SKY Q + Mini Boxes Have Improved my Wi-Fi

[CWinter]

I apreciate this may be a slightly unusual question:

We live in "U" shaped bungalow which suffers with poor Wi-Fi speed.

Our previous BT Hub could only get us circa 25MB at best, so we switched to SKY Broadband plus 3 SKY Q Miniboxes which improved the speed to between 45 and 48MB all around the bungalow, everything works fine, which has been great.

If we move to SKY Stream we will obviously lose SKY Q and the 3 Minibox network and therefore the Wi-Fi speed and distribution will drop.

How do I get round this or do the additional SKY Stream Pucks create the same/similar Wi-Fi network that the Miniboxes are creating now?

Thanks in advance for those of you that have some experience with this dilemma. 

Chris

[JimM1]

@CWinter Sky streaming then NO wireless extending, you need the Q and the minis to do what you have now.

Your other option is Sky Max upgrade and fight the corner for the pod's that you may or may not need to extend your wireless wi-fi and to include your pucks for the streaming TV. Pucks will not work without a good wireless wi-fi signal unless you cable (Great) or powerline them (Not so Great)!

[Chrisee · Accepted solution]

@CWinter the Sky Stream pucks do not act as wifi hotspots they are simple wifi clients. Thereforecif you makecthe move  from Sky Q to Sky Stream you will probably need to have some form of mesh wifibsystem to get similar coverage as you have now. Sky sell a package caled wifi max which can givecup,to 3 extenders. Stream requires good wifi to work well without thst you haveca miserable experidnce.

I made the switch myself a few years back and bought a simpke 3 unit TP-Link Deco WiFi system that I use to give decent wifi on the 3 levels of my home.