Adding Sky Talk when already on Sky Broadband Unlimited

I'm on Sky's LLU (Broadcom equipment) but for some reason my phone line goes through BT's equipment.

Whilst it might be nice to have Broadcom instead of the Easynet, at the end of the day it doesn't really matter too much.

I suppose Sky could put you on MER, then you would need to ask netgear to upgrade their firmware for the DGND3700, otherwise you would need to revert back to the sagem.
On the easynet, I guess there is no way Sky can introduce MER and as long as your phone rental is with BT, Sky cannot do anything at all.
That is why they are now insisting everyone who takes broadband, takes the line rental, as they want everyone eventually on the SVBN and then MER.

I'm not 100% certain, but I thought that some of those on Easynet were on MER.

As for the Netgear DGND3700, it would be nice for others to also help persuade Netgear to release a suitable firmware that supports Sky's implementation of MER correctly.

However, should MER become fixed for everyone (a long way ahead yet) the DGND3700 has the Ethernet WAN port, so can be used as a Cable router as well. I have successfully tested this principle with my Sagem 2304n connecting to the telephone line and DGND3700 running my LAN. Access to the Internet worked absolutely fine.

Thanks for your help.

I have just ordered Sky Talk Unlimited, been told it will take up to 3 weeks.
I will remain on the easynet LLU until there is spare SVBN capacity for my broadband.

I assume so far that PPoA connection via a non sky router on a MER network still work?

It certainly should do. There have been a few members having issues with specific routers on some exchanges, but most appear to be just fine.