I’m only getting 5.5mb from the master socket and also the BT test plug in, from the spur phone lines around the house it was down to 1mb due to data bleed, I have it in the master socket in the utility but am fucking loathed to keepit there as I am converting the garage and that will be the walkway through to it so obviously dont want any sky hubs etc in a corridor.
There are two issues,data bleed that I will have to sort out as I am liable (external wiring and trunking through walls to socket around house) and from the BT end in which I can only get at the very maximum 6.4mb from the master socket which woeful and advertised as 9mb to 17mb.
They are running tests and will send and engineer out and proabably have to retrain the lineor something, I want 4k netflix so need good wifi (or plug in) and also I want a Kodi box, slow wifi is absolute shite.
If 1) is not possible, move house to somewhere that does cable internet*
* Yes, I have chosen houses this way before.
We can get BT iffinity but again the line has to be fixed first, I dont mind paying as long as it works, I am getting rid of sky (I say this every year) as I have given them £7000 in the last 7 years and have had enough of that waste. High speed blag 4k is the way to go.
When you plug in the sky hub from say the lounge Bearsy the data from that is lost between the master socket and the lounge spur socket due to wires crossed (data bleed), thats one issue I certainly have and the other is BT in which there is extremely slow connection from the box to my house when it shouldn’t be, the average speed in the area so I am told is 11.4mb and I am only getting 5.5mb on average.
Essentially turns your electricity circuit into a lan. I have a four port version in the lounge with the tele, sky and the dvd plugged in and have no data loss
I’ve got a slight variation on that. You can get routers designed for bigger gaffs and penetrating bigger walls, and for most things, I have no real issue with mine. I did find that the wifi was shite in the garage, which is built onto the outside of the house.
I’ve went a Netgear router and repeater (to cover the garage area). Both are dual band, and bung out a 5G and 2G signal. This is significant because on single band, everything negotiates down to the speed of the lowest connection. Using this setup, all your new 5G shit will connect without being affected by older stuff.
I’ve generally found the power stuff to be reliable. Can watch 1080p video on my tablet, streamed off the PC, whacked through the mains and retransmitted from a nearer wireless hub.
Technology, eh? Marvellous.
TLDR; consider getting a router that has a range extender and dual band.
I have one also, I’ll hold fire on this until I get the result back from BT, I have to accept for top connection I’ll probably have to trunk about the house or just hope BT can give me a top end wifi connection, I’m not holding my breath though.
pm me your address and I’ll post it to you.