topic Re: Fibre Plus in Broadband

Fibre Plus

UkzVortex98 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 08:46:37 GMT

Will customers on the OpenReach Network be able to get the new wifi 7 Hub and speed, or is it all locked to the City Fibre network only, and if that's the case, it's unfair. I spoke to City Fibre and they have no plans to come to my area .

Re: Fibre Plus

Chrisee — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 10:18:22 GMT

@UkzVortex98 according yo what Sky have said the Gigafast+ product, which is the only way you get the new Hub7, is limited to City Fibre lines on their XGSPON network which is still rolling out. CFs national coverage is far smaller than Openreach's (around 5 million addresses against 19 million) XGSPON is requireed as thst supports speeds up to 10Gb/s while Openreach currently only use GPON which really only supports speeds up,to 1Gb/s but Openreach offer upto 1.6Gb/s which a few isps sell but Sky dont. When Openreach upgrade the fibre network which is likely then I assume Sky will offer higher speeds on thst network.

Not sure about "fairness" but looking at the new hub 7 while it does have a better spec than the hub 6's WiFi7 against 6 but in praxtice the performance is not going to be far apart especially as you get the same WiFi5 expander pods with both as part of WiFi Max.

Re: Fibre Plus

UkzVortex98 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 11:39:02 GMT

This So Unfair to open Reach custmor as CITRYFIBRE as No plan on building here

Re: Fibre Plus

Daniel0210 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 11:41:35 GMT

@UkzVortex98

Thats something you need to take up with City Fibre. Nothing to do with Sky or Openreach.

Re: Fibre Plus

UkzVortex98 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 11:42:51 GMT

Sky need roll out there wifi 7 hub to Openreach custmor

Re: Fibre Plus

GD1 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 11:45:39 GMT

@UkzVortex98 As noted above Openreach only supports speeds of up to 1Gbps so don't really see the need for the latest hub for those speeds.

Re: Fibre Plus

UkzVortex98 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 11:46:51 GMT

No, they don't That is lie. Openreach supplies 1.8gbp

Re: Fibre Plus

Chrisee — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 11:51:14 GMT

@UkzVortex98 not sure what you consider is unfair the fact that customers who are on Openreach cannot access the higher speeds which is simply a network issue which should be fixed in a year or so when Openreach catch up. Or the fact you only get the hub7 with the new packages where irs extra speed is not going to be used?

Re: Fibre Plus

Chrisee — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 11:56:40 GMT

@UkzVortex98 in a few places yes Openreach sell faster connections but you are shaing a distribution point where up to 30 customers share a 2.48Gb/s download link. It is in practice often pretty useless. Openreach limit sale of the higher speeds which packages so my distribution point is limited to 1 gigabit as it happens which isnt uncommon.

Sky could open sale of these packages but have chosen not to as in practice the performance is poor.

Re: Fibre Plus

JimM1 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:06:59 GMT

@UkzVortex98 1.6Gb/s down 115Mb/s up and with the disclainer. *Download and uploads speeds vary by broadband providers so please check with them before purchasing.

Wifi 7

UkzVortex98 — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 12:27:15 GMT

So, New Wifi hubs are people on 900mbps able to get it or going be lock to 2.5 and 5 Gbps. what will unfair

Re: Wifi 7

JimM1 — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 12:57:21 GMT

@UkzVortex98 What point is it that you do not understand, apart from what you consider to be unfair!

Re: Wifi 7

UkzVortex98 — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:16:29 GMT

Lock something down. One under paywall is right, two lock something down in this Hub to specific Network is wrong under to over customer

Re: Wifi 7

JimM1 — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:22:01 GMT

@UkzVortex98 Can you get the CF fibre at your location!

Re: Fibre Plus

Akhilk1 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 20:14:16 GMT

Sky fibedr problem they had to dig up my front drive which was not feasible for me or them. 9 people tgo do the job.

Sedriosly thinkng of moving back to BT EE they have 1.6 and wifi 7 hub.

If some one can suggest 4 hands set ip phone with the same number which would work with sky and dec router i will gladly give up sky hub,