So What's Sky Broadband Like, Then?

I'm considering Sky broadband and would be interested in peoples'
experience (good or bad). Thanks in advance.

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Alan Greenwood wrote:
> I'm considering Sky broadband and would be interested in peoples'
> experience (good or bad). Thanks in advance.
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Excellent.

The router they supply is a premium router, and is certainly at the top of
the sub £100 domestic routers. The service is exceptionally fast and
reliable, when i called up to upgrade my package to the maximum £10 a month
(i download a lot), the speed upgrade was done within seconds, and it wasnt
via an indian call centre.

The service itself has being very reliable, I get 3mb broadband on a line BT
told me would never handle 1/2mb BB. I download from newsgroups, the speed
is *always* the full speed.....

I have had the following BB suppliers: BT, Pipex, Plusnet, AAISP, Eclipse,
Virgin and Plusnet, Sky so far are the best.

So far 10/10.


Gaz

In message <(E-Mail Removed)>, Gaz <(E-Mail Removed)>
writes
>The router they supply is a premium router, and is certainly at the top
>of the sub £100 domestic routers.

The Netgear DG834 is reported by many people as needing regular (daily)
rebooting as it loses the WAN connection. I eventually gave up on it.
Sky supply it locked down to their service though (see previous posts in
utb there is apparently a way round this.

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dave @ stejonda

dave @ stejonda wrote:
> In message <(E-Mail Removed)>, Gaz <(E-Mail Removed)>
> writes
>> The router they supply is a premium router, and is certainly at the top
>> of the sub £100 domestic routers.
>
> The Netgear DG834 is reported by many people as needing regular (daily)
> rebooting as it loses the WAN connection. I eventually gave up on it.
> Sky supply it locked down to their service though (see previous posts in
> utb there is apparently a way round this.

That is a fair downside, them locking it down. The netgear dg834 is amongst
the most reliable of the sub £100 routers.

I havent had any the problems you mention loosing the wan, and i had a
generic dg834 before i moved to sky, no problem there. I would say maybe a
reboot every few weeks.....

And I do a lot of bittorrent and newsgroup downloads. Bittorrent freaks out
the vast majority of routers, so far so good though.

Gaz

"Alan Greenwood" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm considering Sky broadband and would be interested in peoples'
> experience (good or bad). Thanks in advance.

Go to www.skyuser.co.uk and see the forums there...

dave @ stejonda wrote:
> In message <(E-Mail Removed)>, Gaz
> <(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>> The router they supply is a premium router, and is certainly at
>> the top of the sub £100 domestic routers.
>
> The Netgear DG834 is reported by many people as needing regular
> (daily) rebooting as it loses the WAN connection. I eventually gave
> up on it. Sky supply it locked down to their service though (see
> previous posts in utb there is apparently a way round this.

Shucks you beat me to it. As for the premium router
description........
I can't think of any non rude words adequate to shoot that one down in
flames.
Oh one point to remember is to turn of UPNP on the router as it makes
it marginally more stable....
Don't know why as I haven't bothered to check it out fully, seeing as
SKY make it not easy to telnet in etc, but it does work...

kraftee wrote:
> dave @ stejonda wrote:
>> In message <(E-Mail Removed)>, Gaz
>> <(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>>> The router they supply is a premium router, and is certainly at
>>> the top of the sub £100 domestic routers.
>>
>> The Netgear DG834 is reported by many people as needing regular
>> (daily) rebooting as it loses the WAN connection. I eventually gave
>> up on it. Sky supply it locked down to their service though (see
>> previous posts in utb there is apparently a way round this.
>
> Shucks you beat me to it. As for the premium router
> description........
> I can't think of any non rude words adequate to shoot that one down in
> flames.
> Oh one point to remember is to turn of UPNP on the router as it makes
> it marginally more stable....
> Don't know why as I haven't bothered to check it out fully, seeing as
> SKY make it not easy to telnet in etc, but it does work...

The netgear certainly is a premium router, i defy you tell me of a sub £100
router that is as good.

Gaz

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> The router they supply is a premium router, and is certainly at the top of
> the sub £100 domestic routers.

A netgear DG834M with crippled firmware?
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Regards
Jon

"Jon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed) et...
> (E-Mail Removed) declared for all the world to hear...
>> The router they supply is a premium router, and is certainly at the top
>> of
>> the sub £100 domestic routers.
>
> A netgear DG834M with crippled firmware?

Its not crippled it is just customized to suit Sky.
What options are crippled that matter to a Sky broadband customer?

In any case if you *know what you are doing* it can become a normal Netgear
and still work on Sky.
But I don't know why it would be necessary to do so.

It even runs Azureze and Emule at the same time for weeks at a time without
crashing.

dave @ stejonda <no$spam!delete&abuse%(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

: The Netgear DG834 is reported by many people as needing regular (daily)
: rebooting as it loses the WAN connection. I eventually gave up on it.

Just not true! Mine runs for MONTHS just perfectly (including some Bittorrent)