In reply to a post by tommy45:

as for use of your own router, why not (sky t&c's) well i have never heard of anyone getting thrown off because of using their own router

Sky staff recently confirmed they do not currently penalise customers using their own router: http://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Broadband-Technical-Issu...

I would be very surprised if they ever do, to be honest.

ive read on multiple forums once you are on the gaming profile you can tweak the snrm, i will wait and find out myself.

Can you point me towards one of the forums, I was considering asking for the gaming profile, but understood the snrm couldn't be tweaked. I would like to read up to date info on it.

In reply to a post by wingco1:

ive read on multiple forums once you are on the gaming profile you can tweak the snrm, i will wait and find out myself.

Can you point me towards one of the forums, I was considering asking for the gaming profile, but understood the snrm couldn't be tweaked. I would like to read up to date info on it.

When you request the gaming profile, the line is uncapped and the interleaving is reduced.

so far on day 3 of training

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 13765 kbps 1098 kbps
Line Attenuation 32.0 db 20.0 db
Noise Margin 7.7 db 8.1 db

<Green> with envy

my combined speed i would think its probably the quickest in the whole of north shropshire for a residential speed.

very happy with it, they can keep fibre

still <green> with envy

just to show the difference between my sky line and tt line

Sky line

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 13765 kbps 1098 kbps
Line Attenuation 32.0 db 20.0 db
Noise Margin 7.2 db 8.1 db

24db@300kHz - estimated loop length 1660m

TT Line (d/s snrm is set to 3db)

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 16859 kbps 1020 kbps
Line Attenuation 33.0 db 14.1 db
Noise Margin 3.0 db 12.9 db

26db@300kHz - estimated loop length 1552m

You can't go as low as 3db noise margin on Sky, the lowest they go is 7 db so you will lose a good 2 meg there. Shame really.

Hope you're happy anyway...

Mine has recently been connected too, 6 days since I migrated to Sky, I've used a 2wire 2700hgv from the outset. Current stats.

Protocol: G.DMT2+ Annex A
Downstream Rate: 17020 kbps
Upstream Rate: 1069 kbps
Channel: Interleaved
Current Noise Margin: 7.2 dB (Downstream) 9.1 dB (Upstream)
Current Attenuation: 18.2 dB (Downstream) 9.8 dB (Upstream)
Current Output Power: 16.7 dBm (Downstream) 11.7 dBm (Upstream)

Unfortunately the upstream seems to have gone down as it was slightly over 1100 for a couple of days.

Coming from Plusnet Pro which was:

Protocol: G.DMT Annex A
Downstream Rate: 8128 kbps
Upstream Rate: 448 kbps
Channel: Fast
Current Noise Margin: 12.0 dB (Downstream) 25.0 dB (Upstream)
Current Attenuation: 15.6 dB (Downstream) 8.0 dB (Upstream)
Current Output Power: 19.8 dBm (Downstream) 12.2 dBm (Upstream)

Quite please so far, seems fast at all times of the day and is half the price of PN Pro. Given my attenuation I was expecting 20 Mbit but looks like I'm held back by noise. Not bad really since the exchange is 558 metres line of sight or 805 metres by road so based on distance Kitz suggests 7.5 Mbps and Sky suggested 8 - 10 Mbps. PN Pro gave me priority over other customers which was good (not that I notice this now as the Sky is way faster) but also traffic shaped to the extent of giving priority to streaming and browsing; I think this is why I am seeing now that if I hammer the line downloading I can't use HTTP (no traffic shaping and no QoS on the router). Guess i'll just simply throttle downloads a bit but will investigate QoS on the 2wire if it can do it or traffic shaping via my Ubuntu server.

Edited by deleted (Sun 15-May-11 15:11:00)