Well 5 hours after ringing sky, and just before going to sleep, I decided to run a speed test on the mobile phone. Download is about the same but upload is now 16mbps even over wifi in the bedroom so it looks like they have done the upgrade already! I'll need to run some more tests tomorrow over a wired connection to see what download speeds I'm getting at the moment as the router is still showing that it's connnected at 39,999 and 10,000 which is now clearly wrong! Not bad service from Sky though!
Router only updates when its power cycled. You can leave the openreach modem switched on.
JamesBT Infinity 2 19/09/2012 - Estimate 44.6/6.5 - Install 52/12 - Actual 46 / 8 Mbps 13 years of broadband - ntl:(512k/1M)/BTbusiness(2M)/Metronet(2M)/Bulldog(8M/16M)/BE(16M)/BT FTTC(50M)
Rebooted the router (not the modem) and the sync speed is now showing as 65,143 down and 20,000 up and throughput over wifi is around the 62mbps/18.5mbps at the moment Sky said that the speeds will keep increasing until it finds its max stable speed, but what sort of speeds did other people on the 80mbps service get when first connected and what did you stabilise at? So far I'm pleased that I decided to risk the extra tenner a month even though Sky said I would only get 46
TheHorseman (knowledge is power)
Tue 23-Oct-12 20:52:55
Rebooted the router (not the modem) and the sync speed is now showing as 65,143 down and 20,000 up and throughput over wifi is around the 62mbps/18.5mbps at the moment Sky said that the speeds will keep increasing until it finds its max stable speed, but what sort of speeds did other people on the 80mbps service get when first connected and what did you stabilise at? So far I'm pleased that I decided to risk the extra tenner a month even though Sky said I would only get 46
When I had FTTC at my old address I was estimated 55.1 Down and 13.2 Up but in reality connected at ~72Mbit down and 20Mbit up. Throughput was around 70/18.
What Sky say about the speed increasing is rubbish.
When the modem first connects it connects as fast as it possibly can and only slows down if the line becomes unstable - e.g. mine initially connected at the full 80/20 when first connected but this settled at 72/20 due to the occasional drop out.
just had a email back from Openreach saying that my cabinet PCP73, has gone back to planning to go back into the programme to be deployed why is this then they say they dont know when it will be ready for servies but i have looked on bt wholesale and it says my cabinet wil have fttc on dec 31 am i thinking of this wil be done bye then or will they put it back again
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Sky said that the speeds will keep increasing until it finds its max stable speed, but what sort of speeds did other people on the 80mbps service get when first connected and what did you stabilise at? So far I'm pleased that I decided to risk the extra tenner a month even though Sky said I would only get 46 
well my order has failed now 4 times .... no one has any idea why and well its starting to get annoying