Sky broadband di I have to use their router

I am currently o n bt 150mb at £40 but contract ends tomorrow. Ideally I like to stay with bt as it been reliable but the price over my 3 year contract rocketed.

Anyway I am considering going back to sky and going for the 500mb offer that ends Thursday but I don't want to use their router as I have a mesh network using netgear orbi that I have fully configured with my sky boxes.

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  • wongataa
    wongataa Posts: 2,688 Forumite
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    You should be able to use your own kit.  Or you could use the Sky kit and feed the output into your router.
  • minority
    minority Posts: 169 Forumite
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    wongataa said:
    You should be able to use your own kit.  Or you could use the Sky kit and feed the output into your router.
    Hoping same as bt and I can just directly connect my orbi as I don't want to have my router and orbi connected seems a waste of electricity
  • SamDude
    SamDude Posts: 468 Forumite
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    I switched from Plusnet to Sky a couple of weeks ago, and yes you can use your own router. 
    The Sky router I was sent is still in the (unopened) box they sent it in.

    I had to update the settings on my Asus router to work with Sky (you will need to lookup the same for your router make/model).
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