Fibre Optic Question

[telboy1938]

I have the whole sky package excepting fibre optic. I am reluctant to pay sky any additional fees and my question to you guys is :- my existing
broadband is on contract with over a year to run so is there a way to get a fibre optic supply from a different supplier to my phone line or do I have to have a new broadband box? In short, is it possible to get a fibre optic supply connected to my existing telephone / broadband installation. Many thanks.

[TonyV]

Would imagine you could just get phone line installed, but begs the question why do you need fibre optic phone line? Doesn't make sense to me.

[Prudie]

What is wrong with your Sky fibre optic connection ie why do you want to change?

[TonyV]

^^^^^
Sorry didn't read your question properly, if you do get another line installed, you'll be paying twice for the same thing? Still doesn't make sense to me.

[telboy1938]

Hi TonyV Maybe I’m wrong but I assumed the fibre optic cable fed the telephone line which in turn fed the Hub. If not, could you explain how connection is made. Thanks

Prudie ... I don’t have sky fibre, only a 3gb supply on a good day

[TonyV]

Hi telboy, can only explain how a wired system works, can't imagine fibre is much different, but if I am someone will correct me. Incoming feed goes into a box, then your broadband router and telephone plug into separate sockets. If I can get any more info from a friend, I will post

[Ray777]

We have a 50" TV with built-in Freeview.
At the moment there is a bigger selection of programmes with SKY but with a provider fee.
Since our new freeview TV there seems to be more channels added every lets say several months of so and the only fee we pay is the TV licence.
It is said (and the BBC and Government ) that the TV licence is for a TV set receptacle but it is for BBC transmission.
Considering the abundance of TV channel options we can view perhaps the Government with the BBC scrap the licence and perhaps get revenue by showing commercial advertisements at least on BBC2 making note that the BBC already advertise their own products.
Some people may forget to renew their TV licence especially if the reminder is lost in the post and a large fine is a result or even prosecution if can't be paid.
The BBC have a detection team trying to locate people with a TV but no licence and now electronically done and I'm not sure if they still have the detector vans and staff.
All of this cost of detection would not be necessary if the TV licence was scraped.
Some years ago the fee for the licence was stable for the following year but now the fee goes up every year.

[4candles]

You can't add fibre from, say, Zen or Plusnet to an existing Sky installation.
You'd have to migrate to a different fibre broadband supplier and pay any exit fees to Sky, or stay with Sky and upgrade to fibre.

[KARL]

If I correctly understand your explanation then you are not in any way using a fibre optic supply to your dwelling. That being so then you are on a "pure" copper telecoms/IT supply - this means you are connected via copper wires only back to your local exchange (i.e. the old network). I understand that you have internet supplied by one company (the same as your telephone connection ?) and Sky separately.

If there is a fibre optic supply available in your street then the option exists for you to switch to that, which is perhaps what you are being invited to do. If you currently have Sky through your telephone line then what they are trying to tell you is that if you took an optical fibre connection they would supply their service also through the optical fibre. You need to find out from Sky what it is they propose to change.

Incidentally, in the UK it seems to be extremely rare to feed optical fibre right into the dwelling - in which case you would need an entirely different interface for your router which would normally be supplied and installed by the network operator (and a different router, often supplied by the internet, et al supplier). Most common is that the fibre is taken to a distribution panel in your street and then the signals go via copper the rest of the way.

[telboy1938]

Following various help from friends, am I right in assuming Openreach supply the feed to your home as they did to my neighbor? The fact that all internal cable is copper, will that reduce speed? Thanks

[TonyV]

Will be negligible loss from street to your house,compared with copper from exchange to house, anyway that's how it's done. The answer I gave earlier was totally incorrect about connecting fibre optic internally, so pls ignore.

[tamborine]

Freeview & broadband have all recently been transferred to fibre optic by BT. Downloads are faster, increased tv channels & cheaper monthly rate - wots not to like?

[Ray777]

Yes there are improvement via BT Broadband yet those with freeview boxes or tv's with built-in freeview don't pay for a provider and ours is a Smart tv with internet and other choices (films, music, etc.) and to include YouTube.

[telboy1938]

Thank you all for your help. Think I will have to request Sky Fibre after all.