Help with WiFi

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Very confused so any help would be fantastic. I live in a fairly new 3 story home and the ONT is in the cupboard in the corner of the home on ground floor. No way I can get it out of there without messing up nice new walls. I could possibly get it attached to the outside of the cupboard but worries me if the hassle will make and difference.

I have sky internet and get a very decent 150mb to the home. Issue is getting that around the home especially 2nd floor.

It have a sky booster and have tried this in 1st and 2nd floor without making much difference to speed I get on 2nd floor. Varies massively one minute to next between 30mb down to 0.5mb.

Also have sky mini boxes on 2nd floor but that doesn’t help. It’s so bad even sky mini boxes are really slow/cut our randomly.

Been looking at mesh/booster/powerlines but very confused whet will/wont make a difference.

Also to make it worse the ground floor is on a different electrical circuit to the 1st and 2nd floor so not even sure power lines will work when connected to router on different circuits..

As I say not very knowledgeable so any advise very welcome.

Sky engineer due tomorrow but am expecting him to simply say move router out of cupboard. Just remembered I have moved it out of cupboard temporarily but cables only long enough to put it on floor outside cupboard and now can’t close door lol. Again made little/no difference
 
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Not sure, house is only 5 years old and has direct cable connected to a Modern looking bt open reach ONT box (meaning you can only connect main router there)
 
No rj45 face plates, so my two thoughts are

1 buy mesh system with 3 terminals ground 1st and 2nd floors (any suggestions and how good are these)

2 buy Powerline system with main and 2 additional sockets connect main one to sky booster on 1st floor and put other 2 on 2nd floor (again any suggestion on idea/recomemdations)

Hard wires not really an option

Anything I’m missing?
 
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Thank for all the advice, sky engineer just been and replaced router and took away booster as this was making things worse he said.

Does seem better but he has said he’ll recommend they send someone to look at them har wiring Ethernet from cupboard into 1st floor lounge (centre of house). Will see what they have to say when the come around potential gain vs headache from wife about potential mess they make .

Also daughter will be home later and she is the main person impacted, she will soon tell me if rainbow 6 is working better or not.
 
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