Well I’m now connected to Sky Broadband. Everything went smooth enough from ordering, giving them my MAC code, receiving the router, migrating over to them on the day they told me and connecting.

Connecting to Sky with their router was a piece of cake. You just connect the router to your PC and run there software which they supply that is pictorial and written for complete dummies. A five year old child could do this as they make it so easy.

The first thing I checked was the speed they had connected me on. Before when I moved broadband supplier my speed remained at the same as my existing supplier even though I paid extra to have the speed upgraded but there was no such problem with Sky.

The only disappointment I have is that you have to use Sky’s supplied wireless router to connect to them. You can’t use your own as far as I can tell. The router they supply is made by Netgear and I’m not a big fan of these. I have found in the past the wireless coverage with Netgear routers not to be as good as they reckon. I even bought one of their RangeMax routers which quickly got confined to a cupboard as the coverage was worse than the 2 year old router I had already got.

The other thing that annoys me about them is that I can’t see the webcam on my site at home as they block the port if you access it locally. It works everywhere else just not in my house.

Anyway for £5.00 a month for a 8Mb connection with a 40 GB download limit it’s a steal. I’ve seen all sorts of mentions on the web good and bad about Sky Broadband and I’m sure they are having teething problems but at least with Sky they have the backing and money to address these problems so I’m sure they will get better.

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