Sky & IPv6

Does anyone know if Sky issues IPv6 addresses or are there any plans to rollout IPv6 addresses?

It has been discussed many of times but with no clear answer.

Just another quick question, Sky have a dedicated webpage that displays your network speed. The results given were based on your current sync rate but it seems that this has changed, what is this rate based on now?

Sky Broadband/Fibre Speed-Finder

My current line sync;
Line Rate - Upstream (Kbps): 5127
Line Rate - Downstream (Kbps): 27885

Speed-Finder Results;
Download Speed: 40 Mbps
Upload Speed: 10 Mbps

Many thanks in advance, have a great day.

Having checked again, the Speed-Finder page shows;

Broadband speed results to your Sky Hub

Download Speed: 0.4 Mbps
Upload Speed: 0.3 Mbps

Even more confused now...

In reply to a post by shaneosborne:

Does anyone know if Sky issues IPv6 addresses or are there any plans to rollout IPv6 addresses?

Yes, they are rolling it out: http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2016/01/uk-isp-...

Many thanks for the link Oliver, great help.

In reply to a post by shaneosborne:

Download Speed: 0.4 Mbps

It's just a static display... I get exactly the same result. Sky are doing themselves no favours!

I don't understand why they changed it from what worked previously.

Before, it would show your sync rate (rounded off). This would save me time as I wouldn't need to login to my router, enter my username/pass etc.

They should have left it, as it was.

Thanks for letting me know...

In reply to a post by shaneosborne:

Before, it would show your sync rate (rounded off). This would save me time as I wouldn't need to login to my router, enter my username/pass etc.

For me it says:

Download Speed: 18.5 Mbps
Upload Speed: 0.8 Mbps

I'm using a BT Home Hub on BT so it's definitely not able to access any of my line stats. Also, my down synch is only 14.2 meg.

No need to access router to get line stats, the DSLAM will report this to Sky particularly easy for their own ADSL2+ LLU services.

I had not seen that page before; interesting - but...

It shows "Broadband speed results to your Sky Hub" = 5.1/0.8 Mbps.

A tbb speedtest a few minutes ago showed 25.3/4.8 Mbps.

It clearly cannot be reading current data from the DSLAM, and doesn't know we have had an FTTC connection since 2012.

For me it says:

Download Speed: 5.3 Mbps
Upload Speed: 0.8 Mbps

Right, OK... i'm on BT Infinity 1 over FTTP.. would be interesting to see where it got those particular stats lol

Previously it would get the information directly from the Sky Hub and display the routers current sync rate. I have no idea as to how this new version works because the results I get relate to nothing based on my current connection. I've asked Sky but they haven't a clue neither.

In reply to a post by shaneosborne:

Previously it would get the information directly from the Sky Hub and display the routers current sync rate.

Sky's systems can ask the Openreach FTTC cabinet, (or on ADSL the Sky owned DSLAM in the exchange) for the sync speed - so they don't have to ask the router. This must be the case as it worked for people with non Sky routers.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

Sky's systems can ask the Openreach FTTC cabinet, (or on ADSL the Sky owned DSLAM in the exchange) for the sync speed - so they don't have to ask the router. This must be the case as it worked for people with non Sky routers.

One would assume though that Sky's systems do not have the ability to query the WBC DSLAM for a customer on BT Consumer using a BT Home Hub. All the website has to work off is an IP address, they would need some pretty deep access into BT Consumer's systems to pull that off.

Maybe in that instance the website performs a split-second speed test, which in my case at least is far from accurate.

In reply to a post by Oliver341:

One would assume though that Sky's systems do not have the ability to query the WBC DSLAM for a customer on BT Consumer using a BT Home Hub. All the website has to work off is an IP address, they would need some pretty deep access into BT Consumer's systems to pull that off.

Yes, on WBC using ADSL - but if the API is designed to work on FTTC then it could be the same API for people on Sky's network as those on BT's WBC network, or on TalkTalk's network as the FTTC part is shared. The split to the backhaul only occurs at the handover exchange.

But otherwise it should not be displaying anything. Wonder what it says for me, using an EE hotspot right now, oh, 10.7mbps download and 1.3 mbps upload. And I've not had to log on to anything!

I think its a random number generator

Edited by jchamier (Thu 03-Mar-16 20:44:18)

Visited the webpage via my mobiles data link and got;

4.1 Mbps Down & 0.4Mbps Up

I just tried it again and got:

"An error occurred finding your speed."

Quite right too, i'm not on Sky Broadband

I just got an error;

Whoops, it looks like you're missing your microfilter!

Really? Am I? LoL

Edited by shaneosborne (Fri 04-Mar-16 08:48:13)

It looks like Sky have fixed an error with this randomly generating results. I'm now getting the correct result when connecting via WiFi and an error when using anything other than my Sky connection. Previously, I would get a random result on whatever connection I used.

It still shows I'm missing a microfilter, why and how they think that is beyond me.

Just tried it and I'm getting the "An error occurred finding your speed." error too.

And I *AM* on Sky Fibre! Bit of a shambles...

Edited by speedyrite (Fri 04-Mar-16 12:21:09)

Logged into my SKY SR102 router just now to find an IPv6 /56 delegated on it's LAN side

Will have a play when I get time to see the best way to allocate it to the network (There is an ER-X between it and most of my network)

Might end up sticking a modem on that line and putting it directly on the Edgerouter, IPv4 is easy enough to get working just send a DHCP request with the username/pass in opt61 so will have to see what needs to happen for them to give out a V6 address


Edit:
Rebooted the router to statically set the ULA and it took a good 5 minutes for it to get an IPv4 address, it's also not picked up an IPv6 prefix yet.

Edited by dragon2611 (Sat 23-Apr-16 17:28:52)