steve33shoreham
Established Member
Hi peeps,
I’m after general opinions and possible solutions as I think I have made a huge mistake in upgrading from SKY HD, which was faultlessly RF distributed to the other TVs in the house, to SKY Q with an intermittently connecting mini box!
Sky offered me a good deal to upgrade so the upside was being able to watch in both HD and on more than one channel on different TV’s.
It was only installed yesterday so I am wondering if it has to ‘bed in’ but over the last 24 hours the mini box has struggled to consistently connect (via a Sky Booster halfway) and stream.
Main box is hard wired to the router so the connection isn’t an issue at that end, it just seems to be from the Booster to the mini box.
Second problem, because the minibox wasn’t connecting properly this morning I was streaming from Netflix direct on the TV app and got an ‘insufficient bandwidth’ error, which I have never had before. (I also had Sonos beam connectivity issues first thing this morning too which may or may not be linked).
I am wondering if this is because the Sky Q is interfering with my Linksys Velop Mesh network, or is it an issue with my BT Hub 6 router, as it was faultless before.
On the plus side, I think the main box is very slick, the UHD content is great and the mini box when working, is fantastic too…..
However, with the old system although only one channel can be viewed throughout, the connection was flawless and because it was viewed from a distance, the analogue picture wasn’t that much of an issue and it was a watchable picture. (just not up close!)
TLDR summary
1) How have others solved connectivity issues to mini boxes? Powelines?
2) Would the Sky Q give me bandwidth issues either on my mesh network or on the BT Hub 6 router?
3) Do you wish you never upgraded to SKY Q?
I’m after general opinions and possible solutions as I think I have made a huge mistake in upgrading from SKY HD, which was faultlessly RF distributed to the other TVs in the house, to SKY Q with an intermittently connecting mini box!
Sky offered me a good deal to upgrade so the upside was being able to watch in both HD and on more than one channel on different TV’s.
It was only installed yesterday so I am wondering if it has to ‘bed in’ but over the last 24 hours the mini box has struggled to consistently connect (via a Sky Booster halfway) and stream.
Main box is hard wired to the router so the connection isn’t an issue at that end, it just seems to be from the Booster to the mini box.
Second problem, because the minibox wasn’t connecting properly this morning I was streaming from Netflix direct on the TV app and got an ‘insufficient bandwidth’ error, which I have never had before. (I also had Sonos beam connectivity issues first thing this morning too which may or may not be linked).
I am wondering if this is because the Sky Q is interfering with my Linksys Velop Mesh network, or is it an issue with my BT Hub 6 router, as it was faultless before.
On the plus side, I think the main box is very slick, the UHD content is great and the mini box when working, is fantastic too…..
However, with the old system although only one channel can be viewed throughout, the connection was flawless and because it was viewed from a distance, the analogue picture wasn’t that much of an issue and it was a watchable picture. (just not up close!)
TLDR summary
1) How have others solved connectivity issues to mini boxes? Powelines?
2) Would the Sky Q give me bandwidth issues either on my mesh network or on the BT Hub 6 router?
3) Do you wish you never upgraded to SKY Q?