tom 2000
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Since Q inception there have been conflicting reports the system will/will not work on a mix of Ethernet and WiFi. Mine worked (reasonably) happily with Main on WiFi and minis on power line Ethernet for a long time until one day it just stopped working. The minis would not hold network connection. For sometime after that I ran them all on power line Ethernet with just the occasional blue screen.The main and the mini box are both connected via ethernet due to the distance between them. The sky box is still connected to the online services via wifi due to it not being feasible to have an ethernet connection between the router and the sky box. The booster is connected via ethernet though.
The issue seems to be when the main sky box drops the network connection the mini box stops working until it is reestablished.
Due to covid I left the engineer alone to do his job and waited in another room, I couldn't tell you exactly what settings he changed in the boxes because I wasn't there to see it. He seemed to know his stuff though. I'm starting to think the issue is with a fault in some bit of sky equipment.
One day I stumbled upon a plan to wire them all by traditional wired Ethernet without visible cables and keeping the wife happy.
Wired Ethernet is the solution, there is always a way.