Network Help

[DT788]

Evening all,

So we have recently upgraded from sky broadband to full fibre from zzoomm, speeds are great on my wired connection to my pc but the Wi-Fi is terrible. Devices buffering which doesn’t make sense to me as I am getting 900+ up and down. The router is an icotera i4850, does anyone have any experience with one of these?
I have read a couple of peoples comments saying they turn the Wi-Fi off on it and use another router with good Wi-Fi coverage?

Any help/advice greatly appreciated

 

[Deleted member 77746]

How close is the WiFi?
What is the WiFi adaptor model inside the device in question?

Acording to this spec sheet it should be capable.
• 802.11AC Wave-2 4x4:4 MU-MIMO

https://icotera.com/media/1457/i4850-datasheet-1_8.pdf

Don't think it will be the router itself. It's either distance or the device it's sending traffic too.

 

[DT788]

The router is downstairs but I am still getting strong signal to it on everything connected to it upstairs. Even the t.v in the room next door to it buffers at times.

 

[edGfaCTor]

Try with only 1 device and see how that does and then do the same with the others it could be device related.

 

[jfish]

which wifi spectrum are you using 2.4 or 5

Looking at the specs of the router the 5 Ghz is 4 x 4 so can have speeds up to 1.7 GBps, the 2.4 Ghz is only 2 x 2 so speeds up to 860 MBs

If you want a better and a longer range use 2.4 GHz. If you need higher speed and sacrifice for range, use 5GHz.