Sky Hub upgrade query

I have been a customer of Sky unlimited for some years now and the service has been very reliable but awful for speed as I'm more than 2 miles from the exchange. A steady but miserable 3.5mbps. I have the white SR101 router. Last week my local cabinet was upgraded for fibre and as I'm only about 100 meters from the pole and cabinet I've ordered fibre from Sky. All is going through and they have told me that my new router, presumably the black SR102,  is on its way. On their e-mail to me Sky have said that I must not connect the new router until my activation date. However I am sure that I have read somewhere that the black router can be connected to an ADSL connection and will work just as the SR101 did until the activation day. Can someone confirm with me that it will be ok for me to connect the new router as soon as I get it.

You can connect the SR102 as soon as it arrives as it works on both ADSL and VDSL (Sky's FIbre service). Edit..I should add once you connect the SR102 it can take upto a hour to gain a connection so don't worry if it does not connect immediatley.

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