[resander]

Many thanks for the kind advice.

We moved in here 2008 and asked the VM installation engineer to put the broadband modem in the extension at the back and I added a Belkin router next to it since there is no space for desktop PCs in the other rooms. Wired connections worked fine and wireless to the second floor too.

The Super Hub arrived by courier a few days ago so I connected it in the extension room assuming it would perform better than the adslmodem&belkin combination for wireless. It appears I have a pig in a poke.

The signal from the Belkin router and the hub's router has to go through a plastered single layer brick wall (the old external brick wall now embedded in the extension room), the ceiling and a plastered internal wall to reach a front bedroom on the second floor. Belkin delivered a usable signal for wireless at 10Mb.

However, wireless works fine in the extension room and on the ground floor with the hub, so I hope the wireless on the second floor will improve if I place the hub in the living room just under the bedrooms beaming up signals more or less at a right angle. I want to buy a good/correct coax cable to use between the broadband entry point and the hub and hence my newbie question what to buy in the previous post.

When I bought the Belkin the broadband speed was 2Mb. VM upgraded 2Mb to 10Mb and the Belkin router still worked. I was pleased about that, but will it continue to work at 30Mb offered by VM now? Or is that likely to be out of spec for the Belkin that is now getting on a bit?

Ken