Well, after my Sky breadband contract coming to an end I was up sold Full Fibre, first question was "it's not that crap Q box is it"
We had previously the old now obsolete SR-102 router, brilliant little box, sat in the window wasn't scared of glass or the outside world pumped signal through the house with ease, it then got old and a bit crabby and every few weeks would jam up the house wifi so you had to restart it, we get another we thought, Oh no they sent a Q box, which would only run one device in the house, well actualy in the same room, one kindle fine, turn on TV both buffer and buffer and buffer until connection lost warning pops up on TV, moved it wy form the window as it apprantly doesn't like the window unlike the SR and it, well was no differant.. Sky technical about as much use as a chocolate tea pot, as apprantly they were adamant it was my internal network at fault, so took it out, threw it in corner and reverted back to the old SR-102 instantly perfect, so nothing to do with my line, internal socket or devices, everytihng worked perfectly.
ALong come Fibre to my house WOW! netflix will paly before I open it, Amazon music is playing before I click on it, it'll be tghat quick, can't wait......
Line goes in,box delivered, engineer sets it al lup and...... oh it is rather fast 2nd night TV on kindles taking ages to load, Oh perhaps not so swish then, 3 night even worse, TV now for the first time hard wired, working ok now buy kindles still slow, amazon music plays, then buffers, you have to on the device switch off the wifi, wait a few seconds and switch it back on, it then plays for around 30/60 mins then stops again, you know when it is due as the album images in your play list either don't show or stay on the same artist even though the song is a completly differant artist now, Never had this with the ADSL SR-102 but it seem the further forward we move the further back we go, internal network speeds read of 5 mins were 145Mbps, 12Mbps, 115Mbps, 15Mbps and so on it was up and down like mad, rang technical who of course as standard blamed me but finally after a rather lengthy discusion got a new router sent out which apreas to be more stable but amazon music still does not play continually still drops out and buffers. I would say it is possible then my device apart from we spent a week in Yorkshire on Plusnet in an aold farm house 1 foot thick walls router in the front room kitchen had a dinning room inbetween and amazon music played fine wirthout a glitch, yet my Sky router can't at home, 2 foot away from router through a 4 inch hollow block wall BUT the SR-102 could with the TV on wifi as well and all you get as help is Well we can cancelle your subscription... I am sure you can but how does that help me? It allows Sky to get away with poor quality kit and thats about it does not help resolve the issue, the differance is between the old now obsolete SR-102 working on ADSL ran everything perfectly well sat in the window, me on amazon music in the kitchen, the wife on ebay or something on line and children on netflix all wifi, the new fiber to you house with better speeds does not and it is not even in the window and the TV is now hard wired, why it can not keep Amazon music running continuesly I do not know especially when amazon music can run on as little as 10Mbps so it's not as if it is draining the brand new fiber router. It's just very disapointing when you move forwards in Tech only to find the old ADSL router was better, imagine how good the old SR-102 would be if it would work on fibre, well as good as Plusnet at a guess.
