Poor internet speed, please help - WFH need at least minimum guaranteed

[ekokuk1404]

Hello,

I am working from home full time and need a very good internet speed. Recently, my connection has been very poorly. Checking on sky website, it says I am getting 49 mp/s, checking on which.co.uk site it says I am hardly on 20 mp/s. I ran the hub stats, see below

[GD1]

@ekokuk1404  You are getting 49mbps to the hub, however I notice you use wifi exclusively, have you tried ethernet on your devices you use to work from home?   Using wifi for that can itself be problematic.

[ekokuk1404]

@GD1 thank you for your response. My office is upstairs and hub setting is in the lounge. Is there any other ways to improve it? It has been a struggle to even review my budget files without getting frozen all the time

[GD1]

@ekokuk1404  Powerline adapters may be the way forward, one is plugged in near the hub and connected to that via ethernet cable, the other one is plugged in within your office connected to your laptop/pc by ethernet.  These use the house wiring to send the signal and in most cases work well.

This is an alternative to running ethernet cable around your home.

[ekokuk1404]

Thanks a lot! I will look into this option, sounds doable.

[cookiemonsteruk]

@ekokuk1404 

With powerline adapters obviously the house needs to be on the same electric circuit or at least the room where the router is needs to be on the same circuit as the office

[ekokuk1404]

@cookiemonsteruk according to my husband, they are not! Thanks for pointing out, wouldn't have thought that

[TimmyBGood]

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@cookiemonsteruk wrote:

@ekokuk1404 

With powerline adapters obviously the house needs to be on the same electric circuit or at least the room where the router is needs to be on the same circuit as the office

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Not strictly true any more: there's a speed drop from maximum throughput across the individual breakers in a consumer unit, but the overall speed of modern powerline units is such that this isn't really an issue.

[Chrisee]

@ekokuk1404 as @TimmyBGood points out powerline adapters definitely work across different circuits so unless you home has two separate electrical supplies and consumer units (only likely if it was previously separate flats) they should work. I have used them for years on different floors. If you buy on line they can go back in the unlikely event they dont work.