Sky Fibre Optic
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Slightly better using a better peer. Gonna miss the plusnet 20mbps up I must say but as the Mrs says.... " Cheap IS Cheap "
Will monitor the ping plots over the next week. Latency is more important that silly download speeds
Will monitor the ping plots over the next week. Latency is more important that silly download speeds
Funny, BT hasn't changed one bit since I can remember back to 2004/5. Oh wait they have. They've gotten worse in every way possible.
So I'm heading back to Sky after BT hiked up my Fibre costs after 12 months and wouldn't move on price. I was kind of worried as my last experience with Sky's SR router was poor to say the least, but it seems they have the Q hub now and I've snagged it for an extra £20 notes, which has got to be worth it for AC Wifi and Gigabit ethernet in 2016! 
So I'm heading back to Sky after BT hiked up my Fibre costs after 12 months and wouldn't move on price. I was kind of worried as my last experience with Sky's SR router was poor to say the least, but it seems they have the Q hub now and I've snagged it for an extra £20 notes, which has got to be worth it for AC Wifi and Gigabit ethernet in 2016!
Interesting. Can I ask if you were offered it or if you asked? Were you advised it only has 2 Ethernet ports?
Sure. It was on the order page as an option right at the bottom. I was aware about the lack of Ethernet ports having read a few reviews of the router but as I mainly only use wireless, I was sold on the A/C and supposed better signal strength.
I'm paying £20 a month for fibre Pro ,and have just renewed contract at same price and £50 credit
don't know how you got that - I've tried 2 live chat's and 1 call yesterday and today and all 3 sky "experts" have told me there are no current deals on sky fibre pro despite me previously having the £20 a month deal.
I threaten'd to leave to BT (£135 cashback to move broadband and phone line) but no deals to be had on line rental or pro fibre.
I really don't want to leave Sky as the fibre has been faultless (even the years of ADSL as well) but no deal is a disappointment.
Yep.
I was initially offered 35% off via live chat ,but turned it down ,called them up quoted the deals i could get on bt,and straight away gave me the above deal
cheers - strange one - i'll try again tomorrow but might go to BT - cashback plus their infinity one package now is "up to 54Mb" and that's about the max my line supports on sky fibre pro.
Quick question. Our Sky broadband is finally getting upgraded (near dial up speeds on some Sunday evenings). The new fibre optic box says it's simply a case of unplugging all of the old equipment and replacing with the new stuff. Is this case? So no manual input needed like entering details in the back end? Reason I ask is we don't have our landlord's Sky account details to make changes, thanks 
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Quick question. Our Sky broadband is finally getting upgraded (near dial up speeds on some Sunday evenings). The new fibre optic box says it's simply a case of unplugging all of the old equipment and replacing with the new stuff. Is this case? So no manual input needed like entering details in the back end? Reason I ask is we don't have our landlord's Sky account details to make changes, thanks
No details needed just unplug old one and plug in the new new and then connect wireless / wired devices
Thank you for confirming. I just started reading a few pages back on this thread and noticed someone mention wire-shark, plus Sky hubs aren't meant to be all that. I have a spare TP Link router that did a decent job for range and throughput (bought it because our VM router at the time had terrible range). Could I use wire-shark to copy Sky details so I could use their router in modem mode and the TP Link router to do the rest?