Sky Fibre Optic

Caged · 28 Dec 2016 at 18:23

benparker said:
Can a homehub 5 work with sky fibre?

Nope.

antijoke said:
Do Sky use the same network as BT for fibre?

I currently get nearly 58Mbps with BT and just checked Sky speeds and they said it would be around 40Mbps, seems a bit of a difference.

Broadband gets hammered with console updates/games/YouTube streaming all at the same time.

Sync rates will be identical regardless of which FTTC provider you go with - barring differences relating to quality of modems supplied by the ISP and their willingness to badger Openreach in the case of any dynamic sync rate management problems. Sky have moved to average speeds for some reason, it's no more accurate than the previous figures.

V F · 28 Dec 2016 at 18:30

Has anyone had any issues with the SR102? Last night the connection locked. Could still login to the router but the connection was still synced and up but no access.

Had to power it down after 1078 hours to get access. First time this had happened. Normally I get 2 - 3 months or so and even then I hardly ever have to unplug.

ic1male · 28 Dec 2016 at 18:45

V F said:
Has anyone had any issues with the SR102? Last night the connection locked. Could still login to the router but the connection was still synced and up but no access.

Had to power it down after 1078 hours to get access. First time this had happened. Normally I get 2 - 3 months or so and even then I hardly ever have to unplug.

Yeah happened about three times last year. So far it's been up for 90 days without issue.

V F · 28 Dec 2016 at 18:48

What causes it, crappy hardware?

ic1male · 28 Dec 2016 at 18:56

V F said:
What causes it, crappy hardware?

Dunno but I'm just thankful it comes up again after the reboot.

Gtiracer · 16 Jan 2017 at 15:03

Anyone know if I can use the TP Link Archer C9 with Sky Fibre please?

Looking for the best router under £100

pepp77 · 16 Jan 2017 at 15:04

Get the sky Q hub from sky (I got mine for £20), it is actually really really good.

Gtiracer · 16 Jan 2017 at 15:13

pepp77 said:
Get the sky Q hub from sky (I got mine for £20), it is actually really really good.

I did have a look but major downside for me is it Only has 2 ethernet ports - i Need a minimum of 3

How do you find the range? and how many devices are they rated for?

ChrisD. · 16 Jan 2017 at 15:16

Gtiracer said:
I did have a look but major downside for me is it Only has 2 ethernet ports - i Need a minimum of 3

How do you find the range? and how many devices are they rated for?

Buy a cheap switch.

Gtiracer · 16 Jan 2017 at 15:19

ChrisD. said:
Buy a cheap switch.

another box to add with not much space on my already cluttered desk. Not really keen on that idea. Want an all in one solution and buying a router with at least 4 ethernet ports is just more practical for me

ChrisD. · 16 Jan 2017 at 15:24

It's a tiny little box that can live under or at the back of the desk. The throughput of cheaper routers with 4 1Gb ports is usually pretty poor.

Gtiracer · 16 Jan 2017 at 15:29

ChrisD. said:
It's a tiny little box that can live under or at the back of the desk. The throughput of cheaper routers with 4 1Gb ports is usually pretty poor.

If so, then:

How is the the range? and how many devices are they rated for please?

ChrisD. · 16 Jan 2017 at 15:30

Sky Q hub? No idea, I don't use ISP supplied stuff.

ic1male · 16 Jan 2017 at 15:36

pepp77 said:
Get the sky Q hub from sky (I got mine for £20), it is actually really really good.

How did you get it for £20?

I read that the line rental is going up in March so I'm going to try to use that to get one.

Gtiracer · 16 Jan 2017 at 15:45

ChrisD. said:
Sky Q hub? No idea, I don't use ISP supplied stuff.

Well in that instance do you know the answer to the original question then, which was in fact:

"Anyone know if I can use the TP Link Archer C9 with Sky Fibre please"

ChrisD. · 16 Jan 2017 at 15:47

I didn't spot that, yes it will work once you get the MER/DHCP details you need.

Gtiracer · 16 Jan 2017 at 15:47

ChrisD. said:
I didn't spot that, yes it will work once you get the MER/DHCP details you need.

Thumbs up

ChrisD. · 16 Jan 2017 at 15:49

Just having a Google and it appears Sky have relaxed the rules.

http://taupila.co.uk/blog/2016/04/17/replace-sky-router/

Look in the comments at the bottom, specifically:

Your sky id *IS* your LAN MAC address which is written on the back of your Sky Hub SR101/2 just above the serial number.
It’s the MAC address (in lower case letters) followed by @skydsl

The username you can get from wireshark.

But you really don’t need any of this information anymore. You can enter “anything@skydsl” and “fubar” as password and it should work. Sky relaxed this some time ago.

Remember to clone your SKY hub MAC address (broadband port)

pepp77 · 16 Jan 2017 at 15:51

Gtiracer said:
I did have a look but major downside for me is it Only has 2 ethernet ports - i Need a minimum of 3

How do you find the range? and how many devices are they rated for?

Small switch for a tenner bypasses the need for more ports on the router. I have about 11 devices cabled into mine via an 8 and a 5 port switch.

I find the range great, I have an old 1930s terraced with the router down and front and my bedroom up and back and get 500-800mbps reported connection speed.

Also I got it for £20 when I joined sky last June after asking them for it.

bremen1874 · 16 Jan 2017 at 16:29

Gtiracer said:
Well in that instance do you know the answer to the original question then, which was in fact:

"Anyone know if I can use the TP Link Archer C9 with Sky Fibre please"

That router only has a Ethernet WAN port. Unless you're planning to use it with an external VDSL modem you'll be out of luck.