Like i said a few days ago,i had been with Sky Broadband for 6 days and i have to say its the worse wireless performance i have had the misfortune to witness,and thats on there latest Sky Fibre Hub.

I really wish you had the chance to try out the hub before SkyQ... You really would have not been happy. That box was a never ending reboot cycle.

Sky will give a wireless booster for free as the performance has never been incredible WiFi wise. You really should have got their SkyQ wireless booster before moving back to BT, it repeats the signal on the 5Ghz band so you don't experience horrific slowdowns. You'd have doubled the coverage.

Although I have to say, I am on BT now and very happy here.

Also RE Sky Fibre, they use MER so most third party routers will not work anyway, so it seems kind of pointless supplying the Username and PW.

netgear, billion and asus routers will work. Thats 3 big brands.

Sounds like you all live in mansions

Ethernet your rooms up

What do you mean by they use MER and most routers won't work .

What i mean basically is a new fit to a none Sky Subscriber,so thats main cables to the Sky Silver box and then they could be running ethernet cables to up to 4 mini boxes if that person required that amount of equipment.

When we moved our Sky Hd to this new house on 4th Dec last year,he wouldn't even drill a small hole in the side of the ageing wardrobe and insisted on taking the cable all around one of the bedrooms saying he couldn't do what i asked.

So imagine having to get a load of ethernet cables around someones nice house,besides that i have never seen that option offered on any Sky HD or Sky Q fit.

Say you buy a HG612 on eBay and a separate router, you have to ensure the router supports sky's MER which they use instead of PPOA. Lots of routers do not, although as has been mentioned manufacturers are now playing ball and apparently new netgear and asus models support it now. Say you have a 2 year old, perfectly good router which you want to use - theres a high probability it wont work on Sky.

As for the sky installs, they will not install ethernet - not a chance. I'm just saying for streaming it would be more reliable than wireless - but lets see, I actually think SkyQ will work pretty well especially with the 5Ghz boosters.

TP-Link have also started supporting it as of the VR900, in beta firmware. Another point is you can also continue to use the sky router and simply connect another router as an access point.

In reply to a post by ukhardy07:

Say you buy a HG612 on eBay and a separate router, you have to ensure the router supports sky's MER which they use instead of PPOA.

It's not really MER that's the issue here, so it's better to say that the router must support DHCP Option 61 on WAN in order for it to work on Sky Fibre.

Edited by Oliver341 (Fri 11-Mar-16 13:13:24)

yes absolutely agree with you

* If 5GHz wifi is used then no effect on normal wifi
* If 5GHz wifi can not work through walls then 2.4GHz used and hence a reduction with normal wifi. I suppose its 50/50 as to if you would notice a difference or not
* Then once power lines in use on the SKY equipment then that would take the load

I am also going to try a 4th option using my own power lines, which I used for SKY+HD, with the SKYQ boxes. Interestingly there is a "plug" over the Ethernet port asking for you to look at www.sky.com/ethernet

In reply to a post by iand:

* If 5GHz wifi is used then no effect on normal wifi

Don't forget lots of people have problems with 2.4GHz already, due to the sheer number in the street, or they live in close proximity (e.g. flats). So 2.4GHz ends up being slow / erratic - and people have been switching to 5GHz (via advice) for about 5 years now.

So if Sky think 5GHz is free for them, they may be surprised.

its all free, no one will send a bill to sky for using the 5ghz band, or am I missing something