Have just published the review.

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/hardware/reviews/74-as...

With three modes, and dual band wireless, there was a lot of wireless testing to be done.

Great, thanks. Do you know if its WiFi Alliance certified??

Just found the flaw, its selectable 2.4 or 5 GHz but not simultaneous. At that price that's really annoying.

Edited by jchamier (Fri 31-Aug-12 18:16:06)

Cannot see it at http://certifications.wi-fi.org/search_products.php?...

Just says IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n in its spec

But have used it with Galaxy S2, Asus transformer prime, dell precision, iPhone 4 and was happy

In reply to a post by XRaySpeX:

Hasn't BT heard of postcodes?

Sure they have, just not heard of SatNav's, BT Engineers are only given a map - anything extra they have to buy themselves, many opt not spend any of their own money for the company's benefit.

They got jobs, haven't they? They can afford to buy maps.

Failing that they can look up the right town on the Net.

In reply to a post by Kr1s69:

What connection speed does the sky router report, and was that over a wired connection?

The engineer works for BT Openreach, i doubt sky can request a polite one

I have to say the one who installed my fibre was excellent.

If the Openreach engineer was rude then complain to Sky since your contract is with them.

It's then up-to Sky if they want to pursue the complaint with Openreach or not

In reply to a post by ukhardy07:

In reply to a post by lowe88:

Modem Status Connected
DownStream Connection Speed 39999 kbps
UpStream Connection Speed 10000 kbps

I'm connecting wirelessly, I'll test wired tomorrow I just didn't have the time today. I'm using a netgear wnda3200

Need to use wired to be sure of the speedtest... Wireless can handle the 40Mbps service though provided you have good signal.

Also those statistics are rubbish. The sky router just reports the maximum speed for your package. So it will show 39999kbps for 40Mbps and 79999kbps for 80Mbps. Even if you are syncing much lower say 15Mbps.

You have to unlock the modem to get the real statistics. The ones from the sky router can be ignored as they are not true, just shows that you have the 40Mbps service.

Actually I think the Router gets the Values based on what's being sent in DHCP option 242 and 243 when the router gets it's IP and *Should* be accurate providing the openreach Dslam in the cab is sending Sky the correct data.

The values are present in the DHCP renew which happens every 30mins or so but as far as I can tell the sky router doesn't bother parsing them to update the gui.

The values are encoded as HEX but if you do a HEX > DEC conversion on them they will translate to your sync speeds.

The Link Below is a screenshot from a packet-capture of the DHCP exchange between the Router and Skys DHCP server.

http://imgur.com/Fmr3w

In reply to a post by dragon2611:

Actually I think the Router gets the Values based on what's being sent in DHCP option 242 and 243 when the router gets it's IP and *Should* be accurate providing the openreach Dslam in the cab is sending Sky the correct data.

Interesting. The fact that (I think) BT's Hub gets an IP via PPPoE means they are unable to show the synch speed in the Hub's interface. Disappointing that the only way to view this information on Infinity is to hack the modem, which only works on one of the two modems they currently issue :-/

There's a clothes-peg hack for the other one.

In reply to a post by Oliver341:

Interesting. The fact that (I think) BT's Hub gets an IP via PPPoE means they are unable to show the synch speed in the Hub's interface. Disappointing that the only way to view this information on Infinity is to hack the modem, which only works on one of the two modems they currently issue :-/

One of the benefits of Sky running their own network. I would assume WBC based ISPs (e.g. PlusNet, AAISP etc) could show the sync rate they are told on a web control panel. Sky choose to display this in an interesting way.