Sky q fully ethernet setup with sky broadband

[Gym10]

Hi all,

I will keep this simple.

I have sky broadband FFTP 500mb

I have a sky q main box connected by ethernet to my sky hub.

I have four sky mini boxes all connected by ethernet.

This was all setup by sky engineer.

Aim: To use the mini boxes as hotspots!

I have noticed that on my main sky q box the wifi is switched off. (Engineer menu)

In addition two of four sky q mini boxes have the wifi switched off. (Enginner menu)

On this basis, as the main sky q box has the wifi switched off does this mean the minis will not be acting as hotspots even though the whole system is hard wired?

Even though the sky q minis are hard wired to ethernet do they need their individual wifi switched on for them to act as hotspots?

Any advice/confirmstion gratefull👍🏻

[TimmyBGood]

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@Gym10 wrote:

Even though the sky q minis are hard wired to ethernet do they need their individual wifi switched on for them to act as hotspots?

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Yes they do: WiFi switched off is all WiFi.

Also note that the now antique (2016) Mini box WiFi can only sling a fraction of that kind of broadband speed: for a start they only have 100Mbs ethernet chips and will only broadcast 2.4Ghz.

[Gym10]

Thank you.

So main box (hard wired) wifi switched on.

All my sky q mini (hard wired) wifi switched on.

I got my sky q box and all mini in 2022 so guess they are different than the 2016 version?

Appreciate your help 👍🏻

[stereohaven · Accepted solution]

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@Gym10 wrote:

I got my sky q box and all mini in 2022 so guess they are different than the 2016 version?

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Nope, they are all still the same hardware.

If you want to make the most of that connection on other devices you should look at a more modern WiFi mesh.

Leave the Q mesh to just service TV across the system.

[Gym10]

My system is hardwired so i do not need the wifi for that purpose.

Just needed the wifi hotspots fir better wifi for phones and other devices 👍🏻