topic Re: Additional PUC box in Sky Stream

Additional PUC box

Yoyo1 — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 10:31:16 GMT

I live in a 2 bedroom 60s bungalow solid brick walls. I have SKY fibre and already have 1 PUK box I want to know if a 2nd PUK box would work in a bedroom. Would the tv need to be a smart TV and would the Internet signal be strong enough.

Re: Additional PUC box

Ellie_TV — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 10:43:17 GMT

@Yoyo1 wrote:
I live in a 2 bedroom 60s bungalow solid brick walls. I have SKY fibre and already have 1 PUK box I want to know if a 2nd PUK box would work in a bedroom. Would the tv need to be a smart TV and would the Internet signal be strong enough.

Nobody can tell you if the WiFi signal will be good enough in your bedroom - you'd need to test that yourself. You can get various free WiFi speed test apps on your mobile phone if you have one. That would give you some idea of the speed available.

The bedroom TV doesn't need to be a smart TV it just needs to be reasonably modern and have an HDMI socket to connect a second Stream puck to. You'd also need to add the Whole Home package to your subscription which allows your Sky subscription to be viewed around your home on more than one puck.

Re: Additional PUC box

CoffeeDrinker — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 10:49:29 GMT

A second puck box should work in the bedroom ok, and no need for a smart TV. As long the TV has an HDMI input and can do display HD/1080p you should be good. Most TVs now (and nearly all 4K/HDR TVs) are smart TVs but a TV doesn't need to be 'smart' for Sky Stream.

As long as the WiFi speed in your bedroom is 25 Mbit/s (megabits per second) for HD or 30 Mbit/s for 4k UHD, you should be fine. You can measure the WiFi speed in your bedroom by using a speed test app on a smartphone, tablet or laptop.

How fast is your broadband connection and would your household ever want to watch Sky Stream on the two television sets at the same time?

Re: Additional PUC box

Yoyo1 — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 10:53:11 GMT

What is whole house and why do I need to add this to my package I am new to this tech

Re: Additional PUC box

CoffeeDrinker — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:03:43 GMT

The Whole Home add-on is to allow viewing of your Sky TV subscription on more than one device. Without it, you can only watch a Sky TV subscription on one device: 1 Sky Glass TV OR 1 Sky Stream puck OR 1 Sky Q box (depending on which Sky TV service you've bought/are subscribed to).

To watch your Sky TV subscription on a second or more Sky box(es), you need the Whole Home add-on.

Re: Additional PUC box

TimmyBGood — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:46:57 GMT

@Yoyo1

Note that it's a 'puck' (allegedly because of the size/shape), not a PUK. The latter is a Personal Unblocking Key for mobile phones, and so can cause confusion when used to refer to other technology.

Re: Additional PUC box

Skull+Treaty — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:51:58 GMT

@TimmyBGood wrote:
@Yoyo1

Note that it's a 'puck' (allegedly because of the size/shape), not a PUK. The latter is a Personal Unblocking Key for mobile phones, and so can cause confusion when used to refer to other technology.

@TimmyBGood

Or as the title suggests, PUC - which would be Personal Unlock Code (also in your link above) ; )