The future of Sky Q

[Edward3345]

Hi,

You may be correct,all I was saying was that I cannot see any dish near my home. I walk my dog around the area and there is no sign of any dish. It may be as you say many miles away. We do have a B.T. depot in the town close to where Zi live it's about 1.5 miles away,maybe they have a great big dish....???

[Invisiblename]

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@nigea99 wrote:

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@Invisiblename wrote:

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@Edward3345 wrote:

Already said why I can't do that,I am Disabled....!!

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Then you will just have to accept what you have been told by others that there MUST be a Sky dish connected to your Sky Q box... that's the only way it can receive broadcasts.

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I presume you have seen my earlier posts regarding a communal feed

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Yep, and your following message confirmed the fact that a dish must be connected (even though via a fibre connection)

[nigea99]

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@Invisiblename wrote:

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@nigea99 wrote:

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@Invisiblename wrote:

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@Edward3345 wrote:

Already said why I can't do that,I am Disabled....!!

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Then you will just have to accept what you have been told by others that there MUST be a Sky dish connected to your Sky Q box... that's the only way it can receive broadcasts.

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I presume you have seen my earlier posts regarding a communal feed

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Yep, and your following message confirmed the fact that a dish must be connected (even though via a fibre connection)

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Apologies @Invisiblename I mis-interpreted your post (not sure why) 

[nigea99]

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@Edward3345 wrote:

Hi,

You may be correct,all I was saying was that I cannot see any dish near my home. I walk my dog around the area and there is no sign of any dish. It may be as you say many miles away. We do have a B.T. depot in the town close to where Zi live it's about 1.5 miles away,maybe they have a great big dish....???

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@Edward3345  Who knows where it might be located.

BTW It need not be any bigger than a domestic dish - although the chances are it is a bit larger to ensure it doesn't suffer as much in thunderstorms and other thick cloud etc. 

[TimmyBGood]

@Edward3345 

I suspect the confusion is that Q can work without a dish: it just doesn't.  FIRS setups where the communal dish is not local to the dwelling units and the feed arrives over an optical network connection are rare, but absolutely do exist.

https://www.ofnl.co.uk/help-advice/your-communal-satellite-system/ 

One supplier quotes up to 10 kilometre range for their FIRS distribution, which would make spotting the dish rather challenging.

[Edward3345]

Hi,

But I have fiber to the house. I have the sky 500 GPS and it is way faster than you can get from a dish..? I definitely do not have a dish myself and there is no dish near my property. Even if as some say on here that it may be a communial dish somewhere or a dish miles away could that give me the speeds I am getting..?? I'm not sure if it could........

[PandJ2020]

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@Edward3345 wrote:

Hi,

But I have fiber to the house. I have the sky 500 GPS and it is way faster than you can get from a dish..? I definitely do not have a dish myself and there is no dish near my property. Even if as some say on here that it may be a communial dish somewhere or a dish miles away could that give me the speeds I am getting..?? I'm not sure if it could........

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FIRS is a combined product.

Broadband and satellite signals are multiplexed over the same fibre.  A communal dish is providing the feed to the Q box, not your internet connection.

[Edward3345]

Hi,

At least I'm happy with my Sky Q box,I get all the channels I want plus a very fast broadband connection thanks to open reach for installing it, all is working fine. I'm not really bothered on how the signal gets to me I'm just glad it does with no worries. Thank you everyone for all your input on this subject,I do read and digest all your comments.........👌👍

[Chodley]

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@Edward3345 wrote:

Hi,

But I have fiber to the house. I have the sky 500 GPS and it is way faster than you can get from a dish..? I definitely do not have a dish myself and there is no dish near my property. Even if as some say on here that it may be a communial dish somewhere or a dish miles away could that give me the speeds I am getting..?? I'm not sure if it could........

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Think you mean 500Mb/s

500Gb/s would be very impressive indeed.

As an aside, the dish is actually receiving way more than 500Mb (each UHD channel is about 25Mb and each HD maybe 5Mb and there are a LOT of them) but your sky box can only tune into a limited selection of that broadcast at any one time.