BT Hub on Sky FTTC

Is it possible to use the huawei modem and HH4 on a Sky fibre line???? I have today switched from Infinity to Sky (to save money) but have noticed how poor the Sky SR102 actually is.....
My speed has actually increased so no complaints there but the wifi is very poor and streaming .mpg files through it from a laptop to my Xbox360 is impossible..(will play but the picture stutters when the bitrate is high and is connected through Ethernet not wifi)
Rather than me buying a new router or even a WDTV to play movies I was hoping I could to go back to the HH4 as I never once had a problem with streaming 720p movies....
Any help appreciated.....

What speeds are you actually getting ?

For a picture to stutter the line must be running at well under 10Mbps

I do believe that the problem is regarding the transfer rate from his laptop through the Sky Hub to the XBOX and unrelated to his actual DSL Line.

In reply to a post by stubert:

Is it possible to use the huawei modem and HH4 on a Sky fibre line???? I have today switched from Infinity to Sky (to save money) but have noticed how poor the Sky SR102 actually is.....

The main issues with the SR102 are WiFi - ethernet should be fine. Have you tried any speed tests? What speed does the SR102 think you are connected at?

Buy yourself a gigabit switch
Connect the router to the switch and connect everything else via the switch, the sr102 is only 100mbits, which in itself should be enough, I have a similar setup and can quite easily stream multiple hd files from a mac onto multiple apple tvs my sr102 only acts as a dhcp server and it's wifi is supplemented by additional access points around the house.
You may well find that your cabling doesn't even support 100mbit, poor cabling will result in it falling back to 10mbit mode

I don't think it will work, the HH4 is locked to BT (and maybe Plusnet). They do an unlocked version which I think is the HH4r but you probably don't have one of those.

You can unlock the Huawei modem and use that as a combined modem/router which should work and then use the HH4 as an access point as another option, or just use the HH4 as an access point to the SR102 as the previous poster said.

Connected at 100mbits through Ethernet....

All working fine now!!
Tried it again this morning (streaming) and the stuttering was still present, unplugged all the ethernets from behind the router and connected them back into different ports and now the stuttering has gone????
Very strange, even tried a 1080p on it just now and that streams fine!!!!
As for the wifi I can live with that for now as I can always get myself a wifi extender if needed...

Thanks for the suggestions all......

I wouldn't expect your speed to remain higher than Infinity. You are connected to the same cabinet and it is the Openreach fibre cabinet that is negotiating the sync speed, nothing to do with Sky. It's probably just because it is a new provide and the DLM has been recalculated.

Yes, I had an attainable of around 43meg with BT and synched at around 40meg when first installed about two and half years ago. This slowly crept down to 29meg over time due to DLM / crosstalk etc. with sky I now get 40meg again with a snr of 6.5db so I am expecting this to stay around this mark now... Line has been stable for 24hrs now, done a lot of gaming, downloaded maybe 40gig and still going good....
I have taught the wife that the router must not be unplugged at night to which I think was the initial cause of my speed drop!!!!

Off subject here, but is there any demand for an unlocked huawei modem and HH4. No point in keeping them so was going to put them on gumtree to sell.. Any ideas what their worth second hand????

Modem about 20-40 quid, HH4 about a tenner. Have a look on ebay.

Thanks, will take a look...

In reply to a post by Icaras:

I wouldn't expect your speed to remain higher than Infinity. You are connected to the same cabinet and it is the Openreach fibre cabinet that is negotiating the sync speed, nothing to do with Sky. It's probably just because it is a new provide and the DLM has been recalculated.

Slightly less overhead as Sky don't use PPPoE I believe.

In reply to a post by stubert:

Yes, I had an attainable of around 43meg with BT and synched at around 40meg when first installed about two and half years ago. This slowly crept down to 29meg over time due to DLM / crosstalk etc. with sky I now get 40meg again with a snr of 6.5db so I am expecting this to stay around this mark now... Line has been stable for 24hrs now, done a lot of gaming, downloaded maybe 40gig and still going good....
I have taught the wife that the router must not be unplugged at night to which I think was the initial cause of my speed drop!!!!

Do you understand what I'm saying though? Oh a fibre to the cabinet connection your sync speed is nothing to do with Sky!

That's not got anything to do with sync speed. The Openreach DSLAM in the cabinet negotiates the sync speed and they have full control over it. It only passes on to Sky's network at the headend. I'm not talking about throughput.

The SR102 is a modem

Of cause, just nice to see a faster speed now as it had dropped quite a bit over the last two years, probably due to the modem being turned off regularly resulting in DLM thinking the line was unstable...

Nice one, as you say hopefully now it'll be kept on all the time now.

I do hope you don't see any of that dreaded Sky backhaul congestion that I'm seeing an awful lot of now on their fibre connections. Throughput of 20Mb with a sync speed of 40Mb, awful.

That's nothing. At the height of the congestion problem with Sky in my area I was getting 10Kbps download with a 4s pings on a line syncing at 75 Mbps.

Indeed, but that was months ago, wouldn't you have thought they'd have sorted it by now. There's some headends in my area that they just can't seem to get on top of. You just don't see these problems with other ISPs at the moment. BT Infinity generally performs at the sync speed regards of the time of day.