Sky Broadband - No Landline

[Hughesy94]

Hi

This might seem an odd question but I do not have a landline to my property and I do not want a satellite dish installed.

Am I still able to receive broadband through fibre as per virgin do currently to my house. Is there a website I can use to check this? 

Thanks

Mark

[peter-marlow+1966]

If your  house already  has full fibre  then you can have broadband, and if you  want  sky but no satellite dish  then you can have sky glass tv, sky glass air tv or a sky puck, all use the Internet to stream programs 

[GD1]

@Hughesy94  Broadband doesn't use a dish at all., nor will it use a Virgin media connection.

If you pop your post coe into this link and post the results (remove any address/cabinet data) the community can advise.

[TimmyBGood]

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@Hughesy94 wrote:

Am I still able to receive broadband through fibre as per virgin do currently to my house. 

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In most places Virgin Media uses its own private coaxial cable rather than optical fibre: either way only Virgin can be the ISP on that infrastructure.

For Sky to deliver broadband the address needs either an Openreach or CityFibre circuit.

For information: although internet by satellite is a thing, Sky has never been a satellite ISP and its dishes are for television reception only.

[Hughesy94]

Here are the result without my address details from the link you posted.

[GD1]

@Hughesy94  It will be a full fibre install from a nearby Pole at the rear of the property, an ONT will also be installed.

[Hughesy94]

Thanks

So, if I understand correctly. If I order SKY they will use full fibre to my property by default?

What does that involve? Do they need to  cable somehow to my property?

I have no idea what an ONT is.

Thanks

Mark

[TimmyBGood · Accepted solution]

@Hughesy94 

As @GD1 indicates, Openreach will fly a new optical cable from a current pole located behind the address (' OH property fed from the rear ' ).  This typically attaches to the eaves and then runs down externally to just above ground level where it is spooled into an external box (the Customer Service Point) 

From there an optical pigtail enters the address, usually through a newly drilled hole, and leads to an Optical Network Terminal: this links to the Sky Hub over ethernet cable.

[JimM1]

@Hughesy94 OR Install video below!

Full Fibre Broadband Installation Guide | Openreach

[Hughesy94]

Great - its making sense.

If its through Sky I assume they are then dependant on BT Openreach in terms of installation and timings.

I've decided again to stick with Virgin on this occasion but I am thinking for future can I just ask BT Openreach to undertake  thework to fly a new optical cable from a current pole located behind the address (' OH property fed from the rear ' ).  This typically attaches to the eaves and then runs down externally to just above ground level where it is spooled into an external box (the Customer Service Point) .

[JimM1]

@Hughesy94 No you cannot do that, OR own and control the infrastructure and only an ISP can ask for it to be done! OR will not even consider any request from you at all!

[Hughesy94]

Ah, so basically if I switch to any other provider (non- virgin media) they will then use this method of broadband installation and in order to do that, the provider contacts BT Openreach and is at the behest of their delivery times. So, I am best organising the switch 30 days in advance of expiry of existing contract so as to allow for the infrastruture as I am sure when I tried this in previous years the timeframe was so long I could not move to a non VM provider.

[JimM1]

@Hughesy94 It's like that yes, the beauty off the OTS is that the other ISP keeps the connection up until your new supplier has everything working as you never no what snags can happen! If using OR for the fibre then those that can be supplied through them as ISP's to your address, if altnet's then you just have to watch the timing to get it done if you must have internet all the time, you can just overlap them but short time paying both!