Steve (sdh2903) Posted April 4, 2021 Author Share Posted April 4, 2021 23 minutes ago, Blatman said: BUT I suspect part of the issues is that one or more of them are already too far away from each aother AND the router The main Q box is 8ft direct line of sight to the router. We have 1 q mini in the conservatory thats maybe 25ft from the router and 16ft from the main Q box. The 2nd q mini box is in the insulated room which backs on to the living room so is connected to the main Q box via ethernet cable. To be honest the Q works fine no real issues that an occasional power reset doesn't cure. Its the WiFi performance that's the issue. You can be sat still on the laptop and it just drops off. In the middle of a teams call with no one else in the house using the WiFi and it freezes up. It's cack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blatman Posted April 4, 2021 Share Posted April 4, 2021 Distance is less important than the number or amount of signal attenuation obstacles between device and router. 3 minutes ago, Steve (sdh2903) said: You can be sat still on the laptop and it just drops off. In the middle of a teams call Where is the important question. You can be 8 feet from the router but of the devices is in a cupboard or behind a TV or in a unit with a glass door or almost any other type of physical barrier then the sgnal is being attenuated. Also I am assuming you have two networks. The "mesh" produced by the SkyQ and the one produced by the Sky Hub. If so then it's almost DEFINITELY interference between the two. As a test switch off the SkyQ mesh wifi for a day or two. I'm betting 90% of the issues disappear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SootySport Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 The Sky Routers that are flat boxes with 3 green leds are crap for WiFi , I have the Now TV version, just different stickers on it. Wired Ethernet speed is 36meg but wireless from 1 foot away often drops to 0.5meg. Either cat 5 to your pc or an independent router such as Netgear will improve things. TP link type relays don’t help if the Sky router source is slow in first place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blatman Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 TP Links are wired connections to the router so from your example they should produce 36Mb/s. Also from your example I'd ask for a new router... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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