Well thats the point,Sky Q is supported by built in Homeplug in The Sky Q hub but disabled at present.

I use Solwise Home Plugs at present and all work well with Sky HD,and once they enable there built in Homeplug there wouldn't be any need to use them i guess,but then again what about the set up i have at present with a Ethernet lead going from the Sky Hub to a Solwise Homeplug in the office and then i have one at the back of all my Tv stuff for the Tv,Sky Hd,Playstation 4 and Xbox One all running through a netgear ethernet switch,something I'm having to use with the new Sky Q hub as for some unknown reason they thought they would release a premium product with just 2 ethernet ports.

So to be honest once they enable the Sky Q hub and its Homeplug capabilities i don't really know how i am going to have all my other devices enabled if i don't use my solwise i use at present,its only really I'm guess for there Sky Q system.

To be honest mate the whole lot confuses me at present and as of this moment i wished i had just left my broadband contract with BT for now because the only reason i got Sky Fibre was for Sky Q.

And from what i learned regarding talking to the Sky Q girl this morning,it won't be many weeks before they will be giving this system to none Sky Broadband customers,she actually said it was all in place and they were just waiting for the word to roll it out to none broadband customers.

I wouldn't mind guessing that this will happen before March ends,but this is another confusing issue,the Sky Q system gets its best use apparently with the Sky Hub,unless they mean the alternative is third party homeplug adaptors .

Thats the only thing different in this Sky Hub than other routers i know.....Built in Homeplug.

It seems the way forward is to get your dhcp username:password
Use a 3rd party router that supports dhcp auth (e.g. asus)
Then proceed with the SkyQ and just have the SkyQ as a client box not the router hub.

Also on sky FTTC there is no 10 day training, thats mistrained staff for you.

No and I was looking forward to your review

So SKYQ being setup tomorrow morning. Can't wait, well I do have to wait. Will let you know how I get on. I do plan to run the service over homeplugs, but will initially use out of the box Wifi.

Regarding their router - this does not surprise me. Sky have always had poor wireless hubs, the DG934G range on their old router literally travelled through 1 wall in my house and no more... The SR101 and SR102 had good range, which compared nicely to virgins hub, although the HomeHub 5 puts it to shame with range going through an extra 2 walls.

SR102 would penetrate 3 walls before connection failed, HH5 will get through 5 walls on 2.4Ghz. Same location...

As I've said a few times here, Sky's connection is very good, the broadband is fantastic... The hardware is what lets it down, if you get your own router - or alternatively piggyback your BT Hub, I'm sure it'll be a lot better.

Let us know how you get on.

You could ask Sky for a booster - I think it would really help.

http://www.sky.com/help/articles/connecting-a-sky-q-...

I didn't use the Bt Hub and believe it or not they have now sent me a letter and email asking for it back .

In reply to a post by kingbiscit:

I've had it since Tuesday.

Its brilliant, boxes are super quick and it just works. Would find it very hard to go back and I'm sure it will only improve.

+1

Got mine on Monday and having taken a couple of days to familiarise myself with it, I can't fault it. You keep finding new features such as for example, watching a different channel whilst the football was on last night, swiping right to reveal last channel viewed which was in fact the football brought the game up live in the mini screen.

Thumbs up for Q from me.

These days with the number of devices the SR101/SR102 just can't handle it. With five AppleTVs, four iPads, two kindles, four mobile phones, Nest, Nest Protect and all wired devices in our house I gave up and went with HG612 and an Asus RT-AC87U.

Sounds like the new Sky Q Hub might be able to handle the devices but the wifi is only a minor step up. Will be waiting for them to open up to non-Sky broadband customers, I have wired the house for gigabit ether anyway

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

It seems the way forward is to get your dhcp username:password
Use a 3rd party router that supports dhcp auth (e.g. asus)
Then proceed with the SkyQ and just have the SkyQ as a client box not the router hub.

Well thats [censored] considering the Sky Q boxes 'can' use powerline network from the 'Q' router to connect to WAN&LAN without the requirement of sometimes flawed WiFi and Patch Cables.