topic Re: Gigafibre in Broadband

Gigafibre

The+Latman — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 15:47:12 GMT

Hey folks,

my Virgin contract is coming up and they have drastically increased the price, not even willing to offer me a deal either. Im about to talk to Sky about their Broadband but wanted to ask a question of the users first: Is it the case that the Sky Q and mini boxes act as repeaters and can in some cases override the routers wifi signal to the device so that you're using the Q rather than the router?

I see lots of complaints about speed and signal range etc, but this is the case whichever provider you use.

Re: Gigafibre

TimmyBGood — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 16:35:44 GMT

@The+Latman wrote:

Is it the case that the Sky Q and mini boxes act as repeaters and can in some cases override the routers wifi signal to the device so that you're using the Q rather than the router?

Yes, but the Q Mesh dates back to 2016, and really isn't up to slinging gigabit speeds (or anything remotely close) around a property.

Re: Gigafibre

The+Latman — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 07:32:34 GMT

Thanks, Thats what I suspected would be the case...... Guess I'll try VM again later in the month

Re: Gigafibre

TimmyBGood — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 07:43:12 GMT

@The+Latman

For Ultrafast 2 and Gigabit FTTP a better solution is a modern mesh system with each Q television box connected over ethernet to a mesh node (and Sky WiFi switched off)