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Message posted on ‎01 Jul 2024 12:57 PM

can you use you broadband on holiday

i read online that you can use your sky q mini box as a mobile hotspot when away from home but dont know how. is this possible

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Message posted on ‎01 Jul 2024 01:13 PM

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No, you've read it wrong...

 

you can use a mobile as a hot spot but not your mini...

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Message posted on ‎01 Jul 2024 02:40 PM

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@cassy621 wrote:

i read online that you can use your sky q mini box as a mobile hotspot when away from home but dont know how. is this possible

I would love to know where you read it as per @PandJ2020  that info is complete nonsense.

 

Even if you took your mini on Holiday (which itself would be a breach of T & C's) it could never work as it needs to be connected to your main Q box and simply put your broadband can't follow you around from one place to another as it is a physical connection within your home.

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Message posted on ‎01 Jul 2024 03:18 PM - last edited: ‎01 Jul 2024 03:19 PM

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@cassy621 

 

A Q Mini box can be a 'wireless hotspot' when at your home address: where Sky is the ISP it does so automatically by rebroadcasting the same WiFi SSID as the Sky Hub.  This is a very different function to a 'mobile' (cellular) hotspot.

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