Cabling Internet advice

[spoony77]

Hi people,
I have virgin media installed at my house, and the brown virgin box where it enters the property is at the front of the house, however it has then been cabled by virgin media on the outside of the house to the back of the garage where the virgin modem is installed.
This is fine but I would like full speed internet at the front of the property too.
I have tried powerline adaptors but my 150mb connection drops to about 40mb over the powerlines.
I was thinking I might have to reroute back to the front of the house again using external cat 5e but this seems daft when the brown Virgin media box is at the front already?
So can I use there box in any way via a cable splitter or something or Is there anything obvious I'm missing to get full speed at the front of the house?
Any advice appreciated.

 

[bremen1874]

You'll need to run a network cable.

 

[ov_sjo]

Question 1:

Where would you prefer the Virgin modem/router/superhub?

 

[spoony77]

Where it is is fine my office is at the back of the garage....

 

[bremen1874]

You would have had the option of moving the router to the front of the house where the brown box is.

If you want a full speed wired connection in both locations you're back to having to run a cable. If Virgin have already drilled the walls it should be easy enough.

 

[Jay794]

Are you using crap power line adapters? As I can still get 3-4MB using powerlines

 

[bremen1874]

Powerline adapters are a complete lottery.

In any case 3-4MB is pretty dire, that's only about 30Mbps, less than the OP was getting.

 

[Jay794]

Dire? Well I'm paying for 38Mb BT Infinity so 3-4MB over powerline is pretty good when you consider that 38Mb is roughly 4.75MB, how is that bad?

 

[Kol]

It's bad because 40mb is almost only 25% of his connection speed. So while that's good for you it's crap for him.

 

[bremen1874]

A Powerline connection that can't even keep up with an 38Mbit connection isn't something to crow about.

You've either got 'crap' adapters yourself, or wiring that doesn't suit them. Good adapters, on a good day, will manage 100Mbps+.

 

[Jay794]

Well yeah OP obviously has an issue, but as far as my setup goes, streaming video in 2 different rooms whilst browsing the web doesn't seem half bad considering in Talktalk I couldn't stream in 1 room if my PC was even switched on

 

[Christmas themed thank]

I get around 700-800Mbps connection speed on the AC1200 adaptors I use. Easily maxes out my 60Mb connection.

Perhaps OP, you should try some of the AC1200 ones from a site with a decent returns policy to see how they perform?

 

[neodude]

I get around 700-800Mbps connection speed on the AC1200 adaptors I use. Easily maxes out my 60Mb connection.

Perhaps OP, you should try some of the AC1200 ones from a site with a decent returns policy to see how they perform?

This. I highly recommend the Solwise 1200AV.

 

[ov_sjo]

Whilst I have found performance differences between homeplugs, there is no guarantee any of them will do what you want. I guess that's one benefit of the 14 day distance selling regs - you can try and return if it doesn't work for you!