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Advice on wifi extenders before joining sky

JEA41 — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 16:53:54 GMT

Hi, hoping someone can offer advice. I'm currently with BT but looking to move to Sky. We live in an old property and our router is upstairs in an office. We currently have a BT disc in our lounge with a cable directly into the freeview box for tv. Is there an equivalent product with sky? I don't think either of our TVs have wifi capability (or, at least, wifi has never been sufficient before even when we had a FTTP solution within the property) so I will need a wired solution. The disc has also been helpful with extending the wifi range in the downstairs of the property and proved more reliable than generic wifi extender products. I'm not able to replace the TVs at the current time ££. I hope this makes sense!

Re: Advice on wifi extenders before joining sky

cookiemonsteruk — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 16:57:00 GMT

@JEA41

What colour disc?

As far as i am aware white bt discs work whilst black ones only work on bt.

Re: Advice on wifi extenders before joining sky

JEA41 — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 16:57:30 GMT

Sadly it's the black disc so not compatible with other networks.

Re: Advice on wifi extenders before joining sky

cookiemonsteruk — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 17:00:36 GMT

@JEA41

Unfortunately that is correct. You could try a third party wifi 6 mesh system and plug into the sky hub and disable the wifi on the sky hub

Re: Advice on wifi extenders before joining sky

JEA41 — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 17:04:29 GMT

Thanks @cookiemonsteruk - just had a look at those solutions (haven't heard of it before) so will investigate further. Would I switch off the wifi on the sky hub because the mesh system would be the wifi using the wired connection from the hub? Sorry, this is all new to me!

Re: Advice on wifi extenders before joining sky

cookiemonsteruk — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 17:15:27 GMT

@JEA41

@JEA41 wrote:

Thanks @cookiemonsteruk - just had a look at those solutions (haven't heard of it before) so will investigate further. Would I switch off the wifi on the sky hub because the mesh system would be the wifi using the wired connection from the hub? Sorry, this is all new to me!

You would switch wifi off on the sky hub to prevent interference between the the two different routers. Then set up a mesh unit as an access point and ethernet that one to the sky hub. The remaining mesh units are then set up using for example aimesh on asus. You can also use ethernet from the mesh units to individual devices such as smart tv's . This is called a wifi-ethernet bridge

Re: Advice on wifi extenders before joining sky

JEA41 — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 17:49:54 GMT

Thank you so much for explaining - I'll look into that. Much appreciated @cookiemonsteruk 👍