A spot of wireless help please.

Magic_x_uk · 4 Jul 2010 at 17:42

Hi

Just in the process of decorating the lounge at the moment and need some advice.

I will quickly explain my home set up.

Upstairs in one of the small bedrooms is my only computer. Connected to a netgear DG834G (v2) router by a cable. That is in turn connected to my BT phone line.

All internet works fine.

Now downstairs in my lounge that I am decorating and chasing out runs for cables etc. I will have a PS3.

My PS3 at the moment connects to the 'net' via wirelessly talking to my router upstairs. But when downloading PS3 updates can sometimes be very long.

I was wondering if it would be better to have the router downstairs connected physically to the PS3.

If I did that, what would I need on my upstairs computer to talk to the router that would be downstairs, without wires?

or if I did decide to get some wire from the upstairs computer routed downstairs 'somehow' to the router. What wire would I need.

Hope this makes sense, if it doesnt then just say and I will answer better.

Many thanks.

Terrier_Jimlad · 4 Jul 2010 at 17:53

To make your PC connect to the router downstairs you'd need a wireless adapter, either a USB one of PCI-E card. If you want to run a cable down to the router then you'd just need a standard cat5e cable, just get a very long one depending on far you need to wire it up.

My suggestion would be to leave the router upstairs on your PC, and get a Homeplug kit and use that, I do with my PS3 and I stream down HD episodes of lost/house/smallville to it without any problems, and it's a standard 85 Mbps kit.

You PS3 updates download speed will mainly be dependant on your broadband connection

Magic_x_uk · 4 Jul 2010 at 17:59

Cheers, I think my ps3 will download slow as I am with orange broadband yet get it free as i am a mobile phone contract customer. Just think I get the bottom package/speed.

blueacid · 4 Jul 2010 at 18:05

Well, if there is a phone socket downstairs, you could try temporarily moving the router closer, and see if it's an issue of low wireless signal. Or if the PS3 has a network port on the back (I don't own one, so can't check), you could then connect it and see if the speed changes.

If you only really browse on the PC, you might just have very slow broadband no matter what. If you're getting nice download speeds on your PC and sluggish PS3 performance then it'll likely be worth making a change to sort things out!

Magic_x_uk · 4 Jul 2010 at 18:16

Any simple way to check my broadband up and down load speed to be able to tell you guys ?

I am running windows 7

Terrier_Jimlad · 4 Jul 2010 at 18:22

www.speedtest.net

Magic_x_uk · 4 Jul 2010 at 18:26

Just ran it (thanks)

download 2.64Mb/s
upload 0.24M/s

ping 104ms

ISP orange home UK

Server, Kingston upon hull
distance 50 miles.

Bear in mind that this is free broadband.

Whenever I play online games on the PS3 they are always 100% fine as well.