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I never suggested I ran pfSense and wireless together, and I would highly dissuade anyone from attempting to do so. As was quite rightly pointed out, one should not attempt to run WiFi on their pfSense machine. My point was, I ran my Sky Q equipment with non-Sky branded WiFi/network infrastructure with zero issues. (Ubiquiti WiFi)

I worked for an ISP for 2 years and during this time we dealt with many issues around this, and the advice was always the same: Reset the networking, tell the box you are not using Sky broadband. The issues all got resolved after that.
 
Not sure if right thread but I verified my parents sky box is a HD one so wont be affected by the turn off.
 
Another factor is that Q is well known to have problems working with routers other than those that were built specifically for Q, particularly for multi room customers who are streaming to mini boxes. This apparently includes Sky's latest wifi6 router.

I encountered this for someone where I installed 9x Unifi AP's and they had like 4x SkyQ boxes. I already knew about the hidden menu to disable wireless meshing and opted to use hard wired ethernet instead but randomly the whole network would drop and I could see on a wireshark capture that there would be a network storm originating from one of the Q boxes.

I put the Q boxes on their own VLAN and things have been fine ever since (this was a couple of years ago so the problem may no longer exist).
 
I’ve ditched sky recently and it took a bit of getting used to but I had previously had it for about 20 years.

With steaming services being our main viewing, most of our sky tv viewing wasn’t within the paid tv options. It even made keeping basic sky signature not worth it.

Other than sports which sky have a bit of a stranglehold on, I’m unsure what the appeal would be of sticking with sky.
I've used Freeview since 2017 after growing up on Sky TV with interesting channels such as ASDA FM.

As I can count on one hand how many times I watch TV, I'm not going to pay £££ for channels that Freeview offers anyway.

Sky Sports I'm not interested in as DAZN airs the football matches that interest me live on YouTube.

Movies, I've got a big enough collection I don't need to rely on Sky.

Just wish that Freeview offered more channels than they currently do.
 
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