Swapped last week from an older v1 Netgear DG834G on Plusnet over to Sky
Broadband with their bundled DG834GT router.

Quite happy so far in that I get a faster speed with the new router and Sky
than I did with Plusnet (something like 3000mbps down, 448 up with Plusnet
compared to 4768 down and 768 up with Sky and the DG834GT - is this simply
down to different/better equipment in the exchange? ie. easynet as opposed
to BT I assume?)

However, this morning, everything had turned to treacle - download speeds
were in the bytes per second area. I managed to log into the router and this
all looked normal. Once I had rebooted the router everything is back to
normal.

I didn't have to do this with the DG834G so is this a known firmware or
other issue with Sky and/or the DG834GT ? ie. things go very slow after a
few days. I must admit it appears to have been solid since I set it up last
Wednesday so its been running for a good few days with me not touching it.

Andy

i use an 834gt with no problems (except latest firmware), sounds like yours
is buggered. you could get your username/password from the router (google
sky router password for info on how) and use the 834g until sky send you a
new one.

Andy Pandy formulated on Monday :
Stand the router upright & turn off UPnP

Andy Pandy wrote:
Sky LLU uses adsl2, if plusnet was delivered over BT, it would be only
adsl1, so that, and maybe a more cautious approach to line speed are whats
impacting the speed.

If you search google you will find a simple programme that will extract the
username and password from your sky supplied router, use that in your old
router, and see what happens.

Gaz