topic Sky Stream - Have to wait after being standby for about a minute for Ethernet connect in Sky Stream

Sky Stream - Have to wait after being standby for about a minute for Ethernet connect

Fergieboy — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 10:48:00 GMT

Have to wait after being standby for about a minute for Ethernet cable from router to connect.

After the initial wait of around a minute after start up, it's very stable and doesn't drop out

I have Set Network standby mode to ON and Overnight power saving to OFF.

Turn wifi OFF under Network if connected via ethernet.

This has all been done and the setting are saved and sky stream restarted, it makes no difference.

Not a major issue just a bit annoying - any ideas?

Re: Sky Stream - Have to wait after being standby for about a minute for Ethernet connect

CoffeeDrinker — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:03:43 GMT

@Fergieboy Not that it helps but I had the same issue with my Sky Puck being connected via Ethernet to my EE router. No amount of tweaking the settings on the puck itself helped; it very much looked as though the router itself was putting the Ethernet port to sleep, only waking when the Puck was powered on, leading to half a minute or so before the puck aquired a network address (aka an IP address) and started working.

My only workaround was to go back to using WiFi on the puck, cutting out the sleeping Ethernet port on the router problem.