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How customisable is the Sky Ultrafast Fibre router ??

smudgester — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:09:48 GMT

Hi,

I have Ultrafast Plus Sky Fibre being installed in a couple of weeks.

I currently use an Archer C7 router (with BT Inifinity) that is connected the white modem. This is a great router with lots of customisable options (port forwarding, guest wi-fi, parental controls, etc, etc) and would ideally like to keep using post-fibre installation. From reading on here it sounds like it should be possible to use the C7 with Sky's Fibre product but I was just wondering what the router, Sky provide, is like in terms of customising it and being able to do the, above, stuff the C7 can do ?

The the Sky router almost a non-starter compared to the C7 ?

Re: How customisable is the Sky Ultrafast Fibre router ??

smudgester — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:15:22 GMT

Also (not sure why I can't edit my original post ???) .... how many LAN ports does it have ?

Re: How customisable is the Sky Ultrafast Fibre router ??

cookiemonsteruk — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:27:41 GMT

@smudgester

The sr203 has 4 ethernet ports. For fttp one is the wan port. Will need to check c7 for sky compatibility ... Not sure

Re: How customisable is the Sky Ultrafast Fibre router ??

cookiemonsteruk — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:35:57 GMT

@smudgester

The C7 should be compatible with sky but you may need to flash it with dd-wrt firmware . The sr203 has rudimentary router functions and is not readily customisable to the extent the c7 is

Re: How customisable is the Sky Ultrafast Fibre router ??

cookiemonsteruk — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:40:05 GMT

@smudgester

Below are instructions for flashing dd-wrt for C7 V2 and above

https://wiki.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/TP_Link_Archer_C7

Re: How customisable is the Sky Ultrafast Fibre router ??

smudgester — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 21:57:46 GMT

Thanks for that @cookiemonsteruk

I am reasonably confident - based on https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Broadband/Sky-FTTP-with-TP-Link-Archer-C6/m-p/3591559#M227529 - that the C7 will be fine with the out-of-the-box firmare. And that's good to know as it sounds like the Sky router is bit on the pathetic side.

Re: How customisable is the Sky Ultrafast Fibre router ??

TimmyBGood — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 07:44:43 GMT

@smudgester wrote:

And that's good to know as it sounds like the Sky router is bit on the pathetic side.

All ISP-supplied routers are designed to offer few user options because the ISPs don't want to have to provide support for complex setups or rescue subscribers from self-inflicted misconfiguration.