BT Full Fibre and Sky Q

[glenmore3685]

Hi

I'm after some guidance, I'm moving to a house that can get BT Full Fibre, up to 900mb. I also will get Sky Q (with the maximum allowed number of mini boxes). In my current house I have Virgin Media for BB and the old Sky+ (haven't felt the need to upgrade to Q).

So for the new house the question is am I better off going Sky Q/BT Full Fibre or Sky Q/ Sky Ultra fast BB. Ideally I'd prefer to only have 1 provider but I've read lots of negative things about the Sky mini boxes, particularly around the Wi-Fi speeds the mini boxes give to devices connected to them (35mb max I understand?)

I currently have the Virgin Media hub setup as a modem and use 2 Asus routers (AIMESH) and it all works pretty well. The router has Wi-Fi 6 so compatible devices can easily max out the BB connection (M350). My understanding is with BT Full Fibre you can use your own router so I could maintain this setup however I know its not as straight forward with Sky Q as the mini boxes need the main router to communicate with for everything to work.

For people using a combination of Sky Q and another BB provider, how does it work? Do the Sky mini boxes connect to the main Sky Q box or do you still need a Sky Hub for everything to work?

Thanks for any advice/guidance/experience anyone has in this area.

[xx99xx]

As far as I'm aware (from my own setup with BT fibre) just the main sky q box connects to your router and all q mini boxes connect to the main q box. Sky offer 'extenders' if a mini struggles to connect to the main box if too far away. But mini's don't connect direct to your router.

Not really had any issues having BT broadband and sky Q with mini's.

[SS2.]

BT broadband with Sky Q here (1 mainbox, 2 miniboxes, 3 BT discs) - works faultlessly, even in a remote garden building which broadcasts WiFi via a BT Disc connected to a wired LAN connection.

Miniboxes communicate with the main Sky box over the network, be that direct between boxes or routed via the BT Discs.

Complete standard set up at install, save for transferring the old Sky SSID and password to the new BT Hub such that I didn't have to change the login details of all my devices (and those of friends and family).

Edited by SS2. on Wednesday 7th July 18:37

[QuartzDad]

BT FTTP 900 and Sky Q here with 1 mini box, it just works. No extra hardware, only using the BT Smart Hub 2. I much prefer the increased speeds over any perceived one supplier advantage.

[FunkyGibbon]

Zen 900mb fibre, TP Link RL605 router (connected direct to the Openreach ONT), Router connected to TP Link switch, ASUS AI Mesh router (in AP mode) connected to switch, 3 AI Mesh nodes, and Sky Q Main and 4 minis.

It all works fine. The Sky Q and the mini's connect via their own 5Mhz wifi channel.

So, IMHO, go for the 900Mbs from BT (or Zen)

HTH

[glenmore3685]

Thanks all for the contributions.

Looks like BT FF 900mb and Sky Q is the best option, especially as I don't need 2 routers as initially feared.

I assume the main Sky Q box can connect to the main router either wirelessly or wired? Do the Mini boxes still act as Wi-Fi repeaters in this configuration?

Thanks again.

[QuartzDad]

The Q box does support wired and wireless.

I'm pretty sure the minis only work as WiFi repeaters if you have Sky BB.

[glenmore3685]

QuartzDad said:

The Q box does support wired and wireless.

I'm pretty sure the minis only work as WiFi repeaters if you have Sky BB.

Great, thanks

[anonymoususer]

anonymous said:

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The Virgin superhub you have is poor in normal mode
Use it in modem route and pop your own router in to do the err routing

[anonymoususer]

anonymous said:

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There is a difference between modem mode and just switching off the wi-fi