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Does Sky q work with other broadband providers?

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Sky Q Hub. You don't need Sky Broadband touse Sky Q - it'll still work if you're with anotherprovider - but if you bundle up, you get the new SkyHub router. In-built powerline technology uses the wires in yourhouse to send data to Sky Q boxes to help streamingquality.


Likewise, does Sky q only work with WIFI?

Sky Q Mini box Powerline networking is built-in across Sky Qdevices. Then there is the ability to turn your Sky Q Miniboxes into Wi-Fi extenders - additional hotspots dottedaround the home. This also uses the powerline connection, butwill only work if you also have Sky Broadband and theSky Q Hub router.

can Sky Q connect to 5GHz? This forces the boxes to use 5GHz networking,which sounds great, but you shouldn't have to do this at all. Infact, in a properly set up Sky Q system, all streaming isperformed over 5GHz, and 2.4GHz is only used for Wi-Fihotspots, as a failover and for some updates.

Also question is, do you need Sky Broadband for Sky Q multiroom?

The Sky multiroom option uses wireless Mini boxes(which don't require any drilling) to communicate with themain Sky Q box, allowing you to watch any TV channelyou like on up to four different TV sets. The Mini boxesalso act as Wi-Fi hotspots to give you a better SkyBroadband signal around the house.

Is Sky Q better than Sky HD?

More storage to play with. The Sky Q will beavailable with 2TB of storage matching the largest capacity Sky+HD box you can currently get hold of. That's incomparison to the 2TB Sky HD box, which offers 1.5TBof usable storage. So that's little extra room for your FullHD and 4K shows.

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