Broadband in my garden room

[HOOPERT]

Hi

Im building a garden room 20 metres from my house and wondered what I needed (cable, access point and mini box) in order to get the best frommmy sky broadband, have WiFi and use an additional mini box. Do i need a certain type of access point for it to work? Can I buy it from Sky? Can I purchase an additional mini box? Will Sky Q work and how do I ensure everything is on the same network? All answers much appreciated.

[jamesn123]

@HOOPERT 

The easiest solution would be running a cable from your main router to the garden room, then connecting a Sky booster onto the end of that cable. This will provide seamless WiFi in the garden room as well as a signal for your mini box. 

Other than that you would look at purchasing a 3rd party access point instead. 

[HOOPERT]

Thank you, the plan is to run a cat 6 cable, is a Sky booster better than a Wireless access point? How does the main Sky box talk to a Wireless access point and mini box in the garden? 

[jamesn123]

@HOOPERT 

No a Sky booster is not better than a 3rd party option in terms of performance or customization, however it will provide a seamless mesh for your devices so its whatever your priority is. The main Sky router will talk to either a Sky booster via the Cat6 cable or a 3rd party access point via the Cat6 cable. This will then allow you to connect a Sky Q mini box to either the Sky booster or 3rd party AP and it will be able to talk to your main Sky Q box via the router. 

[HOOPERT]

Thank you. Would the mini box in the garden room need to be cabled from the WAP or would it work wirelessely? do you also have any recommendations for a good WAP for a Garden room, requirements are to run laptop, phone, PS5 and Sky Mini box. Appreciate your help.

[jamesn123]

@HOOPERT 

If your going to use a 3rd party WAP then you'd need to cable the mini box because Sky Q mini boxes will only talk to other Sky products, not 3rd party ones. 

You could get a dedicated AP such as a Ubiquiti device or just buy an Asus router/mesh node and run it in AP mode.