Sky Wireless Router - cannot upgrade - Sky are Pants!

troublegum

Jemma-T wrote: »

Why are you messing about with wifi (WLAN)? That's for spotty teenagers or people who absolutely must use a laptop and are miles from the router. A desktop PC is errr... on a desktop.

Get a 15 or 30m LAN cable and plug it into your router.

15m £6.51 www.amazon.co.uk/Belkin-Cat5e-Snagless-Patch-Cable/dp/B0000DG4VX

30m £8.99 www.amazon.co.uk/Belkin-Cat5e-Snagless-Patch-Cable/dp/B00009VGT8

If you have really cancelled Sky you're in for a shock because Sky provide very good service in the main.

This is a good point. If the PC is going to be stationary, you would be far better using an ethernet cable.

Coaster_2

And if you don't want cables around you could try homeplugs, which I have always found to be solid performers. 85Mbps ones are fairly cheap now.

Sulli

1. Thanks for the above info, password cracked and new router working fine.
2. My phone point is nowhere near where my PC will be and I don't want to run cables and I can't lift floors as they are laminate fitted under skirting.
3. I still maintain that Sky are pants.

Jemma-T

As Coaster mentioned, go for homeplugs. They send the ADSL through your mains (that's assuming your PC isn't in the garden shed) and work 100%.

Routers were designed for those cables I recommended so it's always worth running them around the house. No need to use them all, but it's nice to have them when required.

tifatwo

Sulli wrote: »

I have just bought a new desktop PC - great deal via hotukdeals from tesco: great spec but no wireless, which I need as it will not be near the phoneline. So I went to get a decent router with a dongle, I got a wireless N Linksys router with USB dongle from PCWorld for £69.99 - which I thought was a good deal, and they advised me it would work to replace my ADSL sky router.
After much hastle, trying to configure it, logging into router settings, talking to Sky (twice - the first foreign call-centre bloke didn't even know what wireless G and N were!!!) and eventually linksys, I found that you cannot use any 3rd party router with sky, as they won't release their settings. The tech support at sky had sympathy, and said they will be providing wireless N routers at some point (like BT already do), but there was not much he could do.
I have now cancelled all my Sky packages (broadband, phone and TV) out of principle, as if they won't provide new technology or even let me pay for it but not let me utilise it, then they can stick it - Virgin is the same price and I prefer Branson to murdoch :rotfl:
Anyone who has any knowledge of this, or can enlighten me as to how I get round this issue, please say - I have searched the forum, and I think I could use the new router in conjunction with the sky one but that seems too much hastle and is beyond me.
On another note, when I cancelled Sky the cancellations dept, once they knew I was serious and wasn't interested in the offers available to keep me, said that I would lose my landline number, which I had only recently transferred from BT and BT let me keep it with Sky, and proceeded in slagging off Virgin - sign of a bad company if you ask me!

there is a way round this issue but its not ideal if you get a non adsl wireless router that has a Ethernet in port instead of were u would connect the phone line (the type you would get when using cable) and connect sky lan 1 into the Internet in on the new router u can the connect to that router as your main i increased my wireless connection from random < 3 meg speed tested at speedtest.net to a constant 16 meg plus