Sky "Superfast" Broadband Thoughts?

fionny

Hi Folks,

Considering jumping from VF this year for FTTC conneciton (pending upgrade to FTTH in the coming months)

Some questions however if anyone can help:

1. Is the new Sky Broadband Hub good? The reviews out there suggest that its got great coverage and back to 4 gigabit ethernet ports? (note I am not talking about the Sky Q Hub)

2. How fair are sky on upgrading the line... ie when FTTH is available in my area (currently its being cabled for it) will sky allow me to upgrade at a reasonable price or will they attempt to gouge?


Any other thoughts or providers I should consider? Eir is pants I believe? Digiweb and the others seem a tad pricey?

Thanks,
Fionn

fionny

Another question, does sky offer Open Eir's FTTH or is it just Siro's offering?

baktag

fionny wrote: »

Another question, does sky offer Open Eir's FTTH or is it just Siro's offering?

sky do offer open eir's FTTH

im in the same position as you waiting for my area to go live.

fionny

baktag wrote: »

sky do offer open eir's FTTH

im in the same position as you waiting for my area to go live.

Thanks I’ll ring them later and switch to them if they can assure me I can upgrade once the fibre in my area is switched on.

kaahooters

i have sky ftth.

the hub is muck, cant use your own dns easly.

https://www.sky.com/ireland/broadband-talk/sky-hub/

its only got 2 ports , and one is for the ethernet from the ont box, so leaves you with one port, a cheap 8 port switch is nessary.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07HP5TN4S/ref=twister_B08H94TZRS?th=1

the wifi is quite poof on it, unless you have sky multi room , then the qbox can act as a repeter, but again, not great.

As for reliablity, ive had no issues whatsoever with the service satblity, and have been with them for 18+ months.

fionny

kaahooters wrote: »

i have sky ftth.

the hub is muck, cant use your own dns easly.

https://www.sky.com/ireland/broadband-talk/sky-hub/

its only got 2 ports , and one is for the ethernet from the ont box, so leaves you with one port, a cheap 8 port switch is nessary.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07HP5TN4S/ref=twister_B08H94TZRS?th=1

the wifi is quite poof on it, unless you have sky multi room , then the qbox can act as a repeter, but again, not great.

As for reliablity, ive had no issues whatsoever with the service satblity, and have been with them for 18+ months.

You have the old hub so. The new one is supposed to be much much better and has the usual 4 gigabit ports. Reviews are quite positive. Also sky added back the ability to change the dns.

I am getting sky to agree to sending me the new modem upfront before I sign up.

kaahooters

fionny wrote: »

You have the old hub so. The new one is supposed to be much much better and has the usual 4 gigabit ports. Reviews are quite positive. Also sky added back the ability to change the dns.

I am getting sky to agree to sending me the new modem upfront before I sign up.

Really, can you share the info for the dnd please, I can't seem to find it

fionny

kaahooters wrote: »

Really, can you share the info for the dnd please, I can't seem to find it

Found it the other day googling don’t have it to hand.

Sadly sky won’t give me the new hub until I have ftth which is stupid. Don’t know what to do now. Maybe just stay with VF

fionny

Anyone know if you can reconfigure a sky uk modem for Ireland?