topic Wifi lag in Broadband

Wifi lag

Hannah54 — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 13:50:55 GMT

We pay for full fibre 100 broadband which shows as 109 mb/s, however when gaming it lags a lot and the speed test shows download speed as 46.9 mb/s and upload speed as 16.6 mb/s upstairs (not a big house) - should the speed not reach upstairs? We only have this speed of internet in 2 rooms! Do sky offer boosters?

Re: Wifi lag

Floydianslip — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 14:10:46 GMT

@Hannah54 Latency is more important for gaming rather than speed. What's the ping on your connection?

Re: Wifi lag

Hannah54 — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 14:15:52 GMT

It's 29ms upstairs where it's lagging

Re: Wifi lag

Chrisee — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 15:17:49 GMT

@Hannah54 it is quite normal for Wifi speed to drop on different floors. Wifi signals are lose strngth passing through solid objects and are blocked totally by metal so a lot depends on the layout and type of construction of your home. There are ways round this Sky sell a top up package called Wifi Max currently at £7.50 a month which gets you a faster hub and up to 3 extender pods which can help or you can buy your own wifi mesh system as I have done.

Gaming over WiFi is never going to be that good its not the bandwidth that is normally the problem but the latency as wifi signals can be affected by interference causing data packets to be lost and having to be resent causing ping spikes. Keen gamers use ethernet cables which have lower latency and are immune from interference wherever practical. On line gaming requires remarkably little bandwidth so 10Mb/s is normally ample.