wifi conundrum

[chesters1]

BT gave me a ropy voyager 220 but dont appear to have any intention of giving me anything better for all the cash i have handed over since .

Got a ropy hub 4 which isnt much better its wireless cannot go 12 feet into the bedroom ,my intrepid reel faraday cage has its down side.

Impressed you can connect so many things to it at once but unhappy using more than one stops the internet to a crawl

8 things via ethernet (6 via 2 switches) and 6 via wifi need a decent hub with more ethernet connections any idea?

Or is that router??

Edited January 9, 2017 by chesters1

[wotnobivvy]

VM engineer told me over the phone that the Super Hub I have is crap at wireless, so I added my wireless to get coverage at speed (up to 75mb on a good day)

[chesters1]

Your very lucky a good day here is 1.5mb everything is fast until it gets to the little wire that connects the inside to the outside

Edited January 9, 2017 by chesters1

[corydoras]

BT gave me a ropy voyager 220 but dont appear to have any intention of giving me anything better for all the cash i have handed over since .

Got a ropy hub 4 which isnt much better its wireless cannot go 12 feet into the bedroom ,my intrepid reel faraday cage has its down side.

Impressed you can connect so many things to it at once but unhappy using more than one stops the internet to a crawl

8 things via ethernet (6 via 2 switches) and 6 via wifi need a decent hub with more ethernet connections any idea?

Or is that router??

I do have one idea, but it's not exactly a cheap one. DrayTek are about the best, as good as Cisco and easier to work with. Made in the UK, at least they used to be. If you have not done so already go round your house and remove the wire from post 3 in every telephone socket in your house, including the BT master socket. Post 3 is for the ringer but hardly any modern phones need it. If left connected it will act like an antenna and send all sorts of "mush" back to the master socket resulting in crap signal to noise ratios at your ADSL router. I did this at a friend's house and gained 25% connection speed at the router. You'll have to wait a week or so before you notice any improvement because the DSLAM at the exchange will need to see less noise for a wee while before offering your router a higher connection speed. Turning your router off and on once or twice a day might speed things up, as might phoning BT and asking them nicely to re-train your connection.

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/DrayTek-2860N-Plus-Simultaneous-Dual-Band-Balancing/dp/B00JXVH5H8/ref=pd_day0_147_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=03MB1QA5MFQWBW2A2YV9

 

VM engineer told me over the phone that the Super Hub I have is crap at wireless, so I added my wireless to get coverage at speed (up to 75mb on a good day)

So what is your "wireless"? Have you disabled Wi-Fi on your Virgin Hub? Is your Virgin Hub a rebadged DG480 like this?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/NETGEAR-VMDG480-Virgin-Wireless-Router/dp/B00BRWMO5E

Edited January 9, 2017 by corydoras

[corydoras]

Your very lucky a good day here is 1.5mb everything is fast until it gets to the little wire that connects the inside to the outside

That's from my desktop machine connected to my Virgin Super Hub with CAT6.

[chesters1]

That's from my desktop machine connected to my Virgin Super Hub with CAT6.

Thats in a huge city living in the sticks has disadvantages although my son gets 8mb 40 miles from the nearest town the advantage of living on the only road able to get to it

My phone master is two wire so no problem with interferance from the ringer cable ,blimey £300 is steep i have never spent more than a tenner on such things! And twice that wont make my broadband faster!

Edited January 9, 2017 by chesters1

[corydoras]

LOL. Southampton's not a huge city. One can walk from one end of the high street to another in ten minutes.

Try living where my aunt does. Truly in the sticks. She's lucky to get 512k, just about enough for email.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Stirling+FK8+3UB/@56.2481283,-4.7085009,23850m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x4888fd3995bac287:0x346c281c38643f16!8m2!3d56.283681!4d-4.6154874

 

I know, expensive kit but they are the creme de la creme of broadband routers. They have a "proper" statefull firewall and have "proper" VPN support in, out and end to end. The build quality is second to none too. You could bludgeon someone to death with a DrayTek ;-)

One would not make your broadband any faster, but it would make your setup a lot easier to manage. I do realise that they are pricey though, one could by a half decent laptop for that amount of pesos.

Edited January 9, 2017 by corydoras

[wotnobivvy]

I do have one idea, but it's not exactly a cheap one. DrayTek are about the best, as good as Cisco and easier to work with. Made in the UK, at least they used to be. If you have not done so already go round your house and remove the wire from post 3 in every telephone socket in your house, including the BT master socket. Post 3 is for the ringer but hardly any modern phones need it. If left connected it will act like an antenna and send all sorts of "mush" back to the master socket resulting in crap signal to noise ratios at your ADSL router. I did this at a friend's house and gained 25% connection speed at the router. You'll have to wait a week or so before you notice any improvement because the DSLAM at the exchange will need to see less noise for a wee while before offering your router a higher connection speed. Turning your router off and on once or twice a day might speed things up, as might phoning BT and asking them nicely to re-train your connection.

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/DrayTek-2860N-Plus-Simultaneous-Dual-Band-Balancing/dp/B00JXVH5H8/ref=pd_day0_147_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=03MB1QA5MFQWBW2A2YV9

 

So what is your "wireless"? Have you disabled Wi-Fi on your Virgin Hub? Is your Virgin Hub a rebadged DG480 like this?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/NETGEAR-VMDG480-Virgin-Wireless-Router/dp/B00BRWMO5E

A netgear WNR 220 has been connected to the VMDG480, which has had it's wireless disabled

[Andy_1984]

Still think its a windows 10 issue since everything else stays connected.

 

good luck

 

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=windows+10+wifi+cuts+out+site:answers.microsoft.com