Sky wifi transmitting wifi 5 even though it's switched off

[Brighthelmstone]

We have a Sky Q router (SR203) and a repeater (SE210) on the landing so the kids can get their precious Netflix in bedrooms.

We tried wifi 5 in the past but our Victorian walls objected!   So we have 5 disabled on the router and just use 4,  which works fine for us.

So why is it that I can still see a wifi 5 signal that pops up about every five minutes and then disappears?    It's defiantly emanating within our house as the SSID is the same as our wifi 4.

[TimmyBGood]

@Brighthelmstone 

You appear to be confusing 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz WiFi frequency bands with Wifi 5 (802.11ac) and WiFi 4 (802.11n) standards.  These are not the same thing: both the items of hardware you mention are 802.11ac whether or not the 5Ghz SSID is disabled.

[Brighthelmstone]

I see what you mean about WiFi 4 & 5.

To clarify,  I have an intermittent 5GHz signal being transmitted by the Sky devices even though only 2.4GHz is enabled.

[Chrisee]

@Brighthelmstone do you have Sky Q TV boxes as these act as dualband wifi hot spots while you can turn off the 5GHz band on ezch box by going into the engineer's menu - navigate to settings enter 0,0,1 before select - it is not recommended as you are likely to cause issues with the connection if any Q mini boxes to the main box.

[Brighthelmstone]

We don't have any mini boxes. I have turned off 2.4 & 5 WiFi on our Sky Q box.

So the only devices that should be transmitting is the router and extender. One of them is putting out 5GHz.

[JPR007]

@Brighthelmstone How is the booster connected? It could be you are picking up its Wi-Fi back haul to the router which is why it keeps disappearing if it's not connected via Ethernet.

[Brighthelmstone]

The router and repeater are connected via Ethernet cable.

[Brighthelmstone]

I wanted to post what I found out about this question for anyone else who reads this post in future.

I found that the Sky wifi repeater transmits an intermittant 5GHz wifi signal all the time. This still happens when 5GHz is disabled on the  Sky Q router (SR203) and a repeater (SE210). It also happens when all devices are physically connected via ethernet cable.

I can only assume the repeater is constantly 'looking' for new Sky devices to connect to.

In my opinion, this is bad practice.