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Discussion topic: Replace Sky Hub 4.2 with 3rd Party Router

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This message was authored by: PRC1977

Replace Sky Hub 4.2 with 3rd Party Router

I have FFTP Gigafast with estimated speeds of 780 to 930 mb/s according to what Sky told me, however I am only getting on average 640mb/s to my Sky Hub 4.2 according to the MySky App (peak speed has not even reached 700 mb/s). Whilst this is meeting the minimum speed guarentee, I am not satisfied with what I have. I live less than a mile from the local exchange and approx 100 meteres away from the cabinet in the street, so in theory, I shoiuld be getting the estimated speeds, especially during non peak times. I do have a suspicion the Sky Hub 4.2 is resticting the speed in a similar way Sky Q mini boxes do when extending wifi signals.

 

Therefore i have a couple of questions:
1) How can I measure the speed to the ONT without using the MySky app??

2) If I was to replace the Sky Hub 4.2 with somethig like the Asus TUF Gaming AX6000 or similar, would I see speeds in the estimated range?

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This message was authored by: Chrisee

Re: Replace Sky Hub 4.2 with 3rd Party Router

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@PRC1977 therecis no direct way of measuring spedds to the hub but there is no reason not to brlievecthe figure Sky provides. Sky have nondirect control over thecsppedd to your hub as you arecsharing a single downstream link with 2.48Gb/s with up to 29 other users. As you can easily see very few users ever use more than a small % of the bandwidth thry buy except for short periods

 

Tge Hub4.2 is a WiFi5 device which tops out around 650Mb/s . A WiFi6 router will give uo to 900Mb/s comfortably in the area the router is placed. However move a couple of rooms away and speeds will drop.. Whether you would notice any difference between 650Mb/s and 900Mb/s is actually unlikely. A few downloads may run a bit faster but the vast majority of apps cannot uuse 100Mb/s. 

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