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Sky Wireless Booster
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Sky Wireless Booster extends the WiFi signal to help you get online in an area of the home you may not have been able to before. Available to existing Sky Broadband customers only.
this looks like the Wireless Connector but in white.
http://www.sky.com/products/kit/wireless-booster/
this looks like the Wireless Connector but in white.
http://www.sky.com/products/kit/wireless-booster/
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wifi extenders/boosters are generally not the way to go.
I know the WC is made by AirTies.
Also does the WB only work with the Sky hub?
I'd like to use my spare WC with my VM SuperHub.
whilst that is technically true the kind of people that buy this stuff probably are not using their network for anything other than broadband.
and whilst it does halve the available bandwidth so long as that doesn't take it down below their broadband speed it will make absolutely no difference to them at all.
plus it only reduces the bandwith in the area covered by it. in which you presumably have no bandwidth at all or you wouldn't be buying it.
and these days there are ways of doing it without halving the bandwidth, although this probably doesn't do it.
first question i would ask... do you really need this?
it won't make your connection faster. all it does is extend the range a little.
My signal upstairs is just about one bar. It's a very weak signal. Due to the layout of my house and where the router has to go, I can't improve the signal
I'm well aware it won't make my connection faster, if I wanted to do that I'd upgrade to Sky Fibre. I just want to know that if I use my computer or phone upstairs, I can stream videos without if having to keep pausing to buffer
My PS3 is also upstairs and trying to play games online when the signal regularly drops out, is very frustrating
upgrading to fibre would have no affect on your wifi speed.
the booster will extend the range. you will need to place the booster somewhere inbetween your existing router and where you need signal, also needs to be next to a power socket.
generally boosters use about half the available wifi bandwidth to enable it to extend the range.
boosters, IMO, are generally not the best solution, but if running an ethernet cable to the location is not an option then you are limited in what you can do.
powerline adaptors may be a better solution, and you can then connect a wifi access point in the troublesome spot. in this solution i would connect the PS3 via ethernet though, not wifi.
Upgrading to fibre would give me greater internet speeds and would therefore give me a faster connection on my wireless devices
I'm using my bandwidth up with all the devices connected, so it's not really an issue
If I wanted to use an ethernet cable, then I would need a 50m cable to my computer and about 40m to my PS3. This is just not suitable
I don't think in an ideal world that all devices can be connected by ethernet. Otherwise I'd need about eight ports
Anyway, all that's irrelevant. Sky are offering them for free, it's not costing me anything and if it improves my signal upstairs then that's all I'm after
I was only enquiring whether anybody else had an issue with claiming the device online. I've managed to get it to work now
yes but it has no affect on your internal LAN speed.
WIFI speeds and and actual internet connection speeds are not related.
If I'm using a network card in my other PC (the computer by the router is connected wirelessly as well), what sort of LAN speed should I be getting then with 16Mb Sky Internet?
well the LAN card will be capable of eithet 100Mbit/s or 1000Mbit/s.
depending on the router, the LAN ports will either be 100Mbit/s or 1000Mbit/s (if it's the sky router then they are 100Mbit/s)
so your ethernet ports are capable of far more than your internet connection is capable of.
any speed bottleneck will be your internet connection.
the point i'm making is. if your wifi network is only capable of providing, say, 40Mbit/s, then upgrading to fibre isn't going to change that.
There must have been problems with the site. I'll be so happy to have a stronger signal upstairs. It'll make uploading YouTube videos quicker
P.s. apparently I can claim a free wireless booster too, if after a week of using the new hub I am still suffering black spots around the house.
Does anyone know if the Ethernet port will provide internet access?
It'll have a different password. You can go into settings and change the password on the new router so that it is the same as the old one. That way you don't need to re-link all your devices
Mine does that as well, but it was also doing it before I had the Wi-Fi booster. It does happen fairly regularly and I have the new style Sky router
Thanks , that's the easier option, I didn't realise that you could change the router password - Doh !
When your new router is connected type in the address bar:
192.168.0.1
Type in user name: admin and password: sky
Click on wireless at the top and you should be on wireless settings and there you can change the password under network key
I'm sure it's case sensitive so use capital letters