topic Re: sky puck cable in Sky Stream

sky puck cable

hairybob — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 13:21:12 GMT

Hi, I have two tv's in a summer house for watching sport mainly. Do I need a separate ethernet cable for each puck ? A the moment I have one cable and a splitter wich doesn't want to work. Only one puck will work at one time. Both work separately as I have checked.

Any advice appreciated.

Re: sky puck cable

Jones_The_Cat — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 13:58:34 GMT

@hairybob wrote:
Hi, I have two tv's in a summer house for watching sport mainly. Do I need a separate ethernet cable for each puck ? A the moment I have one cable and a splitter wich doesn't want to work. Only one puck will work at one time. Both work separately as I have checked.
Any advice appreciated.

What broadband speed to you get and what kind of splitter are you using? You really need an ethernet switch like this one in order to have multiple ethernet cables providing broadband to multiple devices.

You could always try using WiFi if it reaches your summer house.

Re: sky puck cable

mikealanr — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 13:59:18 GMT

Hi @hairybob

You would need to use a switch. The ethernet cable from your house / router to the switch and two other cables from the switch to each puck.

You can get them relatively inexpensively on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Network-Hubs-Switches/b?ie=UTF8&node=430573031

Hope this helps.

MikeAlanR

Re: sky puck cable

hairybob — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 14:12:21 GMT

Thanks for the quick reply, not being very tech savvy, i'm guessing a switch is a posh splitter ? Just to be sure, one cable from the router into the switch will run both pucks at the same time ?

Re: sky puck cable

Jones_The_Cat — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 14:17:34 GMT

@hairybob wrote:
Thanks for the quick reply, not being very tech savvy, i'm guessing a switch is a posh splitter ? Just to be sure, one cable from the router into the switch will run both pucks at the same time ?

You would connect an ethernet cable from your router to the switch, then two more ethernet cables from any other ports on the switch to each puck.

Both pucks will then receive your broadband and should work as long as your broadband is fast enough to support it. Sky Stream needs around 25-30Mbps minimum for one puck.

Re: sky puck cable

hairybob — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 14:52:45 GMT

Thats great, i'll shall try that. appreciate the help,

Live long and prosper.

Re: sky puck cable

TimmyBGood — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 16:16:54 GMT

@hairybob

A 'switch' in this context is better understood as a multiplier, and permits numerous ethernet devices to be in use.

Although there are passive devices called an 'ethernet splitter' these won't do what you want: they 'split' a single gigabit eight strand cable into two separate four strand 100Mbs ethernet cables which is almost never actually appropriate.

Re: sky puck cable

Badgernow — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:14:07 GMT

If you had sky fibre ultrafast 950mbps and you wanted to have ethernet to every sky puck and not lose any maps.

I note that 100mbps is the max when 4 twisted pairs become 2 on ethernet cables, so does using a unswitched or switched (eg 10 way) give you the wired 950mbps to every device or is their another way to achieve the full 960mbps speed to all devices via ethernet?

Cheers

Re: sky puck cable

GD1 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:28:23 GMT

@Badgernow All pucks have 100mbps ethernet port as they really don't rrequire speeds above 50mbps MAX.

Re: sky puck cable

Badgernow — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:31:11 GMT

Thankyou.

Does it make a difference if I use switched or unswitched from a performance perspective?

Re: sky puck cable

TimmyBGood — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:53:45 GMT

@Badgernow

An actual ethernet switch will almost always be preferable to nasty physical cable bodges.