Ok, ran some tests (Ookla). WIFI In conservatory (where I use it most of the time but furthest point from the router) Download 8.83. Upload 4.93 WIFI Next to router Download 55.36 Upload 27.58 Wired Download 238.56 Upload 29.11 So clearly an issue with WIFI in conservatory. Is the wifi speed next to the router acceptable? Wired seems ok? I did try an antiquated plug in adapter and there was an increase to Download 26.33 Upload 16.51, though it came with a whistling noise, but shows it would work!! What is the best solution?
If you go the new router route make sure it's compatible with a fibre network. We spent quite a bit at work on firewalls, servers, expensive router, no sooner did we do that BT upgraded our line to FTTP (the thing that's only available in Hull and the rest of the country) and none of it would work I didn't look into the why's but I think fibre uses a slightly different signal similar to how different satellite networks do.
That's low, but more than enough to run kodi. Your problem with kodi is the fact that kodi is a bag of ****.
In what way? I still get movies. Its the sports channels, which I could get, but nothing now. I know Sky are trying their best to disrupt, but I'm just getting none, surely I wouldn't be able to get them on my laptop if they were that successful?
The best solution and the cheapest is to move your chair out of the conservatory and place it next to the router.
Depends what problem you want to solve. For best speeds in the conservatory a Powerline adapter would be a good idea as already suggested, but I think they only work if the conservatory is on the same electrical ring main as where the router is plugged in. Basically one is listening for a noise based signal on a wire and one is looking for light fed down a tiny tube. As for FTTP availability. BT only claim to have 345,000 premises in the entire country with access to it, including business and residential. The majority of Hull and East Yorkshire has it right now and soon it will be the whole area.
If posters are using web links to test for speed I would advise that they do at least a couple of re-tests using the same link, as I have found that the first test is considerably lower yhan subsequent ones - mine went from 5 to 10mbps.
Bit bemused about the speeds you guys are getting. My download speed is 1.6 or plugged directly into the telephone socket without a splitter there is a huge increase to 1.8.( both wireless speeds) These figures confirmed by Talk Talk who were surprised at the low speeds. They will send out a technician to look into the problem but if they find it does not come within its responsibility they will charge me £65. Where its responsibility stops I know not but assume it is then BT.. I expect getting a better router won't help?
Yeah, I have re run it with Ookla and get reasonably consistent results. Tried another company and download speed doubled, upload halved!?? Bollox just retested and its 50% faster !
I live in Scotland. If we get a sunny day I'll check if I'm any faster for you. At the moment I get 17Mbps download, and about 1Mbps upload over the wifi (the TV, Bluray, and PS3 are wired but I haven't got a tester on them). That's obviously not a fibre connection, but as my 18 month contract works out at an average of £16/mth for line rental and unlimited internet it's not really a problem (Plusnet, which is BT infrastructure and support as it's the same company). That lets me stream in HD to the telly with no buffering, be downloading on 2 phones (updates etc) and downloading and browsing on my laptop at the same time. I'm guessing the streaming requests so much bandwidth from the router and the rest is then carved up, so faster speeds would let the other downloads complete faster. Otherwise, if it's an even split between devices I don't know why anybody needs faster than that, because that would be 4 at once with no problem* *I know on KCOM it's regularly slow, even my gran has had to upgrade to fibre (at a lower price anyway so she should have done it before) because the slowness of her standard connection was so cack, but most of you are talking about fibre speeds as though 80Mbps needs improving. Are you hosting iplayer for the BBC or something?
It is a separate ring main. So leaves a wifi extender? Any recommendations? Also a thought I had, was to move the router to the conservatory. Would need to extend the lead from the kc 'box' to the router,. Would need to run it externally. Is this an Ethernet cable? I assume standard one is waterproof? Any thoughts?
One thought would be could you use a wireless powerline to bring it closer to your conservatory? For example into the room adjoining? I have fitted external Cat5e before, used something like this http://www.cabling4less.co.uk/categ...MIucWEyfC21QIVjantCh09hgY3EAAYBCAAEgJK5PD_BwE
Sounds good, Would need someone to fit plugs to each end. Surely I could get same lead with plugs? Edit.. Just noticed the third product on the list with plugs! Still not sure why I would go into the room adjoining the conservatory rather than straight into conservatory??? We live in there 9 months of the year, when it gets really cold and we move to the front room (next to the router), we can revert to what we are using now. These are the only rooms we really use it. Before I start drilling into walls, I cant achieve similar with any plug in devices (adapters)? Also presumably I'd get 55 Ghz as I get that now when next to the router... is that workable? Also would I lose anything extending the powerline?
If you're going to start spending money, drilling holes, etc I'd be inclined to get a network specialist in. They'll tell you what you can realistically expect to get and if it then doesn't work you've got someone to complain to and an invoice you can argue about. It might not cost as much as you think. I'm not saying the advice you're getting on here is wrong, I'm sure it's all sound, but it's all been given blind so it could be inappropriate for your particular circumstances.
Yes it's an Ethernet cable. It's only waterproof in the same way any other cable is; you obviously need to be certain that no water can run along it and get it into either end. It's probably not ideal running it outdoors to be honest. But if you're confident... I have no experience of using Wi-Fi extenders so can't offer much advice there. It sounds like that's probably your simplest way of maximising the speed in the conservatory.
Yeah 55Mbps is more than enough for most purposes. The higher speeds are great when it's a few people using it or if you want to download stuff like video games, but for ****posting on here and Facebook and stuff you'd be fine with about 10-15Mbps to be honest.
