topic Re: extending wifi to garden building in Sky Stream

extending wifi to garden building

amandaV — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:52:38 GMT

Swapped over from Sky Q today,to Sky stream.Problem i have is wifi not reaching garden building.I used to have multiscreen box down garden building with the Sky Q, My question is do i need to get another puck for down the garden building so i can get wifi down there as before.

Sorry but no good with setting these things up.Any help would be appreciated.

Re: extending wifi to garden building

GD1 — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:12:53 GMT

@amandaV No, a Puck won't worlk asa wifi extender it is just a TV box.

Re: extending wifi to garden building

Nigelb1972 — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:20:51 GMT

@amandaV you will need whole home and an extra puck if you want Stream in the garden building but if there's no WiFi signal, you'll need to deal with that separately as the puck isn't a WiFi extender

Re: extending wifi to garden building

amandaV — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:06:57 GMT

Thanks for reply, I have a ethernet cable that runs from my router and down to garden building.Would that not inproof wifi if connected to new puck. Sorry if not expressing it correctly

Re: extending wifi to garden building

Angel_Aka — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:15:39 GMT

@amandaV wrote:
Thanks for reply, I have a ethernet cable that runs from my router and down to garden building.Would that not inproof wifi if connected to new puck. Sorry if not expressing it correctly

An ethernet cable doesn't improve WiFi - it carries your broadband connection and provides it to whatever you connect the cable to, so in this case you can connect the ethernet cable to the Stream puck and turn WiFi off on the puck's network settings.

Re: extending wifi to garden building

amandaV — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:27:11 GMT

Thanks for the reply, I only asked as before had ethernet cable connected from router down to garden building to sky q mini box and had perfect wifi.

Re: extending wifi to garden building

Angel_Aka — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:36:07 GMT

@amandaV wrote:
Thanks for the reply, I only asked as before had ethernet cable connected from router down to garden building to sky q mini box and had perfect wifi.

That's because the Sky Q miniboxes acted as WiFi hotspots and would broadcast the connection it received via ethernet as WiFi.

Sky Stream pucks do not have WiFi hotspot capability. They just use broadband and have no means of broadcasting or extending it.

Re: extending wifi to garden building

amandaV — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:42:10 GMT

Okay so the ethernet cable is not going to help me with the wifi issue. Would a sky booster be anygood ?

Re: extending wifi to garden building

amandaV — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:16:12 GMT

Would this be okay to get wifi at garden building ? Zyxel wifi 6 ax1800 wireless access point