Improve wireless?.

[skipper847]

Just upgraded to fibre broadband 2 days ago on sky which is a lot better then I was on be for. Be for I was getting 10mb/s now getting 35mb. Its been fine for 2 days while been on my own but my parents just come back home from been away. My mum uses the laptop down stairs and straight away I noticed a slow down and web pages not loading proper. I also use to get random lag spikes in games even though the frames where constant but last 2 days they been gone until again my mum using laptop last night. I checked the internet speed on a speed checker I use and while my mum was using the laptop it said it was at 8MB/s but when she turned it off it went back up to normal.

Any way to improve wireless signal so it doesn't slow down as much?.

 

[Avalon]

The issue is more likely to be she's using the available bandwidth, if she isn't then something on her laptop may well be (file sharing program she has set to auto open that's saturating the uplink, malware spewing out DDoS etc.). If not then look at a router with some form of QoS, despite what sky will tell you it is easy to replace the supplied router.

 

[lsg1r]

Wouldn't be surprised if your mums laptop is downloading windows updates (is it creators that has just been 'pushed' out to all users), that seems to take 100% of the bandwidth when mine updates and pretty much stops me from using the internet while it's doing it....yes there are tweaks but none have seemed to do much, hopefully the next update should fix it due to the ability to adjust how much bandwidth it takes. Actually it might be worth checking to make sure the tick box isn't set on your/her pc to share updates to everyone on the web too...

As to improving your situation (which isn't likely to be a wireless issue imo either)...QOS/prioritisation of your IP etc would be the first thing to try, second would be adding a restriction onto how much bandwidth your mums laptop can use.
I do remember in the past some wireless routers didn't like mixed wifi speeds connecting and would slow everyone down to the slowest speed...are all wireless adapters the same networking standard, ie 802.11n, although as far as I know that hasn't been an issue for a while now..

PS. I'm assuming your ISP speed was 10Mbps. is now 35Mbps and the speed checker showed 8Mbps (Megabits per second), not 8 Megabytes per second... it makes a big difference lol