WiFi Misery - Suggestions please

darrenwis

The thickness of the walls is the issue I believe.

littlerock

could be lead paint somewhere in an old house. I have a Devolo PC anywhere WIFI extender and it works fine.

Akahotpot

Can you get the router higher ,in a roof space ? might help

Strider590

5G is just useless through walls.

The 2.4G band has longer range, but is susceptible to interference from so many different devices. Things like AV transceiver kits, wireless analogue CCTV, dodgy alarm systems, TVs, microwaves, the list is as long as my arm.

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darrenwis wrote: »

Over the past 3 months our WiFi at home has been constantly dropping out and slowing down. PlusNet advised the speed coming in is fine and stable, and if they send an engineer and no fault is found then we will be charged £65.00.

Your still at the ISP automatic denial of problem stage...... Sounds like you need to figure out if it really is a WiFi issue or not, have you tried ethernet connection yet? Try this next to WiFi and monitor the connections......

jshm2

What Plusnet router do you have, or are you using your own? If it's the Plusnet 2704n router or 582n routers then they are garbage and useful only over Ethernet (even then they are fairly unreliable)

I would be looking to change the router first to a Hub One or better (almost anything else is better, to be honest) and then look to adding homeplugs or extenders if problems still persists. Plusnet may be right in that "at our end" the connection is fine. But a crap router means you do not get to use that connection in any reasonable capacity.

It would be pointless adding wireless extenders and homeplugs if the router itself is not very good to begin with.