Sky Q to a garden room - have a wired wifi, with Virgin, sky wifi in main house

[Stuart_Mac]

I have Virgin Wifi for my main internet connection, and the a sky wifi box wired to that in the house - which works the TVs in the house fine.

We have a garden room which I have had a wifi extender wired to the main Virgin router (for internet again), how can I also get sky into the garden room for a mini box on the TV in there?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

[oldfella]

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@Stuart_Mac wrote:

I have Virgin Wifi for my main internet connection, and the a sky wifi box wired to that in the house - which works the TVs in the house fine.

We have a garden room which I have had a wifi extender wired to the main Virgin router (for internet again), how can I also get sky into the garden room for a mini box on the TV in there?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

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Hi @Stuart_Mac 

Certainly the mini will not work on 3rd party WiFi or 3rd party WiFi extenders.

If all your other Q boxes are on Ethernet to your router then you could use the Ethernet from your router in the Garden room.  You would need a simple unmanaged Ethernet switch there so you could also connect your WiFi Extender.

[Stuart_Mac]

Thanks so much for coming back to me @oldfella appreciate the help - the setup atm is Virgin Wifi as my main internet connection in the house, managed switch with the Sky Wifi box on Cat6 to that, then main Sky Q & 2 Sky miniboxes all over (SkyWifi) in the house, but all internet devices use the Virgin Wifi.

Then to the Garden room there is a Cable from the Managed switch to a POE Access point for the Virgin Internet connection, what I'd now like to do is put a sky minibox in the garden room, but the Sky Wifi doesn't reach - os there a away to extend the Sky wifi using the switch and the cable from the house, without losing the Virgin Wifi?

Sorry a convoluted set-up I realise but Virgin was the only (Gigabit) Wifi option where we are.

Thank you again, really appreciate the advice.

[oldfella]

Looks like the only way you could do this is to run the Ethernet directly from your main Q box to the mini @Stuart_Mac 

However you will not have Virgin WiFi in the garden room unless you run another Ethernet cable.