unlimited.bwe could only get 48/8 here so 40/8 with a higher SnR on download is little difference.

Got it £10/month for the first year like the introductory offer for keeping evening and weekend calls. Still saves £16/month for the first year and the contract is only 12 months anyway.
 
I've been looking at my expenditure, I've been paying Sky £76 or so a month for the full TV Package and Sky Fibre Pro, plus another £23 I think to BT for sport + HD. I barely watch any TV, only really the Football and F1 which is more of a now and then type affair rather than religiously. Apart from that I watch the terrestrial channels for sport, such as rugby, football, snooker and what not. For TV shows I have Amazon Prime which covers most of it plus Netflix.

My Sky box is on literally once a month, so I cancelled all TV services last night and I've downgraded to Freesat with a cheap box and a USB HDD hanging out of the back. I'll have Sky TV up till the 20th of Dec when the contract runs out.

Bill is down to £47.60 I think, which is Sky Fibre Pro + line rental. I spoke to them today via live chat, they offered £8 off for 10 months which I declined. I then realised that my line syncs at around 46/15 and I don't upload that often plus I have no-ip.org for my DNS name, so static isn't that important. So I asked about downgrading to 40/10 and they offered me that with line rental for £27.60 a month. However I'm in my broadband contract till the end of Jan, so I'll get back in touch at the start of that month. Fair bit of money saved there, nigh on £100 to potentially £27.60.
 
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I was going to cancel sky last week , i was paying £38pm for sky fibre and line rental.
Got our lass on phone to them.. 20 minutes later was getting fibre , variety pack and line rental for £27.60 .. so ten pounds less for free tv :)
 
SR102 router on fibre pro, can only get 32mb on wireless (60mb wired). Best/cheapest option to get the wireless up to wired speeds?

Seen the Netgear D7000 recommended, but its quite expensive :/ and don't think I'd really be taking advantage of all of the features.
 
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Jsut get yourself a cheap 5Ghz wifi Router and turn off the wifi on the SR102, turn off the DHCP in the cheap router and hey presto, you have yourself a better wireless access point. Just patch the LAN's together and make sure the cheap router's address is different to the SR102's... job done.
 
For anyone that got transferred to Sky from O2.

Can you still get into your O2 emails ?, as for the past couple of days, ive been unable to.

I sign in, go to My O2, then my emails, Tab at the top changes to inbox, as though its loading, but the circle just spins and spins and spins, eventually after a good while, it just loads a blank white window, with a rectangle along the top, and thats it.
 
I upgraded to Fibre Pro a week last Friday and after an initial increase in speed to around 44/12 within the first couple of days I saw no further change. Phoned Sky at the weekend who did a line check that didn't reveal any faults but said I needed to wait 10 days to allow DLM to do its thing.

Roll clock forward to today and a further call to Sky as there's been no change in speed. First Agent does a line check and the usual re-check from the test socket. This doesn't show anything up, so I get passed on to another guy who tells me that I probably need to replace the HUB (SR101) which I reckon is only 18 months old. This is going to cost £70 + £7 delivery. After a bit of haggling I get this reduced to £30 and a full refund if it doesn't solve the line speed issue.

In the past, and on the few occasions I've needed to get support from Sky they've always been helpful but it seems that the default position is now to sell some new equipment, and unless you accept it appears impossible to progress the call. I'm not sure how much trouble shooting can be done remotely but wasn't even asked to reboot the Openreach Modem.Anyway, guess I'm just having a moan, will wait and see what happens when the new hub arrives next week.
 
I was wondering about this myself - upgrading to Fibre Pro as even 40Mbits is now starting to seem slow to me on downloads :rolleyes:

What speed do you have to reach for the upgrade to be deemed successful? Is there a minimum amount you are supposed to get with Fibre Pro?

@Martytoon - Are you on the white SR101 and BT modem combo then? And they've now sold you the black SR102?
 
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