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ralphaa
Oct 31, 2015Aspirant
N600 Wifi Dual Band USB Adapter
Hi, Just bought this at PC world the salesman told me that i can plug this in the back of my sky HD Box to make it wireless and it will then connect to my sky router that provides wifi to my home. i...
TheEther
Oct 31, 2015Guru
I have no personal experience with the Sky HD Box but everything I've read says that the USB port on it cannot do anything except provide power. I'm sorry to say but the salesman was mistaken about using it for a wireless adapter.
Now, if your Sky HD Box has an Ethernet port on it, then you can connect a wireless extender to it and accomplish the same thing. You need an extender that will support an Ethernet client. Not all extenders provide that support. In the N600 class of extenders with support for Ethernet, Netgear has the WN3500RP. If your router supports 802.11ac, you could also move up to the EX line of extenders for faster Wi-Fi.
ralphaa
Oct 31, 2015Aspirant
thanks for the advice