900mb mesh?

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I'm having 900mb fibre installed tomorrow and would like to upgrade my mesh (currently not whole home) to use the 900mb.

For long and tedious reasons connected to sky q I probably need 5 nodes so I guess this can get pricey, I don't know if I could connect slower nodes just as recipients to get costs down?

Another alternative is I run sky q on my current node and make a new one just for things that can make use of 900mb? If I have 2 mesh networks both wired into a switch and then to the router should it all be able to talk to each other if that's ever necessary?

Wired isn't an option, the house is too old, neither is powerline.
 
This sounds over-complicated.

How many SkyQ boxes are you trying to cover, and what sort of size house?

5 Wireless APs sounds like utter overkill.
 
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This sounds over-complicated.

How many SkyQ boxes are you trying to cover, and what sort of size house?

5 Wireless APs sounds like utter overkill.

3 miniboxes and I agree but my understanding is I need a node with a cable into each minibox because they won't join a non sky WiFi network. That's certainly how it is now, basically the main Q box and miniboxes just couldn't stay connected so I would up turning the wifi off on all of it and mimicking a wired network using bt discs and their Ethernet ports. I also tried powerline, again sky was having none of it.

So the 5 is 1 connected to the router, then 3 miniboxes and then a node in the office providing a wired connection to the main pc and 2 work laptops.

To be fair they would almost certainly be fine on the WiFi but I don't think I can avoid the minibox ones. One of the miniboxes is in the garden room/gym at the end of the garden. There's a network cable run down the garden but I need some WiFi down there for the TV/echo etc.

It might be easier just to get rid of sky tbh.
 
they won't join a non sky WiFi network.

They will join a non Sky WiFi network but they don't like combined 2.4 & 5GHz networks and if you're not using a Sky router then the Q boxes will only connect to a 2.4GHz network.

Whilst I was waiting to get my house cabled up I had my Q boxes working just fine with my UniFi access points.
 
Hmm perhaps that was my issue, maybe I'll give it a shot because that would get me down to 3 nodes which would be great, one next to the router, one in the office, one in the gym.. sorted.
 
Nothing actually, I've stuck with the mesh I had but most of them run off to switches now so I can wire in the main stuff which boosts them all to 350mb ish. I've got a Plex/download box hardwired in to the main router for 900mb, nothing else can make any use of it to make the investment worth it.
 
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