40mb or 80mb fibre?

[dog-man]

Should I stick with sky's router during the dlm period before changing to my Billion?



dog-man

[andrewjr]

you can change it out if you like. if not and you want to 'play it safe' you could hang the billion off the back of the sky router to the 10 day period

[Isitme]

Have you got your router yet? The New Sky Hubs are being issued apparently and these may be difficult to get the details from. I don't know if your old ADSL username and password will work with Fibre.

[dog-man]

Five working days quoted before I get the router.



dog-man

[gorebrush]

DLM is only to the BT Modem though isn't it - should be able to do what you want behind that.

[dog-man]

How does the router get to me?

Royal mail?


Does anyone know for sure if an existing username / password combination from sky adsl is the same that will be for fibre?

I already know my adsl logon details.



dog-man

[andrewjr]

I assume they will be different as your new sky router will have a different LAN MAC address and default wireless password

[dragon2611]

Just ordered pro.


I assume it is best to use sky's router during the 10 day dlm period?

I intend using my Billion 7800N.



dog-man

DLM is between the DSLAM and the Openreach VDSL Modem.

[Isitme]

I assume they will be different as your new sky router will have a different LAN MAC address and default wireless password

Yes, it will be different. We know that all Sky routers have different details. We don't actually know yet whether the details are generated from the LAN MAC in the new router. It is likely, but not yet definite. The question I was raising is will the details from an ADSL router work with Fibre? Until the new router is 'cracked' the only possible way to get a username and password would be to get them from an ADSL router. If that does not work then anyone with the new router will be stuck with it, they will not be able to use their own. It would be useful if someone could try the details from their old ADSL router on their fibre connection, to prove/disprove that they work.

[dog-man]

What courier do sky use to send the router?



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