Sky fibre with 2 mini and 2 boosters and want to upgrade to wifi6

[Keaney2023]

Hi all, I've been looking at the various posts on changing the sky router to a ASUS one to try and improve the WiFi speeds in the house.

my current setup of Sky fibre gigafast is:

Sky hub hardwired to sky q through a switch. Cat 5e cable runs from switch to a sky mini box at the other side of the house. Theres another sky mini in another room connected via WiFi, I have a booster in one room of the house, another in the garage which is seperate to the house.

we moved house last year and it's in a mobile black spot so any calls need to be on WiFi to our mobiles.

Theres certain rooms that have a low WiFi connections and have had a sky engineer out who placed the minis into active mode and not energy saver which helps a little.

I also have a Linksys velop WiFi 5 mesh connected to the switch on bridge mode which some devices use including our home CCTV system.

Also a Linksys WRT3200 router connected to the switch on the hub to work as a seperate VPN network.

we don't use a landline.

So essential 3 wifis in the house, all seem to work ok independently but reading about WiFi 6, 6e and 7 im think its time to consider upgrading.

ideally would like WiFi to provide the same speeds which provide the house and change my switch to 10gb ports but know the current sky hub would be pointless on that setup. So a ASUS router that works but also enables the sky mini box to access it wirelessly and the boosters to still work incase wifi6 doesn't give a full solution.

I did think just upgrade my Linksys velop to a wifi 6e which will improve WiFi speeds but still going to be throttled by the sky hub Ethernet port speed.

we're a family of 4, gaming devices and streaming 4K content.

thabks

Grant

[Chrisee]

@Keaney2023 quite why you think you need very fast wiifi is your business but I assume you are aware that in practice very few devices can use much less need wifi speeds over 100Mb/s? Of course when downloading data you can use higher speeds but as many people find server operator cap download sppeds to maximise the number of connections served so you rarely get close to gigabit speeds in practice but still the speed test results look lovely. 

That point covered the issue will be your Sky Q system which is getting to be quite old tech. Where you dont have a Sky hub in the network any boosters or Q minis requiring a wifi connection have to be connected to a closed 5GHz SSID produced by the main Q box which in turn uses the third party 2.4GHz signal to connect to the internet. The alterntive is to turn off their wifi and use ethernet. 

Asus kit is a good choice as it is relatively easy to configure and is worth while if you have multiple gamers in your household. 

There is one other point you may want to consider is that with Openreach's current implementation  of full fibre uses GPON where up to 32 connections share a single fibre from the exchange which can carry 2.5Gb/s. That maybe upgraded at some point but currently is the situation as far as they have said.

[Keaney2023]

Thanks... just figured if I'm going to upgrade my system then future proof it with 10gb switches, cat6 lines.

my main problem is WiFi drop out around the house, so did think maybe just adding the velop 6e mesh to my current mesh and use one as a primary node will sort it out... till sky bring out a wifi6 solution with sky q.

Got my self into reading about a few changing the main router which lead me down the path of doing that but not sure if that means with the updated router and mesh6e if I would be able to get away from the sky boosters and if the sky mini WiFi box would still work.

[Chrisee]

@Keaney2023 Sky Q is no longer being developed by Sky as Satellite broadcasting has a limited future. However the Sky Stream pucks have wifi6 chips. Of course given the maximum bandwidth UHD broadcasts use is less than 30Mb/s it is some what overkill. 

[TimmyBGood]

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@Keaney2023 wrote:

 future proof it with 10gb switches, cat6 lines.

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I'd suggest Cat6 cabling is a reasonable investment (being only marginally more expensive than Cat5e) but 10Gb switching is massively over the top for a domestic environment and you'd pay a significant premium for such hardware with almost no conceivable client devices gaining any benefit.

Purchased at this point in time, any such switches are likely to have failed from old age long before any reasonable use case emerges (if it ever does)