Internet speed when using sky mini's as wifi boosters

[AndyC111]

Hi all, hoping someone can help!

Had Vodafone fibre 500 go live today, speed is good (over 400) and even managed to connect up Sky Q.  My problem is that once I connect my 4 mini box's and set them to act as a wifi booster my speed (when sitting near one of the box's) drops to about 10mbps....turn the wifi booster setting off and it goes back to the sort of speed I would expect.

I've tried compatibility mode and this does the exact same thing and has a less reliable connection on the main Q box.

It's driving me mad as have an area of the house that struggles to get good wifi and the mini box's have previously (sky broadband) resolved this, surely I should get better than 10% of my speeds?

any help appreciated.

[Jayach]

As far as I know, the Sky mini boxes act as a mesh with the Sky router. No Sky router, no mesh.

[AndyC111]

thanks for the reply, Sky did enable this a number of years back to support 3rd parties.  It does work just very slowly.

[Jayach]

Without the Sky router the mini's have to connect directly to the Sky Q box without the mesh. I suspect that is why it's slower.