In reply to a post by Skilty:

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

Depends if the Q Hub can balance the devices across the two wireless bands properly... so many router's (specially ISP ones) have the capabilities on the 5Ghz band but configure the router wrong so it doesn't connect 5Ghz capable devices first so it free's up the 2G for older tech devices.

Also bet the Q Hub won't use channels above 48 of 5G which in a case like mine where every other dual band router is sitting on channels 36-40-44-48 and bouncing off eachother it makes dual band as useless as the old 2G band.

(BT chap I spoke to about the "not so smart" wifi was pretty shocked about the fact there HH5's didn't seem to switch 'automaticaly' to other channels)

Might find this - http://www.wi-fi360.com/airties-can-finally-talk-ope... - interesting.

It explains the concept behind the mesh system Sky are using across the Q hub and boxes..

Really interesting article - thanks!

Makes interesting reading! The concern I have right now is that with PowerLine disabled the only way to create the mesh is via WiFi (unless each AP is hardwired via ethernet). Does that mean each Sky Q Mini is acting as a glorified WiFi extender?

If so does it also mean that the more Sky Q MIni's you have attached the less bandwidth each would have to stream TV from the Sky Q box and support wireless devices attached to that particular AP?

Would love a pretty picture to better understand what it looks like!

Well i haven't even gone as far as having Sky Q installed,was due Friday and my new Sky Broadband and Sky Hub went active last Friday,i have had nothing but dropout from the Sky Hub in the office a mere 20 feet away on the same floor when sitting in the kitchen,something that never happened with my BT Broadband connection and my Netgear router.

Based on the wireless performance of this so called new Sky Hub i have cancelled my broadband contract with them and returned to BT,for that reason and the fact no user name or password is given as they don't like you using third party routers way more expensive and better performing.

I know there is a way of retrieving your user/pass but to be honest i can not be bothered,i would much prefer to use my own routers with better Wi/Fi performance than suffer constant dropouts and i have only been with Sky 6 days,so in around 10 days time i will be hooking up my netgear router with 4 ethernet posts and not 2 like the new Sky hub and doing away with the ethernet switch.

My connection through home plugs with Sky has been really good from what i can gather in the short amount of time,but wireless is absolutely useless and this was the concern i have and the reason i cancelled Sky Q install yesterday.

Some on here think Sky Q is brilliant and i take that on board,and if this was not relying on a wi/fi signal i would not have cancelled.

In reply to a post by time2die:

Based on the wireless performance of this so called new Sky Hub i have cancelled my broadband contract with them and returned to BT,for that reason and the fact no user name or password is given as they don't like you using third party routers way more expensive and better performing.

It would be fairly trivial to configure your Netgear router as a wireless access point so you could have the wifi you want and more ethernet ports without cancelling.

Guess i could have done that but for me i would much prefer to use just the one device that does what i require.

At the end of the day and based on some information i received when talking to the Sky Girl yesterday,Sky Q is mere weeks away from other Broadband providers,its all set up and good to go and all they require is the ok to roll it out.

I will still wait for a later date in the year for Sky Q or if its compatible with other Home Plugs and not just there Sky Hub.

If i can rig it up through home solwise home plugs and ethernet cables it will make me a lot happier than depending on a wireless network which is all but useless on Sky Equipment.

There was a link earlier showing that SkyQ will be utilising a wireless mesh system that will give much better wifi coverage to their users.

I have just called BT to enquire about having it on the mini as well and to my surprise they have cut my bill. Currently, I pay £23.99 wihich is the £19.99 subscription over Sky plus £4 HD fee too. They have given me BT Sport on the mini for free (should have been an additional fiver), halved the basic monthly charge and given me free HD for 3 months.

In short, I was paying £23.99 which is now £9.99 rising to £13.99 in 3 months.

It seems they are keen to cut the bill for long standing BT customers receiving via Sky.

Had SKYQ silver installed today. Engineer was in the house for 2hrs before all done.
* Installed a new dish LBN
* Installed new drop cables from LBN to living room (old ones had a join in them)
* Used van stock for silver & mini box
* Installed SKYQ silver box in living room. Asked if I had a new card from sky, no, so had to use van stock. Also replaced power cable so compatible with PowerLine. replaced all cables to TV
* Used wireless to connect the boxes together
* Installed the mini box upstairs
* Did SW update on both units.
* Connected handset controllers to matching TV
* Showed all was working
then left out the door to next customer.

It was like a new installation.