Existing Customer N Router

[Dante_Heaven]

I've been with sky bb from a few years now and would really like to upgrade my router (old sagem) to a new sky n router. Is this possible, and if so is it free? How would I do it also

Thanks in advance

[Schrodinger56]

Apparently not. As an existing customer of x years Sky will charge you £35 to change your router even if it becomes faulty. New customers get these new routers free!!

[reddwarfcrew]

All new customers get a router for free. Technology moves on and new customers now will get a better router than those that joined years ago.

I do think that as the t and c's state you have to use their router then it should be replaced for free, although on a like for like basis and not necessarily for he best there is around.

[Nigelh]

That isn't strictly true, mine gave up just before Christmas, and Sky sent me a replacement free of charge, without any request for payment. It wasn't the latest router, but it works, the wi fi is at least as good, and probably slightly better than the old one was.

[SheziKalebra]

Hey. If your original router is working fine there will be a one off charge of £35 for the new wireless N router. Bear in mind £35 is an extremely good price for a wireless N router.

If your original router becomes faulty and is within its 1 year warranty sky will replace it with a like for like free of charge. The wireless N router will still be a charge of £35 either way in warranty or not faulty or not to existing customers. I hope this helps :-)

[SheziKalebra]

Also just to clarify it is mentioned in the terms and conditions that if using sky's BB service you must use a Sky Router provided only by Sky.

[Nigelh]

Mine was 4 years old and replaced foc, perhaps I just got lucky? It was a like for like swap, but it works for me.

[Scubbie]

Also just to clarify it is mentioned in the terms and conditions that if using sky's BB service you must use a Sky Router provided only by Sky.

I will strongly suggest that you actually read many of the threads on this forum on this topic.

It has been confirmed on the Official Sky forum that Sky has never punished anyone for using their own router. There are many Sky personnel advising people to get their own routers.

There are also a lot of members on this forum, and non-members, who use their own routers, myself included. I have also spoken with people at Sky, before joining in on this forum, when my own router was connected and had issues resolved.

[SheziKalebra]

Yep your absolutely correct but this still does violate Sky's terms and conditions in which case they do have the right to terminate your connection at any time - but like you say they haven't and probably wont.

Working for Sky we are not allowed to provide our customers with any details on how to use their own routers and simply tell them how it viloates Skys terms etc. Anyone who asks me I personally just tell them to Google is

[SheziKalebra]

Another reason why Sky prefer using their own routers is that it just makes tech support over the phone that much easier as we are trained on our own routers so any issues it makes it easier for us to determine