topic Re: Issue with WightFibre Plume mesh and sky q in Sky Q

Issue with WightFibre Plume mesh and sky q

MattBasker — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 15:51:21 GMT

I'm having a problem with WightFibre, which uses a Plume mesh, getting multiple MAC addresses for the sky Q boxes, which I'm told by Wightfibre support is causing me issues (running out of DHCP addresses, for one). They say:

"Unfortunately Sky boxes have an anti-competitive behaviour when connected to a 3rd party network connection & we found that the best set up for Sky boxes to when connected to our network is to have only the main box hardwired & the multiroom or mini boxes connected via WPS, otherwise it causes a network loop."

This makes no sense to me - it has been working for a couple of months with all boxes having wifi turned off, but has recently started to give issues.

Anybody any thoughts on this?

Re: Issue with WightFibre Plume mesh and sky q

TimmyBGood — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 16:48:59 GMT

@MattBasker wrote:

They say:

"Unfortunately Sky boxes have an anti-competitive behaviour when connected to a 3rd party network connection"

Anybody any thoughts on this?

Yes, my thought is WightFibre might want to run that statement past their lawyers ; )

Re: Issue with WightFibre Plume mesh and sky q

Alexxxiow — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 10:26:46 GMT

Its completely true tho. If you have Sky TV without Sky Broadband, they turn off the ability to utilise 5ghz connectivity on the boxes. Causing a plethora of issues with Mesh Wi-Fi Sollutions.

Re: Issue with WightFibre Plume mesh and sky q

slipd — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 17:28:52 GMT

Did you ever get anywhere with this? In my scenario, I loose my WightFibre connection entirely (phone and broadband) and it doesn't re-establish itself... I have to physically switch my Plume box off and wait for everything to reconnect.

WightFibre are unable to find fault on my line and are blaming my Sky Q setup. A 2TB main and 2 Multirooms.

Its soo frustrating! Losing connection every 10-12 days or so.