Poor WiFi connection to PlayStation 5

[Whippet82]

My sons PlayStation 5 is in his room in the loft but the signal is poor to the point where he can't finish 1 game without lag . 

I have a booster positioned in his room and where it does help it's only a slight improvement . 

regards ,

Martin .

[TimmyBGood]

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@Whippet82 wrote:

I have a booster positioned in his room and where it does help it's only a slight improvement . 

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A 'booster' in the same room as a client device does very little: it needs to be somewhere midway between there and the router.  Such devices are actually 'repeaters' or 'relays': they aren't themselves permitted to be any more powerful than any other WiFi transmitter.

[TimmyBGood]

@Whippet82 

For a loft room, you'd want the 'booster' on the first floor (assuming the router is on the ground floor) and ideally in a direct vertical line going through ceilings but not walls: the less building fabric the signal has to penetrate the faster the link will be.

Load bearing stairwell walls, radiators, hot water tanks and foil laminate foam insulation are particularly effective as WiFi attenuators.