Sky Q Ethernet signal improvement question

[C7020]

Currently running Sky Q, Broadband rounter, booster and 3 Q minis.

Our house is long with broadband route at one end and Sky Q main box at the other (hence the booster). 

There are a couple of solid walls the signal has to negotiate, but the booster helps in that regard - to a point.  The signal can be quite poor at times and drops outs frequently when using apps and the furthest Mini box only works for a short while before picture stutter and loss of signal all togther. (Ironically, this one is just a few feet away from the router!)

My hopeful solution is run an ethernet link between the Router and the main Q box. (and to one of the Mini boxes).  

Is this likely to improve signal stability rather than relying on the wifi?

[ksaro1]

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@C7020 wrote:

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My hopeful solution is run an ethernet link between the Router and the main Q box. (and to one of the Mini boxes).  

Is this likely to improve signal stability rather than relying on the wifi?

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Yes, this will make a big difference to watching on the Sky Q main box. However, your mini boxes will still rely on WiFi. So, the issues you mention with the mini boxes will remain. Can you wire them to ethernet too?

[C7020]

I could certainly use a two-into-one ethernet cable from the router to one of the boxes.  

[TwoBit]

I switched ages ago from Sky broadband to Virgin fibre but was still having wifi issues, due to being an old house with solid walls. In the garden I basically got no signal.

I bought myself 5 Deco M5 discs when they were on offer and created a mesh network. The router now runs as a modem with 1 deco disc plugged into it, the rest run via wifi. Since I've set up the mesh network I even get 80mb/s wifi connection at the bottom of the garden (on M350 package).

My mini box was struggling for connection until I plugged it via ethernet into one of the discs, but I think that was down to the settings, I've not tried changing as all works well.

An option for you.

[C7020]

I do a Deco 3 Mesh system running offf the router as well, on a different network, to run the ancillaries (Computers, ipads printers and other family linked stuff) so as not to clutter the sky Q network.

[Fergus+MacRoth]

I did exactly what you have suggested, and it works perfectly.

I'm with Virgin Media, but in any case had switched that to modem mode so I could use a more powerful router. But even between two bedrooms (one brick wall in the way) the Wi-fi connection was unreliable, with the mini box often going offline. Even the main Q box would sometimes struggle, even though it was only a couple of metres away from the router.

I wired both boxes to my home network and haven't looked back.

I hate Wi-fi.

[C7020]

Thank you all for your help and thoughts.  Will put into practice and see what happens.  Will post the result in due course.