Sky broadband on asus router - sky Q Minis

[GMSKY007]

Hi

I'm running sky fulk fibre with an Asus router (sky router is unplugged and out of the loop). 

Everything is running fine, internet wise.

With regard to sky Q minis though, without a sky router they now try and connect directly to the main sky Q box which is far away.

I plugged in the sky broadband booster (which was previously setup when i had the sky router in place). 

Does anyone know, as that presumably has the same ssid as my will my devices also connect to that for internet and therefore slow it down rather than just provide a sky q boost? 

[Chrisee · Accepted solution]

@GMSKY007 with no Sky hub the Q minis connect by wifi to a closed 5GHz Sky SSID produced by the main Q box. You should be able to connect the Sky booster to the main Q box and it will act as a booster.

However you will have 2 5GHz wifi signals in the same property which unless they are on different channels will interfere. By default the Sky Q boxes use ch 36 to ch52 (Ch38 80MHz) if you can get your Asus touter to use a different range do so. If you cant or some devices  can't conectvtomthe higher channels you canswitch the Q boxes to use half the channel range ie ch36 40 MHz or ch44 40MHz. The setting is in the q boxes engineer's menu accrssed by navigating to settings and entering 0,0,1 before select.