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Home mesh wifi

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 

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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

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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 

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Message posted on ‎04 Jul 2024 02:41 PM

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Is this the same even if in Access Point mode?

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

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Yes, anything that broadcasts a WiFi signal.

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

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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

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