Slow broadband speeds over 2.4Ghz wifi...

newbieFTB

neilmcl wrote: »

It works for me, not necessarily "better" just an alternative to the powerline solution and much cheaper.

Where your router is positioned in the hallway, presumably because this is where the main socket is, I don't suppose you have a cordless phone sitting next to it? If so I'd move this as far away as possible as this would also be a source of interference to your signal.

I still recommend you installing inSSIDer first to see exactly what's using the various channels before spending any money on this.

Yep, the router is in the hall due to teh master socket being there... there is a cordless phone next to it but it's always lived next top the router, in my old house too where I got fast 2.4wifi using the BT Home Hub.

Thanks to Amazon's speedy service I have this little dongle already (I didn't even pay for next day delivery!)... speeds have gone from 1.4mbps to 13.6mbps and the upload from 0.1mbps to 1.0mbps :T

System

newbieFTB wrote: »

I've recently moved and signed up with Sky broadband, the router is a Sky Hub router. The speeds over wifi were terrible, I left it a couple of weeks and rang Sky. They turned on the 5ghz wifi on the router which my iPhone now picks up and I get speeds of around 10Mbps.

The computer is only capable of receiving 2.4ghz wifi and the speeds are terrible

Comes as no surprise and you'll find plenty of posts on Sky support forums with people saying the same. I've had the same issues with a Sky Hub and my Macbook Pro. On a 72Mbit connection it topped out at 20Mbit. I went and bought a TP-Link router, figured out how to find the Sky broadband password from a forum post and used that instead of the Sky Hub. Problem instantly solved, 72Mbit on the MBP.