Sky hub for BT Fibre?

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I currently have Sky Fibre 1Gig and (due to the price increase) I am thinking of jumping over to BT on their 500Mb Full Fibre at £35/month...

Will I have to use the BT router that they send me, or is there any way I can use my Sky Hub (I have Sky Q, 3 Minis and a Sky Booster)...

Thanks

In reply to a post by KevinM2:

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I currently have Sky Fibre 1Gig and (due to the price increase) I am thinking of jumping over to BT on their 500Mb Full Fibre at £35/month...

Will I have to use the BT router that they send me, or is there any way I can use my Sky Hub (I have Sky Q, 3 Minis and a Sky Booster)...

Thanks

The Sky router won't be compatible plus I think they will want the router back if you leave them. Long term I believe BT will cost you more than Sky with their higher in contract price increases but you may be able to negate that by using a cashback website.

Just out of interest...how would my Sky Q work if they take the router back? I was only looking to move my broadband, but keep my Sky TV (Sky Q)...how would the mini boxes connect with the main Sky Q box without a router?

Thanks

In reply to a post by KevinM2:

I am thinking of jumping over to BT on their 500Mb Full Fibre at £35/month...

BT FTTP 500 is currently only £31 pm unless you are adding some extras?

I think it maybe depends on your location...I have seen BT Fibre prices vary in price for me compared to what other people have been offered.

If I put my address in the BT system, it comes back with £34.99 for me on a 24 month contract (nothing else other than Fibre 500)...though I have seen other people offered it for £30.99 (on their site, not by negotiating on the phone), so I definitely think there is a location variation to their pricing....

In reply to a post by KevinM2:

Just out of interest...how would my Sky Q work if they take the router back? I was only looking to move my broadband, but keep my Sky TV (Sky Q)...how would the mini boxes connect with the main Sky Q box without a router?

Sorry, I don't have Sky Q so have no idea how it all hangs together when not using a Sky router.

Its worth saying many people don't use Sky for Broadband so it must be possible, others here may be able to advise.

In reply to a post by KevinM2:

Just out of interest...how would my Sky Q work if they take the router back? I was only looking to move my broadband, but keep my Sky TV (Sky Q)...how would the mini boxes connect with the main Sky Q box without a router?

This is a little worrying Linky

In reply to a post by KevinM2:

Just out of interest...how would my Sky Q work if they take the router back? I was only looking to move my broadband, but keep my Sky TV (Sky Q)...how would the mini boxes connect with the main Sky Q box without a router?

The main box can be connected via WiFi or wired ethernet https://www.sky.com/help/articles/setting-up-sky-q-c...

AFAIK they have some sort of wireless meshing for the mini boxes, although it may not be optimal if using a third-party router so wired connections may be better.

In reply to a post by tdw42:

AFAIK they have some sort of wireless meshing for the mini boxes, although it may not be optimal if using a third-party router so wired connections may be better.

The “AirTies” mesh system only works if you have the Q router for Sky Broadband. It is possible to use the Q mini boxes as repeaters with any WiFi, as I just saw on sky.com if that is important to you.

And my neighbours have an offer for £26.99 for 500Mbps whereas for my father-in-law it is £36.99

Sky Q will work fine if you switch broadband.

I’d say the sky router is actually pretty poor - the last time I looked it had only 2 Ethernet ports and the Wi-Fi wasn’t great.

BT’s router gave me a much better local network performance.

In reply to a post by Kr1s69:

I’d say the sky router is actually pretty poor - the last time I looked it had only 2 Ethernet ports and the Wi-Fi wasn’t great.

The latest router has 4 ports, although one of them is the WAN for FTTP..

They do work with other providers, I had Plusnet with 2 extra boxes. They won't work however if you don't have a multiroom subscription.

All Sky equipment is loaned to you now,(unless you still have old kit, but Q isn't classed as old kit) and it must be returned upon end of contract. If you don't they will bill you £60, but this doesn't mean you now own the equipment, it is merely a "fine" of sorts. Not sure how they keep appearing all over an auction site!

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In reply to a post by KevinM2:

Just out of interest...how would my Sky Q work if they take the router back? I was only looking to move my broadband, but keep my Sky TV (Sky Q)...how would the mini boxes connect with the main Sky Q box without a router?

This is a little worrying Linky

That is a bit out of date. Sky added the option to allow mini boxes to act as extender with any ISP over a year ago. It has to be manually enabled but the caveat is it only works on the 2.4GHz band.

Going back to @KevinM2 query. The mini boxes connect to the main Q box not the router so you will need to do a network reset on the main box and get that connected first preferably with an ethernet cable because on wifi it will only connect to the 2.4GHz band. Then do a network reset on the minis and connect them using WPS to the main box.