problems with home sky wifi, high upload speed, low download

[stirling37]

as per title, i upgraded to sky fibre a few weeks back and the router is plugged into a slave socket upstairs to feed as its closer to our cctv hardrive etc. I knew i was going to lose some MB speed when doing this but the plan at some stage was to get BT in to move the master socket from the Hall upstairs.
just lately the line is dropping out and everyone has to reset thier devices (3 daughters with ipads and iphones)

anyway today very slow so i did a speed test with the router plugged into the master socket and the download speed was 6.19MB and the upload was 7.03MB

when i first looked at the speed the download was 36MB and that dropped down to 16MB a week later.

[George111]

Always plug the router into the master socket, not an extension and remove the cabling from the master socket for any extensions you have, all that will do is ruin the signal for you.

It's well worth having the master socket placed centrally in your house and it might negate the need for extenders or secondary WiFi. The cost of moving it is money well spent compared to a life of messing with various bits of rubbish kit trying to make it all work.

Then, if WiFi isn't good enough in the whole house, try turning off the built in WiFi and buying a professional WiFi access point like this http://www.4gon.co.uk/ubiquiti-unifi-uap-pro-p-542... and cable it to the router. Or do this anyway and put the master socket where you need it with the CCTV.

All depends how big your house is obviously but one of those access points will be able to cover any 4-5 bedroom house.

[stirling37]

George111 said:

Always plug the router into the master socket, not an extension and remove the cabling from the master socket for any extensions you have, all that will do is ruin the signal for you.

It's well worth having the master socket placed centrally in your house and it might negate the need for extenders or secondary WiFi. The cost of moving it is money well spent compared to a life of messing with various bits of rubbish kit trying to make it all work.

Then, if WiFi isn't good enough in the whole house, try turning off the built in WiFi and buying a professional WiFi access point like this http://www.4gon.co.uk/ubiquiti-unifi-uap-pro-p-542... and cable it to the router. Or do this anyway and put the master socket where you need it with the CCTV.

All depends how big your house is obviously but one of those access points will be able to cover any 4-5 bedroom house.

thanks, ive just brought the router downstairs and ive plugged in the master socket. the problem i have is the cctv is situated na upstairs cupbaord in the hallway. ive got the router in the bedroom off a slave plug and from there i have a ethernet cable from the router to the cupboard.

I know its abit arse about face really as the router will be upstairs and everything really using it is downstairs s i know i'll lose some speeds doing that way.

i was possibly thinking that i could use the powerlink connecters via the main plugs and thenuse the router downstairs and plus the ethernet cable from the plug into the connector upstairs.

i have read, somewhere that you can use a second router as an extension as such

[davepoth]

stirling37 said:

i was possibly thinking that i could use the powerlink connecters via the main plugs and thenuse the router downstairs and plus the ethernet cable from the plug into the connector upstairs.

Do the powerlink thing. Plenty of bandwidth through them for CCTV.

AIUI the exchange end of your connection will have slowed down your connection to take account of plugging in to a slave socket, and so you'll need to leave it plugged into the master for a day or two for it to work out that it can send you a lot more data.