Sorry, I was asking about when he was part of the fibre testing team

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

Sorry, I was asking about when he was part of the fibre testing team

Gotcha!

It works i am the live example.

I am using a billion 8800nl in bridge mode as my modem (a hg612 would work also) and a asus ac68 as my router. My sky hub arrived before activation and I had the auth info ready to paste into my asus on the activation day.

I didnt even use the skyhub for 1 minute on the service, I had obtained the auth info from the device prior to the activation date.

How

Problems is the New Sky Hub is needed to get the best out of Sky Q apparently.

well I have no tv other than freesat so I only pay sky for broadband (and the required voice line).

SkyQ if it can accept a network input I assume will work just fine, but if it only works when its actually used as the router then that could be a problem yes.

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

SkyQ if it can accept a network input I assume will work just fine, but if it only works when its actually used as the router then that could be a problem yes.

I believe if you use the new SkyQ hub (ISP router) then the homeplug and distributed WiFi AP support in the other Q boxes is activated. If you use any other router, the SkyQ boxes are just clients on either ethernet or WiFi networks, and the homeplug isn't.

That's how I understood the FAQs.

I think there is a way for these to work as a normal network client, because sky will have tv customers who are not sky broadband customers. Enforcing their broadband service for this would limit their potential sales.

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

I think there is a way for these to work as a normal network client, because sky will have tv customers who are not sky broadband customers. Enforcing their broadband service for this would limit their potential sales.

Agreed, as I said in my post you replied to: "If you use any other router, the SkyQ boxes are just clients on either ethernet or WiFi networks, and the homeplug isn't used"

I know of people who prefer Sky TV but have Virgin Media broadband for example.

Sky must be extremely worried about the future of their consumer broadcasting. Various forms of streaming such as Netflix etc are starting to make inroads and if these new "Kodi boxes" hitting the market for under £60 are anything to go by, that future certainly isn't rosy.

yep, sorry I was just agreeing with you.