@TechmanagerMal Sky Glass does not operate using mesh wifi itself as each unit just operates as a network client. When Sky Q launced in 2016 domestic mesh networking was not widely available. Sky bought a system from Airties which was fairly advanced then but now main stream networking suppliers like TP-Link, Netgear, Ubiquiti etc have introduced far more advanced systems. Some of which do use dedicated wifi signals for backhaul but you can improve the performance of Sky Q networks if you know what you are doing..
Mesh wifi nodes (any Q TV box or suitable booster and the Sky hub each act as nodes) communicate with any other node in range so you have multiple potential routes back to the Sky hub. Improve the speed of that backhaul by using say an ethernet connection improves the wifi speeds. Mesh networks are optimised for reliability rather than out right speed.
The system Airties developed can only handle so many simultaenous routing options without slowing down. Sky have set a hard limit of 8 nodes as adding more nodes than that will slow down wifi traffic on a Q network. In my experience the best performance was achieved by using the ethernet ports on the two most distant Q minis connected to powerline adapters back to the hub. I got a consistent 400Mb/s over this network more than ample for any domestic network especially as in 2016 I was limited to 80Mb/s external bandwidth..
I had 4 nodes on my network a Sky hub, a main Q box and 2Q minis spead over 3 levels. Late last year I switched to Sky Glass so lost the 3 network nodes the Q boxes provided and as Sky Glass is very sensitive to issues with data feed I bought a three node TP-Link Deco M4 mesh system. This runs in Access Point mode with the Sky hubs wifi disabled which gives me similar wifi speeds without using powerline - for some reason my Deco units dont play nicely with my Powerline adapters.
I could have paid more and bought a faster wifi Deco M9 6 mesh system to support speeds up to 900Mb/s whch costs over twice as much. However I judged that given the most demanding application I run is streaming UHD video to my 4 Glass units (3 pucks and one TV) which uses under 35Mb/s per stream that was not something worth paying for much as I am happy my car which can only manage 150mph rather than pay more for one that does 200mph which I will never be able to use given UK speed limits..Everyone has their own use case but I doubt few if any run apps that can take advantage of network speeds over 500Mb/s.
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65inch Sky Glass, 3 Sky Streaming Pucks, Sky Ultrafast + and Sky SR213(white Wifi Max hub) main Wifi from 3 TP-Link Deco M4 units in access point mode
