My experience with the new Sky Broadband Hub

[Giggsy1977]

@Sinth - the booster serves two purposes for my needs. One - all my connected devices (sky HD box, nvidia shield, Denon amplifier, blu-ray player) are all now connected from the booster via ethernet to an unmanaged switch so I get maximum speed for my line to each device. Two - the WiFi I wasn't getting in my living room as the router is across the house is now very quick and covers the whole property using one router rather than two linked. Make sense? 🙂

[Sinth]

@Giggsy1977 

More sense lol but you said the booster was connected to the new hub by ethernet, is that still true with a long ethernet cable?

[Giggsy1977]

@Sinth I have a 20m length of cat5e, a wall socket at each end and patch leads from the router and booster. Get virtually the same speed at the booster as at the new router. 

[Sinth]

@Giggsy1977 

Job done, great it works for you. Personally I have a 10m ADSL cable to my hub under the carpet which has zero effect on performance either.

Glad this myth is put to bed a bit, seen many posts saying use the shortest cables possible etc but ever agreed.

[Giggsy1977]

Ethernet is good for a long distance (up to 100m), the adsl cable from my phone socket to the router in my room is half a metre long. I suspect a long adsl cable from phone socket to router would be more likely to suffer signal loss than ethernet but clearly not up to 10 metres! 👍

[Sinth]

@Giggsy1977 

What is, I won`t say strange but we have similar speeds. I had a weird 5mb drop on speed 200 hrs ago but been stable since,

System Up Time: 202:44:33

Port	Status	TxPkts	RxPkts	Collision Pkts	Tx b/s	Rx b/s	Up Time
WAN	MER	14888485	47451195	87	7240	4078	202:43:34
LAN	Up	20329588	12614383	1	133264	643096	202:44:33
WLAN (2.4 GHz)	Up	15027723	7137628	0	14439	2468	202:43:16
WLAN (5 GHz)	Up	64628302	36751059	0	0	0	202:43:15

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Broadband Link	Downstream	Upstream
Connection Speed	66337 kbps	14829 kbps
Line Attenuation	D1(12.4 dB) , D2(32.3 dB) , D3(49.1 dB)	U0(0.3 dB) , U1(24.8 dB) , U2(38.5 dB)
Noise Margin	6.1 dB	6.2 dB

[Sinth]

@Giggsy1977 

I would say cables that have good integrity, no kinks or iffy connections then you would have to go a fair distance to start to suffer drop off.

I did post my current stats but was removed it seems but we both have basically the same speeds, up/down.

Enjoy.

[Giggsy1977]

@Sinth you must be a similar distance from your cabinet as I am from mine then!

[Sinth]

@Giggsy1977 

Not sure and you are on a Huawei cabinet whereas I`m not but..

System Up Time: 202:44:33

Port	Status	TxPkts	RxPkts	Collision Pkts	Tx b/s	Rx b/s	Up Time
WAN	MER	14888485	47451195	87	7240	4078	202:43:34
LAN	Up	20329588	12614383	1	133264	643096	202:44:33
WLAN (2.4 GHz)	Up	15027723	7137628	0	14439	2468	202:43:16
WLAN (5 GHz)	Up	64628302	36751059	0	0	0	202:43:15

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Broadband Link	Downstream	Upstream
Connection Speed	66337 kbps	14829 kbps
Line Attenuation	D1(12.4 dB) , D2(32.3 dB) , D3(49.1 dB)	U0(0.3 dB) , U1(24.8 dB) , U2(38.5 dB)
Noise Margin	6.1 dB	6.2 dB

[Giggsy1977]

@Sinth - your line must be shorter as my attenuation is higher than yours. I used to get 72mbps but the noise margin was less than 2dB so it didn't last for more than a few months! 

[Sinth]

@Giggsy1977 

I had 71 until my new hub reset twice, once for firmware, once just the WAN and I dropped to 66. Stable since. My noise margin has always been at the 6 mark.

[Giggsy1977]

Sixty six is more than enough for 4K or multiple HD downloads/streams so all good! 

[Sinth]

@Giggsy1977 

Absolutely, I am far from complaining, especially where other superfast customers have had real issues with speed. My main concern was dropping 5mb just after I upgraded to the boost to get the new router. Thankfully for X amount of hours I am still sitting at 66.

This year has been a mare, you may have seen my thread so I am still a little edgy when things suddenly start to alter.

Glad you are all well too and enjoy the hub.

[Giggsy1977]

@Sinth - I concur, happy with mine too. I can only get 1.2mbps on adsl so fibre is a necessity! Makes Netflix and Prime much easier to watch! Two happy customers - rare on most forums! Cheers fella - enjoy the speed! 

[Sinth]

@Giggsy1977 

lol very true, see you next week when we have fallen off the cliff 😉

(Huge joke hopefully).