Downloading from Sky Q using a Vodafone Huawei 4G router.

[T-BoneUK]

I know youre trying to use your router - my the unit I bought - works everytime on THREE - love it. FOr the time and effort I put into trying to fix, paid a few quid and watch anything I want on Sky demand.. not had a problem since!

[cockerel1]

Try putting 9.9.9.9 in your router settings.

[Tractorman26]

Thanks for the suggestions, I tried puting 9,9,9,9 into the router instead of the Sky box and it still didn't work. 

In terms of trying the "Beryl" mini router I'll give it a go as you suggest but in theory it will still be same as I have got now which is 4G Router - ExpressVpn Router (Linksys AC3200)- Sky box, I'll just be replacing the AC3200 for Beryl but as you can get Beryl on Amazon i can return it if it doesn't work. I'll let you know what happens,

[T-BoneUK]

I also use Nordvpn. 

[Tractorman26]

Ok here's the update. I tried "Beryl" with my ExpressVPN settings in and it didn't work at all, just immediately went to "Failed",  with my AC3200 it actually downloaded and then reset and started downloading again. So I went back to my AC3200 with ExpressVPN and for some unknown reason it started working ok and has now worked ok for the past 48hrs. Obviously it's early days yet and none of this makes any sense to me from technical point of view but that's where I'm at. Only thing that may have done anything is that I had to remove and reinsert the ethernet cables from Beryl to AC3200 and not sure if that has helped to reset the connection or something. But no reason really why Beryl with ExpressVPN didn't work at all but AC3200 now does but didn't before?  If anything changes I'll let you know. Thanks for your help with the suggestions.

[T-BoneUK]

Have to admit, Express VPN didn't work for me, it was only Nordvpn. I tried the AC3200 I had and it was a pain. Mostly because the 3200 say inbetween my 5G THREE router, and. TpLink MIFI Mesh network and DHCP was being served all over the place.

In the end I have the THREE router as the cellular router, not serving anything . The TP link mesh serving all my WiFi and the Beryl unit doing nothing other than sky > beryl (via ethernet > Netgear hub > THREE and seems to be fine . 

Let me know how you get on. I ditched the AC3200 I had as it was nothing but a pain 

[Tractorman26]

Just remembered there was one more thing I did the day before trying Beryl, which seemed to have no impact at the time, and that was I changed the APN on my three router from three.co.uk to 3internet which is apparently the home broadband setting whereas three.co.uk is for moblles. Maybe this has had an impact after 24hrs and that's what's now making everything work.

[T-BoneUK]

That would be damn handy of that was the case 🙂

[Tractorman26]

So everything still working fine after a week, to be clear the only settings that work for me are the ExpressVpn firmware on a Linksys AC3200ACM router direct to Sky box, with the APN settings on the 3 Network set to 3internet and not three.co.uk. 

I have reverted both of these settings this week, changed 3internet back to three,co,uk and it didn't work and I also tried 3internet without ExpressVpn and that didn't work either.

Hope this is helpfull for others, and thanks for all the suggestions, especially from @T-BoneUK