What does the 1.6Gbs ONT look like?

[bigrob]

Hi

As I have 900Mbs at the moment from Sky I believe I may need an upgraded ONT from OP to get the 1.6Gbs.

Only ordered on Fri 17th so am expecting/hoping for a call from OP early this week. Due to go live on Mon 27th.

I just wanted to know if anyone can upload a few of ONT that will handle the 1.6Gbs.

Thanks 

[JimM11]

@bigrob Coming up to the 1.6Gb/s birthday 1 year shortly, they have only just sorted out the router 9 months later, you expect TV and DV, down to be done, NO timescale set....

[bigrob]

@JimM11 

Thank you. I think best to have a chat with Sky and see what is the best deal they can do for me.

I won't save as much as I hoped but if that was the absolute priority I would need to get a the EE 900Mbs, TV deal, and an extra TV Pro box. Or just get a better deal with Sky on my current 900Mbs.

Your help and advice has been much appreciated. 

[JimM11]

@bigrob You could just try asking EE upfront, they may have a specialist, there is also a TV section on the home services, tag the specialist there you may get a response who knows. See you are already posted, way ahead of the game...

[bigrob]

I have just checked back at my emails and EE say OR 'may' contact me.

So,. could be a case of me just plugging the gear in and following the guides.

Or, maybe OR will contact me.

 

[Peter_W]

Hey @bigrob, that's absolutely right.

If you don't need any changes to your existing ONT, then there's a good chance any work Openreach needs to do won't require access to your property. 

Provided you're still happy with the package you've gone for here, you should be all good to set up your EE Equipment once you get the confirmation messages.

Peter

[bigrob]

Thank you @Peter_W 

The wording does suggest a self-install and looking carefully at the ONT I am convinced it is the 2.5Gbs 611Q.

[JimM11]

@bigrob Does look like you have some experience of what is going to go on, would advise setup the router offline with the web manager connected to your pc/laptop nic connection best, go set your ssid, password, and admin password to your current sky values, wpa2-personal option, save all the settings and put it off ready to go when connection text is sent. My sky - EE changeover was NO issue, all devices connected fine, text came from EE 3.00am ish your done go for it, sky was still online working no issue, 7.00am swapped over the router's, packed up the sky gear and sent it all back as they had requested return.

2.5Gb/s you will know as soon as you look at the Status screen on the EE router web manager, it displays the current wan connection. Full speed is down to the profile, that's a speed check you need to do.

[bigrob]

@JimM11  

I was thinking about using the Sky values so that all my other devices connect automatically -  (I have got some 2.4Ghz heaters & a Hive heating box which would be a pain to reset up).

Just so I am 100% correct

1) Plug EE WiFi Pro Router into laptop via Ethernet (kit should be here Sat) 

2) Login to router 192.168.1.254  = web manager

3) Change the default EE SSID/PW/WPA2 to be the same as my Sky 

4) Wait for text and then plug into the ONT - check connection working

5) Connect the WiFi Pro extender to the Hub Pro - set that up & then move that.

Let me know if I missed anything out.

That would help having it good to go (especially of it goes live before I get up) as I was expecting to wait for the text and then follow the instructions here Setting up Smart WiFi 

[bigrob]

@JimM11 

Sorry 1 more question - can you do address reservation on the EE Hub?

I currently have my printer's 2 IP addresses (WiFi & Ethernet) reserved so that I always remember the web interface number.

[JimM11]

@bigrob You got it, would swap 4 and 5, get the extender all done offline also, should be no reason for it not to join and link to the pro once you have set up 1,2,3. Get the jump on it, the device connecting is a suck it and see, i had NO issues, thought my Ring camera and Doorbell would halve thrown the dummy out the pram, but NO they just changed over happy as Larry.

With the Sky IP range 192.168.0.1 and the EE on 192.168.1.254 they are well apart and nothing interferes, Are you a SKY MAX user or still on the older SR203 model, i had older with Sky SE210 extender.