Sky hub only allowing 15 devices

[Nazbit]

Hi

I have the black sky hub on the thirty something fibre package.

I currently have 15 devices on the network and the hub has stopped allowing new devices to connect, they either time out or give an auth error.

If I remove one of the connected devices, I can connect one of the unconnected devices ok, and if I remove two I can connect two more etc but I cannot get more than 15 at once.

I believe the hub supports 250 connections. I've tried a reboot. As a short term work around I will plug an old router in as an additional access point but obviously I want to sort this out.

Tried searching some of the sky forums but no joy.

Any ideas? Not much to go on, I know.

Cheers

 

[Nazbit]

Thanks for the link, I couldn't find anything.

WTF though? 16 connections? At a time when more and more house hold objects are connecting to the internet, that's not great.

I'll connect my old router as an access point tomorrow and maybe look in to replacing the sky hub if I can extract the necessary configuration data.

 

[Nazbit]

I've ordered a new netgear router that I believe is compatible with SKY and has dual band WiFi.

That can be a project for the weekend.

I've also got two 54mbps netgear access points running in bridge mode which I will probably look to replace in order to take advantage of the increased internal LAN speed.

Edit - Or should I powerline it....wiring is very old in this house...

 

[Nazbit]

Thanks for all of the replies.

This evening I replaced my SR102 with a Netgear R7800.

Looks decent so far looking forward to setting up some of the more advanced features that I've not had access to in a while after a few years of generic ISP boxes.

Bought some homeplugs but I'm going to return them while they're still sealed, the wiring in this house is very old and I don't expect good results

For now I'll stick with my two 54mbps netgear access points in bridge mode and look in to faster options in the future.