topic Re: Changing silver box location in Sky Q

Changing silver box location

Sinatra21 — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 21:11:19 GMT

My whole house is hardwired and I have a data rack. I have a silver box and several mini boxes. There is one room in my house where the hardwiring has not been done very well so there is constant break up on the picture when watching something via the mini box. I was thinking of moving the silver box to this room. In theory, the picture in this room would then be perfect because it would come via the satellite dish. However, would the fact that the cabling to this room is botched mean that the connection to all the other mini boxes would be non-existent? All of the other mini boxes are currently perfect.

Re: Changing silver box location

PandJ2020 — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 21:55:52 GMT

Silver box? It's not clear what you're asking for?

Re: Changing silver box location

Sinatra21 — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 22:06:42 GMT

I have the main box (silver box) which is connected to the satellite dish. The room with poorly cabled Wi-Fi has a mini box in it. If I put my main box in this room instead (I have facility in every room to connect the box straight to the satellite) although this would correct the television picture in this room, would it have a negative impact on the picture on the mini boxes in the rest of the house because the wifi would now be distributed from this room to the mini boxes?

Re: Changing silver box location

Invisiblename — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 07:08:39 GMT

@Sinatra21 I'm not aware of any "silver" Sky Q boxes? Can you provide the version number of the box you are referring to?

Re: Changing silver box location

Chrisee — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 07:29:49 GMT

@PandJ2020 & @Invisiblename the orginal Sky Q 2TB boxes were branded as Sky Q Silver.

@Sinatra21 two issues first the satellite leads would require re-routing to the room the main Q box is moved to which may or may not be practical. Second are more importantly the main Q box acts as a server for the Q minis so if the network link back to the rack is flaky all of the Q minis will suffer.

Re: Changing silver box location

Sinatra21 — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 07:44:21 GMT

@Chrisee just as I suspected. Thanks for your help

Re: Changing silver box location

Invisiblename — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 07:47:07 GMT

@Chrisee Every day's a school day! 😁