Just had sky fibre installed - Page 6

Chrysalis · 06-12-2012, 08:36

yeah royal mail in my opinion are the best courier service in uk. Ironically the one people consider bloated and not ran properly.

AdamD · 06-12-2012, 21:42

Interesting, I noticed the new sky hub was an adsl router, so out of curiousity, I swapped it for the old one I've been using for Sky Unlimited and it worked.

Connection isn't AS good though, I get 18.5mb, whereas on the old one, I was getting 19.5ish.

qasdfdsaq · 09-12-2012, 06:38

The BT Home Hub 3 is the same - built-in ADSL router/modem combo with an ethernet WAN port for the fibre modem.

AdamD · 09-12-2012, 15:03

Yea, I guess I was just surprised it worked, I always assumed they each had a unique password/username?
Either that, or they're sent out pre programmed with the customers username/password for adsl/fibre.

Qtx · 09-12-2012, 20:26

Interested to know if they are pre-programmed. My Sky router has turned up and wondering if I should plug it in and do some packet sniffing.

Hoping the official router is good enough for my needs but have another router with ddwrt as a backup.

Mick Fisher · 10-12-2012, 16:13

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Originally Posted by Qtx

Interested to know if they are pre-programmed. My Sky router has turned up and wondering if I should plug it in and do some packet sniffing.

If you have the time and the inclination then finding out your sky username/password is a handy thing to know whether or not you intend to make use of it at this point in time.

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Originally Posted by Qtx

Hoping the official router is good enough for my needs but have another router with ddwrt as a backup.

The only way to find out is to try it.

Bare in mind it only sports 10/100 ports (one of which you lose on fibre) and is only an N150 device. On the plus side, out of the box, the device is generally stable and wireless was rock solid for me.

After trying it for a week my conclusion is that as a connection sharing device it is adequate but for networking it is leaves a lot to be desired. The addition of a gigabit switch or two would help out no end in this department as would substituting a more capable device.

Qtx · 10-12-2012, 21:33

Yeah, although if its not pre-programmed i'll be sniffing for hot air

Gigabit switch makes sense, might grab one anyway. The heaviest network use I have is streaming video and 100 has been good enough so far, even if im downloading on the pc too. Just the wireless laptop I figured might not be up to it.

Mick Fisher · 11-12-2012, 16:18

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Originally Posted by Qtx

Yeah, although if its not pre-programmed i'll be sniffing for hot air

Rest assured it is in there somewhere.

All sky routers need to send their unique username/password to enable the connection. I believe the username/password then has to be sent at regular intervals to keep the connection alive.

qasdfdsaq · 12-12-2012, 09:08

Gotta say even with 3 heavy users in the house never had a speed or capacity problem on my FTTC service. 80Mb is plenty for anything time critical and unlike VM there's enough upstream (line and core) capacity to actually make use of that performance.

Qtx · 12-12-2012, 20:57

Un-boxed the hub and plugged it in today. Already had wireshark installed on one of my linux partitions so got the username password within seconds

Couple more days and the openreach engineer will be here, can't wait.

Chrysalis · 12-12-2012, 21:43

good you confirmed that method works Qtx as was curious

iateallthepies · 13-12-2012, 12:14

Just a heads up. Any sky modem will work on an active line so if your unable to pull a username/password from the current modem then just buy an old one off an Auction site and retrieve it from that

Mick Fisher · 13-12-2012, 14:43

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Originally Posted by iateallthepies

Just a heads up. Any sky modem will work on an active line so if your unable to pull a username/password from the current modem then just buy an old one off an Auction site and retrieve it from that

Just don't pay too much in case sky has blocked the username/pass for some reason.

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Originally Posted by Qtx

Un-boxed the hub and plugged it in today. Already had wireshark installed on one of my linux partitions so got the username password within seconds

Couple more days and the openreach engineer will be here, can't wait.

That's you sorted then

Qtx · 14-12-2012, 12:44

Cheers for the info all.

Finally plugged in 10 minutes ago. Tests show I can get up to 93Mbps speeds so an upgrade to 80 is easily possible.

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Finally a jitter free connection

Can see what you mean about pages just loading so much faster now Chrysalis. Pretty sure the difference is down to how both isp's handle the multiple connections a browser opens to the same webserver for a single page.

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No matter how many times I run the pingtest, I always get the same results, 13ms and 0ms jitter. Lets see what changes peak times bring with it.

Will the DSM/DLM over the next few days change the latency or will it just affect the speed?

pabscars · 14-12-2012, 12:52

Nice ping too Qtx, what router did you get ,,,,,,

Scrap that I see you have the new hub, let us know what you think of it,,, I might purchase one if I can't get my linky unit to work on MER.