topic Re: sky mini far from main box in Sky Q

sky mini far from main box

Evsie88 — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 20:50:57 GMT

I'm putting a tv in garage which a way from my main sky box in garage. I have a Ethernet cable in but how will I connect my mini box to the main box if they far apart...

Re: sky mini far from main box

oldfella — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 21:00:33 GMT

@Evsie88 wrote:

I'm putting a tv in garage which a way from my main sky box in garage. I have a Ethernet cable in but how will I connect my mini box to the main box if they far apart...

hi @Evsie88

Who is your broadband supplier and to what is your Ethernet connected?

Re: sky mini far from main box

Evsie88 — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 22:26:53 GMT

It's Virgin... Ethernet is outside in garage connected to Wi-Fi booster for PlayStation etc

Re: sky mini far from main box

oldfella — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 22:33:21 GMT

@Evsie88 wrote:

It's Virgin... Ethernet is outside in garage connected to Wi-Fi booster for PlayStation etc

Hi @Evsie88

Afraid the mini will not work with that Ethernet.

Re: sky mini far from main box

Chodley — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 01:01:12 GMT

Put a switch in the garage. Connect the wifi booster and the mini to it.

Connect the Q to the router by ethernet as well. I assume the Q isn't also in the garage, contrary to your opening post?

Then they will find each other.

Re: sky mini far from main box

Evsie88 — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 07:15:04 GMT

What if I can not connect my main Q box to Ethernet? It's on Wi-Fi in house. @Chodley

Re: sky mini far from main box

nigea99 — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 07:37:43 GMT

@Evsie88 wrote:

What if I can not connect my main Q box to Ethernet? It's on Wi-Fi in house. @Chodley

hi @Evsie88

When your provider is not SKY then the minis connect to the main box via a wifi signal generated by the Main box - which as you say is too far in this case - or must both be connected via ethernet either to each other or both via an ethernet connection to the same network

(BTW boosters/extenders sometimes are not suitable for this connection as I think they can be treated as a different part of the network - but I am not an expert in this area)

Thus I am afraid if your main box is not connected to via ethernet to the same network as the mini via ethernet then it won't work

Re: sky mini far from main box

Evsie88 — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 07:50:09 GMT

@nigea99 @Thanks so much.
do you know if I am able to play sky go via my iPad or phone and cast to the tv instead then? Doesn't seem like that's available to me or am I missing it 🙂

Re: sky mini far from main box

nigea99 — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 07:55:12 GMT

@Evsie88 wrote:

@nigea99 @Thanks so much.
do you know if I am able to play sky go via my iPad or phone and cast to the tv instead then? Doesn't seem like that's available to me or am I missing it 🙂

I am afraid I don't think you can cast from a tablet or phone but could possibly use a laptop with an HDMI output or a games console that supports SKY Go (At least one of the SU's uses their playstation connected to a TV)

Re: sky mini far from main box

Chodley — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 08:25:55 GMT

@Evsie88 wrote:
What if I can not connect my main Q box to Ethernet? It's on Wi-Fi in house. @Chodley

Ethernet can go 100m

Or use powerline

or use ethernet into a wifi mesh node which is connected to the rest of your network.