Does Sky q box act as a wifi hub ?

[Charlie+64]

Had our sky q box replaced recently as the old one gave up the ghost

The new one works great, but my question is 

Does the sky q box act as a wifi hub, if we turn the box off ( orange light ) our wifi turns off about 3am

Also our wifi signal is weaker than before so think other equipment is connecting through the box instead of the router ( which is better located in the centre of the house )

I turned off wifi on the box as it is connected via ethernet and the box was fine but nothing else had a wifi signal.

Didn't have this problem on the old box, so how can i stop this and make the sky router broadcast the wifi.

[oldfella · Accepted solution]

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@Charlie+64 wrote:

Had our sky q box replaced recently as the old one gave up the ghost

The new one works great, but my question is 

Does the sky q box act as a wifi hub, if we turn the box off ( orange light ) our wifi turns off about 3am

Also our wifi signal is weaker than before so think other equipment is connecting through the box instead of the router ( which is better located in the centre of the house )

I turned off wifi on the box as it is connected via ethernet and the box was fine but nothing else had a wifi signal.

Didn't have this problem on the old box, so how can i stop this and make the sky router broadcast the wifi.

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Hi @Charlie+64 

The Main Q box does not act as a hub but with Sky Broadband it does become a WiFi Hotspot and therefore available for other devices but only on the 2.4 Ghz band as far as I am aware.  (Not on Sky Broadband here)

The Sky Router however will transmit at both 5 Ghz and 2.4 GHZ.

Best to leave the main Q box WiFi on as it will create a WiFi mesh with the router.

Assume any devices you are using with WiFi are connected to the Router by WPS?

[Charlie+64]

Thank you for your answer 

It seems other devices are connecting through the sky q box. Will try turning it off and see if I can connect through the router.

[xenon81]

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@oldfella wrote:

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@Charlie+64 wrote:

Had our sky q box replaced recently as the old one gave up the ghost

The new one works great, but my question is 

Does the sky q box act as a wifi hub, if we turn the box off ( orange light ) our wifi turns off about 3am

Also our wifi signal is weaker than before so think other equipment is connecting through the box instead of the router ( which is better located in the centre of the house )

I turned off wifi on the box as it is connected via ethernet and the box was fine but nothing else had a wifi signal.

Didn't have this problem on the old box, so how can i stop this and make the sky router broadcast the wifi.

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Hi @Charlie+64 

The Main Q box does not act as a hub but with Sky Broadband it does become a WiFi Hotspot and therefore available for other devices but only on the 2.4 Ghz band as far as I am aware.  (Not on Sky Broadband here)

The Sky Router however will transmit at both 5 Ghz and 2.4 GHZ.

Best to leave the main Q box WiFi on as it will create a WiFi mesh with the router.

Assume any devices you are using with WiFi are connected to the Router by WPS?

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With Sky Broadband the Sky Q Hotspot uses 5GHz too, on other ISPs it's 2.4GHz only.

[oldfella]

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@xenon81 wrote:

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With Sky Broadband the Sky Q Hotspot uses 5GHz too, on other ISPs it's 2.4GHz only.

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Thanks for confirming @xenon81