When will Sky offer the 1.8gbps service?

[STAstro]

Openreach checker says I can now get the 1.8gbps service, so my question is when will Sky be offering this as I am currently on the 900mbps service?

[cookiemonsteruk]

@STAstro 

Even the latest sky max wifi 6 hubs have 1Gbps ports and i wouldn't imagine anything like 1.8Gbps would be offered by sky anytime soon

[STAstro]

I don't use the Sky Hub, I use a Netgear Nighthawk that's capable of handling up to 10Gig Fibre, as well as Wifi 7.

Just because the Sky Hub only has 1gbps ethernet, you could have 4x devices connected at 1gbps, and the bottleneck would be the WAN connection at 900mbps, so the question is still valid

[TimmyBGood]

@STAstro 

They won't do so without their own brand hardware to support such a service: that means a Hub model with a 2.5Gbs WAN port.

The Max Hub was only released last year (2023) : previous models appeared at three year intervals (Broadband Hub 2019, Q Hub 2016, Sky Hub 2013)

[jamesn123]

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@STAstro wrote:

Just because the Sky Hub only has 1gbps ethernet, you could have 4x devices connected at 1gbps, and the bottleneck would be the WAN connection at 900mbps, so the question is still valid

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No that is incorrect because Sky routers use one of their ethernet ports as the WAN connection so the upstream WAN interface would still be limited to 1Gbps even if you were provisioned with a 1.8Gbps connection on the Openreach ONT.