Sky Hub - Gigafast vs Sky Q and limited speeds

[Keaney2023]

Hi, i'm on sky gigafast and recently had a engineer out to fit a booster as we had some slow speeds in the house. We have a few mini boxes too, one is wired on Cat5e and one is wireless.

It seems sky mini boxes are defaulted to go into ECO mode which turns the hotspot off in them the engineer said which was the first thing he sorted. Great i thought!

He then advised that there are new Sky hubs coming but they dont work with Q yet, Sky will be charging extra for these and my current hub will be limited to 500mb (assuming internal wifi speeds).

My question being, does anyone know about these hubs?

Why should i pay more for one when i'm on a gigafast package.

Another option is obviously a gaming router

[cookiemonsteruk]

@Keaney2023 

The sky max hub is a wifi 6 hub but not compatible with the mini box side of the sky q setup

[Keaney2023]

What about if it was on a wired connectioin to the mini hubs through Cat6?

[TimmyBGood]

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@Keaney2023 wrote:

He then advised that there are new Sky hubs coming but they dont work with Q yet, Sky will be charging extra for these and my current hub will be limited to 500mb (assuming internal wifi speeds).

My question being, does anyone know about these hubs?

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Your engineer is six months behind the times.

https://www.skygroup.sky/article/Sky-Broadband-releases-its-most-powerful-WiFi-yet 

[cookiemonsteruk]

@Keaney2023 

That would be the preferred option

[TimmyBGood]

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@Keaney2023 wrote:

my current hub will be limited to 500mb

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The Sky Broadband Hub has gigabit ethernet ports, but is 802.11ac rather than the 802.11ax of the Max Hub.

[TimmyBGood]

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@Keaney2023 wrote:

Why should i pay more for one when i'm on a gigafast package.

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The Sky Broadband Hub supports gigabit as far as its own ethernet ports, which is what is required.

No ISP 'guarantees' anything like gigabit WiFi: BT has only just launched a WiFi 6 router (under EE branding)

[Keaney2023]

@TimmyBGood  yeah i seen that and thought mine is the black hub one so am I missing out on something. What is the point of gigafast if im limited to my internal wifi speed network

[Keaney2023]

My other option is to fall onto my Linkysys Velop mesh system which i run as a second wifi system thats wired to the main hub.... maybe that has faster wifi speeds and I stick a few switches on wired connects to provide it for those and the sky mini box

[TimmyBGood]

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@Keaney2023 wrote:

What is the point of gigafast if im limited to my internal wifi speed network

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Mostly to supply 'enough' bandwidth for multiple devices simultaneously.  Almost no individual hardware items actually benefit from more than a small fraction of such bandwidth: UHD streaming is around 30Mbs at most, for example.  Anyway, client devices have to be Wifi 6 specified to benefit from a WiFi 6 signal.

Gigafast also has better outbound speed, which is useful for, say, prolific YouTube content creators.

[TimmyBGood]

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@Keaney2023 wrote:

 I stick a few switches on wired connects to provide it for those and the sky mini box

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A Q Mini uses about 3 Mbs its own purposes.

[TimmyBGood]

@Keaney2023 

Essentially the only point of feeding many hundreds of megabits to a single computing device is where it's carrying out a massive download (a 60GB CoD patch for example), but even then the difference between 500Mbs and 900Mbs is the length of a cup of tea*.

*actually about seven minutes ; )