Fibre Broadband issues

I've recently changed to Fibre Broadband.

33 Mbps wired. About 30 MBps wireless in same room as wireless.

The old Broadband gave me about 6 Mbps, so its a lot faster.

Am I excited at the fivefold increase in speed? Nope, not really. Higher speed at reduced range.

My TV in a different room won't stream catchup or youtube etc. Just buffers and complains about slow internet connection It streamed ok before 95% of the time.

Also can I expect my existing wifi range extender (plugs in 13 amp socket) to work with fibre or do I need one specific for fibre? My tests with a speed App are inconsistent, its an the Ookla App.

Any thoughts?

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Is that "30 MBps wireless" (sic) actual through put or what the wireless devices are reporting they are connected at?

Some thing is broke with the wireless. Neighbours recently changed something? Check which channels are in use locally. Range extenders half the throughput of everything in the vicinity(*).

Personally I only use wireless when I have to, everything that can be wired is wired. Cable is cheap, very reliable and fast, the only drawback is it takes more than 10 minutes to install.

(*)Only one device can transmit at a time. So range extender recieves a packet, stores it, then re-transmits it, equals two transmit periods for one packet.

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Dave Liquorice

The sync rate might be but you may be throttled back at busy times - what does a speed tester give as the actual streaming rate?

Probably an artefact of thick walls in the house. Wireless signals are fast when close to the base station and slow with distance.

Unusual to have something go downhill quite like that.

Your range extender should still work although it will potentially halve your maximum throughput. Internet over mains is more effective if you want to avoid extra cat5 cabling.

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Martin Brown

Yup, sounds like a wireless problem to me.

to OP: are you using the same wireless router/access point or whatever as before, or using a new one?

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Chris French

It is a notional 38mb speed but 33mb coming into the house due to final bit being in wire.

The only wireless device that I can measure is on my ipad with the Ookla App.

Can't wire ipad. I could wire the tv I suppose but it would be a pain having wire from router room to tv room. How do you mean wire takes more than 10 mins to install?

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Internet over mains sounds interesting. I'll have to investigate.

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It is same location. The Openreach guy changed the front on the BT socket.

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. Range extenders half the throughput of everything in the vicinity(*).

They half the wifi speed? So no point in getting another range extender.

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Yes, but if it's a new router or whatever, then there could be issues with the wifi. Not such good wifi performance, different channels, maybe, or some things just don't play ball together.

We had one laptop here that we had endless problems with periodic very slow wifi performance. The problem went away after I bought a new router.

If you do have a new router, it is possible to use the old one just as wifi access point.

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Try this to check crowding on the channels.

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Mark, we had FTTC fibre installed here a few months ago. We're lucky in that both cabinet and telegraph pole are just outside the house. Son's PC is hard wired to the modem/router and he can see speeds of 100+ Mbps.

However, the house is Scottish Victorian granite with thick, solid walls which kill wi-fi. Very careful placement of devices is required yet we still use homeplugs (over mains) in a couple of rooms, which solves the problem. We use Solwise, but many are available.

In your position, I would connect a PC directly to the modem, and keep testing the speed over a 24 hour period, just to see the maximum you can expect. Then repeat using a wireless connection.

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You still haven't told us if the modem is the same one in the same position as before or a new replacement unit. Older BT kit has a habit of sitting on channel 11 by default and fighting both your neighbours.

You need to do a Wifi scan of the environment and move to a clear channel at least 4 steps away from any strong signals.

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Martin Brown

They half the WiFi throughput, the devices will still say connected at 30 Mbps or WHY but data will only flow over the extended section at less than half the connected rate,

Not sure you can extend an extended signal or not. And WTF happens if the 2nd extender can hear the orginating WiFi device as well the 1st first extender. Does it try to extend both?

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Dave Liquorice

To do neatly takes > 10 mins. Yeah one can run a cable very quickly across a room and through doorways etc but that's not really a proper installation but OK for a test to see if it solves the problem.

Home plugs (ethernet over mains) I'd also avoid due to the widband RF hash they generate and again pricey and of variable reliabilty compared to a bit of CAT5e.

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Dave Liquorice

If you are looking at multiple wifi extensions, then you need "meshing" mimo kit, preferably with dual radios. You can then have multiple access points that all talk to each other.

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John Rumm

I have BT fibre here - as do both of my next door neighbours. I didn't have to alter anything to get the Wi-Fi to work. And no problems with i-player etc via Wi-Fi.

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Dave Plowman (News)

Newer kit seems better and chooses a clear channel but the older BT stuff all sits on channel 11 by default you get entire streets of them!

Hardly any consumers even think to delve into their modem settings and just gripe about their poor wifi speeds to the likes of me. Having a mobile phone with a Wifi channel checker on it is quite handy.

I have seen a quirk on MS systems where the Ethernet Plug&Play mode needed to be disabled to get good stable streaming performance. No idea why it worked but it did!

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Martin Brown

My thoughts are that the problem is no doubt interference from another router in the area. Congestion reduces range of course.

I do not think anyone has the answer yet as the newer band is already filling up. I think we need to go back to wired connections, at least they are reliable.. Brian

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Brian Gaff

Depends on what you do with the SSID. The better ones like the medion that Aldi flogs specials periodically allow it to use the same SSID or have its own, so its easy to have the first extender have its own so the second one only extends that extra one.

But that config is even worse, quarter of the thruput, so not worth doing.

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