Welcome to skys half speed issue (or so it seems)

theres a 43 page thread on sky forums

http://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Sky-Fibre-Broadband/Half...

Edited by epyon (Fri 12-Oct-12 14:11:03)

In reply to a post by Anonymous:

Both.

Using my wifi (G) laptop ...

There's your answer. You're hitting the upper limit of Wireless 'G' speed, you need wireless 'N' to get near your 40Mbps download speed.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Your last two posts look as though the first is in MegaBytes (MBps) and the second one is in Megabits (Mbps). Ther are 8 Megabits in a MegaByte. Not all testers report in the same way. (The capital or small "B" matters.

They are. I'm aware of the difference, was just in a rush.

Still at around 22mb/9mb, with MB downloads commensurate to that.

Is this only a recent issue then? Does buying a fancy router work? Or is it all at their end? Not sure whether to take it up with Sky or not. At what point should I reboot my modem/router to try that? It's been installed for about 33/34 hours now.

Assuming you are spud, (posting is a lot easier if you register, and easier for us to know who's who. No captchas for a start, a lot fewer adverts, forum layout tailoring to suit you better, and more), then leave the modem alone till after midnight tonight. The router you can reboot if you wish.

I've just restarted and I'm still getting 23-25 and 8-9. Has anyone successfuly improved from this? Have had a look of some of that thread, but it's quite large!

Thanks

Spud

You need to try a direct Ethernet connection, not over powerline adapters because they can lose a lot of throughput due to poor wiring etc. My 200Mb PLs give 28Mb out of my 40Mb connection. I get 38Mb wired and 34Mb wirelessly.

My 200Mbit powerlines give 24MByte download on my 40MByte FTTC line. I am now looking for a christmas present of the 500Mbit powerline version that should then provide a full 40MByte FTTC download speed.

Does FTTC come in a 40MByte flavour?

I thought it went up to 80 Mbit = 10 MByte (or even 8 MBytes if you allow for overheads).

I would normally think you had mixed up your bits with your Bytes if you hadn't spelt them out explicitly.

Its a BYTE time I had a holiday as its a BIT cold where I am now and it is effecting my network "how it works" understanding!!!!