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Magic_x_uk

Magic_x_uk

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Right I have a problem or 2 and need some help please.


ISP: Orange free broadband (As pay monthly mobile phone customer)

History:

For the last 5 years my computer has been upstairs in the spare room. Telephone extension lead from master socket up under the stairs to the bedroom into a Netgear DG834v2 Router wired to my computer. Internet has always been okay. Around 1.2MB download speed.

Now I have been decorating that bedroom so moved the Router downstairs and plugged it directly into master socket.

Speed has increased to
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To me it is so much faster.

BUT the problem I have is evidentally the extension lead is slowing my broadband speed down a lot if I use it.

I could leave the Router downstairs (lounge) plugged into master socket and somehow, god knows how. Route a Cat5 (is that the right cable?) upstairs into the bedroom which I think would be best.

Although I have heard about 'Home-Plugs' I know nothing about them. Would they work instead? or one of those USB wireless dongles? What is my best way of getting a good speed to my PC upstairs from my router downstairs leaving it plugged into the master socket?

Worries me thinking of how on earth I would get a Cable all the way into that bedroom from the lounge.


Hopefully someone can help.

Also have a Laptop which wirelessly connects to router along with a PS3 and Squeezebox. No problem with those.

Just not sure if my router is NOT wired to my Main pc then I dont think my Squeezebox (wireless music player in lounge) would then work?
 
Just get a USB Wifi Dongle, plenty of decently priced ones on OCUK the TP-Link Wireless N one is supposed to be pretty good. Simple answer.

Alternatively you could thread the cat 5 cable along the same route as the telephone extension lead.
 
Cant lay cable under floow as now had wood floor laid in lounge and extension cable is under that.

Only option is through house wall to outside. Up side of house and then into bedroom.

I realise the TP-Link Wireless N etc will do that. But what about my Squeezebox wireless music player. At present it wirelessly connects to my router which is wired to my PC. Or would a USB Wireless dongle also act as a means to stream music from that computer?
 
If running cat5 cable is not an option then I would go with a pair of home plugs, one upstairs connected to your PC and one downstairs connected to your router.
If you have more than one device at a location then either buy a home plug with a built-in switch or buy a switch and plug the home plug into that and your devices into the switch.
 
Well not to happy about running cat5 cable outside.

These home plugs................

Upstairs is just 1xPC

downstairs is Master socket an Netgear Router.

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Squeezebox, Laptop and PS3. They all connect wirelessly to router.

Dont know what you mean by 'swich'

I am not sure if home plugs would allow me to stream music from computer upstairs to wireless music player downstairs. Would they?


Also the master Telephone socket / router is in one end of the lounge and the squeezebox and PS3 are in another area of lounge. Not possible to wire them to router due to room layout
 
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Magic_x_uk said:
I realise the TP-Link Wireless N etc will do that. But what about my Squeezebox wireless music player. At present it wirelessly connects to my router which is wired to my PC. Or would a USB Wireless dongle also act as a means to stream music from that computer?
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Doesnt matter whether your PC is wired or wireless connected to your router would still stream music.
 
If i Do get cable to go from downstairs from my router to upstairs somehow to the pc, What cable do i need, not sure as there is cat5e, ethernet, etc. Which do i need please?
 
The latest one looks fine. My connection speed is similar and I get similar speeds too.

What a lot of people don't realise is how much of an effect their home wiring has on the speeds. I struggled with 1.5mb for years, then one day redecorating I removed from the wiring an extension to another room, was on my PC later that day and noticed by download speed had jumped to 3.5mb.
 
Might also be worth removing the bell wire from the BT master socket aswel! My connection at home jumped from 14mb to 19mb!

Bell wire is not really needed in these modern times and were used on the really old style phones, however the bell wire can sit there unused but cause un-necessary noise.
 
Magic_x_uk said:
When u say remove bell wire, is that from the TEST cocket itself ie BT side, or from my actual side? What colour is bell wire
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I'll find a link for you now :)

EDIT Here are a few links

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/faq/sections/radsl.html#235

and

http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/socket.htm

Bell wire is also called a "ring wire"

Just follow the guide, I removed it on my main master socket, and also had a look at any extension sockets to see if these had bell wires and proceeded to remove them there aswel.

prior to removal I was getting 14mb on my BE LLU connection, after removal I managed to get around 19mb with better attenuation stats etc.
 
Make sure you let us know if the bell wire mod has any effect :), I would also ask your ISP to lower the SNR profile, but keep an eye on your uptime as if it keeps dropping it will go up again
 
tell me about this bell wire mod? i have read something about the Orange wire, BUT is that on the master socket BT's side or mine? just not sure exactly what you mean.
 
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