25 Jan 2024 11:57 PM
Here in sunny N.Ireland we have a broadband company known as Fibrus.I tried Fibrus as it was £19.99 a month,much cheaper than Sky Broadband.It worked OK for a while with very good upload and download speeds but the it began disconnecting from Sky Q on a regular basis.Rebooting the Sky Q box worked sometimes.So did rebooting the Fibrus hub but a lot of the time it involved resetting the internet connection to the Sky box.This involved entering a long mixture of caps,numbers and lower case passwords which is a drag.Fibrus tell me there is a known issue with its hub and Sky Q (now they tell me).I just wondered if any other N,Ireland contributors had the same problem.
26 Jan 2024 12:36 AM
Posted by a Superuser, not a Sky employee. Find out moreThis is a pretty common type of problem across just about any ISP and router.
Worth trying getting a TPLink RE200 wifi extender. Has worked for a few people.
Keep the box though, just in case it has to go back 😉
26 Jan 2024 10:28 AM
Hi again Chodley.I raised the point because in all my years with Sky broadband I never had this problem but with Fibrus its become nearly a weekly occurrance,The thing is,other members of my family dont seem to have this problem,and theyre with Fibrus and Sky Q.The Sky box is literally 4 metres from the hub so its not a distance thing.I just wondered if any other NI customers had the same problem.
26 Jan 2024 10:34 AM
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@radiolistener wrote:
Here in sunny N.Ireland we have a broadband company known as Fibrus.I tried Fibrus as it was £19.99 a month,much cheaper than Sky Broadband.It worked OK for a while with very good upload and download speeds but the it began disconnecting from Sky Q on a regular basis.Rebooting the Sky Q box worked sometimes.So did rebooting the Fibrus hub but a lot of the time it involved resetting the internet connection to the Sky box.This involved entering a long mixture of caps,numbers and lower case passwords which is a drag.Fibrus tell me there is a known issue with its hub and Sky Q (now they tell me).I just wondered if any other N,Ireland contributors had the same problem.
Any possibilty to connect the Q box by Ethernet to your router?
26 Jan 2024 11:13 AM
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@radiolistener wrote:Hi again Chodley.I raised the point because in all my years with Sky broadband I never had this problem but with Fibrus its become nearly a weekly occurrance,The thing is,other members of my family dont seem to have this problem,and theyre with Fibrus and Sky Q.The Sky box is literally 4 metres from the hub so its not a distance thing.I just wondered if any other NI customers had the same problem.
I have this theory that
It also might be worth, given your box is so near the router, splitting the 5GHz SSID to a different name just in case it's confusing the Q. Maybe your friends only see the 2.4 (which Q uses with 3rd party ISPs) as 5 is out of range?
The wifi extender thing has worked for various non-Sky ISPs. As has using ethernet instead. And rarely so has changing DNS to cloudflare or google.
26 Jan 2024 05:24 PM
Thanx chaps.An ethernet cable is not favourable as it would involve a cable across the living room floor.The Skybox connection is already on 2.4ghz so I'm not sure.The fact that Fibrus said that there is a conflict with Sky Q I'll take witha pinch of salt because if that were the case then anybody with Q would be affected,which is not the case.I'll let it ride for the moment and see if anyone else from N.I. has anything to add.I may return to Sky broadband as I never had this problem with them.😊
26 Jan 2024 05:46 PM - last edited: 26 Jan 2024 05:46 PM
Posted by a Superuser, not a Sky employee. Find out moreYou'll find loads of people in here with all variations of non-Sky ISPs saying the same. It's just that Fibrus don't know how to fix it so don't want the support headache. I don't think there's anything specific to NI in this.
26 Jan 2024 09:10 PM
Sorry Chodley I was under the mistaken belief that Fibrus was confined to N.I. I now see it also covers part of Cumbria as well.My bad.
27 Jan 2024 02:03 AM
Posted by a Superuser, not a Sky employee. Find out moreNot so much that, but Q with ISPs all over the UK (including BT) have the same issues.
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