Sky Q and broadband

habanerocat

Why does Sky Q need a broadband modem?

Does the signal to the mini boxes come from the dish or the broadband?

Any link to the whole setup would be very welcome.
I need it explained.

iLikeWaffles

habanerocat wrote: »

Why does Sky Q need a broadband modem?

Does the signal to the mini boxes come from the dish or the broadband?

Any link to the whole setup would be very welcome.
I need it explained.

I beleive sky broadband comes from the landline - aka eir/eircom landline fibre BB. Sky Q box then boosts the signal of the wifi.

iirc you get one box with sky then extra boxes work off this one box - hence needing BB to send the signal. I think anyway don't have sky.

jeffk

The main box uses the internet to send the signal to the mini/minis

Cuts out on wiring every room back to the dish or running magic eye/cables

But as I could write a book, randomly leads to issues

Johnboy1951

habanerocat wrote: »

Why does Sky Q need a broadband modem?

Does the signal to the mini boxes come from the dish or the broadband?

Any link to the whole setup would be very welcome.
I need it explained.

I do not have Sky Q ....... that being said my understanding is as follows ....

The signal to the mini boxes for the ordinary TV channels comes from the dish through the main box with the tuners, and then on to the mini box.
The connection between the main box and the mini is internal to the home and can be wifi or wired ...... devices linked through the modem/router.

The internet connection to the modem is required for services not available from the dish.

Hopefully someone will provide links for you to read.

icdg

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

I do not have Sky Q ....... that being said my understanding is as follows ....

The signal to the mini boxes for the ordinary TV channels comes from the dish through the main box with the tuners, and then on to the mini box.
The connection between the main box and the mini is internal to the home and can be wifi or wired ...... devices linked through the modem/router.

The internet connection to the modem is required for services not available from the dish.

Hopefully someone will provide links for you to read.

Yeah that’s all essentially true. Basically Sky Q is built to work with a WLAN and a broadband internet connection. If you’ve Sky broadband it works even better as the Sky hub router is designed with Sky Q in mind and the boxes will work to extend/improve your WLAN signal.

All the tuners are in the main Sky Q 1/2TB box. The minis contain no tuners. I was skeptical but having used it you won’t notice any difference in watching live TV between the mini and main box (unless you have eir Sport, that is- you need to get on to them for a separate multi screen subscription). And, while connected to your home WLAN, you can watch your full range of channels on a tablet (again barring eir Sport) and it will stream from the box (in HD quality where applicable) rather than the internet.

habanerocat

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

The internet connection to the modem is required for services not available from the dish.

Hopefully someone will provide links for you to read.

When you say "services" do you mean just channel updates and the like or does it actually stream TV?

Also, as it's using the customers wifi for the mini boxes, does it cause excessive loading on other people wifi use. For example in a public bar situation, if people were streaming youtube or whatever on their phones, would the mini boxes start stuttering?

Johnboy1951

habanerocat wrote: »

When you say "services" do you mean just channel updates and the like or does it actually stream TV?

Also, as it's using the customers wifi for the mini boxes, does it cause excessive loading on other people wifi use. For example in a public bar situation, if people were streaming youtube or whatever on their phones, would the mini boxes start stuttering?

The wifi in question is internal to the home and has nothing at all to do with wifi or any system in other locations.
The alternative is to use a wired LAN in the home.
Again this is a separate network to that existing outside the home, but is usually connected to it for internet services.

icdg

Sky don’t do streaming content on their boxes - any on demand content is downloaded (yes, over the internet) and then viewed from the hard drive. On the mini the only streaming of Sky content will be on your LAN, not over the internet. The Sky Q box can stream YouTube though.

I’ve yet to see Sky Q installed in any commercial premises I’ve visited. You’re probably best talking to Sky about that one. I’ve had no issues with any buffering or the like with Sky Q mini, but I’m not running a commercial premises. (They can use powerline networking as well as WiFi though).