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Sky Q shared broadband connection & BBC UHD

Ricky+777 — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 09:20:51 GMT

Hi. I live on a farm and luckily have access to FTTC in nearby village. The connection is on our line but we run a network cable to my parents next door to share the connection. This has worked well for a few years. So we recently upgraded to Sky Q and chatting to engineer about patents thinking of upgrading to Sky Q. It was only when we mentioned the shared broadband connection that he put the brakes on the job and told us it would not work. You can't have two Sky Q boxes on the same IP basically. So parents stayed on Shy HD box for time being.

Last night my mum got a call from a Sky rep, the jist of it being he was trying to get them to upgrade to Sky Q. Firstly he said they would have to upgrade as the BBC channels were moving soley to ultra HD next year so with their current box would would not be able to receive BBC 1 etc. Secondly she mentioned the shared connection and that you could not have two Sky Q boxes on same broadband connection. He went away and after a short break announced it was now possible to have two Q boxes on a shared connection.

Is any of the above correct? A quick search hasn't pulled up anything that backs this up? Is this a case of a Sky rep trying to sell a customer something that won't work and talking a load of all **bleep** about BBC UHD?

Re: Sky Q shared broadband connection & BBC UHD

TimmyBGood — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 10:56:40 GMT

@Ricky+777 wrote:

Firstly he said they would have to upgrade as the BBC channels were moving soley to ultra HD next year so with their current box would would not be able to receive BBC 1 etc.

I think there's a fundamental misunderstanding here: it's Standard Definition (SD) transmission which the BBC is ending, with the default becoming HD. A Sky+ HD box remains viable for receiving broadcast satellite television for the foreseeable future: the Sky (and Freesat) hardware becoming obsolete for BBC channels is truly antique SD-only.

"Preparing for closure of BBC SD channels on satellite in early 2024 "

It's inconceivable that the BBC would move 'soley to ultra HD' as their public service remit would not permit this, broadcast Freeview and current Freesat does not carry UHD, and frankly they can't afford it...

Re: Sky Q shared broadband connection & BBC UHD

TimmyBGood — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 10:49:54 GMT

@Ricky+777 wrote:

He went away and after a short break announced it was now possible to have two Q boxes on a shared connection.

As far as we know, that's still not possible, and unlikely to change. Given they were completely wrong about BBC UHD, I'd tend to be somewhat suspicious of any other 'information' they imparted.