Planning on having Virgin and Sky Broadband in home

[Jonny33]

Hello 

Wonder if someone can help.

Currently have Virgin Hub 5 installed.

Sky Max Hub being installed on April 29th.

We are considering keeping Virgin for the 4 kids and all our devies in our home (29 devices)

Our thoughts are having the Sky Max Hub just for our two gaming PC's which would be a wired connection.

Is it possible to set the Sky Max Hub up so there is no double Nat and only our two PC's connected wired.

On our existing Virgin 5 hub we use it in modem mode with a NightHawk router.

Thanks for looking.

[JimM1]

@Jonny33 The double nat is unavoidable if you are going to use the sky Max router as it's primary on the fibre, what are you using as the other router hanging off the Max?

[TimmyBGood]

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@Jonny33 wrote:

Is it possible to set the Sky Max Hub up so there is no double Nat 

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No: Sky Hubs do not have a 'modem' mode.

[Lady_Royal]

Thanks for the replies.

We have had a think and decided just to ditch Virgin completely, the quality of their line is  shocking. 

As a newbie to sky is it feasible to replace the sky router completely.

Right now we run an XR500 off the Hub5 thats in modem mode.

Would the XR500 be able to do the job or would we need a more modern router to be able to replace the Sky hub entirely?

Thanks again much appreciated for looking.

[JimM1]

@Lady_Royal What sky router do you have at present, regarding the XR500 have you looked on netgear for connecting to sky network?

[Lady_Royal]

We haven't had it installed yet but it'll be the sky max hub. My husband is Jonny33 but for reason it says he's been locked out of his account so can't respond.

[JimM1]

@Lady_Royal If you require landline to function then you have to use the supplied Sky router, as to wether your netgear will connect and authenticate on the network page 28 of the netgear manual is where you need to start looking.

[Chrisee]

@Lady_Royal given you will need two routers if you keep the Virgin connection unless your Nighthawk can handle two simultaenous WAN connections surely just use the Sky hub for the two gaming PCs connected by ethernet? The Sky hubs dont offer any QOS but with only two devices and a decent incoming connection it should cope perfectly well. I would turn off the Shy hub's wifi though. 

If you do consider you need to use the nighthawk thst should connect to the ONT directly if it is running up to date firmware as Netflix support DHCPv4 Option61 Sky use on most models. The only downside is the loss of Sky's landline.. 

[Lady_Royal]

Thanks for the replies. 

We are not going to have a second broadband now - virgin

Also we don't currently have a landline and don't plan to have one with Sky.

We don't have Netflix also.

So it is going to possible I take it to remove the sky hub and use the xr500 with some background work.

If we hit problems is there a preferred gaming router that is recommended for the job? 

Any recommendations are welcome 

[JimM1]

@Lady_Royal As Chrisee has pointed out your Netgear Router if more than likely is up with the latest FW, then it has the option to connect direct to your new ONT that OR will fit, just think of that device as your Modem Mode operation, and few tweaks to the Netgear should get you online.

Would setup your Max router so it is all working, you will need it if problems as that is all SKY will support, then park it back in the box for emergencies.