Sky max pods

[JimM1]

@Bails147 What you are trying to do then the new Sky Max pods will NOT be playing well, And it is the ONE just inside the home that is doing so, Either extend the Ethernet cable back to the main Sky Max hub, or if speed is not going to be a killer you could try to powerline between the Pod and the Hub, but for sure i would get at least a powerline with TWO ethernet ports as a minimum.

[Masterjee]

Sorry, if I've missed something. 

Currently I've had to use an old router, set as an access point, at one end of the house, connected via CAT6 cable. It's giving me speeds over 800Mbs. 

When I try to connect the Sky Max Pod to the same cable, it will not give me speeds anywhere near that! 

The Sky engineer tried to sort it too.

He couldn't get it to work either.

He mentioned that this was a known issue and they'd release a firmware update in June. His advise was to keep doing what I'm currently doing till then...

[JimM1]

@Masterjee Your scenario is not the same as the one for @Bails147 is trying to do and achieve from his older Sky system to the newer sky max control, the pods and the old sky Q mesh work completely different.

[Bails147]

Hi,

Thank you for the replies. 

It is not possible for me to extend the Ethernet cable all the way back to the hub as the location of the hub and fibre port does not allow this. 

How would I use the powerline adapters with the pods? I have connected one to the hub and the other into the outbuilding which is approximately 20m away but there appears to be no connection. 

I have also connected one of the sky max pods, to the other, using the run of Ethernet cable between my house and the outbuilding but that doesn't work either. Granted, the pod in the home is not connected to the router via Ethernet. Could that be the issue? 

I just don't understand, before I upgraded to the max set up, The old (white) booster was in my kitchen, wirelessly connected to the router and then I hard wired using Ethernet from the booster to my sky Q mini box in the outbuilding and everything worked fine as well as having internet connection in th outbuilding. Sky told me I would be able to do the same with the new max set up but clearly I can't. 

can I revert back to my old set up do you think? I still have the old equipment. 

[Bails147]

Hi MasterJee,

How are you using an old router as an access point please? I have an old Sky router. Can I do it with that? 

will the router need to be connected to my

hub using Ethernet for it to work or can I use the pods? 

cheers

[JimM1]

@Bails147 Say what powerline adapter you are using, but 1st one at the hub, 2nd one at the kitchen booster pod, not out in the hut/shed! Ideally one at the Pod has TWO ethernet ports, the cable from the shed to one off those ports on the powerline, and the pod with a new link patch cable to the other port on the powerline. 

[Masterjee]

https://www.broadband.co.uk/broadband/help/router-wifi-extender

Try following the instructions on here...