Sky Q Hub question

[Adam B]

Just done the deed and spent £200 upgrading to Q (box + 2 mins) as part of my house refurb (includes cat 5 cabling from various rooms to where I am putting the Q main box)

My current Sky Hub has 4 Ethernet ports and I use them all - Sky box / Sonos / TV / NAS drive (holds photos and music). In fact I just added Hive heating controls so had to disconnect the TV and rely on wifi link instead.

I was always told hard-wire to router where possible so I did.

The new Sky Q Hub only has 2 Ethernet ports whereas I was hoping it had more not less, so am now concerned.

I understand Sonos has to have one hard wire connection to your router.
I understand Hive has to have a hard wire connection to your router.

Will I have a problem or will the quicker wifi of the Q hub compensate?
Do I connect the other items to the cat 5 network and bypass the issue?

[Adam B]

Anyone?

[Chongwong]

You might need a small Ethernet switch, the Q hub ports are both gigabits ports rather than the old hub which had 10/100s. So even with a switch your wired connections should not be any slower.

[bristolracer]

Make sure any switch you buy is a gigabit one

The sky q minis get fussy with anything slower

[Adam B]

thanks both - can you share a link to an ethernet switch please (not sure what this is)

so my Q wifi should be a fast as hard-wiring to the old hub?

"Ethernet transfer speeds" are indeed 1gb - do I need different ethernet cables or does this just push the data down quicker?

Q hub has 5GHz (802.11ac) in addition to 2.4GHz (802.11n) - so does it have a wifi signal on two different frequencies?

Ethernet ports down from 4 to 2

Max connected devices up from 16/32 to 64 - so presumably this will compensate

[rscott]

Something like this https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B001EVGIYG/ in either 5 or 8 port version would be fine.

If you can hardwire the Q boxes to the switch, then that'll give you the most reliable setup.

[Adam B]

Much appreciated