Sky Fibre Optic

MagicBoy said:
From where?

People keep posting on here saying I've heard it's rubbish and can't back it up.

As a router I've got no complaints whatsoever.
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See skyuser for plenty of moans about it. One other minor issue is it's only 10/100mb on the Ethernet side. In theory you can max that out on the wifi with 802.11n

sorry, can't keep up with the replies, should be quoting who I'm replying to.
 
nutcase_1uk said:
See skyuser for plenty of moans about it. One other minor issue is it's only 10/100mb on the Ethernet side. In theory you can max that out on the wifi with 802.11n
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Again that's features, not performance. By all means call it basic, that's fair enough. "Poo" suggests it not fit for purpose. It is fit for purpose for 99% of customers.

As for Skyuser - I've been a member for many years. Those type of sites attract the people with an axe to grind and the people interested in the technology.
 
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MagicBoy said:
Again that's features, not performance. By all means call it basic, that's fair enough. "Poo" suggests it not fit for purpose. It is fit for purpose for 99% of customers.

As for Skyuser - I've been a member for many years. Those type of sites attract the people with an axe to grind and the people interested in the technology.
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I didn't say it wasn't fit for purpose, I said "I've heard it's a bit poo?" - with a question mark as I'm not entirely sure about what it can or cannot do (Sky seem a bit shy about stating it's actual spec - they don't even tell you what frequency it works on). People who opt for FTTC will be more likely to be a bit more tech savvy than regular broadband so will prefer to have a better feature set from "sky's best ever wireless router" yet they don't officially allow you to use a different router for some reason. I see the current BT and Virgin routers both offer at least one gigabit port by the way.
 
Not sure how this happened:

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My honeymoon with Sky FTTC is over, from about 19:30-22:30, speeds go down massively and ping times go a lot also. My normal ping is 14ms to bbc.co.uk, during 19:30-22:30 it's anywhere from 50-1000ms+ - so gaming at that time is completely useless.

My time on Sky ADSL was faultless, FTTC on the other hand is very poor. At this rate I think I'd prefer my old ADSL connection back to be honest.
 
Apparently I'm all done. He used the existing cable I'd run to relocate the master. I asked my wife if we were online - she doesn't know because she's watching TV.

Women :D
 
Hmm, wonder what time they cut the old line

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Looks ok so far :)

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DownStream Connection Speed 40001
UpStream Connection Speed 10000
 
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I was speaking to Sky the other day as my DSL connection is just so crap at 1mbps plus I work from home which is becoming a right pita due to the connection speed. I had to jetterson sports and movies as the £100 a month would have been just ridiculous!

Anyway, I got my install fee waived and they are going to install on the 26th of this month. I bet the area is going to be crammed full of FTTC customers due to the fact that we are a distance away from the exchange and so are all our neighbours.

So is there anything I should be looking out for? The new router will turn up tomorrow. Im guessing this will plug into something that Openwretch will provide? Also my property has star wiring, so there isn't really a master socket. The BT cable comes in by the front door to behind a blank faceplate where it then goes to an extension in the bedroom that doesnt have anything plugged in, and also an extension under the stars where the landline phone and existing DSL router sits. Will they just pull out the extension upstairs and make the line under the stairs the master socket, or will the change the blank faceplate to a master socket? The problem there is that there are no power sockets there?
 
Within reason they should do what you need - they should be able to confirm the understairs socket is a master. I think you HAVE to have a master socket. The router connects to an openreach modem yes. Both need power.
 
MagicBoy said:
Again that's features, not performance. By all means call it basic, that's fair enough. "Poo" suggests it not fit for purpose. It is fit for purpose for 99% of customers.

As for Skyuser - I've been a member for many years. Those type of sites attract the people with an axe to grind and the people interested in the technology.
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I dare say those are features of it's performance. Being limited to 100Mb is totally about performance the same has having 5000 open connections is. The distinction you are trying to make is completely lost on me.
 
Well that was short lived!

Just got a phone call from Sky telling me that in the cabinet/exchange that I am connected to, sky have used up all their allocated fibre ports and that they now have to wait for them to be upgraded to give them more ports.

So does that mean even if I try to get Fibre with another company I am going to face the same issue?

What a heap of **** the whole system is. My DSL is crap... and now it looks like I can even get Fibre when my cabinet is FTTC'd!?!?!
 
leaskovski said:
Well that was short lived!

Just got a phone call from Sky telling me that in the cabinet/exchange that I am connected to, sky have used up all their allocated fibre ports and that they now have to wait for them to be upgraded to give them more ports.

So does that mean even if I try to get Fibre with another company I am going to face the same issue?

What a heap of **** the whole system is. My DSL is crap... and now it looks like I can even get Fibre when my cabinet is FTTC'd!?!?!
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Unclear. Maybe the FTTC cab is full. nga.enquiries at openreach.co.uk might be able to assist.
 
Aargh, halfway through the 10 day "don't touch anything while they test the line" period and we had a 6 second power cut last night :(

Should be thankful I guess - my parents round the corner have had no virgin broadband since 830pm last night because of it!
 
leaskovski said:
Well that was short lived!

Just got a phone call from Sky telling me that in the cabinet/exchange that I am connected to, sky have used up all their allocated fibre ports and that they now have to wait for them to be upgraded to give them more ports.

So does that mean even if I try to get Fibre with another company I am going to face the same issue?

What a heap of **** the whole system is. My DSL is crap... and now it looks like I can even get Fibre when my cabinet is FTTC'd!?!?!
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I had that when my exchange went live. Was able to order about a month later.
 
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