Moving home

[Stevieiz]

I currently live at a house with full fibre and getting about 800mb using a SR203.

The new house is in the country and has a ultrafast connection getting about 40mb connection.

Question 1 I am assuming seeing as it's not full fibre then it will be a micro filter connection to the router?

Question 2  is if I was planning a better quality router what would be the recommendations.?

Thanks in advance.

[Chrisee]

@Stevieiz whether or not you need to use a line filter will depend on the type of master socket at your new property. If the master socket is the newer pre-filtered type with two sockets on for the rj11 lead to the modem input on the hub and a second for the analogue phone connection no filter is required. You will need to buy a line filter if the master socket only has a phone connector. I would assume Sky will provide a "conversion kit" for the hub which is a rj11 lead and instructions thst may contain a filter but I doubt it. In practice given there will be no analogue phone service on your new connection you dont need a filter its simply there as an adapter to allow a modem lead to connect to the older phone socket.

Quite why you want a better router is unclear as no matter what router you use the speed to the unit will not vary as that is set by the cabinet and the length and condition of the copper line to your home. However you can still find a wide range of combined modem routers some of which include presets to connect to Sky lines. Asus, Netgear and TP-Link modem routers should connect. 

[TimmyBGood]

@Stevieiz 

40Mbs is 'Superfast' rather than 'Ultrafast'.

Realistically a 'better' router will make little difference other than the potential to do bandwidth allocation.

[TimmyBGood]

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@Chrisee wrote:

@Stevieiz In practice given there will be no analogue phone service on your new connection you dont need a filter its simply there as an adapter to allow a modem lead to connect to the older phone socket.

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In the absence of a filtered master socket a microfilter is still desirable on a copper connection because it removes the possibility that household extension rings are a source of induced interference at the router.

[Stevieiz]

Going to visit the house tomorrow and will confirm the set up. 
One of the reasons is better WiFi coverage as well through the house.

[JimM1]

@Stevieiz As you are on the SR203 and hopefully have found it to be a good, and well working sky hub which it is, then getting wifi everywhere you need it is the one, between the SR203 and a single SE210 i managed to cover most off a three bedroom 50's home all solid walls pretty good with a few dead spot's, but every home is different for sure!

Now using Asus and AI wired/wireless Mesh have had to add two extra AP's to steady the network, retired the sky SR/SE back to there boxes, and the pure reason is the step up to wifi 6, nothing else as newer devices were added. 

[Stevieiz]

Having been up to the house the current set up is a Sky Q router plugged into the BT master socket with the purple connection.

i assume if i did the same with my SR203 I would get broadband albeit at 30mb. 
the master is generally towards one end of the house therefore I'm thinking wireless extenders or am I better getting a new router which will allow a mesh type thing.

cheers.

[JimM1]

@Stevieiz My past experience and have had both migrated from the sky Q to the Sky Broadband Hub, found the both like for like about the same wireless wifi wise so hard and really could not favour one against the other spec wise etc sky even let me keep the Q and still have it sitting in it's box, but yes you are correct and the link below stick the address/postcode in and see what the BTW say's sky will probably do the 40/10Mbs split and speed is all you will get out off the copper line. As for booster's then the sky SE210 is the one from them so good luck trying to get that, but the Asus RP-AX58 works fine little fiddly to get it going setup wise but had it connected to my SR203 for six weeks direct on the hub and no issues, the rest off the Asus gear sat Router mode direct wan/lan connection until i was happy the sky connection on the Fibre was fine, Sky gear all retired now! 

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