Upgraded to Gigafast days before Gigafast+ announced

[GavYCK]

Hey

As the thread title suggests I upgraded my Sky Broadband from the Openreach network to full fibre Gigafast, just days before Gigafast+ was announced.

CityFibre came on Tuesday and installed the fibre cable under my drive and into my house, and after a small issue completed their end of the job on Thursday. They then told me that Sky will contact me to let me know I can unplug my old router and switch over to the 'new' Sky Max hub. They haven't yet done this.

All while this was happening, I see that Sky have announced Gigafast+, with a brand new WiFi 7 hub.

Do you think they will let me upgrade again so soon? 

[mormegil]

If city fibre have upgraded their equipment in your area then you will be able to upgrade once the service is available 

[mormegil]

Click on the gigafast+ topic at the top of the forum and see if you are able to upgrade

[GavYCK]

UPDATE: Sky messaged me on Monday to say my FTTP was up and running, so I checked the MySky app and it was offering me the upgrade option...

The still unopened Sky Max router is going straight back. The brand new Gigafast+ WiFi7 router arrived yesterday, and this morning I disconnected my OpenReach setup and plugged it in, hooked it up to my Ubiquiti UniFi network and everything just... started working!

I've gone from 40mb to 500+mb in an instant, and should eventually get speeds up to 5Gb (guaranteed at 2.5gb)

Very happy! 😁

[JimM1]

@GavYCK You should ensure that you get a 5Gb/s Ethernet and connect it to the new Hub, wireless is just never going to get you up anywhere near the speed to test the connection!

[GavYCK]

That's what my UniFi network is for mate 😁

[cgskyfaq]

Hi

Thanks for this information - where abouts is the link for this, as I'm not seeing it

Cheers

[Chrisee]

@cgskyfaq you can only grt Gigafast+ if your address has access to City Fibre's network if you do you should be able to upgrade using the link in My Sky in the Broadband section.

[cgskyfaq]

Hi

Thanks so much - so helpful.

Have a great evening.

Cheers