internet

Why does turning wlan config off then on fix my ping? I ask this because I don't want to keep doing this every time there is a ping surge.

I now have 1gig internet fitted. The current router that CF has supplied is Linksys Velop, WHW0303-UK. Router/mesh setup, they are ok but looking for a decent router. Specs I been looking at are: 1 x WAN Port 4 × Gig Ports QoS VPN support (Needed for work). I am not that fuss if the...

https://communityfibre.co.uk/ Received a letter this week saying that this is going to be rolled out to where I live, looks to be offering good speeds at decent prices. I'm currently with plusnet FTTC and get pretty much the max of the 80/20 speed it offers but do like the idea of full 1GB/1GB...

I live in a new build and my garage isn't directly attached to my property. I live in a detached house and my garage is one of three garages below my next door neighbour's flat. When the house was being finished we ran power from the house to the garage via underground conduit that runs along...

I've just moved house, the master BT socket is downstairs but i'd like an additional socket upstairs to go into the study where my PC would be? How much would this cost or could I do it myself? Thanks.

Hi all, I have an issue using my secondary Superhub 2 as an access point. Essentially I had a couple spare and thought I would just use them to extend my WiFi. With that in mind, I hooked it up to my PC, reset to factory settings and set the following config: Same SSID as main routers wifi...

I need to replace my Virgin Media Hub 3 Router with one that you can amend the DNS settings of. This is so that I can use my Rasberry pi 3 as an Ad blocker network wide (pi-hole). It would be a good bonus if there is an option to add VPN too (NordVPN). I don't really want to spend too much...

Hi all, I am looking to get a home based WiFi mesh system. Initially I looked at Google WiFi but after doing some research it's speed seems disappointing and I stopped there. My next candidate was the Netgear Orbit but it turns out it's not a true mesh system. By true mesh I mean that the...

I'm moving into a new house in January but only for a couple of months (maybe as short as one month actually) before leaving the country. I know it has previously had Sky TV if that makes any difference... I'm hoping to get some kind of broadband internet in the property for the short time I'm...

I was with Virgin previously, and their download speeds are immense but I had constant issues with high latency, packet loss, poor upload speeds and traffic restriction (wired) and I eventually had enough of it. Switched to BT and i'm on Superfast Fibre 2 76mbps. My ping is under 10ms and my...

Hi, I've recently had to connect my gaming pc to my router wireless and the connection is really slow. I'm assuming there's something not right as I've tested my phone, laptop and ps4 wireless on the same router and they work fine. It takes like half a minute to load websites and in the...

Surprised to say we have the ability to order FTTP at home. I say this as we are very rural and a small cluster attached to a really small exchange (circa 300 properties on our exchange) but sure enough we have it. I actually walked around the grounds with the Openreach engineer looking at where...

How is Guess The Year still a radio feature? DJ plays a song from the 80s and people still, in the age of smart phones and Google, phone in with the WRONG answer. Tickles me up. Any other dumb things from pre-internet/smartphone days that still go on that make you laugh?

I have a router in the house, but would like to have wifi in the garage/man cave (at the end of the garden). They are too far away to get wifi directly, so I am planning to put an ethernet cable from one to the other over the next week. But I am confused about how I set up the garage: 1) do i...

So I've been having a bit of computer trouble over the last few days (check my history if you need) in short, I built a pc last January, has had zero problems until about 5/6 days ago where I kept getting multiple BSODs each with different error codes. I managed to finally, after it not...

I am currently on Virgin Media and would like to know if they can block one device from the internet without any others being disconnected.

Hello! I'm in the process of building a new system. I realized that the cat5 network cable i used with my old configuration is from archaic ages, it's been built into the house around 2000. For the new one I'd like to use something better than that, but getting a better cable is not really an...

I'm hoping someone could give me some advice. Where I live we're still stuck on standard (non fiber) broadband. With both me and my girlfriend using cloud storage, streaming films and playing video games our internet connection is constantly bad. If we both keep our storage cloud syncranised...