johnny777
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Ive been pretty lucky whereby my Silver and 2 minis have been pretty stable via wireless. However, I am wondering why Sky state that they do not recommend wired connections.
My broadband is not with Sky so I had the limitation of 2.4ghz wireless connectivity to my router. As an experiment, bought a couple of TP Link Powerline adapters and decided to connect my Silver box via a wired connection.
Easy to set-up and it then walks you through resetting minis etc (you have to do this apparently after going from wireless to wired on the Silver) and all working perfectly. Sky downloads are also a lot quicker and are now coming through at the full speed of my fibre connection.
Have the following queries:-
1. How do the minis now connect to the router? Does it all go through the silver box?
2. Is there any advantage of connecting one or both of my minis via a wired connection?
3. If either of the minis are connected via cable, what is the score with regards to the Sky Mesh network (I see this as 'SKYFB19).........is it still used?
I'm old school and believe that cable has to be better than wireless if an option.
Thanks.
My broadband is not with Sky so I had the limitation of 2.4ghz wireless connectivity to my router. As an experiment, bought a couple of TP Link Powerline adapters and decided to connect my Silver box via a wired connection.
Easy to set-up and it then walks you through resetting minis etc (you have to do this apparently after going from wireless to wired on the Silver) and all working perfectly. Sky downloads are also a lot quicker and are now coming through at the full speed of my fibre connection.
Have the following queries:-
1. How do the minis now connect to the router? Does it all go through the silver box?
2. Is there any advantage of connecting one or both of my minis via a wired connection?
3. If either of the minis are connected via cable, what is the score with regards to the Sky Mesh network (I see this as 'SKYFB19).........is it still used?
I'm old school and believe that cable has to be better than wireless if an option.
Thanks.