topic Home mesh wifi in Broadband

Home mesh wifi

Gary125 — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 18:03:22 GMT

Considering a home mesh wifi system. Some have mentioned switching off Sky router wifi. Is this necessary? Are there any benefits/ disadvantages of doing this? Was minded to just ignore the additional wifi network

Re: Home mesh wifi

jamesn123 — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 11:22:02 GMT

@Gary125

The benefit would be freeing up channel space for your new mesh system. If you leave the Sky hub's WiFi on then it becomes a lot more difficult for your new system to find free channels

Re: Home mesh wifi

Gary125 — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 13:41:10 GMT

Is this the same even if in Access Point mode?

Re: Home mesh wifi

cookiemonsteruk — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 13:46:39 GMT

@Gary125

The idea is to stop interference especially on the 2.4ghz wifi band

Re: Home mesh wifi

jamesn123 — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 13:53:19 GMT

@Gary125

Yes, anything that broadcasts a WiFi signal.

Re: Home mesh wifi

Gary125 — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 13:59:02 GMT

Cheers everyone. I will have to work out how to switch of the wifi then

Re: Home mesh wifi

cookiemonsteruk — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 14:00:19 GMT

@Gary125

If you have sky q tv you could feasibly use 2.4 and 5 ghz for the sky q box comectivity and disable 2.4 ghz on a wifi 6 router eg asus rt ax models . In that way you have full use on sky q and run faster wifi 6 from the asus as wifi 6 has additional channels above the sky broadband hub . Otherwise disable wifi on the sky hub