New wifi card or router.

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Recently moved house and now with virgin 200mb, my iphone gets 220mbps in the living room next to the router and 204 on wifi in my office.. my pc on the other hand only gets 85 on wifi in the office. I normally use Ethernet plugs but the wiring in the house is clearly bottle necking as both my normal tp link set and my brand new virgin set are capping at around 60mbps. (the tp links i know are capable of higher as I had 100mbps at my old place and got no fall off using them at all)

So its looking my only real option is a very long Ethernet cable which I'm kind of against, a better wifi card or router.

What would you guys recommend to get, a new wifi card or new router? and which one?
 
Is 'only' 85Mbps actually going to hurt anything?

A cable will be the best performing and most reliable option.

Failing that try a different wireless adapter. You've already proved that the router is capable of getting a fairly decent signal to the office.

No idea about a particular adapter as I haven't had any reason to buy one recently.
 
I've got a Netgear A7000 AC1900 USB WIFI adapter and I consistently get 233Mbps over WIFI to my Netgear R6800 AC1900 Router in another room about 11ft away through a wall. Can't approximate what you'd get in your office with one of these but I was slightly disappointed.
 
bremen1874 said:
Is 'only' 85Mbps actually going to hurt anything?

A cable will be the best performing and most reliable option.

Failing that try a different wireless adapter. You've already proved that the router is capable of getting a fairly decent signal to the office.

No idea about a particular adapter as I haven't had any reason to buy one recently.
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The only reason is I’m paying for it. My pc is the only thing that would really utilise such high speeds so why would I not do what I can to achieve the speeds?

But I do get where you’re coming from.

Ethernet would be too much hassle to run one and hide it.

nlel1975 said:
I've got a Netgear A7000 AC1900 USB WIFI adapter and I consistently get 233Mbps over WIFI to my Netgear R6800 AC1900 Router in another room about 11ft away through a wall. Can't approximate what you'd get in your office with one of these but I was slightly disappointed.
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It’s upstairs in the next room over. What speeds do you pay for?
 
Snookums said:
It’s upstairs in the next room over. What speeds do you pay for?
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I am paying for 236Mbps down 46Mbps up so its just about good enough for my connection. My connection is currently on a month trial and I am getting the max speed possible which is a consistent 500Mbps down and up. I get those speeds with an Ethernet cable but not with my WIFI adapter.
 
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Here's a speedtest I've just run now using the WIFI adapter...

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It really depends on what the router will support? I have a DSL-AC88U paired with a ASUS PCE-AC88 and as both support Nitro QAM the wireless speeds are amazing. There is a RT-AC88U that is cheaper as it doesn’t include an xDSL modem.

Personally I would use the Virgin SuperHub as effectively just a bridge and disable WI-FI and DHCP. Don’t forget that the Virgin SuperHub allows guest WI-FI to other Virgin users.
 
Just to see I plugged in my old TP-Link TL-WN727N Wireless N USB Network Adapter 150Mbps which I bought for £ 7.33 in November 2011 and ran a speedtest…

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I think it was well worth spending £ 54.32 on the Netgear Nighthawk A7000 AC1900 USB.
 
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