Lag on games console

[marty666]

Hi

i have sky broadband with a sky q hub and 1 booster downstairs in another room but my son upstairs keeps lagging while on his games machine and another room has poor wifi do i need another booster and how do i get another one i also pay for the boost extra 

thankyou

[TechmanagerMal]

@marty666 

With Boost you can get as many as you need, but when you contact Sky Support they will most likely want to send an engineer to check your setup first.

Gaming PCs are best connected with ethernet if that's feasible or perhaps powerline connectors?

[Chrisee]

@marty666 adding.more boisters rarely helps with latency issues. Using Wifi for gaming is not ideal as each jump adds in delay and boosters halve the connection speed with each jump. Adding boisters in a daisy chain is rarely successfull.

Ethernet and powerline are both good suggestions. Another is considering investing in a whole home wifi mesh system. Depending on the Sky service you are buying some of these can be tricky to connect directly to the line replacing your Sky hub as the router but many can be installed in Access Point mode and simply linked to your existing hub which has its wifi turned off.