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Sky Broadband WiFi or Max?

Thevoid — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 20:15:24 GMT

Hi, I joined sky broadband in a previous old house with solid brick walls. I could only get standard broadband with around 60mb. The WiFi was terrible and I could only get around 20mb so I left and went with BT and had full speed WiFi with their HUB 2.

I then moved to a smaller place where walls weren't as solid and got Sky full fibre and WiFi is great, so I'm confused.

Is the WiFi router for standard broadband different to full fibre?

I'm thinking of joining sky again at my new address I'm moving to but concerned that the same thing will happen before as it's an old property with solid walls. Has the WiFi routers for standard BB changed since around 2020?

Why would the BT router have been better at WiFi than the sky one at the time I had issues?

Would Sky Max WiFi give me the same performance as the BT HUB 2?

Thanks

Re: Sky Broadband WiFi or Max?

jamesn123 — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 20:54:42 GMT

Hi @Thevoid

Generally the BT hub seems to cover a wider area better so that would make sense if BT was better in a home where you had solid walls.

In terms of getting the same performance out of the Sky max hub, I would say its unlikely as most reports on the Sky max hub have suggested coverage isn't as good as the BT hub.

Re: Sky Broadband WiFi or Max?

Thevoid — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 22:09:58 GMT

Why is the sky router so poor at WiFi?

Re: Sky Broadband WiFi or Max?

Chrisee — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 07:55:44 GMT

@Thevoid it isnt that bad in my experience but the new hub relies on the 5GHz band to give speed these are the first signals to be lost with solid walls leaving the 2.4GHz band. The system was developed in the US where internal walls are usually not solid shich maybe a factor.

Each router has pros and cons but in general BT/EE hubs sre better than Sky's which usually beat Virgin's but different properities different performance.