Get protected your activation date Enjoy fantastic Sky services Help your contents Find your Openreach modem Advanced users Plug in your Sky Hub Connect Other stuff PC (Windows 7) Using your equipment safely Recycling PC (Windows Vista) PC (Windows XP)
Check your activation date You’ll find this on the top of your Sky Hub packaging. Your Sky Fibre will not be up and running until then. When to set up your Sky Hub? An Openreach engineer will visit your home on the activation date to install an Openreach modem to your master phone socket.
Check your contents White Ethernet Cable Sky Hub Black Power Cable...
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Black Ethernet Cable (for a wired connection) Set Up Guide and Connect Card 03442 410 515 If you’re missing any of these items please give us a call on...
Find your Openreach modem The Sky Hub has to be connected to the Openreach modem using the white Ethernet cable. Both the Openreach modem and the Sky Hub need to be plugged into a power socket.
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Important Ensure your Openreach modem is plugged in and switched on at the mains. The LEDs should be illuminated...
Now plug one end of your white Ethernet And plug the other end of the white Ethernet cable into the back of your Openreach cable into one of the yellow ports on the modem marked LAN1. back of your Sky Hub.
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Plug the black power cable into the back Switch on at the mains. of your Sky Hub.
1. Find wireless 2. Select your wireless network networks • Your Sky Hub’s wireless details should appear in the list of networks. You can find the name of your wireless network on • Click on the icon in the inside lid of your Sky Hub packaging or on the ‘Connect’...
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Sky 4. Open browser Hub packaging or on the ‘Connect’ card. • Click on an internet browser to complete This is also on the back of your Sky Hub your set up • Always enter your password in CAPITAL letters Can’t get connected...
• You can find the name of your wireless network on the inside • Select ‘Connect To’ lid of your Sky Hub packaging or on the ‘Connect’ card. This is also on the back of your Sky Hub • If you don’t see your network name, click the Refresh network button •...
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• Click on an internet browser to complete • The Network Key is your password, this can your set up be found on the inside lid of your Sky Hub packaging or on the ‘Connect’ card. This is Can’t get connected also on the back of your Sky Hub •...
• Right click the wireless • You can find the name of your wireless network on the inside lid of your Sky Hub packaging or on the ‘Connect’ card. This is also icon on the back of your Sky Hub •...
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• The Network Key is your password. This can be found on the inside lid of your Sky Hub packaging or on the ‘Connect’ card. This is also on the back of your Sky Hub Can’t get connected • Always enter your password in CAPITAL •...
• Click on the Apple icon, find the name of your wireless network on the inside lid of your Sky select System Hub packaging or on the ‘Connect’ card. This is also on the back of Preferences and your Sky Hub click on Network •...
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• Click on an internet browser to complete your set up • Enter your password. This can be found on the inside lid of your Sky Hub packaging or on the ‘Connect’ card. This is also on the back of your Sky Hub Can’t get connected...
Why a wired connection? If your computer will always be next to your Sky Hub, then you may want to set up a wired Sky Fibre connection. Ease of set up – a wired connection is much easier to set up.
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3. Open browser • Plug the other end of the black Ethernet • Click on an internet browser to complete cable into one of the yellow ports on the your set up back of your Sky Hub. Your computer should automatically connect.
Parental Controls on their own as a your computer. separate download, free for as long as you With Sky Fibre you can install a free need them, on up to three PCs. trial of McAfee Security Suite, which includes McAfee Parental Controls are an important part parental controls for PCs.
Sky services Connect your Sky + HD box and get TV On Demand Now you’ve completed your Sky Hub set up, you can connect your Sky Hub to your compatible Sky±HD box to access TV On Demand, our library of TV on demand for no extra monthly cost.
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Sky.com, our official site, is an ideal home page and offers you an exciting number of options: My Sky Sky Go Here you can manage your Sky account and Enjoy TV from Sky on your iPad, iPhone or see bills, make payments, track orders and laptop with Sky Go, available at no extra cost more, whenever and wherever you want.
1. Check your Fibre activation date 5. Check you’ve entered your wireless You can find this on the top of your Sky Hub details correctly packaging – you won’t be able go online Make sure you’ve selected the correct wireless...
If you’re an expert user, who wants to update • In the username field, type in your your preferences or firewall, you can access username and password your Sky Hub control panel by doing the • The default login is (lowercase): following: Username: admin •...
Using your equipment safely Your Sky Hub has been manufactured to meet • If you move your Sky Hub between locations at international safety standards, but you must different temperatures, allow it to reach room take care if you want it to perform properly temperature before you apply power to it and safely.
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Sky Hub from the mains either of these symbols. Non-rewireable plugs is to take the plug out of the socket. Your Sky have the fuse beneath a fuse cover on the plug Hub must therefore be installed near the face.
The product Coventry, CV3 4UP. contains materials that when processed Or give it to your Sky engineer next time correctly can be recovered, reused or recycled. they visit. Old Sky equipment can be reused or recycled, For more information on reuse and recycling and the good news is that it’s really easy to do.
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