Sky Fibre Optic

Getting a bit tired of sky now.

My exchange has been fttc enabled since sept 11 but I thought I would be patient and wait for Sky's offering as I've been on their LLU service for years and I've never had a problem.
April comes and their fibre offering goes live - awesome! Oh except I still can't get it, I'm in one of those few sky and fttc enabled exchanges where sky have had a problem putting their fibre equipment in.
I can't get any solid information on when I can get it, I don't mind waiting another month if that's it takes but I don't know if it's 1 month or 6 months. Very annoying :(

I've been hovering over the plusnet ordering page for a week now and it won't be long before I push the "go" button.
 
Time for some new homeplug devices, get full speed now plugged into router, get circa 20Mbps on wireless.

Get circa 8-13 via some 85 devolo units ! :(
 
Mikey said:
Time for some new homeplug devices, get full speed now plugged into router, get circa 20Mbps on wireless.

Get circa 8-13 via some 85 devolo units ! :(
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I highly recommend the 200mpbs netgear ones, i'm using them right now and the only downside i can note is that compared to a direct cable it adds about 4ms on to your gaming pings :) Getting full speed net out of them though.
 
mrbios said:
I highly recommend the 200mpbs netgear ones, i'm using them right now and the only downside i can note is that compared to a direct cable it adds about 4ms on to your gaming pings :) Getting full speed net out of them though.
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Cheers for the info I'll have a look.

I don't do much gaming TBH and don't own any consoles etc.

May look at TP-Link 200Mbps AV200 Mini Powerline Adapter (TL-PA211) [TL-PA211]
 
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hmmm, was raring to go fibre but when it came to it (and because of hassles of switching to sky the owner of the line doesnt want) im happy sitting paying for my £12 unlimited DSL which maxes at 18mb atm.

I do want fibre though :(
 
mrbios said:
I highly recommend the 200mpbs netgear ones, i'm using them right now and the only downside i can note is that compared to a direct cable it adds about 4ms on to your gaming pings :) Getting full speed net out of them though.
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I saw an offer recently on 500mpbs units. I think they were £40 for 2.
 
Redgie said:
Anyway, today's my install day! Tried to get o2 to push back the cut off point in case BTO don't turn up but they wouldn't / couldn't,
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I'm now looking to take the plunge with SKY (I wanted to make sure that the early adopters give positive feedback first).

My problem is that I cannot afford to be without internet (as I often work from home).

Is it possible to keep 02 connected, until after BTO have done the changeover to SKY?

I wouldnt even mind paying a month extra to O2, if only to avoid being in the situation that BTO give me problems when setting up the new internet connection.

My understanding is that when signing up to SKY, you can do this online and SKY will contact O2 directly to cancel the O2 internet connection - in otherwords it is out of the hands of the customer.
 
Mikey said:
No great loss TBH and I'm all for sites being blocked
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You want the internet to be censored?
I rarely use TPB (maybe 10 times/year) however, my worry is that this sets a precedent and in future any website can be banned in the UK, very quickly. The first ban (ie. in the case TPB), takes a long time, but future bans should be speedy.

I would happily pay more, for an internet connection which is completely uncensored and is free from bans.
 
sunama said:
I'm now looking to take the plunge with SKY (I wanted to make sure that the early adopters give positive feedback first).

My problem is that I cannot afford to be without internet (as I often work from home).

Is it possible to keep 02 connected, until after BTO have done the changeover to SKY?

I wouldnt even mind paying a month extra to O2, if only to avoid being in the situation that BTO give me problems when setting up the new internet connection.

My understanding is that when signing up to SKY, you can do this online and SKY will contact O2 directly to cancel the O2 internet connection - in otherwords it is out of the hands of the customer.
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According to people on here you can't have the two. But what you can do is ring o2 and schedule a later cancellation date, say 1 month after Sky comes in, then if you decide to go back you can...cancel the cancellation? Though I would ring them to confirm.
 
Just remembered something about my install I forgot to post earlier. The guy swapped out all the supplied Sky cables (And one of my own >_>) with CAT6 cables courtesy of BTO. He also booted up the nearby PC, logged on and ran a speed test on speedtest.net to make sure it was all working. I figure this is pretty good of him so thought I'd post it.
 
Hah, luckily for me it was the family PC. If he'd have gone upstairs and onto my PC, many rages would have been had :p

Sky router is still slow and glitchy as anything when navigating round the menu. Does everyone experience this or just me? Tried to update the firmware using the disconnect reconnect method but from what I can tell it either didn't update, or I have the latest version?
 
For anyone having slow wireless connection, could you change the wireless mode to performance on the router status Page and post back if it's made an improvement.
 
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