Slow speeds upstairs

[Erinb]

Hi, Just switched to sky and im having problems with slow connection upstairs on xbox. We have faster Internet now with sky than we did with virgin yet never had this problem before. Constantly lagging making games unplayable and showing under 100mbs download speed when we should be getting 300 Xbox downstairs and on other devices is perfectly fine. Is there anything that will help please?

[TimmyBGood]

@Erinb 

Sky loans wireless booster hardware 'free' under the terms of the 'WiFi Guarantee' element of the legacy 'Broadband Boost' add-on and the 'Enhanced Wall to Wall WiFi Guarantee' part of the 'WiFi Max' subscription supplement: they don't otherwise provide or sell boosters except to resolve issues with Sky Q. Phoning Sky to go through a telephone diagnosis is required to have a booster or pod allocated to the account. Inevitably some  Sky booster hardware has leaked onto a certain auction site and elsewhere online but Sky won't offer support with using these, and Max pods acquired that way won't work at all. 

Confusingly the default 'Wall to Wall WiFi Guarantee' bundled with all new Sky Broadband orders where Boost or Max is not added by the customer doesn't actually provide booster hardware, and is essentially a sales lead generator for the supplements mentioned above plus a one month broadband subscription refund.

[TimmyBGood]

@Erinb 

Perhaps note that using booster hardware does add latency.