topic Re: Connecting Sky Q Mini in Garden Room in Sky Q

Connecting Sky Q Mini in Garden Room

TEL_1234 — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 12:32:20 GMT

We have recently finished a garden room, roughly 40M from the house. We have Trooli broadband with a router in the house. Main Sky Q and Mini in the house connected via wifi (not ethernet). In the garden room we have ethernet run down and an additional Victure router. I currently have a Mini in the garden room and it is connecting to main Q in the house, but the signal is not strong enough and we are getting buffering.

What would be the best solution to solve this?

Is it possible to have just the mini in the garden room connecting via ethernet?

Thanks for your help.

Re: Connecting Sky Q Mini in Garden Room

nigea99 — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 12:42:37 GMT

@TEL_1234 wrote:

We have recently finished a garden room, roughly 40M from the house. We have Trooli broadband with a router in the house. Main Sky Q and Mini in the house connected via wifi (not ethernet). In the garden room we have ethernet run down and an additional Victure router. I currently have a Mini in the garden room and it is connecting to main Q in the house, but the signal is not strong enough and we are getting buffering.

What would be the best solution to solve this?

Is it possible to have just the mini in the garden room connecting via ethernet?

Thanks for your help.

hi @TEL_1234

Are you able to connect your main box via ethernet (ethernet direct or via powerline adapters) either directly to your main router or alternativelly via an unmanged switch somewhere on your home network

If you can then you probably would need to connect the mini to the ethernet in your Garden Room via an unmanaged switch before it goes into the secondary router (it needs to be on the same network as your main box - I think the secondary router is likely to make the connection appear on a different network)

Re: Connecting Sky Q Mini in Garden Room

oldfella — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 12:43:07 GMT

Hi @TEL_1234

As you are not on Sky Broadband, the best option would be an Ethernet connection to your main Q box.

Re: Connecting Sky Q Mini in Garden Room

TEL_1234 — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 12:47:14 GMT

Connecting my main Sky Q box to ethernet is a challenge. What would be the best solution if this is not possible?

Re: Connecting Sky Q Mini in Garden Room

nigea99 — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 12:55:38 GMT

@TEL_1234 wrote:

Connecting my main Sky Q box to ethernet is a challenge. What would be the best solution if this is not possible?

Could you use Powerline adapters ?

Re: Connecting Sky Q Mini in Garden Room

TEL_1234 — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 13:07:17 GMT

I've not heard of those before. How do they aork and are they effective?

Re: Connecting Sky Q Mini in Garden Room

nigea99 — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 13:23:47 GMT

@TEL_1234 wrote:

I've not heard of those before. How do they aork and are they effective?

hi @TEL_1234

I have no personal experience but they use your mains cable for the majority of the distance.

Basically you have an adapter at each end which plug into the mains and then into the device (SKY Q box or router or switch) via a short ethernet cable allowing the network signal to route via the mains cable in between

Many people use them where running ethernet cables the whole distance is not possible or otherwise tricky.

Re: Connecting Sky Q Mini in Garden Room

Godfrey — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 14:18:10 GMT

@TEL_1234 I have resolved this type of problem for several friends and local residents with large gardens, where their Office / Garden Room has been aound 40 m from their house mains distribution consumer unit, by utilising Devolo Magic 2 powerline adaptors, they are particularly good at passing their datastream between different mains consumer unit ring main circuits.

Unlike the cheaper versions they pass MIMO signals over all three wires in the mains cable.

TP Link also provide this technology, but I have no experience of their versions.

Godfrey.