Will a N Router make a difference ?

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Hi i currently have SKY Broadbrand, & fastest speed they sell, but for me it's very choppy and at times very slow. Im think this is partly down to the crap Router of skys. Transfer speed of sky router is 54Mbps i think, so was thinking of buying a N Router which can get upto 300Mbps speeds. Was also going to buy a N usb wirless adaptor.

Router i want to buy: Belkin Wireless N Router
Wireless adaptor: Belkin Wireless N USB Adaptor.

Would not be cheap, over £100. Im just wondering if it will actually really make a difference, has anyone gone from a standard router to the better ones?

Would it be easy to set up, do i just swap the sky router over for the belkin, or is there more too it?
 
Oh dam 2nd person who told me not to do it:eek:

Current speedtest....

Download speed: 76.28mbs
Upload speed: 0.62mbs
Ping 74ms

Is that good?

Last night whilst streaming online, it crawled very badly at times. And just in general at times it goes slow and even loses signal odd time.
 
s0ck said:
How about plugging yourself into an ethernet port and actually seeing if there's a difference? :)
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See my router is downstairs, and my wireless laptop upstairs, but due to the connections to my sky boxes in the rooms, i have spair phone line sockets that run to the router.

If i just connected a ethernet cable from laptop to one of those sockets, do you thin kthat would make a difference.
 
Ok then rule out the new router for a second, what about those homeplugs that suppose to make signal better.

Would that be better?
 
Just tried ethernet cable connected to router, went very slow, this was results.

DS: 19.78MBS
US: 0.64mbs
PING: 69

Upload speed same, guess im just best stickign to what i have:( Could always go to BT:mad:

Nothing i can mess about with in my sky broadbrand settings to get it abit quicker?
 
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