Sky Booster

[CK3A]

Hi All,

I have a Sky Booster, acting as a mesh network between my modem and booster, that I am currently using, which is plugged into a 5-port managed switch and then plugged into all my devices from there.

My issue is I have quite a few other devices that connect via only Wi-Fi, and it causes jitter when other devices bounce between the modem and the booster.

My question is, would I be able to disable the AP functionality of the booster, effectively making it so that the booster can receive information, not send out information? I do a lot of gaming, so my main priority is latency > speed, whereas other users on the network use it to watch TV and are more bothered about speed > latency.

I'm also at the back of the house, so although I would love to plug my switch directly into the modem, I don't think other household members would be happy with a 20m wire trailing across the landing, living room and kitchen. So, I use the booster as effectively a "Wireless" wire and hence why everything is wired from there on out.

If not possible, I could always white list just the router on the booster's admin page, making it so that no devices can connect wirelessly to the booster, but still connect to the main modem.

Thank you in advanced 🙂

[TimmyBGood]

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@CK3A wrote:

My question is, would I be able to disable the AP functionality of the booster, effectively making it so that the booster can receive information, not send out information?

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Almost certainly not: that wouldn't have been in any design specification for a Sky Wireless Booster (and anyway TCP/IP is inherently two-way)

[CK3A]

I only ask this because there is an option that says disable WPA. So I was wondering if that would disable devices connecting to it but still allow the booster to connect to devices.

[TimmyBGood]

@CK3A 

I'd think that's referring to Wi-Fi Protected Access v1, which is two decades old and horribly flawed from a cryptographic perspective.  I guess it might also mean disable WPA as in having no encryption at all.

[CK3A]

Would whitelisting the modem's IP address do effectively the same thing?

Blocking all connections other than the modem.

[jamesn123]

@CK3A 

Not at all. You are proposing something that is completely against how wireless networking & TCP/IP works it just isnt possible.

To be quite honest, your setup isnt ideal for gaming. What you should do is purchase a decent WiFi add-in card for the devices you currently have connected to the booster via ethernet & then connect them via WiFi directly to the hub and throw the booster out of the setup. This would very likely improve latency and possibly speed.