Hi All
Im 'all in' with sky products with a 2tb main q box, 3 mini boxes, a sky booster, a sky router and recently sky 900mbs full fibre. For 2 years, since we've moved, to a fairly moderately sized new build, is the notorious issues range between the WiFi nodes. I've moved both main boxes and minis out of cabinets and in 1 case positioned the box in a different room from the tv in order the improve the signal between the products. An engineer visit did confirm, that they are at the very limit, even with the booster, of being able to talk fluently with each other. It's a modern house with plasterboard walls so it's quite disappointing when we are talking distances of only 20ft between nodes. One mini box in particular has a unstable connection (hence moved it round to corner from the room the tv is in) but as you all know, it get annoying. This frustration has worsened as we've made the jump to full fibre. I can get 800+mbs at the hub, but due to the WiFi, struggle to get 10mbs at the devices.
I frustrated enough to turn off the sky WiFi, cat6 cable the house and hardwire the tv equipment and replace the sky mesh with different hardware in order to definitively fix it.
However, in the meantime, due to the new wiring all being on the same ring, I thought I would power line the furthest minibox back to the router as proof of concept
Firstly, in spite of secret menu selection to force of the WiFi, it still turns itself back on, and the picture is unstable when ethernet'ed. In fact it's more even unstable than just a WiFi connection. I'm aware of trying to get the mini box just to default to Ethernet but it appears to try and re-establish a WiFi connection. Logically, as everything is sky, I should be able to leave WiFi on and still Ethernet/powerline back to the hub. But it doesn't work.
Any ideas before I have to start rewiring?
