Broadband

[Adam83]

Hello, apologies for my lack of knowledge.

I have just moved into an old farm house which has thick walls, I have had openreach fit the ont and sky hub max. 

because the house is big and walls are thick I decided to run cat 8 cable from the sky hub location to 2 places. 

one goes to an office to plug straight into the computer 30m cable. 

the other goes to the up stairs hall ( which is in the middle of the house) my plan with this was to put a Wi-Fi booster in to help with the signal up stairs 15m cable.

After buying a Wi-Fi booster from Amazon I couldn't get it to work other than it connected wirelessly. 

WiFi Booster 1200Mbps WiFi Extender Booster Dual Band 5GHz & 2.4GHz, WiFi Range Extender with 4 * 3dBi Antennas, WiFi Repeater Support Repeater/AP/Router/Wired Modes, Super Heat Dissipation Function

is there a booster out there that works through the cable instead of wireless to achieve a better signal. 

any help appreciated, thanks

[mae-3 · Accepted solution]

@Adam83 

Sky Max is proprietary it likely won't allow third-party kit to work with it but you could ask Sky for Sky Max Pods to get the coverage you need with that subscription service.

[Adam83]

Thank you I'll get in contact with them. 

[JimM1]

Not sure if this would work with the Sky Max Hub, but you may want to check it out.

Asus RP-AX56....

RP-AX56 supports AP mode, so you can establish Ethernet backhaul with on-wall Ethernet jacks in your home to create a wired connection between the router and RP-AX56. This not only provides even more stable WiFi, but also dedicates the entire 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands to wireless devices for smoother connections.

[Chrisee]

@adam8 any wireless access point should work when connected to a Wifi Max router. Curently I have my own 3 unit Deco M4 set up providing whole house wifi coverage with the primary unit connected to my own SR213 Wifi Max router by ethernet. You can connect Sky's own dedicated Wifi Max pods by ethernet if you want 

Not sure why the model you chose did not connect but it msy require configuration before it can act as a Ethernet to wifi bridge

[mae-3]

@Chrisee 

The OP has wireless extenders are these compatible?

[Chrisee]

@mae-3 I read the post he was attaching an access point by ethernet which works I simply dont know if a simple wifi extender would work.

[mae-3]

@Chrisee 

As far as I understand it needs to be compatible with Plume:-

[Chrisee]

@mae-3 although the system uses Plume hardware the firmware is proprietry to Comcast/Sky so who knows.  Currently when they send out a pod it is added by serial number to your set up so it might be without that link extenders wont join the mesh network even if the hardware is compatable..

However wired access points definitely work and you can connect third party devices to the wifi so a straight forward booster should connect but of course it cannot join the mesh system allowing seamless switching.

However the SR213 is better at switching wifi bands to avoid conficts as currently I am running both my Deco system - connected by ethernet - and the SR213 own wifi with no interference isssues - the 5GHz band jumped to ch100 as soon as the Decoo powered up on ch36. So it maybe the two networks can co-exisist.