Home mesh wifi

[Gary125]

Considering a home mesh wifi system. Some have mentioned switching off Sky router wifi. Is this necessary? Are there any benefits/ disadvantages of doing this? Was minded to just ignore the additional wifi network 

[jamesn123]

@Gary125 

The benefit would be freeing up channel space for your new mesh system. If you leave the Sky hub's WiFi on then it becomes a lot more difficult for your new system to find free channels 

[Gary125]

Is this the same even if in Access Point mode?

[cookiemonsteruk]

@Gary125 

The idea is to stop interference especially on the 2.4ghz wifi band

[jamesn123]

@Gary125 

Yes, anything that broadcasts a WiFi signal.

[Gary125]

Cheers everyone. I will have to work out how to switch of the wifi then

[cookiemonsteruk · Accepted solution]

@Gary125 

If you have sky q tv you could feasibly use 2.4 and 5 ghz for the sky q box comectivity and disable 2.4 ghz on a wifi 6 router eg asus rt ax models . In that way you have full use on sky q and run faster wifi 6 from the asus as wifi 6 has additional channels above the sky broadband hub . Otherwise disable wifi on the sky hub