topic What is this device? BSkyB Ltd-F456 in Broadband

What is this device? BSkyB Ltd-F456

iwaddo — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:55:55 GMT

Hi, I have a Sky Q box which connects to one of my Pods as 'Sky Q 2TB' but I also have a device called 'BSkyB Ltd-F456' connected to the same Pod.

Can anyone please tell me what this second device is? I do not have multiroom or any other Sky equipment other than a Max router and pods.

Thank you for your help

Re: What is this device? BSkyB Ltd-F456

FLC — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:01:31 GMT

The router? I set up a new mesh system yesterday & saw something similar, which I think was the router. But I've renamed everything to "friendly" names now, so can't check. Can you view the MAC address of the unknown device & compare it to that of the router??

Re: What is this device? BSkyB Ltd-F456

iwaddo — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:09:33 GMT

Hi, it is not the MAC address of the router.

It turns out that the F456 is the last 4 digits of its MAC address.

If I login to the router and list the devices it is not shown.

Thank you for your help

Re: What is this device? BSkyB Ltd-F456

FLC — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:11:57 GMT

The POD itself or one of the others?

Re: What is this device? BSkyB Ltd-F456

iwaddo — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:15:13 GMT

I'd thought that but then you'd expect to see each device on each device, if you know what I mean.

Re: What is this device? BSkyB Ltd-F456

FLC — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:22:00 GMT

No, just the one it's connected to.

Re: What is this device? BSkyB Ltd-F456

iwaddo — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:30:09 GMT

The MAC addresses of any of my sky devices are not apearing as devices on any other sky device.

I plan to power down the Sky Q box to see if they both disappear.

Re: What is this device? BSkyB Ltd-F456

iwaddo — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:15:37 GMT

Both devices disappear when I unplug the Sky Q box and both reappear when the Sky Q box is powered up.

So it seems I've answered my own question but I've no idea why the Sky Q box is showing as two devices in the app. Only the Sky Q box has an IP address the MAC address ending F456 has not been assigned an IP, also this devices is not showing at all in the list of devices when I login to the router.

Re: What is this device? BSkyB Ltd-F456

Chrisee — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:42:14 GMT

@iwaddo Sky Q boxes have separate mac addresses for each network interface so one for ethernet and one each for the two wifi bands and on occasions display a virtual mac address its to do with way Q's mesh networking worked.