Can finally get Fibre - will the 7800N Work?

[tinytim]

thanks, but doesn't the 7800N now have the ability to enter your sky username/password and change the port to EWAN?

Yes but to use the 7800 you MUST use a vDSL modem to connect to the fibre internet (DSL port to vDSL port on the master phone socket) & then you connect the 7800 to the vDSL modem. That's by ewan to the lan1 port on the BT vDSL modem.

[bathingape]

So my fibre was activated today. My BT Openreach modem is reporting the following:



do they look ok? my speedtest.net results are 10-15meg download. Upload looks ok, between 8 and 9. I'm just curious if i have a problem somewhere as my modem looks to be reporting a good sync speed?

Last 3 results (oldest first):







note: QoS is disabled on the BT Modem.

[tinytim]

You maybe able to use the BT wholesale speedtest website at http://speedtest.btwholesale.com/ to determine your profile.

The speeds should stabilise within the 10 day period but you're clearly syncing at your maximum speed of 40/10. On BT Infinity 2 I think you'd probably get the full 80/20 speeds.

[bathingape]

Thanks - will try that when I get home. One thing I did notice that I still had Cat5 between router and end clients. I'm not sure if this was affecting the speedtest in any way but I changed them out for Cat5e and Cat6.

So my setup consists of:

BT Modem <-- Cat5e--> Billion 7800N <---Cat6---> 500mbps Homeplug <--Mains----> 5000mbps Homeplug <---Cat6---> Desktop

I have tried speedtest from laptop going straight to the 7800N using Cat6 but it didn't make that much of a difference.

[tinytim]

Cat5 is good for 100mbps (2.5x your speed) so Cat5e/6 won't make any difference, although having said that I use Cat5e from my master socket to the BT modem (18metres) & then Cat6 to router etc.

I've only got 200mbps powerline adapters so I use Cat5 on that side of things.