topic Re: Wifi 6 in Broadband

Wifi 6

Boomer699 — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 15:43:37 GMT

Hi All

Sorybif this has been asked recently ( couldn't see anything ) when are we getting a wifi 6 capable router any ideas…… or whats the alternative

Thank you
Jon

Re: Wifi 6

Boomer699 — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 15:44:47 GMT

And and typing on an iPhone don't help the grammar or spelling Arggggggggghhhhhh

Re: Wifi 6

cookiemonsteruk — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 15:46:12 GMT

@Boomer699

The sky max hub sr213 is wifi 6 but isn't available to customers with sky q mini boxes

Re: Wifi 6

cookiemonsteruk — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 15:49:10 GMT

@Boomer699

Also it isn't compatible with g.fast ultrafast 1 connections

Re: Wifi 6

Boomer699 — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 15:54:40 GMT

So as we as we don't have ultrafast, we are probably never getting this then

Whats the alternative,,,,

Thanks for the reply

Re: Wifi 6

cookiemonsteruk — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 15:57:39 GMT

@Boomer699

What connection do you have?

It does have a vdsl modem so will work on fttc superfast connections as well as fttp just not g.fast and sky q minis

Re: Wifi 6

Boomer699 — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 17:07:17 GMT

Sky Super Fast 😕

Re: Wifi 6

cookiemonsteruk — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 17:12:58 GMT

@Boomer699

If you can get the sky max hub it would show in your my sky app -> product settings

Have you ever had sky q tv but moved to sky stream or glass

Re: Wifi 6

Boomer699 — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 17:16:39 GMT

We have sky q last 5 years or so

Re: Wifi 6

jamesn123 — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 11:36:33 GMT

@Boomer699

Since you have Sky Q you wont be able to get Sky's WiFi 6 hub at this time but this may change in the future.

This does not stop you getting your own 3rd party WiFi 6 router though if thats what you'd like to have. Although I do not see the benefit of having it when you only have superfast, not ultrafast, unless you are doing lots of local LAN transfers over WiFi.

Re: Wifi 6

Boomer699 — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 11:52:32 GMT

Kids and my work uses wireless vr so the extra umphhhhh would help

Cheers

Re: Wifi 6

jamesn123 — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 12:08:59 GMT

@Boomer699

Fair enough, wireless VR would be a good usecase for it.

Honestly I'd look at 3rd party solutions over Sky's offering. Its still very much a half baked product at the moment

Re: Wifi 6

simon194 — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 12:39:18 GMT

@jamesn123 wrote:
@Boomer699
Fair enough, wireless VR would be a good usecase for it.
Honestly I'd look at 3rd party solutions over Sky's offering. Its still very much a half baked product at the moment

A WiFi 6 access point would be a more cost effective option to getting a WiFi 6 router because it's easier to set up.

I use a couple of Netgear WAX206 AP's as a wifi bridge between the Sky hub and my office upstairs, purely because it would be a PITA hardwiring, and get a fairly consistant 850 Mbps on a Sky Gigafast connection.

Re: Wifi 6

axkram65 — Tue, 07 May 2024 11:57:45 GMT

Just get a WiFi 6 access point and connect it to your sky router with gigabit cable on a gigabit port.

set the new access points SSID to something denoting it is the WiFi 6 connection and bobs your uncle.

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