Boosting Network Upstairs

markwilliams82

markwilliams82

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I live on a shared driveway so have always struggled with getting decent broadband but have recently switched to a new provider called Lit Fibre who have been able to use the BT ducting to get fibre to my house.

I'm not on 500MB speeds which I can comfortably get downstairs where the router is.

Upstairs though, I'm getting 300-350MB through wifi. Is there anyway I can get the full speeds upstairs too? Would powerline adapters achieve this?

Thanks
 
You need a central AP or Mesh. But, why? Do you really need it? If you need more speed, use cable or go closer to the router. 300-350 Mbps is actually really decent.
 
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I have my office upstairs and also my sons room for his console so just looking to try and get what I'm paying for upstairs too

We do have Google Home around the house to boost the signal but still only getting 350 so just looking at options as opposed to running a cable
 
If you're really that bothered then I'd look at a centrally located wireless access point and disable the Wi-Fi on the Lit router.

Powerlines are mostly junk so best avoided.

Personally I probably wouldn't bother, 350Mbps or so on Wi-Fi upstairs would be good enough for me I think,
 
markwilliams82 said:
I have my office upstairs and also my sons room for his console so just looking to try and get what I'm paying for upstairs too

We do have Google Home around the house to boost the signal but still only getting 350 so just looking at options as opposed to running a cable
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Just cable it if it's that important to you. 300+ Mbps is perfectly fine for everything apart from huge downloads.
 
Console games being > 100gigabytes can totally understand wanting more bandwidth, waiting for downloads etc. with 1Gb can be tiresome when you don't have a lot of time, it's worth baring in mind without some good bandwidth control your gaming child can saturate your connection easily with a peer 2 peer game downloader, so perhaps leave it on wifi capped at 350, give everyone else a chance. :D
 
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markwilliams82 said:
I have my office upstairs and also my sons room for his console so just looking to try and get what I'm paying for upstairs too

We do have Google Home around the house to boost the signal but still only getting 350 so just looking at options as opposed to running a cable
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If you already have a decent mesh system (Google Hone IS a decent mesh system) then the only way you’ll improve the overall wireless performance is to move the router higher and closer to the centre of the building or run a cable from the router to a wireless access point somewhere high and central in the building (the stairs landing ceiling is the most common location).
 
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I'd class 300Mb on wireless to be 'very good'. Only real options for better would be up run ethernet directly to the devices and add a wireless access point upstairs (again, cabled through ethernet)
 
With a good Wifi 6 system and the right environment >900 is easy for wifi I do this between one of my floors I couldn't be arsed to cable, of course no where near as cheap as running a cable.
 
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