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Orbi with Sky Q
Hi all, I’ve gone into much detail to describe my problem! ... A few months ago I switched from my Sky WiFi to the top Virgin fibre optic package, purely because Sky broadband was so slow. Whil...
Aronius wrote:
Because of the Sky Q mesh network , I have these two WiFi networks colliding with eachother as they operate on the same channels and I can’t find a solution to stop this?
Why two networks?
Does the Sky kit bring anything to the party?
I'd turn it off and see what happens.
You can also try changing the wifi Channels that the Orbi uses.
Well yes the sky kit does. The main sky Q communicates with the Sky minis via 5GHz channels which acts like another WiFi network.
I’m afraid changing the channels is not a viable option as they both use 80MHz which takes up a large chunk of 5GHz and you cannot change the Orbi last channel 51 or below 33. Although you can change the sky channel to 40MHz , this messed up my sky Q’s and the channels still collide. Please see attached:
In the attached you can see my network, B/F/A fam, in the same channels as ‘SKYEA395’ which is the sky Q.
I’m afraid changing the channels is not a viable option as they both use 80MHz which takes up a large chunk of 5GHz and you cannot change the Orbi last channel 51 or below 33. Although you can change the sky channel to 40MHz , this messed up my sky Q’s and the channels still collide. Please see attached:
In the attached you can see my network, B/F/A fam, in the same channels as ‘SKYEA395’ which is the sky Q.
