Sky Glass - does it boost wi fi?

[GrahamG76]

Hello, I'm looking at getting Sky Glass. At the moment we have a Sky Q box in the living room and a Sky Q mini box in a bedroom. We've found the wi fi signal is reasonably good throughout the flat as a result of Sky Q as the box acts as a wi fi booster. If it's deactivated the signal weakens. Presumably changing to Sky Glass would remove this benefit - ie my question is - does Sky Glass act as a wi fi booster in the same way as the Sky Q box? My worry would be poorer broadband signal throughout the property as a result of switching away from Sky Q. I am considering Sky Glass or stream partly as I've just been told by Sky that an engineer won't be able to visit to sort out our dish until the end of March. The suspicion is that very strong winds yesterday (in Glasgow) knocked it out of alignment and they've been swamped with similar calls - understandably. Also I like recording from Sky and remote recording using the Sky Go app which I understand are not possible with Glass? 

[Mark39 · Accepted solution]

No, neither Sky Glass or Stream acts as a wifi booster. 

With Glass and Stream there's no recording service, but you can add to your Playlist items you would previously have recorded. Playlists work in much the same way as they do on Netflix, YouTube etc.

Note there are rumours of the possible announcement of a 'Glass 2' next month, so you might want to wait until then to see if there's any truth to them. 

[GrahamG76]

Thanks for this, very helpful. As a PS on a slightly different subject. Any thoughts on getting a local firm rather than a Sky engineer to look at fixing the dish (presumably getting it back into alignment) assuming they can attend before Sky can (at the end of March!) - is this advisable? Obviously it would be done at your own cost and risk. 

[Mark39]

@GrahamG76 I don't think Sky would have an issue with that (one less Sky engineer callout to make!).

There have been previous issues where a third party installer has installed a dish in a position which doesn't meet Sky's stringent health and safety requirements, but that wouldn't apply when re-aligning a dish in its current position, .