Sky Fibre Optic

mikejs21 · 15 Feb 2013 at 22:39

I'm running out of patience with my 2.5Mb down & 0.5Mb up connection and I am looking to upgrade to some faster speeds. I have seen that Sky will be getting FTTC at my local exchange from 31st March.

Just wondering what speeds am I going to be looking at, they say it is 21Mb Down and 5Mb up but surely that will drop between the exchange and my house?

Another thing is I can get Virgin Broadband (100Mb) package within the next week, although a lot more expensive but wondering what peoples views are on this. Should I just wait for Sky Fibre?

steven_belfast · 15 Feb 2013 at 23:00

mikejs21 said:
they say it is 21Mb Down and 5Mb up but surely that will drop between the exchange and my house?

The speed they said is from the cab (Green Box) to the house,
I am guess you must be about 600 - 800 meters away from that.

MissChief · 15 Feb 2013 at 23:09

My FTTC enablement date just shifted to June 2013.

GAC · 15 Feb 2013 at 23:12

MissChief said:
My FTTC enablement date just shifted to June 2013.

ours has just been posted this week as 2014, first date for it so god knows when it will happen, although sky claim to be moving in to my area in the next 6 months and when i phoned them they said 3. so god knows.

mikejs21 · 16 Feb 2013 at 21:18

steven_belfast said:
The speed they said is from the cab (Green Box) to the house,
I am guess you must be about 600 - 800 meters away from that.

You are correct. Does it matter that Sky say 31st March but BT say June? :confused:

Thought Sky piggybacked onto BT Infrastructure?

GAC · 16 Feb 2013 at 21:27

mikejs21 said:
You are correct. Does it matter that Sky say 31st March but BT say June?

Thought Sky piggybacked onto BT Infrastructure?

least there saying the same year, god only knows whats happening in my local exchange.

KIA · 16 Feb 2013 at 21:27

The Sky date is probably lagging behind.

Roughneck · 18 Feb 2013 at 18:47

I had a power outages today the whole flat was out for about 30 mins,

anyway when everything came back on the Sky router is now synced at 40 down 9 up

although the only way i seem to get anywhere near 40 meg is using IDM or Grabbit. Speedtest is showing just over 31 weird

mrbios · 18 Feb 2013 at 18:54

Wohooooo after 3 weeks of using a 3G connection from my phone (eurgh) I'm finally back on FTTC

Modem synced at 40 down 10 up on the button and speedtest of 37-38 down / 7-8 up, no change from my last house which I'm happy with

Quite tempted to see if the pro service is available in my area, just not sure it's really worth it considering what BT offer.

steven_belfast · 19 Feb 2013 at 00:35

mikejs21 said:
You are correct. Does it matter that Sky say 31st March but BT say June?

Thought Sky piggybacked onto BT Infrastructure?

That is a bit strange to be honest as they use the same database.
But with that being said in my old house in Belfast i was checking the site day by day and on the 4th day i changed to say i could get fttc, and this was 3 days after bt said i would get it.

NZB · 19 Feb 2013 at 01:16

A lot of the 31st March dates just got moved back to June, Sky's checker probably just hasn't caught up. Apparently anything that says the end of March, June, sept etc are just placeholder dates anyway and aren't planned.

lego · 19 Feb 2013 at 15:01

Quick question, i had my install last Thursday and the modem synced at 38meg, it's been there since then. This morning we had a powercut and the modem has synced to 32meg. Should I try a reboot and risk a lower speed, or leave it till my 10 days are up?

Zaim · 19 Feb 2013 at 15:04

My exchange date has changed from 31 march 2013 to 31 march 2014 ?

OLDPHART · 19 Feb 2013 at 15:05

No lego, leave it, as your still on DLM testing for 10days,your speed should go up over a few days.

Shelster · 19 Feb 2013 at 15:20

OLDPHART said:
No lego, leave it, as your still on DLM testing for 10days,your speed should go up over a few days.

Good read on DLM on here

KIA · 19 Feb 2013 at 19:14

lego said:
Quick question, i had my install last Thursday and the modem synced at 38meg, it's been there since then. This morning we had a powercut and the modem has synced to 32meg. Should I try a reboot and risk a lower speed, or leave it till my 10 days are up?

Leave it alone.

nutcase · 20 Feb 2013 at 06:04

Ordered sky FTTC yesterday (well, it will get ordered today as they have to remove a cancellation request from 2011 first?!). Was seriously considering plusnet as 50p a month cheaper and they said I'd get 71/20mbs vs sky's 40.8/10 - but their retentions people offered to waive the install cost and halve my line rental for 12 months so the actual increase in cost for 12 months is £1.30 per month

My concern is the master socket location - I see some people have had theirs moved. Mine is by the front door and a right pain in the bum. What I have done currently is used a filtered faceplate and run cat 6 from there through the wall into the garage, up into the floor void, across to the other side of the front door, down some boxing to a wall plate that has separate phone and DSL socket - will I be able to use the same arrangement? When I connect to the master socket my ADSL connection speed actually goes down :confused:

kitch9 · 20 Feb 2013 at 06:37

nutcase_1uk said:
Ordered sky FTTC yesterday (well, it will get ordered today as they have to remove a cancellation request from 2011 first?!). Was seriously considering plusnet as 50p a month cheaper and they said I'd get 71/20mbs vs sky's 40.8/10 - but their retentions people offered to waive the install cost and halve my line rental for 12 months so the actual increase in cost for 12 months is £1.30 per month

My concern is the master socket location - I see some people have had theirs moved. Mine is by the front door and a right pain in the bum. What I have done currently is used a filtered faceplate and run cat 6 from there through the wall into the garage, up into the floor void, across to the other side of the front door, down some boxing to a wall plate that has separate phone and DSL socket - will I be able to use the same arrangement? When I connect to the master socket my ADSL connection speed actually goes down

Modem has to go in the master socket....

nutcase · 20 Feb 2013 at 07:41

I've seen this mentioned, but cannot find any reason as to why. What's different between a screened CAT6 extension from the master, and plugging into a filtered faceplate directly on the master? They offer up to 30m of extension, and my pre-existing extension is approx. 8 metres.

Hyburnate · 20 Feb 2013 at 12:27

2 Weeks time till mine gets installed.

This is on their unlimited broadband package, wonder what it will be like on the fibre, I'm guessing much better.