@Misstbp wrote:
Please help - excuse my lack of tech jargon I havent got a clue. I have recently signed up to sky upon moving house and asked for the best wifi as my son is a gamer and apparently the world will end if it buffers!
I have moved into a 4 storey town house and the ont has been installed on the first floor at the back end of the kitchen so I have put the router in the open on top of the units at the front for maximum coverage. I am still struggling with a decent signal across the house on the top floor or ground floor. When I phoned sky they confimed the router is receiving 900mps but the floors are npt helping the signal, they suggested a third party Mesh System to blanket the house? Can anyone receommend one please as I havent a clue. Thank you
Yes, there's no way any ISP supplied hub is reaching every floor, let alone room in a house that size.
You need to do some reading into mesh systems which basically replace the wifi from the Sky hub with a much more robust and wide covering signal. I use a couple of TP-Link hubs myself but there are plenty of other options. Your son would benefit from one near to his console or computer and being connected to the hub with an ethernet cable. It would then connect via it's own wifi to another hub or perhaps the main one plugged into the Sky hub.
Have a look at TP-Links own explanation of what it all means.
https://www.tp-link.com/uk/mesh-wifi/
I'm surprised that Sky didn't try to upsell you to Sky Max WiFi (unless you're in the RoI?) although I'd always recommend a decent 3rd party setup myself.
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