Sky Fibre Optic

morfmedia · 10 Aug 2016 at 20:06

MonkeyMan said:
That's good to hear, my setup is a bit odd in that I use passthrough adaptors between the modem and router so I can have the router in a more convenient location without running cable through the walls.

Works fine with my current setup but will need it so the Sky router only sends a signal to the routers cable port and does none of the home network routing as the passthrough adaptors aren't quick enough.

You shouldn't need to change anything, leave dhcp on the sky router, only traffic going externally using the default gateway will go over the power line as the rest will be on the same subnet?

Puzzled · 11 Aug 2016 at 22:16

morfmedia said:
You shouldn't need to change anything, leave dhcp on the sky router, only traffic going externally using the default gateway will go over the power line as the rest will be on the same subnet?

Seems to be a few solutions so all should be ok.

I'm having a dense moment, the upload speed on Sky Fibre Unlimited is up to 10Mbps isn't it? Not the basic Openreach tier of 2Mbps.

All the ISP's seem to hide the upload speeds now.

Edit: Found it, is indeed up to 9.5Mbps

KIA · 12 Aug 2016 at 18:06

MonkeyMan said:
Seems to be a few solutions so all should be ok.

I'm having a dense moment, the upload speed on Sky Fibre Unlimited is up to 10Mbps isn't it? Not the basic Openreach tier of 2Mbps.

All the ISP's seem to hide the upload speeds now.

Edit: Found it, is indeed up to 9.5Mbps

If in doubt, check the thinkbroadband ISP listings.

MagicBoy · 12 Aug 2016 at 19:05

MonkeyMan said:
Edit: Found it, is indeed up to 9.5Mbps

Yeah, mine syncs at 9999kbps.

MissChief · 12 Aug 2016 at 19:45

Bit more info about the new product launch on Monday. Known as Sky Fibre Max it's a rebrand of the fibre Pro service which is being retired. No static IP, no selectable profiles and no dedicated support line. Best thing though, it's coming Down to £25 a month. I may got for this myself.

booyaka · 12 Aug 2016 at 23:37

MissChief said:
Bit more info about the new product launch on Monday. Known as Sky Fibre Max it's a rebrand of the fibre Pro service which is being retired. No static IP, no selectable profiles and no dedicated support line. Best thing though, it's coming Down to £25 a month. I may got for this myself.

that's a bit rubbish really - £5 cheaper is the only gain.

Looks like it's BT Infinity for me then! Shame after 14 years of sky ADSl and Fibre which I've been happy with but £15 a month saving with BT, £120 cashback and £100 voucher is not to be sniffed at.

3 calls and 3 chats over last 3 months and offered nothing on reducing my £30 a month since my £20 deal ended.

Loyalty counts for nothing these days.......

peter212693 · 13 Aug 2016 at 00:04

MissChief said:
Bit more info about the new product launch on Monday. Known as Sky Fibre Max it's a rebrand of the fibre Pro service which is being retired. No static IP, no selectable profiles and no dedicated support line. Best thing though, it's coming Down to £25 a month. I may got for this myself.

Interesting, could be interested in this as my cabinet is only 2 doors away and my normal fibre syncs at 40000 down and 9999 up

MissChief · 13 Aug 2016 at 01:32

Don't forget if you have Sky Sports you can get an ongoing £10 per month discount on Fibre.

ic1male · 13 Aug 2016 at 11:08

Anyone know why fibre speeds seem to be "erratic" for want of another word? I have an OCD about checking my sync speed each morning when I wake up to see if anything happened overnight and to my nice surprise this morning, it's almost 15Mbps up from last night - now nearly at top whack!

KIA · 13 Aug 2016 at 19:52

ic1male said:
Anyone know why fibre speeds seem to be "erratic" for want of another word? I have an OCD about checking my sync speed each morning when I wake up to see if anything happened overnight and to my nice surprise this morning, it's almost 15Mbps up from last night - now nearly at top whack!

The system's designed to get the most out of the connection, without sacrificing stability.

What's the history of the connection?

ic1male · 13 Aug 2016 at 19:56

KIA said:
The system's designed to get the most out of the connection, without sacrificing stability.

What's the history of the connection?

I'm not moaning.

I've had it about two months now and it's only re-synced 4 times in that period. 75 > 68 > 65 > 80. I was just curious as to how it varied so much. 15 Mbps is some folks total bandwidth!

ic1male · 13 Aug 2016 at 22:47

OK here's another question. At what point on a fibre connection (I.e. How many Mbits/sec) would it saturate 100Mbps Ethernet and thus you would need Gigabit Ethernet? I've noticed even though I'm syncing at 80Mbps I can't seem to download any quicker than 60Mbps. It could have course be network congestion, fibre overheads, etc. It's the same on both Xbox Live with Xbone and Steam on PC. Both devices connected to Ethernet on the Sky hub.

bremen1874 · 13 Aug 2016 at 22:51

Never. 80Mbps is obviously less then 100Mbps. If the speed you're seeing is less than you expect it isn't going to be the Ethernet.

ic1male · 13 Aug 2016 at 22:56

bremen1874 said:
Never. 80Mbps is obviously less then 100Mbps. If the speed you're seeing is less than you expect it isn't going to be the Ethernet.

Yes that seems obvious but I wasn't sure whether 100Mbps Ethernet really was 100Mbps. I thought it had real world throughput of 70-odd. Anyway, it obviously doesn't as Steam did reach a peak of 9.5MB/sec whilst I was writing the post which is about 76Mbits and is as fast as my fibre will go.

bremen1874 · 13 Aug 2016 at 23:02

100Mbps Ethernet really is 100Mbps and it's very easy to effectively max it out. You can usually spot when a Gigabit link has dropped to 100Mbps as the throughput gets pegged at 12.5MBps.

MagicBoy · 14 Aug 2016 at 12:03

Protocol overheads on TCP/IP are about 3% typically.

ic1male · 14 Aug 2016 at 12:05

Thanks, you wouldn't guess I got a CCNA would you.

LMAO. Mind you that was terribly basic stuff when I did it 15 years ago. I never got round to CCNP.

MagicBoy · 14 Aug 2016 at 12:07

Not sure, I've only got a degree in Computer Science (again about 15 years ago!)

Probably the first time I've needed that little nugget of information that was filed away.

chrcoluk · 15 Aug 2016 at 02:02

MissChief said:
Bit more info about the new product launch on Monday. Known as Sky Fibre Max it's a rebrand of the fibre Pro service which is being retired. No static IP, no selectable profiles and no dedicated support line. Best thing though, it's coming Down to £25 a month. I may got for this myself.

I will drop sky if I lose the static ip.

£5 a month means nothing to me I dont shop for the cheapest broadband.

Oxide™ · 15 Aug 2016 at 08:45

I've been a happy Sky fibre customer for years but the past 2 weeks my area has had a lot of issues.

The internet has been down at home since yesterday morning and is still currently down. Can anyone please tell me if Sutton, London has an outage or if I should call Sky when I get home tonight?