Folks who had the standard router and Max

[Rookey007]

As subject anyone who had both did you see difference in performance ? 

[TimmyBGood]

@Rookey007 

Neither can provide any advantage regarding speed arriving at the address.

The Max Hub should provide higher wireless speed for WiFi 6 client devices within the relatively limited range that a 5Ghz signal can travel.

Sky says Max hardware can handle more simultaneous client connections than previous models.

[Chrisee]

@Rookey007 I have used most Sky hubs and currently have a white Sky Max hub so comparing that with the upright black Sky Broadband hub. As @TimmyBGood points out changing the hub does not change the speed your line delivers. Ethernet performance is also identical as both have gigabit ports. In terms of WiFi range I found them to be very similar. The white hub supports WiFi6 so can deliver faster speeds to devices that supports that standard potentially allowing the full 900Mb/s for a Gigafast connection for devices in the samexarea as the hub. The older hub tops out around 700Mb/s in my tests. Note you will only get those speeds in the same or adjacent rooms to the hub add in a couple of block partition walls speeds drop. 

The settings are very different as the new hub is prinarily controlled via the My Sky app which offers less control than the older fub's web interface. Primarily you cannot split the two WiFi bands on the newer units. The newer hubs are not compatable with the Sky Q WiFi mesh or Sky's older boosters so you lose the WiFi hot spots you get with those boxes. The extender pods Sky can supply as part of the WiFi Max pack communicate with the white hub by a 5GHz signal so if you live in a home with solid walls they can be a poor solution.

All of this is pretty moot as Sky dont give customers a choice of which hub they get issued simply if your service is over full fibre you get sent a white hub. Users still on copper get a black hub normally unless they buy wifi max.

[CoffeeDrinker]

We had the Sky Broadband Hub before July of this year. It couldn't cope with the sheer number of devices we were trying to run (phones, tablet, games console, streaming TV via Glass & Stream Puck, work laptops on VPN etc), so we bought a BT Whole Home mesh system. This latter worked but was constantly needing to be rebooted or reset.

Figuring that we have a number of WiFi 6 devices (Glass TV, console, phones & tablets, work laptops), we opted for Sky WiFi Max in July. We have a relatively new build house, so no need for boosters in order to get devices in the back of the house in range of the router. So far, so good. The Max router copes admirably when under load - watching a 4K stream on Glass, son online gaming via XBOX and wife working on her laptop over VPN, all other phones etc chattering on WiFi at the same time.

None of the devices connected to the internet any faster than before, so in that sense, no increase in performance. The router being able to cope with multiple devices concurrently, especially as we have quite a few WiFi 6 devices? Much better than both the previous Sky Broadband Hub and the BT WHole Whole mesh network.

[Chrisee]

@CoffeeDrinker good to hear.