Hi All,
just an update on my move from Sky Broadband to Starlink with Sky Q and 3 mini boxes. ....
drum roll ...
In short ..it all works fine but I have been very specific about my setup .
I have two distinct networks in the house. The Starlink one, from the Starlink router....and my house one from a TPlink router which is connected via ehternet to the Starlink router in "Dynamic IP mode". This means that the only devices directly attached to the Starlink router ( and hence network ) are the Sky boxes and one IP address for the TPlink router.
The main Q box is connected to the Starlink router over 5GHz wifi via an ethernet connection into a range extender ( which is linked to the Starlink router ). This way the Q box thinks its hard wired to the Starlink router.
The mni boxes are on wifi.
The key point here ...and I think this is why it all works.....is that I also have a sky booster 2 attached via wifi to it all. I dont see the booster doing anything...but whenever it is swithced on , the whole setup stabilises. If I switch it off, I get fuzzy pictures and lost connection to the minis etc. I think I read somewhere else that this is how someone else "fooled" their Q system into thinking it was attached to a Sky broadband net.....
Not sure how...but it works.
If you log into the booster...you can see the 2.4GHz connection to the Starlink wifi and the 5GHz connection to the Sky Q wifi mesh it uses.
So there we are.
Hope this helps .
