05 Sep 2024 05:40 PM
I have Sky Q wired to a TP LINK Archer 600 V2 4G router with a Poynting aerial. My neighbour has exactly the same set up. Because 4G reception is better in my house I have both of the aerials and 4G routers in my house with CAT 5 cables going between the routers and the SkyQ boxes. It all works fine.
I did once connect both Sky Q boxes to the same router and they started to interfere with each other with my recordings appearing on their Sky Q box and vice versa, so we don't do that anymore.
However, I would like to be able to have a Plan B in case one of the routers breaks down such that we can both use the same router.
The routers have both a main network and a guest network with different SSIDs and there is a way of telling the router that I do not want my guests to be able to access my network.
My question is: Can I connect my neighbours Sky Q box using a cable (which will use my main network) and connect my box wirelessly using the Guest network. Since the two boxes will connect to networks with different SSIDs will they be sufficiently segregated and not interfere with each other?
Thanks Allen
05 Sep 2024 05:57 PM - last edited: 05 Sep 2024 07:54 PM
Posted by a Superuser, not a Sky employee. Find out moreSSID's are not a segregation method - they may well be on the same subnet.
As you've discovered multiple main Q boxes are not supported on the same subnet.
I believe a VLAN would be required to sufficiently segregate them.
05 Sep 2024 06:27 PM - last edited: 05 Sep 2024 06:37 PM
Posted by a Superuser, not a Sky employee. Find out more
As @PandJ2020 indicates, that might work if it's a 'real' Guest service which is automatically VLANed to be entirely separate.
Note that Sky servers may well object to seeing two main Q boxes behind the same public IP.
05 Sep 2024 09:54 PM
Thanks. How do I tell if they are 'separately VLAN'd'? Is it the sort of thing I can see by logging into the router?
05 Sep 2024 10:14 PM - last edited: 05 Sep 2024 10:15 PM
Posted by a Superuser, not a Sky employee. Find out moreThey won't have VLAN's.
It's probably too advanced for most home users. (Supplied broadband routers will not have the facility)
The TP LINK may have the functionality - refer to the manufacturers website and/or forum.
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