Soldato
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- 11 Sep 2013
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Hola,
A friend of mine recently got himself a nice new gaming rig, but his home internet is utterly abysmal.
Neither of us are particularly knowledgable about networks, so I need your help figuring out why his Wifi is so naff and what can be done to improve it.
He is in a small 1-bed terrace house in Abbots Langley, but his wireless connectivity is sporadic at best. A quick set of tests at SpeedTest.net showed a ping of over 1000ms and down/upload speeds of 0.4!!
The BT Home Hub router is downstairs and the PC is upstairs, an estimated 12' from the Hub. Adding in a wireless extender did nothing to improve things and connecting directly to the hub via cable also does nothing.
He's on BT Broadband via the phone line - Estimated speed on his line is a mere 1Mb!!
Assuming a straight line, his phone line from the exchange 3 miles away crosses a river, a railway and the M25.
He's not in a particularly rural area and other houses in his road do have BT Infinity/Cable. But back when the cable company installed it (before he bought the house mid-90s), the company did not add a cable connection to his house, for some reason. If he wants cable, it will cost an extra £380 as they have to raise a streetworks order to dig up the road and put a connection in. BT and Virgin are apparently the only options.
Are there things we can do within the house to straighten this out?
Is there perhaps a line fault somewhere?
Are there other options for sorting this out?
What are people's thoughts?
A friend of mine recently got himself a nice new gaming rig, but his home internet is utterly abysmal.
Neither of us are particularly knowledgable about networks, so I need your help figuring out why his Wifi is so naff and what can be done to improve it.
He is in a small 1-bed terrace house in Abbots Langley, but his wireless connectivity is sporadic at best. A quick set of tests at SpeedTest.net showed a ping of over 1000ms and down/upload speeds of 0.4!!
The BT Home Hub router is downstairs and the PC is upstairs, an estimated 12' from the Hub. Adding in a wireless extender did nothing to improve things and connecting directly to the hub via cable also does nothing.
He's on BT Broadband via the phone line - Estimated speed on his line is a mere 1Mb!!
Assuming a straight line, his phone line from the exchange 3 miles away crosses a river, a railway and the M25.
He's not in a particularly rural area and other houses in his road do have BT Infinity/Cable. But back when the cable company installed it (before he bought the house mid-90s), the company did not add a cable connection to his house, for some reason. If he wants cable, it will cost an extra £380 as they have to raise a streetworks order to dig up the road and put a connection in. BT and Virgin are apparently the only options.
Are there things we can do within the house to straighten this out?
Is there perhaps a line fault somewhere?
Are there other options for sorting this out?
What are people's thoughts?
