To my initial disappointment speediest.net reported 1-3mb download speeds but then I read one of the emails from sky that mentioned their “training period”, where for the initial 10 days your line is increasingly made faster to determine the maximum bandwidth it can handle while remaining stable.

On day 3 (yesterday) it jumped to a consistent 5mb speed, today a consistent 7.5mb with 1mb upload speed. You can login to your router admin page at http://192.168.0.1 with he username admin and password sky (these details are for the current Sagem router at least). There you can see he current speed you are allocated during testing, today I am on 9 so 7.5 is fine.

Six more days raining to go, we live about 1000 metres from the exchange so I’m optimistic that faster speeds are coming tomorrow.

Just a tip for those who are also starting or considering starting with sky ;).

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Getting started with sky digital

If you are also wondering why as in my case jMail was not happy on iis 7 win2k8, it seems to be because it’s now using the network service account rather than IUSR, so you need to assign the correct execute permissions to the dll that you need to access….

I’n my case, I just granted execute permisson to C:\Program Files\Dimac\w3JMail\jmail.dll to “everyone”… now that machine happily sends emails using that object…

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IIS7 Windows 2008 Server Create.Object problem solved